More fall decorations!

Yesterday I put out a few more fall decorations.  I like getting out my decorations a little at a time. I have collected SO much over the years that it can be a little overwhelming.  So if I do it a little at a time it's easier. 
Here is our fall mantle.  I moved my big blue plate here.  I know blue doesn't scream fall but I love the color and I like having it out so it's going to stay out.  I also always like having a picture of Brock and Ava and fall candles. 

These are my jars from Ballard Designs.  I have had these pears in them for a while but I love them.  I was going to change them out for fall but I think they look fallish so I am going to keep them.

I always change out this candle holder for the different seasons.  I love the little gourds and pumpkins. 

This silver pitcher was my Mom's so I like to keep it out to remember her.  I put some sunflowers in it for the fall.

Our living room shelf.  I like changing this shelf for the different seasons.  I love the jar with the pumpkins.  I got it this summer on sale at Hobby Lobby. 

I haven't put any of our halloween stuff out yet.  I am going to wait for a couple of weeks to put that out.  I still want to add a few more things to house for fall. 
Happy Monday!  This week is a busy week for me at work and Graig starts his fall travel for work so I don't know how many fall projects I am going to get done this week :(

Yesterday Ava her friend Anika and I met Grandma Jan in Cooperstown for the Harvest Festival. It was SO fun.  It was like a old time festival and there were SO many people there.   We went on a wagon ride and Ava and Anika milked a cow!  We also looked at a lot of animals and visited an old village.  It was a fun day.  I forgot my camera but I took a couple of pictures with my iPhone.

Ava, Anika and Grandma Jan eating a little snack-roasted corn.  It was really good!

Ava and Anika trying to get an apple.  They couldn't use their hands so it took them a while-ha ha!

Ava and Anika in front of an Alpaca.  It moved so they got scared and turned around right when I took the picture.

Today we are going to watch Brock play baseball.  He has a double header in Utica so we will see a LOT of baseball today.  Ava, Grandma Jan and I area also going to stop by the NEW Hobby Lobby that opened just a few weeks ago.  I am SO excited because we don't have a Hobby Lobby near where we live.  It should be a fun day.  Happy Sunday!

Home Tour-Living Room

Today Kelly from Kelly's Korner is hosting Show us your Life-living rooms.  I can't wait to see everyone's living rooms!   Our living room is where we spend ALL of our time.  Last Christmas we put our comfortable couches in this room and put down a new rug.  We all love this room!

Here is a view of our living room from the front door.  I have my laptop on ready to update my blog-ha!

 

This is the view from the living room looking into thedining room.

Here is our fireplace and shelves.

Our comfortable couch where we spend a lot of time!

Our house was built in 1920 so we have some quirky things in our house.  One of the things is the heaters are all covered with these heater covers.  I really like them because they are another place to decorate!

I painted our TV cabinet.  I LOVE the way it turned out!  It only cost $30!  Here is the post where I talk about painting it. 

Here is a picture of our living room from Kelly's last home tour. I have really changed things around in here! 


Happy Friday!  I am SO glad it's the weekend.  We don't have anything really big on our agenda.  Brock has two baseball games on Sunday but other than that we are going to relax and enjoy the fall weekend!

Fall Decorating!

Over the weekend I did some fall decorating to get our house ready for the fall.  Fall is my favorite season of the year to decorate for and I have two huge bins of stuff!  I didn't get it all out yet but I did do a little decorating inside.  I still have to get some mums and pumpkins for outside.  It is beginning to feel like fall here and I like when it get's a little cooler and the leaves start changing colors.

The centerpiece in our dining room table. I got this a few years ago and I still love it!

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A pumpkin on a pedastal in our living room

A bowl full of pumpkins on our living room table

A pumpkin candle and candleholder on our side table. 

A fall arrangement in our sun room

A green pumpkin and a little fall sign. 

Fall in our kitchen!  I love white pumpkins.

A star pumpkin in our living room.  I love this pumpkin!

A candle holder that I made with fall leaves. 

Happy Fall!

Our office.

Last spring  I painted the shelves in our office black.  I really like the way they turned out but I don't think I ever showed them on here.  They are very large and take up one whole side of our office.  I like that they also have 4 cabinets (one in each corner) for storage.

Here is a close up picture of the shelves. 

When I was in Illinois I got this cork board at Hobby Lobby.  I LOVE it!!  I just put it up last weekend and I think it looks really good in here.  Good news a Hobby Lobby opened up 1 hour from our house and I am going there this weekend!  I can't wait!  I always find cute (cheap!) things there. 

Ava put on the pictures for me and she said that they are mainly pictures of her with just a couple of Brock-ha ha!

This is a picture I made out of scrapbook paper.  This used to be a large canvas I didn't like the picture anymore but I wanted to re-use the canvas because it was so big (and expensive!)

This is our blanket chest/bench that I think works really well in there.  We also use this for extra seating sometimes. 

I hope you enjoyed our little office tour!  Happy Tuesday!

Weekend wrap up!

This weekend was a busy one at our house. 

Friday night-Graig had a poker night with his friends at our house and I decided to paint Brock's bathroom.  I have been wanting to re-paint it for a while now and since I didn't have anything else to do I decided to update it.  I am going to show some pictures after I get some new towels and rugs. \

Saturday morning our town had a huge garage sale on Main Street so I went with my friends Allison and Sabrina.  We were there ALL morning.  I bought this little  orange fiesta plate for .25 cents and I bought an old fashioned suitcase.  Those were my only two purchases of the day!   I put the orange plate on top of our fridge for some fall flair.

Saturday night Sabrina and I went to Wal-Mart to get some supplies for our craft day on Sunday.  On our way there we stopped to pick some Chinese laterns that she had seen in the woods by the high school in our town.  They are SO beautiful!  I made two little bouquets out of mine. 

We wanted to spray paint pumpkins white so we got some pumpkins and some ivory spray paint.  We also got these adorable place mats for our tables.  These were only $3 each!

Sunday afternoon we got together to paint our pumpkins white.  We had about 10 pumpkins each to paint, some little some big.  We also had some black and we wanted to try to paint some black. 

This one of mine came out the best. 

We also painted polka dots on a couple of our little ones

Sabrina also painted this candle holder that she bought at the yard sales on Saturday black and gave it  to me.  I LOVE it!  The green pumpkin I got at Wal-Mart for $5. 

I hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Baby it's cold outside...

It has been so chilly here lately.  It's beginning to feel like fall around here.  I turned on our fireplace a few times this past week.  It's electric so it doesn't give off any heat but I like the way it looks. 

I also got out one of my fall candles.  It's Pumpkin Patch by Bath and Body Works.  This is my favorite fall candle!