Holiday Grand Plan, Kitchen Week

I missed a whole week with Thanksgiving, but that is the great thing - I can catch up! Last week was guest room week, I do not have a guest room - but did work some more on porches. We are fighting the weather on this project - rain and more rain in the forecast. Hoping to do a second coat of primer on Tuesday after work, then start working on the colours (finally) on Friday!

My kitchen has gone through some major renovations since we moved here:

We are still working on installing cabinets, and the new door. We have picked deep tone wood cabinets, with a gold and brown mix granite, the sink is a deep brown granite composite and my back splash is deep brown tile - reminds me of chocolate bars!
We have on order the few final pieces for this room - including a tall pantry cabinet with microwave space and on over the fridge cabinet.
We have an idea what to do with a small piece of granite left over from the kitchen sink cut-out, taking it into the 'granite guys' next week to see if they can make a 'shelf' for our pet dishes!
I also have a project my husband is trying to figure out how to make, a slide-out pantry customized for the space between the wall and fridge.

This week we continue with the holiday prep, I have picked up a pumpkin and finalized plans for Halloween - including costumes. I do not decorate for Halloween until the weekend of - so will update with my spidery theme then!

My youngest son took the box of non-perishables we have collected so far to his school, for the Thanksgiving collection. Starting to slowly fill it up again for the Christmas collection now.

My master gift list has been finalized, and I am getting close to completing shopping. Another batch of cookies baked and put into the freezer, and a dinner of cornbread and chili too.

This is also a checkpoint week, where we ask ourselves how the homemade holiday gifts are going, and if we need to put them aside and think of something or buy a gift instead? So far all is good for me on this account! I did find some fun yarns that I am going to try to make into slippers and scarves - but they are not for gifts, and will do as the mood strikes over the snowy days of winter.