Catching Up.

WOW!!! It has been a long time since I blogged. Holidays! It all seems to come at you all at once. I have finally caught up with the decorating, shopping and the wrapping of the gifts. Now, I want to catch up on the laundry, etc around the house. It seems like there is one thing after another around here and work has gotten to be crazy. I wanted to post something since I haven't posted in so long so I will tell you about my 5th anniversary present.

The 5th anniversary present is wood and we try to stick to the traditional gifts. I guess it makes it a little easier. Our anniversary was back in August and things have been too hectic to get myself together to tell you about our gifts.

My gift to my husband was this :


This is Piet Mondrian's Red Tree. I bought a print on canvas and it is very nice. However, since it is not framed or stretched yet, it is not on the wall as of yet. Any opinions if a canvas has to be stretched? I don't think that it does but my husband thinks so. It is his gift and I should see if I can get that done so we could both enjoy it.


My gift from my husband was this:


This is a wood shelf that he made for me to display my pottery. It is so cool because it comes apart in sections. When we were exchanging gifts, we were up at a cabin in the western part of Virginia. He only had a coat of stain on the shelves at that time but no polyurethane. I recently asked him if he could hang the shelf for me and he reminded me that he needed to finish the shelf. I felt really bad because we were super duper busy at the time getting the house clean for guests. However, he put those things aside for a while so he could finish it up and get it on the wall. It is located in the large hallway upstairs. It really turned out great! I had such a hard time picking out what I wanted to display. Also, I had troubles because the really good looking pottery is being given as gifts this year....