Hallway Redo

Had today off but didnt get much done.  Had to have the repair guys in to look at our pellet stove.  It still isnt working right but they cant come back till Mon.  I did get the hall way cleaned out some in prep to redo it.
The bench hat is there under all our coats and my workbag usually spends summers out in my garden.  I dont think its going back there.  I plan on painting it and keeping it there.  Im going to put up a row of hooks in the right hand corner to hang the coats on.  I have an old 4 pane window that im going to also paint and hang over the bench with a valance to fake a window.  Im going to put a small shelf under it to put candles on and other decorative things.  I want to put a runner down the hall also.  The walls have paneling put over what I am sure is old plaster walls and I want to put a nice fat baseboard up with wainscotting and then use some of the paintable wallpaper over that.  This is going to be a long drawn out job as I can only do it as I can afford each part.  I will post pics as I go.

Sisters and shoes

I have an awesome sister though she may want to smack me after reading this post.  See the very cool looking shoes in the pic?  She bought those for me and had them shipped from Texas to Indiana because she was worried about my crappy knees at work.  She read the post where I said I needed new work shoes and money is tight.  My work shoes went on sale a couple of weeks ago for more than half off so I was able to pick up a pair then.  So..... I really dont need any work shoes but,  these can replace my Nikes that I wear when Im not working.  I really do like Nikes and my old pair is over 3 yrs old and these new ones are so comfortable.  They make me think of licorice allsorts candys with the pink and black coloring.  Thank you Robin.

Now for the part that may make her want to smack me.  The reason I have such a good pic of the shoes is because of my new camera.  Ive been stashing a little bit of money every week since before christmas towards a decent digital.  Last week Target had one on sale so I took all of my stash and also $30 in rolled up change to have enough and got it.  Now I can put pics on my posts much easier.  Ill pic up a memory card for it when I get my overtime money next week.

Once again its late Sunday night and I have to get up at four tomorrow so its off to bed for me.