If anyone’s interested in a tutorial on this one, let me know!.

Whether it’s taken a whole year or not, that’s progress!We have a whole collection of old saws in our garage.Actually we had more last year, but I think Chris may have “de-cluttered” some of them.. I’ve been eyeing them up for the last year, secretly thinking I could steal them and use them inside in some kind of rustic, tool-inspired decorating extravaganza.

Never did though.. Then.I saw an image, which I now can’t find, in the last issue of the Pottery Barn catalogue.I’m a visionary..

I ran out to the garage likity split and grabbed those puppies up..I played around with them in the mud room, just to see what would happen.. Love this look!

And now I think I’ve found my inspiration for my Christmas Mud Room too!.

Can you tell what I’m going to do?We also have an amazing creek behind our house where all the wildlife is decidedly.

creepy, which is nice..There will be plenty.

You know this of course, but there will be so many that you won’t expect.Some of the sacrifices you do expect are things like hard work, having to wait to afford the projects that you really want to do, maybe a little bit more of a drive to go shopping, less access to all the city amenities.