Year Round Holiday House

This is my Dept 56 Year Round Holiday House done up for Fall. My Aunt made the Fall wreath and garland for it so that it truly can be decorated year round.

Fall Project

This is the Fall centerpiece I made over the weekend with my Mom and my Aunt. Just about every year we make a craft project for Fall or Christmas. I saw something like this in a catalog and thought it would be nice. I like ours better than the catalog one and it was cheaper.

A Little Taste of Fall- A Little Early

The polka dotted cow picture will most likely be replaced with a Fall basket arrangement soon. I still have to put out most of the Fall wall stuff.



This is the shelf above the living room window. I Fall cleaned the living room the other day, including the shelf, and I made sure to decorate it so that I didn't have to climb back up there. Well, at least until October when I'll add Halloween items.



This is the kitchen cart that's actually in the dining room area.

August Rudolph Day

Today's Rudolph Day again. This month I've been doing a little of everything. I ordered a Christmas gift for hubby, I've come up with an idea for my in-laws that I think will be great if I can find out a little more information about it, I've Fall cleaned the living room, and I've decorated for Fall a little. I was supposed to go through my Fall decorations to see if I could freecycle anything to make room for new stuff, but in order to do that I had to see if everything had a home so I put it out a little early. I'll try to take some pix a little later. I still have some stuff to put out in the dining room, but I'm really tired today so maybe tomorrow. I will have to go through my Halloween bins downstairs to see if there's anything to freecycle in there. I know I have a couple of things in the mud room decoration bins so that will have to be done next.

Spare Bedroom Done Over

This past Saturday I painted the spare bedroom. Three coats on the walls and 4 coats along the top trim. I was so sore. I think it came out pretty nice. I also Fall cleaned the room when I put it back together, bonus!
I tried to get most of my Eeyore collection into this room. The color is a light blue/green, although it looks more blue in this picture.

This quilt on the wall was the inspiration for the color and it looks great against it.


I bought a new lamp for the nightstand and a few little things for the room, but I already had most of the stuff in the room so the redo wasn't too expensive. I even got a break on the paint because the color is called "icing on the cake" from Benjamin Moore, but when I went to pick it up they didn't have it in satin finish and that's all I buy so I had it color matched at Walmart in Dutch Boy paint for 10 bucks cheaper per gallon.

Spare Bedroom Redo

This past weekend I picked up the shelves for the spare bedroom redo and put them up with my Husband's help (even with his broken toe!). Everything was going fairly easy which is a feat for me because I can tell if something is 1/8 of an inch off and it "burns my eyes" and I can't stop obsessing over it until it's fixed. Right up until the last screw on the last shelf, that is. The screw broke off inside the anchor and we couldn't get it out no matter what we tried. These are the big plastic dry wall screw in anchors too. My Hubby hobbled downstairs and out to his garage to get his drill and supplies and he countersunk the hanging hook on the back of the shelf in a different place so we put a new anchor and screw in next to the one that we can't get out of the wall. Then we had to bang the broken one into the wall a little so that I can spackle over it. The shelf is now a little bit off and we can't get it to correct no matter how much we tighten or loosen the screws, but it's a really tiny bit and I am able to counteract it by putting something slightly taller on one side of the shelf and then it's an illusion that fools my eyes into thinking it's straight enough.





The items on the shelves might change a bit once the room is painted, but for now those are the items looking for a home on the shelves. The Eiffel Tower picture on the other wall used to be in the living room for part of the year before the polka dotted cow picture arrived. I think it will look nice against the new color in there. Oh yeah, you can maybe see the new color on the shelf in the first picture. It's the lightest one on the strip and it's called "icing on the cake".

Another Thing Off the To Do List

So this weekend included getting another thing checked off the To Do List...Staining the gazebo. The gazebo was looking very ratty and old and this coat of stain in the color new cedar has made it look fabulous. If only you could've seen me on the roof trying to stain the cupola! It had to be done though so I stretched and balanced and I even repaired 2 shingles that had blown off at least a year ago. It was so nice sitting out there with it being all clean and fresh. It's even worth my sore arms! Too bad the heat and humidity are coming back so we won't be using it for a few days.


On another note, I'm planning to redo the spare bedroom. I'm looking for a light blue/green color and I'm going to get some shelves for the walls. I don't want to spend too much so I'm going to use what I already have except for the shelves. I should be doing it in the next few weeks so keep an eye out for that update.