Adventures in Decorating: Halloween 2013 Final Pics
Posted: 2013/10/29 Filed under: Decorating | Tags: Ghosts, Halloween, Halloween 2013 Home Decor, Halloween PVC Spider, Halloween Yard Decor, Holiday, Home, Painted pumpkins, Spiders Leave a commentI’m glad I remembered Halloween was Thursday! Here are the final set of pics for our lawn and house.
I tried to put where i got things in case you are inspired to do some last minute decorating and shopping.
I’ve enjoyed the house this month, but I’m ready to have a clear house again for a few short weeks before Holiday Decorating.
My camera ( ahem, the photographer struggles as well) can never get good pics of the yard decor at night, so I had a friend who is a great photographer give it a try.
All of the outside shots in this post are hers, she made my yard look great even though her talents are put to much better use on people!
Good Enough DIY Memo Wall Boards and Mirror Wall
Posted: 2013/03/17 Filed under: Decorating | Tags: Decorating, DIY, DIY memo board, Do it yourself, Easter, Home, Home Improvement, Interior design, memo board wall, PInterest, Pinterest Memo Board Wall Leave a commentAdventures in Decorating
Good Enough DIY Memo Wall Boards
I finally finished MiniMe’s room to good enough. I can live it until after gardening season is over in the fall. This will leave me time to be patient while I wait for the perfect queen size french bed, nightstand, and chair to match her room. Anyone got an old curvy wing back chair I can paint or try recovering? I can barter for some organizing, purging or decorating advice. I’m handy too, just saying. I will write up the tips, tricks and lessons learned later. I still need to get the Easter Decor completed, yes I’m still tinkering, and yes Babu has told me I have ” a problem”. For now here is the final result, I hoped for a Home Decorator magazine clean and tidy room, but she will be 25 before I can achieve it and she is 10 now. Please excuse the mess. 🙂 Have a great week Lovies, I had a cortisone shot in my foot Thursday and hope to be on the pavement next Saturday!
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- He’s so fluffy I could die!
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Indian Summer in the garden or why we still have peppers growing
Posted: 2011/10/09 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Balloon Flower, Coleus, Cut Flower Gardening, Flower Gardening, Football Mum, Garden, Gardening, Home, Indian Summer, Midwest Gardening, Mums, raised bed gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Sunflower, trellis gardening, Zinnia Leave a comment-
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- One man down of many
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- Hot pink
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- Seeded head
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- Pretty fall Zinnia’s still going strong
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- I need to cut these
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- I have been letting the Zinnia’s go.
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- Light pink Zinnia
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- Pink Zinnia
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- White mums
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- Spooky Coleus
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- Football Mum
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- Football Mum. I need to move it so it can get really big.
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- One lone Balloon Flower decided to make a 2nd bloom appearance
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- This one is just getting her groove on.
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- Marigold’s
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- Dried sunflower carcass
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- HUGE Sunflower head and my really ugly hand
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- Blackberry Tiger Lillies have gone to seed. Let me know if you want some!
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- The neighbor saw a snake in our garden
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- MiniMe found a toad in the garden
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- One eyed Toad
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- C’mon over, we are ready for you
I took a good look at the garden last Thursday and took some pics. I am pleased that we have been blessed with almost 2 weeks of good warm weather which has allowed my late tomatoes and peppers to keep growing. We have had two light frosts already, but neither of them made to the raised beds or the retaining wall. I will have to pull off the produce by next Saturday or Sunday depending on temps and frost. So I hope they grow like heck this week. I also have a ton of clean-up and fall bed creating to do, some plant moving to plan and accomplish and a yard to get ready for the hood Halloween Decorating contest. And I must have more mums and spring bulbs. Now sure how I’m going to pull all of that off in the 50 hour work weeks I have going on right now. But I’m betting you won’t be hearing from me as much. But for now The Husband and the Destroyer are at the game and MiniMe is off exploring on her bike. I am going to start the laundry and pick a project from the very long list of things I need and want to do. Meanwhile enjoy these pics of the garden in Indian Summer.
PS. Wasn’t the moon just awesome last night. I was out enjoying in until around 4:30. I good time was had by all.
It’s getting spookier
Posted: 2011/10/08 Filed under: Decorating | Tags: Decorating, Halloween, holiday decor, Holiday Decorating, Home Leave a comment
I will write more later. Today we are working on the ghosts in the yard. And tonight is Girls Night Oooooouuuuut!!!!
Followed by The Husband’s B’s and G’s and a lazy laundry day on Sunday!
I’ve got some posts in the draft stage including one I’m mulling over about me crossing the age when my Mom died line in 10 days on the 18th.
I’ve taken on a huge 3rd project at work and have to find ten extra hours in my week for work. That ten hours has to come from somewhere and so far it seems to be coming off running and writing. This is no good. I need to refocus on the run as I committed to running a half in early November. But haven’t even signed up yet, let alone trained properly.
Still my family is happy and intact. That makes me feel so blessed every day.
Have a great weekend lovies. I might end up with some time to tell you a story before it is over.
Best,
Lola
It’s getting kind of spooky around here
Posted: 2011/09/23 Filed under: Decorating | Tags: Decorating, Fall, Fall Decor, Halloween, holiday decor, Holiday Decorating, Home, Home Decor, Labor Day, Pumpkin, Thanksgiving Leave a comment
The final pumpkin baby verdict. Quads!
The Destroyers Birthday is coming very soon. He will be 6 and he has always loved spooky things. When he was a toddler he would turn all the lights out during dinner and proclaim that we were playing “dark spaces” . His favorite shirts to wear each year are his Halloween Spooky shirts. He starts wearing as soon as he can in the Fall and stops when the weather changes and he has no choice. Thank goodness fashion has skulls in right now because he is completely outfitted in skull/spooky shirts for his wardrobe. I’ve had these Dept 56 Halloween Houses for years, and each year he begs for them to be put up as soon as possible. I usually do it inside before or over Labor Day weekend and then pretend we are really a normal family until October 1 when the outside stuff goes up. This year it’s all up now. Instead of the big Fall tree I did last year I put a a little Spooky Tree on the porch. There is more Fall decor for me to get up, but I’m done for now I think. I’ll switch it out to Fall only after Halloween because I finally get to have Thanksgiving wherever the hell I please this year and will be doing it at my house. It’s by no means a decorator show house job but I’m pretty pleased with it and I love sharing ideas for decor. If you do something really cool for fall please share!!
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- The final pumpkin baby verdict. Quads!
Closer to Lola 
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