BHG & Christmas

Did you see it? Better Homes & Gardens has their special Christmas ideas magazine on the store shelf! I picked up a copy of it today, and I must say, it has a number of great craft and decorating ideas! Maybe this will be the year that I get my crafts and gifts made early!!

I Heart Fall!!!

This my favorite time of year!!! I love almost everything about fall! The cooler temperatures, the beautiful leaves, wearing sweatshirts, watching football and the food!

Here are a few of my fall decorative changes!




I can switch the wreath on my front door and it just seems to inspire a change in the season! This is one of the easiest changes you can make for seasonal decorating.


I have found that just a few different accessories for each season can make a big difference. Most of the fall items on my mantle were purchased at Hobby Lobby for 50%off. All I needed to do was switch out some candles and I'm ready for fall.




The last thing that I mentioned about fall was the food! Here is my salsa that I cooked down for hours! I so much enjoyed the fact that I used the tomatoes and peppers from our garden.




In the near future I will be posting about some more of my favorite fall foods!

Leftovers

Earlier this summer I struggled with decorating our master bedroom. I finally figured out some new bedding, accessories and wall color. I must say I'm really enjoying the changes and it is almost complete!

One of the added benefits of re-doing our bedroom, was leftover paint! I had enough to paint to cover our main bathroom! This room was my least favorite, in our entire home. It was painted the same yellow as the majority of our home and I struggled with the counter top and flooring.

However, once I added the Sherwin Williams, Sleepy Blue, it made it "pop"! Because my girls use this bathroom, I wanted to add their personality to the room. Which means we added some pink!




I debated what to put over the towels, since it was such a large area. Thanks to a friend, I was able to put up a wall decor from Uppercase Living!



Next time you want a little change in your decorating, try a gallon of paint!

Firsts

Today was a first for me! I sent both my girls off to school for the entire day!! I must admit, it was kind of "bitter sweet". For the past two years I have had my youngest daughter with me, whenever I wasn't teaching. It has worked out that while she was in school, I was teaching.

Now, I have a three hour chunk of time each day. I have such hopes of all the things that I would like to get accomplished during that time. Hopefully one of the things that I will be doing is blogging on a regular basis!





For now, here are a couple more of the first day pictures!