Happy Year of the Rat!

I recently admired what a friend of ours did with her stove top. She covered it and turned it into a beautiful place to display some of her orchids and a sculpture. Her creativity has inspired me, and even though I'm not planning to do the same thing with our stove, I'm in the mood to change things around a bit in our home.

Out with the old--in with the new! After all, today is the beginning of another long cycle since the rat was the first animal to show up before all the other animals in Chinese astrology, and today is the Year of the Wood Rat!