So you all knew that when we said we’d write more "tomorrow" we really meant "sometime this week maybe, if you’re lucky"?  Okay, good.  We hate to be misleading.

What were we going to tell you about?  Oh, yes.

1) The ceiling: The ceiling is covered in 1 inch, douglas fir beadboard.  It’s currently unfinished, but will eventually be stained.  We created the dormer angle by simply following the valley rafters back instead of building a flat front onto the dormer structure.  There will be a ceiling fan in this room, too, to counteract the negative effect of cathedral ceilings on heating. 

2) The vanity: the mahogany is milled down for the countertop, though we are still debating whether we should leave it as four large planks or further cut it to eight smaller strips.  (Internet: It sure would have been helpful if we had a picture to look at so we knew what you two are talking about. M&C: Yep, sure would’ve.  Whoops.)

3) The Christmas tree.  What can we say? 

We started with a slightly straggly tree that we scavenged from the back 40.  (Or back 1.5, to be honest.)

Treenaked

Then we remembered that in past years weve only had a tabletop-sized tree because our old apartment was so small.  Hence, we only have two strings of lights… and we couldn’t find one of them.  So we draped our one string of lights around the tree (verrrry close to the trunk so that they reached all the way to top).  And the one string of lights happened to be red, so our Christmas tree is in the red light district.

Of course, we only have enough ornaments for a tabletop tree also so things are a bit sparse.  Luckily, we found an extra little something to serve as an ornament (Thanks, Annie!) and a piece of stripped wire leftover from wiring outlets made a lovely hook.

Phonebooth

(Those who don’t remember the phone booth story will find it here and here.)

We also managed to get drywall dust on the ribbons.

Ribbon

And this, the ugliest angel in existence, has been Cherie’s arch-nemesis for years. 

Angel

We keep putting it up because we kept forgetting to buy a new one.

Put it all together, and it still makes one heck of a Christmas tree.

Tree1

On second thought, maybe not.  It looks nice from outside, though!

Fromoutside

Do you think we can talk Santa into helping mud drywall?

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