Enjoying Time Off

The fiancée and I took 2 weeks off for the holidays. Do you know what we have done? Pretty much nothing! Hehehehe...we both work so hard during the week and our lives are pretty much sleep, eat, go to work, repeat. Except I come home to do homework because of my program. I really needed this break from class and work. You need a good break every once in a while to reflect on what you have learned thus far and to give your mind some breather. 

I had so many plans of taking the fiancée out around town since he is only visiting but we have both just been so lazy. We have watched many movies, read, gone to a few stores, played with our dogs, eaten a lot, and pretty much rearranged the living room and dining room area.

We moved our mug collection to the dining room. It was a good decision by my fiancée since now we can show it off better. We are running out of room though on this small case.

We had gone to a thrift store and bought some mugs for the collection which are already in the picture above. They are the three mugs in the middle in the first row on top. We got nice cups for the kitchen as well. Then, my fiancée is obsessed with coffee so he kept finding cute things and saying we could use it to store sugar. Before we knew it we got everything you see below.

I have always loved tea pots but never owned any. I asked my fiancée if it was okay to get so many and he just said, "yes, now we will have a mug and tea pot collection"! I loved his response. We are on the same page for most things. I also fell in love with that country style cookie jar in the middle so I brought it home.

In addition to those, I also got two ceramic milk canisters. I had been searching for some with no luck and finally found two at the thrift store. :D

Aren't they beautiful? By the way, in case you haven't notice by now our house is a small cottage. I try to stay true to its style and try to decorate it in a primitive country way.

I also got some wooden shelves to hang on the walls. Problem is I don't really know what to use them for or where to put them. I got them because they were cute in shape and super cheap. I think I will repaint some and will use my wood burning tool on others. We shall see.



I am pretty satisfied with all the purchases. I love what you can find at thrift stores. Any who,  let's see if I can get my fiancée out of bed so we can go do something today. Have a great week!

XOXO,

Lina