my favorite kind of day

i woke up to my favorite kind of day...cold, dark and drizzly. if i don't have to leave my house, days like this are so comforting to me. i just went around the house turning on lamps and lighting candles. and "la vie en rose" just came on the channel i'm listening to. i could almost pretend i'm in paris.
i ran out of my satsuma oil for my little burner above so i'm just using some pumpkin oil i had--but it doesn't smell the house up as well as the satsuma. have to remember to get some...
my leaf tealights look so pretty in the dark kitchen and you can kind of see the old/new cafe du monde coffee can i've had in the pantry forever. i decided to get it out, seeing as it has the fall colors i'm using right now, and put some of my utensils in it. i alternate between wanting them out so i can reach them easily and wanting them out of sight in a drawer!
here's a little project i did for mckinlee yesterday. i found this lamp shade at walmart for under $7 (i wish it hadn't been pleated, but that was all they had for what i needed.)
a long while back i got this jumble of pom-pom things at goodwill. it matched all of mck's stuff so well, i thought i could untangle it all on one of my "patience-practicing" days! mck and i soon found out there was no way it could be untangled. so i put it away until i could decide what to do with it. well i finally did something with it.
isn't this cute? i still want to paint the base either lavender or lime green, but i thought it turned out pretty cute.
we re-arranged mck's room a little since i'm trying to clean out the "junk" room. so we brought in the night stand and desk that goes with her other furniture and it looks so pretty. i will try to take a picture when she cleans it up this weekend.
i need to get the picture re-matted for her room. it is a picture of dumbo and timothy that my dad drew and painted for me many, many years ago. we used it in mck's room when she was a baby (hence the navy and red matting). we found it in the closet and i can't wait to put it on the wall in her room.
here is what my scrapbook room looks like these days. every few years i get the urge to totally re-do my creating space. since mck wants some space for her a desk, we have been moving and cleaning out stuff right and left. i'm trying not to hurry through it and just stick stuff somewhere--i'm really trying to organize it as i go.
here's a new organizational tip i've been contemplating for years. this is just a little glimpse. can you guess how i'm going to organize everything that's not paper or stamps? when everything's finished i'll show you the results.
have a super weekend and stay dry!