OUR THANKSGIVING

We had our usual Wednesday night Thanksgiving dinner. That way I don’t have to worry about in-laws or other obligations my kids might have. I have been doing this for several years now and it works out very well.

Getting ready to feed 26!

 

I got a little artistic this year with the rolls.

And I decided to try giving my turkey a bacon jacket. YUMMY!

I made pumpkin and apple/pecan pies.

Alyssa made me a turkey. Soooo cute!

The twins made me another turkey, so, so, soooo cute!

I have such talented grand kids!

Everyone ate and played and just had a good time.

Playing on my new blackboard wall.

Just hangin’

 

I hope your Thanksgiving was as good as ours.

I LUV MY STUFF

I have so much  junk  stuff.   I have a very hard time getting rid of any of it and I am constantly adding to it. 

I have found a solution…. STACK IT!

See this  piece….

I picked it up a couple of years ago for like $10 at a yard sale. It used to be pretty ugly and bead up. I painted it black and added new knobs and used it in my dining room for my stuff.

See this….

It was my parent’s and it is probably 60 or 70 years old. It has seen alot of use and wear but I of course could never part with it.  I painted it black as well a few years ago.

So I got to looking at them yesterday, trying to figure out which one to use on my new orange wall and I said to myself,  “Self, wait a minute, why not use both!”

So this is what I did….

Good idea but I don’t like the look of that bottom space. Soooo, I got to thinking and thought maybe I could cut the bottom off but…. I didn’t want to ruin my parent’s piece.  I turned it over and yup! It was screwed on. They knew how to make furniture back then.

So I unscrewed it…

Now it looks better

With some touch up work and tweaking it will look great.

(It really looks better than than it does in the picture.)

TO ADOOR OR NOT

Here is a  sneak peak of one of the projects I have been working on. I have been wanting to add built in shelves for years on either side of  my living room window.

Well, I finally did it!

Now my big question is… Do I add doors to the bottom section and if so do I make them solid with beadboard inserts or with glass inserts?

What do you think?

“ORANGE” YOU GLAD……

Well I am! 

See the wall in my dining room with the  arrow pointing at it?

It’s gone!

See this other wall with the arrow?

It’s still there.

It used to look like this…

Well, I added something…  2 more feet…

and some texturing……

Then….

I painted it ORANGE!

Then added some gel stain …

And you have my new undecorated orange wall.

Now what should I do with the rest of the mess?

POLKA DOT PLATES?

I love plates! I have tons of plates! I want red polka dot  plates. There is no way I can justify buying more plates. My solution…

Take my red plates  I’ve had for years …

And add vinyl Polka Dots.

Of course they’re not to eat off of.  Just to sit and look cute.

Yup, now I have red polka dot plates. HEE HEE!

Now I need little white polka dot plates.  Hummm…

I have lots of white saucers, so….

Ahhh, white polka dot plates. Add a rooster in the middle…

Now why do I want polka dot plates?

To put in my plate rack, silly.  My son Josh made this for me in woodshop class about 18 years ago and I love it. It has found lots of different places to sit over the years and seen lots of different plates.

Now it houses my new old plates.

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOURS

CAN’T GET ANY SCARIER THAN THIS

This summer we had a load of wood brought over to the house.  One day I noticed a little black widow spider in the yard. We’ve never had them before so I called an exterminator. I thought he had done a really good job until….

I found this lady just inside my bathroom window. SCREAM!!!!!

You can believe I didn’t bother to take the time to find my camera and take a picture of her on the wall.

She is huge! At least and inch and a half across. GROSS!!!

I called the exterminator again and he came out and said it was one of the biggest he’s seen. This time I had the house fumigated and sprayed and I am setting up spider traps everywhere. YUK!!!!!

HALLOWEEN HOUSE

I’m a slacker this year. Normally I do Halloween really big but this year I got involved it a home remodeling project and lost my interest.  But here are some pictures of my decorations.

Back in September we got everything down from the attic.

This hangs in the garage year round and I love walking past it. It reminds me who I really am.

This guy actually made it into the house.

The buckets made it around to the front deck. Very scary?

I hung up my favorite witch! I’m moving now!

Actually, the inside of my house does look a little scary.

Oh yes, my bat also got hung up.

See my branches? I was going to hand lots of spiders from them. Do ideas count?

Yup! I did Halloween up big this year.

Check out lasts year’s October posts if you want to see what I usually do.