Creative?

I am truely enjoying working on my home. I know I probably (strike that last word!) watch way too much HGTV. Being in our first 'own' home, and as it was a brand new house--well that gives the opportunity to be creative, to decorate how I want to do it! The only constriction, is, of course, funding. I went to Home Depot yesterday with $100.00 in my pocket (last payment for the washer & dryer we sold.) and managed to stick to my list and still have to pull out the credit card--I was $2.00 over! And now I know that I need 4 more tiles--at $4.35 ea. it mounts up! Then I went to True Value and spent another $30.00. I will probably need a couple, three more jars of the gold paint, and several lengths of wood trim yet, as well as a few packages of decorative pieces, but the dining room is nearing completion! And I have the materials to finish the last bit of the living room. It is so exciting! Dad admitted that the wood box, now a cabinet, looks good--he didn't think it COULD turn out so well. Oh he of little faith! One method did not work, but another did...proveing the old adages right: "If at once you fail, try, try again." "There's more than one way to skin a cat." I've decided that goal making is a physical thing, not just mental. I've made mental goals--I will write in my journal daily etc. but this is physical when I haul the wood, the paint, and the tools into the kitchen. SOMETHING has to be done with all that stuff. Now if I could just find a place to keep my journal--in the middle of the kitchen...