Fall Magazines and Catalogs

Good morning, I'm kicking back and enjoying the Fall like weather. It's supposed to be a high of 72 today. I have been giddy with this wonderful weather. I am enjoying my coffee with my favorite seasonal creamer, pumpkin spice. Why wait?? My favorite drink in the Fall is cider I enjoy it so much I have a gallon in the fridge already made up with the spices so I can just heat and enjoy. So let's go shopping my new favorite way! This should put you in the mood for all your Fall decorating. Grab your favorite drink and sit back and relax.

Won't these be perfect for Christmas in my windows? I can picture them in my head now. My other ones have gone bad and I love them year round.

a great little set of towels for the Fall

1st lady of Pie, too cute!

a little Fall scene

fall candle holder

a little fall sampler

These were all from Through the Country Door.

Here's some links of things from the country house too. I couldn't show pictures of these.

a little sampler for my kitchen. I love what it says, it spoke to my heart.

another sampler, a little something patriotic that would go good with my T. Jefferson picture

This big fat orange pumpkin, and this one too!

Have a wonderful day,

Carey

Retail Therapy

Good morning yesterday I stated that I was heading out to go shopping so I had to share some pictures of my goodies. Now I know you're probably scratching your head. What is this woman doing she's getting ready to move why is she buying more stuff to move?? Well, I don't really have an answer for you except that this is my outlet. I love to shop. I like to shop for my home the most. Having a warm and inviting home has always been important to me. I like to shop for candles, kitchen goods, clothes, jewelry, shoes. You name it I've always been a shopper. I like to get a good deal too. I don't go all that often anymore so I really don't feel that guilty when I do shop.

I regret not taking my camera because it was such a pretty day. I went to one of my favorite primitive stores again Homestead Primitives which you may remember from a previous post. It was already decked out for Fall and it was hard to resist all the goodies. I also checked out a little store on a farm with the sweetest couple I've met. It was so cute ladies. They have a pumpkin patch in the Fall and it's called Pumpkin Blossom Hill. She had her own workshop attached where she could paint and make her goodies. This is where I found the red/white bucket and baking soda tins. Then I headed off to Red Bud, IL such a neat little town to Wickes N Country. It's a very nice place too. I picked up the little bowl 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. It fits in with my pie theme so well.

I got the 3 little crows and pumpkin from Homestead Primitives and the Hillbilly Homebrew candle too. The smell is spicy mulled cider and it's wonderful, I got a tart first to try and had to have a jar of it. The company is the Black Crow candle company. They should start paying me to advertise for them. LOL! The little cherry pie in front is for my vintage toy stove.

Then the cottage cocoa tin, fall signs,clabber girl tin and enamel ware is from D & D country. store. The bowl is from Wicks N' Country.

Enjoy your weekend, it's supposed to be really cool here.

Carey

Pineapple makeover and a little bit of Fall

Good morning, blogging friends! I didn't quite get this up for Whatcha working on Wednesday but I did have it done finally. I'm not very patient when it comes to waiting for things to dry. Remember this pineapple, I found it for 50 cents at a GW store.

Before

After


These little pumpkins are actually candles that I just used a little spray adhesive on and added some spices. Some of it didn't get an even coat so the orange shows through a little bit which I thought added something to it. I have had these for awhile and I saw similar ones last Fall but never did anything with it.

Have a great day, I'm off to go shopping (retail therapy)

Carey

Yummy Snack!

Smores

Good morning! My two little guys love it when I give them something yummy afterschool. I decided to make something inspired from a new cookbook that my DD purchased for my birthday. It's called Silly Snacks. What a fun little book, it's all about fun snacks for kids. It's mostly geared toward recipes you can make with you kids. I love that they are interested in making stuff with me. My DD doesn't like anything too complicated which I admit sometimes I try to do that with her and she totally gets upset with me. We don't always see eye to eye in the kitchen. I'm trying to be a little more patient with her and make sure I'm well organized, this seems to help a lot. My son is pretty happy most of the time and he's willing to do anything as long as my kitchen aide or food processor or blender is involved, see a pattern here?? LOL!

