Honey We're Home: Our Christmas Mantle

Honey We're Home: Our Christmas Mantle

Love your mantle with the fresh greens and mercury glass-just beautiful!

Moved...

You can now follow me on http://www.yby5.com/ a vintage design blog with my partner in crime...see our latest finds...what we're doing to them...things we covet and all around fun ideas!

Hope to see you there!

Quick Craft

I love banners...and thought I could whip one up pretty quick with the things I had on hand.



spray paint, tape, fabric, liquid stitch ( the greatest stuff on earth) ribbon and stencil



cut your fabirc and triangles, tape down your stencil and spray away

glue fabirc onto ribbon





HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



Really!

Does Mother Nature know that is only October 27th?!



Time for a change

It's time for a face lift...not for me (at least not yet:) but for my dining room. I'm loving gray...the new neutral. I'm finding it a challenge to find the right shade...either too much blue, lavender or green undertone. I need some ideas...anyone have the perfect gray?

Here are some images that I like...

images from Martha Stewart & BHG

My current dining room is light beige walls and cream trim..not very exciting!

These are the two colors I found recently...they look more pale blue in the picture.

So what do you think...gray walls and crisp white trim??

On the Prowl..

I love stopping in to our local antique shop every few weeks to see what's come in. I seem to gravitate to the same things everywhere I go. See what caught my eye....

bird cages are so cool to display candles ,plants.. 

love big chipped cabinets

glass jars always look great with seasonal flowers displayed in a grouping

scales are classic...love how they can be used to hold things like papers at a work station

more great cache jars

this is what i walked away with...great simple vintage sign. appropriate since we have chickens

bought this too..metal tray for our desk area

it found a home

tray is great for holding construction paper

What kinds of fun finds have you found?

My apologize for picture quality..I forgot my camera...at least I had my phone:)

Fall Fun

Fall in upstate NY is the best!

Last weekend we ventured to a new apple picking orchard....beautiful day....huge apples....hungry kids!

My camera quit right at the end so I missed out on taking pic.'s of the most amazing homemade breads, muffins, donuts, turnovers.....simply amazing.

this pictures doesn't capture how huge some of the apples were-yum!

our stash

my three blondies and niece and nephew-takin' a break

i'm sure my daughter would love how i zoomed in on her teeth (beauties huh!). that apple crumb cupcake was to die for!

with all those apples this is a must..SUPER EASY!!

Apple Cobbler

¼ C. butter
1Tbls. Plus 2/3 C. baking mix (bisquick)

4 C. peeled apples
 ½ tsp. cinnamon

½ C. sugar
 2 Tbls. Packed brown sugar

2 Tbls. Milk

In 1-qt. shallow casserole dish, combine apples, sugar, 1Tbls baking mix and cinnamon. In a medium bowl, mix remaining 2/3 C. baking mix with brown sugar. Cut in butter until mixture is size of small peas. Stir in milk until moistened; drop by spoonfuls onto apples. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into crust comes out clean. Let stand for 5 min. Serves 6.

have you gotten your copy?



Really??

Is it really true that Summer is over? Why can't it be just a little longer? We didn't even check off everything on our Summer List! It's funny how fast you can get back into the school routine again...homework, sports, and early bedtime. We miss our Summer, but know Fall is full of lots of great things.

Here's a few projects I did through the summer and random photo's....

Our summer list that we ran out of time to complete. I do like how one of my girls added "get a pool"!

The girls bathroom that we updated with painting, fixtures and accessories. They choose the green and I have to say I love it too. A little elbow grease and $ really pay off.

 Crayon artwork is a craft project from the blog whatever. I love her blog and her kid friendly crafts.

Found scrap fabric to change out the pillows on our coach. It's by no means the best couch as it's showing its wear, but its given it some new life.

The corner of our living room is wasted space...decided to turn it into a work station for the girls crafts. Don't mind all the boxes..work project.

So long empty hooks...hello backpacks!
Back to school.

Random Summer Post

We're in full summer mode...here's the proof.......

Annual 4th of July celebration 

Finally made this multi-colored cake for the 4th (recipe from Marths Stewart).....a big hit!

Lot's of soccer....x3!

Lot's of swimming...good times!

Summer idea list.....I got the idea from one of my favorite blogs http://megduerksen.typepad.com/whatever/


 These are just a few highlight's of our summer.....it's going too fast with so much more left to do....vacationing, visiting friends, boat rides, camp fires, blueberry picking, sleep over's, picini's, creek walking,... What have you been up to?

Porch

I'm so happy that my galvanized metal letters I bought in Brimfield finally found a spot on our screened porch...I always knew that I wanted something on that wall...I'm glad I held out for just the right thing!

this birdcage was my other purchase