The mantle, plus some

When we moved into our house in April, I told Mark there were three things that absolutely must be done. The first two were that we had to get the two guest bedrooms painted. We did that the first week of summer vacation. The third thing was that we must have a mantle over our fireplace before Christmas time. Well, we procrastinated on that one a bit. So, Monday before Thanksgiving we finally got serious and down to business. We bought an unfinished shelf mantle from Lowe's. We had leftover paint from when the previous owners had the wood paneling in the living room painted. We used that paint on the mantle so it would match.

Here is the before shot.

Mark is hard at work.

The after shot.

Decorated for Christmas!

Oreo enjoys sitting under the Christmas tree

Playing with the settings on my camera . . .