I didn't follow the recipe in the book but instead used what I had on hand, I think chilling it will yield more positive results but my kiddos couldn't wait for that.

My version of Smores minus- the stick

Box of graham crackers (you only need a few)

marshmellow fluff

1/2 cup of mini choc. chips

1 tsp of oil optional

sprinkles to decorate

Melt the chocolate in the microwave or use a double boiler. Spread onto 2 crackers evenly leaving a little bit of an edge to allow for overflow. Then spread on marshmellow fluff. Put another cracker on top and smoosh together. Then spread more chocolate on top. Decorate with sprinkes as desired. Here's the big tip, refrigerate and let them get hard at this point. I used the marshmellow fluff instead of the mini marshmellows. I also omitted the stick. If you decide to use a popsicle stick then place it inside before you refrigerate.

These were quite messy but my guys gave 2 thumbs up, as you can see here!

Have a great day,

Carey

Textures

Hello! I had to jump in and show you some textures too. Everyone else seems to be doing this lately. So I thought why not. I'm always amazed at what comes out of the camera lense. One of the pictures is my fat cat see if you can find him. Hee hee...

Have a great day ladies, I'll be back soon with an afterschool snack, my pineapple redo.

Carey

Make-Over Monday

Here's the before

Good afternoon ladies, I've been a bad blogger lately. Between getting ready for the move and my kids starting school I just haven't been doing a lot of blogging lately. Naturally, I'm still checking our your blogs! LOL! I've gotten super excited about the move. We went to Lowes this weekend and checked out some paint samples and I came home with a crazy number of them. Decisions are hard to make. My mums are blooming and Fall is in the air. I can hardly wait to get moved and unpacked so I can decorate. I think my first spot will be on my mantles and above my kitchen cabinets. I know some people are going to think I'm crazy but decorating for this season is my absolute favorite so unpacking other things probably won't be as high a priority. LOL!

When I laid them out they covered my entire table.




I actually finished a sign that I wanted to put in my new kitchen but I wasn't happy with how it came out. I think I need to get some stencils. I'm going to try sanding it a bit and maybe putting some chalkboard paint on it. We'll see.





I finished my bread box and I like how it turned out. I painted it Vintage White and used a light stain over top of it.





Here's how it looks on my counter.

I'll be back with a few more things to share soon. I need to put one more coat of paint on my pineapple and I'll show you what I did with my paper towel holder too.

Have a great day ladies!

Carey

Back to School

My kids going back to school

My daugher Christina going into 4th grade

my son Robert going into 2nd grade

Good morning, I'm not up to my eyeballs yet in boxes but it won't be long. I started packing yesterday in my living room. I asked my husband what to start with and you can probably guess what he suggested. Well, here's the deal while I'm anxious to move into my new place I hate moving. I hate boxes. I'm the person who unpacks everything within a few days and have everything in it's place. I guess you could say I've had 19 years of practice. It's just something I do. We close on our place the 11th of Sept. so we have a few weeks. I really don't want to live without my prim goodies and decor until well after that date. I guess it's a selfish thing. I have decided to start on my candle stash and unused kitchen items next. I detest packing up the yellow ware but what's a girl to do. So after my pity party and mini fit I started in packing. I put on the big girl pants and just told myself it has to be done. LOL!

Here's a few pics of the kids on the 2nd day of school. I also pride myself on taking pictures and not missing anything but the bus showed up a full 20 minutes early. Luckily, I had built in time for hair and pics for my DD. I had just finished spraying her hair and my son yelled, "Mom, the bus is here" I promptly yelled back, "No, it's not!" LOL! It was. They have changed the morning route. Good news is their afternoon ride is much shorter. Thank goodness we were ready to go or it would have been disasterous.

Also, my DH painted this milk can for me that we bought at an auction about 2 years ago. I used a textured black. It's actually very matte in person. The pictures came out shiny. He's trying to talk me into outlining the words in white or cream. I'm thinking about it. I should have a bread box finished to show you hopefully by the next few days. I know I've promised GW and freebie finds. Getting back to our school schedule has really made us busy this week.

a close up of the lid



the milk can

Take care,

Carey