I sat it on the desk in the kitchen that I’ve been unsuccessfully attempting to decorate this year.. Something about it just isn’t coming together quite right this time, so I haven’t shared it on the blog.
Less mess though for sure!.This is super shameful.
Baby Jack doesn’t even have a stocking out yet because I wanted to use these ones but I only have three.Oh well, I’ll put out a non-matching one for him on Christmas Eve and he won’t care.I would have put some fresh cedar into these for now if I had wanted to walk the 20 feet from my back deck to cut some.
But I didn’t.. Don’t worry, the ladder is firmly attached to the wall!We’re working on making the dining room presentable right now so I can only let you see a tiny bit.
We’ll have to save most of it for a future post!
You can see that I took these pictures the next day though and I had fixed up the tree a little by adding in some white berries and spreading the ornaments out.Here you can see how the wires fit right into their holders.. Once the wire was in place and hooked up to its special thermostat on the wall (another added expense with all different types of kits), we were ready to lock it in place!.
Here’s where things got a little nuts.. You want to pour enough self-leveling cement so that the wires are covered and protected.You don’t want any exposed wires because you may end up slicing through them or even just their outer casing later when you’re laying your tile and that will cause the whole system not to work.
a tragedy for us cold-footed folk.. To get ready for “cement day”, we prepared the room by making sure that the cement would run only where we wanted it to when we poured it into place.. We made cardboard frames to fit inside the ducts for our floor vents and we put plumber’s putty around the tub plumbing and the toilet drain.. A very easy, but necessary step!Once the cement was all set, we would be able to remove our cardboard and our putty and have perfect holes for these fixtures in the room.. Then it was time for the cement.
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