Decorating 101

(please excuse the order today button, it's the only pic of my new fun magazine i could find)


Are you in the mood to talk decorating, cooking and all things Fall/Christmas related?

Me too.

I have some fun ideas I found in some magazines and I'm itching to share.

SO, I was thinking. Do you want to come over tomorrow night and eat and talk decorating?

Bring your favorite snack, chips/dip, sweet, salty, doesn't matter.

(please no whole grains or vegetables...preferable buttery chocolately salty things)

Bring your cute, fun, easy decorating ideas.

Bring pretty pictures or magazines you like. We can pass them around and share ideas.

Bring your favorite recipes you like to make this time of year.

Bring a pen and paper to jot down ideas.

Do you have traditions you do around the holidays you'd like to share?

If you can't think of a single decorating idea or tradition to save your soul that's ok. Come anyway.

6:30-8:30pm

My house.

Call or email for directions.

"By wisdom a house is built, and through undertanding it is established; through knowledge it's rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures."

Proverbs 24:3-4

Laughter

The manifestation of joy.

Sharing my husband's dream of deep sea fishing with him.

That's my fish everyone. I think God was laughing when He sent that one my way.

Seeing the look on his face as he reeled in huge, beautiful fish. This one is my favorite of the look on his face with his fish. Shiny gray with black stripes.

Laughing hysterically when I caught a shark. Really LORD?! I mean we talked about it a lot and I'm really excited you took me up on my plea to catch a shark. It was one of the most exciting things I've ever experienced. Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh.....


We have celebrated 10 years together. We're happier, more content, give our opinions less, see the small things, love our boys to pieces and I do mean we enjoy them to the hilt, we drive a bus, I mop and clean up sticky messes every day, I enjoy the sunset in our dining room through finger-printed glass and we are learning to experience the dailyness of life in it's fullest these days.

There's nothing like:

Butt's in the air

Butt's in the air

Lookin' like a fool with your butt's in the air.

Ahem, Do you think I could have passed up taking this shot. I took this one for ya'll, because somehow me telling you about the yoga class going on while we enjoyed our romantic sunrise coffee on the beach yesterday is much different than you seeing it for yourself.

Have a good en' today.

My Summer House

If I built a dream house this is what it would look like.

Charming white picket fence and porch. Sunny yellow paint. Ivy growing up the walls. Colorful flowers lining the path. Lights on inside, always.

When I took health in college I am not kidding one day my professor had us all close or eyes and imagine a happy place. Well, I am not serious enough to get into stuff like that so I shut my eyes and was creeping out about the freak show session that was going on during class. A little too hokey for my taste, ya know what I'm sayin? But man oh day, he had us searching for our happy places for a long time.

Did he forget to prepare lesson plans?

Yeah, I bet so too.

So anyway, after awhile it was getting boring so I started thinking about my happy place.

It had a charming cottage with floral oversized chairs inside, white walls with beadboard, board and batton. Arched doorways. Striped wallpaper on the walls. Thick crown moldings around all the windows, door frames, baseboard and ceilings. Jasmine growing outside. Sheer curtains blowing from the breeze flowing through the open windows. A waterfall was nearby. There were lots of colorful flowers. It was yellow, sunny, bright blue skies and green, purple, pink and orange on the ground with the flowers and plants.

My preacher says we're probably all going to have our own thermostats in heaven and we can adjust how we want it, so my thermostat would always be set between 68-74 so you cold folks would want to be sure to bring a light jacket.

I sure do enjoy beauty. Some days it takes a little more looking around to find it hidden within the day, but every days holds some beauty. I hope you enjoy yours today.

Hutch Make-Over

We did not have a place to put our China so we bought an armoire several years ago. We taped scrap book paper on the doors and against the back.

We glued ribbon to finish the look.

Scrapbook paper + Ribbon + Tape= Custom made armoire

Wide Awake

Tonight I decided to go to bed early.

At 8:47pm I was showered and in my pj's. I crawled into my bed armed with decorating magazines and books.

At 10 something I was tired of reading so out went the lights.

Tick tock tick tock tick tock TICK TOCK.

I have settled some very important issues while I've laid awake. For example, dessert for Community Group tommorow night. It is going to be cupcakes with icing and sprinkles. Very festive.

Now it is after midnight and there is one pressing question that will not leave my mind.

WHERE IN THE HECK IS ALL THE CHOCOLATE IN THIS HOUSE???

Uncle

Uncle! Uncle! I give up! Uncle!

I realize last night I smack talked about not givin' a rip about the mound of laundry that was piling up in the laundry room. That was just the Harvest Moon talkin'.
This morning we decided to tackle the mountain. Does a wash full of hot, soapy water make you happy too?

This feels much better.

Rest

This week has been filled with rest.

The wheels fell off my bus. Not literally but I have been so sick. Tuesday I woke up looking like Will Smith in the movie HITCH. Shane whisked me to the eye doctor and long story short I've just been a mess this week.

Hence all the rest.

No make-up.

Jammies all day.

Early bedtime.

No make-up.

Pizza Pizza, $5.

We decorated for FALL yesterday.

Cheeser Cheeser $5.

The house says Thank You for warming me up with lots of fake foliage.

Piles of dirty laundry I could care less about are waiting on me.

Redbox rental of Tinkerbell. You must rent this and watch it at night with all the lights out. It's a magical, twinkly movie. So cute. ( magical in a pixie dust kind of way)

I've discovered my two year old will sit still and let me sit cheek to cheek to him and read.

Falling leaves, Mulled Cider candles, football games, chips and dips, MAN, what's not to love about this time of year?!!!!!

(Please excuse the random nature of this post)