How about some house talk today with a few Autumn tree pictures?
And when I say talk, I mean talk, there isn't a bunch of DIY photos.
Just because I've been busy posting wedding stuff doesn't mean that there isn't the constant renovation of something going on in our world.... there is.
This post is going to start out with a story, and the next post will have some of the DIY. So if you're not in the mood for a wordy post, you might want to skip this story and stop back in next time.
What you will get this time is the story of the little house, and why it's going through some changes.
In 1992 my dad had a stroke enjoying his retirement with a round at the golf course. At that time my parents lived in California where they had been for the past fifty years.
Sunday
Friday
Updated Mudroom Faucet With Pfister
I say it's the hardest working because in those 20 years it was the faucet that saw the grimiest of hands, and it was the first place of rest when anyone ran inside in a hurry, if you know what I mean. PU!
Hands working hard in the garage, out in the yard, and the faucet that six kids delivered their dirtiest paws too.
Oh, and it saw animal paws as well.
My family put the mud in mudroom.
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Pfister Faucets
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Wednesday
Wood Bow Ties Thrifty Style November
Hello hello hello, welcome to the November installment of the Thrifty Style Team, where a gaggle of gals show us how to be thrifty in our homes and lives.
I happen to be one of the thrifty gaggle gals, and today I'm going to show you how around here last month we used thrifty style to be stylish.
I guess you could say I'm putting the style in thrifty style this month.
Now I will tell 'ya, as far as style goes I'm the last person who would ever claim to be any kind of a fashion plate, but I do know a good-looking bow tie when I see one.
I happen to be one of the thrifty gaggle gals, and today I'm going to show you how around here last month we used thrifty style to be stylish.
I guess you could say I'm putting the style in thrifty style this month.
Now I will tell 'ya, as far as style goes I'm the last person who would ever claim to be any kind of a fashion plate, but I do know a good-looking bow tie when I see one.
Thursday
Napkins That Fool You & Wedding Menu Bands
These napkins fool 'ya.
Show of hands; how many of you know that there are napkins available that look and feel like a linen fabric but they are actually a quality disposable?
And now you are wondering why you need something like that right?
Well.... for any event, party, or get together where you need a napkin nicer than the standard kind, but real linen won't work. Like say a wedding in a tent.
I needed a quality paper napkin so 250 people could wipe Chinese food off their lips, and I kid you not I love this product, and no I am not getting paid to say that!
The napkins are made by SimuLinen and they are a linen-feel premium quality paper napkin.
Show of hands; how many of you know that there are napkins available that look and feel like a linen fabric but they are actually a quality disposable?
And now you are wondering why you need something like that right?
Well.... for any event, party, or get together where you need a napkin nicer than the standard kind, but real linen won't work. Like say a wedding in a tent.
I needed a quality paper napkin so 250 people could wipe Chinese food off their lips, and I kid you not I love this product, and no I am not getting paid to say that!
The napkins are made by SimuLinen and they are a linen-feel premium quality paper napkin.
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pallet tables
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simulinen
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Sunday
Lazy Halloween Door Decorations
In these parts I'm known as the Halloween Queen.
From years past hosting a haunted trail in the woods, to some epic parties in the back shed, if I'm gonna do Halloween up, I'm gonna do it up right.
Usually. But not this year.
Or for that matter not Halloween 2014, '15, or 2016 either.
Hard to believe the door things that you are about to see is the work of the same woman who made these awesome party invites......
Or whose party buffet spread sports glowing fake windows.....
From years past hosting a haunted trail in the woods, to some epic parties in the back shed, if I'm gonna do Halloween up, I'm gonna do it up right.
Usually. But not this year.
Or for that matter not Halloween 2014, '15, or 2016 either.
Hard to believe the door things that you are about to see is the work of the same woman who made these awesome party invites......
Or whose party buffet spread sports glowing fake windows.....
Thursday
Let Them Eat Cake, From A Mosaic Cake Stand
While other folks are readying their homes for Fall, I'm still winding down from wedding preparations.
I don't really have the desire to decorate anything since I'm still un-decorating from September.
So let's have a chat where I discuss cake, smashed china cake stands, and make no mention whatsoever of pumpkin spice anything.
Daughter #2 wanted a simple wedding cake, she's not a foofy girl, and her request of Amy from Amy's Cupcake Shoppe in Hopkins Minnesota, was for cake with a dark sage green and a touch of gray, sort of earthy to match her rustic outdoor wedding.
I don't really have the desire to decorate anything since I'm still un-decorating from September.
So let's have a chat where I discuss cake, smashed china cake stands, and make no mention whatsoever of pumpkin spice anything.
Daughter #2 wanted a simple wedding cake, she's not a foofy girl, and her request of Amy from Amy's Cupcake Shoppe in Hopkins Minnesota, was for cake with a dark sage green and a touch of gray, sort of earthy to match her rustic outdoor wedding.
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Friday
Popcorn Cart Stocked With PoppedCorn Gourmet Treats
Over summer our place was like a bee hive.
Worker bees everywhere.
Coming and going, hammering and nailing, flying in and out of the hive with pieces of pallets.....free pallets was our form of honey.
Then just like that in one day it's all over and as they say, all that's left are the memories.
But if you're lucky there are a few bags of popcorn left too!
Worker bees everywhere.
Coming and going, hammering and nailing, flying in and out of the hive with pieces of pallets.....free pallets was our form of honey.
Then just like that in one day it's all over and as they say, all that's left are the memories.
But if you're lucky there are a few bags of popcorn left too!
Wednesday
October Thrifty Style Team Glass Light Globes
Or is that glowing?
Or globe-ing?
Whatever you wanna call 'em I have reused them four different ways - not too bad for a thrifty find.
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glass pumpkins
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wedding decorating
Friday
Mini Biff, A Good Place To Go
When something takes almost a year to plan I must have mentioned it at least once or twice, but I admit I don't often yack about the personal side of my family, so if you didn't know that tidbit, I understand why.
The spire tent went up overlooking the lake, which is a quarter mile down our driveway away from any "facilities".
It wasn't going to work to have a couple hundred people walking back up the driveway, especially after dark, with the hope of using our mudroom bathroom, a vision I admittedly wasn't crazy about anyway.
So who 'ya gonna call?
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portable toilets
Wednesday
Farm Of Dahlias
This story is really a labor of love.
Really.
With lots of labor.
And lots of love.
It started many years ago when the parents of our good friend Mike went about their life on the farm and planted some flowers in their yard.
Really.
With lots of labor.
And lots of love.
It started many years ago when the parents of our good friend Mike went about their life on the farm and planted some flowers in their yard.
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flowers
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wedding decorating
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