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Meet Nick. It was time that Nick showed his true colors.  Christmas colors, actually. Nick is from a time when working with your hands was common.  And his specialty was toys.  Handmade, wooden toys. Winter is his favorite season, he loves smoking his favorite pipe, and he can never turn down a cookie. He is a jolly old fellow, and some would say that when he laughed, his belly shook like a bowl full of jelly. Sorry, but I couldn't stay away from the Santa references with this red piece.  I had been looking forward to trying a new kind of paint, Plaster Paint , that I first learned about from one of my favorite blogs to follow:   Three Mango Seeds .  This paint went on super easy and came out incredibly smooth.  It's my first time using it and won't be my last. Instead of buying 12 new drawer pulls, I spray painted the original ones black to match the stain on top.  I have a new, SUPER EASY way of painting them too, that I will share in the near f...

It's the Christmas season and time to trim the tree. If you are anything like me, every year you would wrap the lights around the tree like the stripes on a candy cane. . . . you keep going around and around the tree, slowly working your way up or down. Well, this year I did some research.  Turns out there is a method to Rockefeller's tree madness.  And since there isn't a person on the planet that doesn't "ooooh" and "aahhhhh" over their fabulous tree, I thought I would adopt their method onto my 7 footer. It really is quite simple.  First you need to mentally divide your tree into three triangles.  If you don't want to do the mental part, just measure the diameter of the fullest part and then divide that by 3.  The bottom of your triangle should be that length.  You can even mark the corners of the triangle with string, if that's easier. For a 7 foot tree, 900 lights is preferable.  I decided to use 300 lights in each of my 3 sections.  Fir...