Who would have guessed?.

Do you do Winter decorating too or do just move straight from Holiday/Christmas into Spring?.And, P.S., that room you’re glimpsing in the background is our front hall.

If you’d like to see how that’s decorated for the Holidays,.you can check it out here!.And one more thing before you go!.

Have you ever heard of a Google+ Hangout?It’s a neat new video chat thing where you can have up to 10 people chatting at once and then you can save the video (or not!)

and watch it later.. A whole group of fun and talented bloggers, including myself, will be having Google+ Hangouts to talk about Handmade Holiday ideas this week between December 3rd and 7th.

If you’re interested to watch me being awkward live on camera, mine is scheduled for Thursday the 6th at 1pm Eastern time.The top is actually made from three barn wood siding pieces held together with wood glue and dowels.

We held everything together with clamps in every direction to make sure things would dry to be straight and strong.After a couple of hours, we removed the clamps and we were good to go!.

The lower shelf was created in much the same way, using a long piece of pine shelving and then adding strips of two-by-two all around the edges to give it a chunkier, more substantial look.We’ve created a few different counter tops this way around the house and they always turn out beautifully.