Finally got started on the Thanksgiving Decor

Posted: 2011/11/14 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Decorating | Tags: Decorating, holiday decor, Holiday Decorating, Interior design, Thanksgiving | Leave a comment

We won the neighborhood Halloween Decorating Contest for Best Overall Yard. It netted a $100 Gift card that we can use to dine at a cool restaurant in the arts district downtown. I hurried and got all of the indoor decor down and put away before The Ladies came to clean. They aren’t doing so hot, we are on crew number 2. In the past I would of also made the transition to Thanksgiving decor at the same time. This year I enjoyed the clean empty spaces on all my surfaces for a little bit before I dug back in. I am even thinking I’m not putting out Dept 56 Christmas Houses this year. But we will see how I feel once Thanksgiving gets here. It’s the first Thanksgiving in a while I can eat when I want, where I want and we are eating at 6 at my house. I’m buying The Husband a new fabulous electric smoker for his coming Birthday, and he is making a turkey breast and something beefier. The rest we will work out later, but I did promise homemade croutons and spinach salad. It’s nothing super special, but I’m sharing mostly because I like looking at what other people do and getting ideas.

: Dining Table Cornucopia

: Dining Table Cornucopia

: Dining room shelf

: Drop table take 1

: Vase take one. The Fleur de Lis is crooked bc I painted it that way. You should see the back, it’s a hot mess.

: Foyer Table

: Drop Table arrangement take 2

: Pumpkins in tall skinny planters take 2

: I hardly ever get to display this Pineapple b/c I can’t find anyplace I like it long term. I think it looks pretty good here!

: Thanksgiving porch

: Thanksgiving tree closer

: Spider Pumpkin has morphed to Turkey Pumpkin

: My tiny little turkey

It’s getting kind of spooky around here

Posted: 2011/09/23 | Author: Lola | 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!!