Christmas craziness is over!  Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, just not the stress that comes with it.  The lights and ornaments are my favorite part I think.  I love to give presents, I love having my kids home, and I love the true spirit of Christmas, just not the commercial aspects of Christmas.  Seriously, how can you be jolly when you're spending more than you know you should.  My daughter had the right idea this year by making all her gifts. 

Now it's time to get back to my garage, and start organizing all the things I still have to work on.  After pulling out all the extra chairs, I realized they seriously need to have the seats reupholstered, faded pepto- bismol pink and country blue just don't work for me anymore.  I also need to refinish the old coffee table, I actually finished the replacement just before Christmas, see pics.

The old one is a huge heavy antique oak beast.  It was bought for a much bigger house, and I finally decided it was time to change when my granddaughter almost hit her eye on the corner.  It's a beautiful oak draw-leaf table with gorgeous heavy turned legs that was remade into a coffee table.  It has the the trestle-like center piece between the legs, and is very Restoration Hardware masculine. With the leaves pulled out it is probably 6 ft, which was awesome when I had the room.  I will post a pic when I've finished refinishing it.

I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday.