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We did end up getting through it all, thankfully, but the whole time we were wondering if the drill would just die and leave us with a half a floor, or blow up in our faces.

Wow, I never noticed it before, but it looks like we really picked up speed with the DIY projects in the last half of the year.I hope you enjoyed looking back over some of the best posts of the last year with me.

More “best of” categories will be coming up later this week!As the big day gets closer and the pressure seems to be on to have the most perfect Christmas, sometimes a classic quote can be just the right medicine to put everything into perspective and really remind us of what’s important.Plus, I just love a good quote or 20, don’t you?Here are a handful of my favorites that I’ve come across, some funny, some meaningful, and some kinda strange but still totally right on the money.

Weather you add these to your chalkboards, or just enjoy them here on the screen, here they are!.“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under the tree.” – Roy L. Smith.

“Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.” ~P.

“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.This time we’re going to visit the mudroom off the front kitchen entrance.. Let’s get to it!.

I started out a couple of weeks ago by painting the ugly glossy forest green door this fun barn red and from there I was pretty much unstoppable, as I’m sure you’ll be able to tell..The sugar beet field near our house was harvested last week and they knocked over a bunch of neighboring corn stalks in the process.

Of course we were all over that..I reused my Spring wreath from last year and just added a little $1 fall sprig leftover from last year.