Can you believe it is already the middle of October?
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year, and I love to decorate my home for the holiday. This year it seemed to sneak up on me a bit or something because here it is mid October, and I still have my bins of decorations scattered around the house. I’ve been trying to a do little bit each night, but it seems to be taking forever. I think I need to pack up the bins, and call it good for the year 🙂
Just a few pics of some areas in my home that are decorated and ready for Halloween and trick or treaters. 🙂
Do you decorate for Halloween? Thanksgiving? Or just Christmas? Do you think it’s too excessive to decorate for every holiday? I’d love to hear what you think!
Enjoy your day! Tomorrow is Friday and then the weekend! Woo Hoo!
I am super excited to finally show you the new rug I received from Rugs Direct! I mentioned in a post HERE that I was given the opportunity to review a rug, and let you know about a fabulous sweepstakes that Rugs Direct was hosting.
The original rug I chose, was on back order until October (popular rug!), so I chose a different one. Same colors, but a different pattern.
My rug was delivered super fast (within a week) and the quality of the rug was FABULOUS! I love it!
It's so hard to take photos in front of a huge window! The colors of things get skewed a bit! The photo above gives you an idea of what the rug looks like under our dining nook table. Love it!
The photo above is more realistic as to the colors of the rug.
And the photo above is a closer view of the texture.
We have some changes planned in the kitchen over the next few months, that involve painting the cabinets white, the island a dark gray and doing something with the countertops. I think this rug will be the perfect starting point for us! What do you think?
Have you ever purchased a rug from Rugs Direct? They are having a huge August Clearance Sale right now, and when you use the code AUG15X, you will receive and extra 15% off your rug.
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I hope you are having a FABULOUS Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by!
Have you heard of Rugs Direct? If not, you need to check out their site! They have a FABULOUS selection of rugs at great prices! Rugs Direct, has generously offered to send me a rug to review, and I couldn't be more excited! I have been looking for a rug for our dining nook, and found just the perfect one, on the Rugs Direct site:
What do you think? It's a light silver/gray color. I think it will go great with the changes we are planning in our kitchen this summer!
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Now, go do it! You won't regret it! Who doesn't want a new rug!
Hello! Shocker, I know! My second week in a row posting! 😉
One of my favorite holiday traditions, is to get all of my Christmas decorations out the day after Thanksgiving, and try and get them all up that weekend. I rarely get all the decorations and tree(s) up in one day, but I usually make it in two. It truly is my favorite time of year. I think there is something magical about the twinkling lights, and I think my house never looks better than it does at Christmas. Do you want a quick holiday tour? Well, even if you don't want one…..you're gonna get one!
Welcome to our home!
The front porch in the daylight. At night the swag around the door and on the railing is full of twinkling white lights. A few years ago, I grabbed bunches (and bunches) of red and silver ornaments from various stores for cheap, cheap, cheap! You will see a very common theme in my decorating! The wreath on the front door was a plain silver jingle bell wreath that I won at Bonco many years ago. Last year I broke out the glue gun and added red and silver ornaments to glam it up a bit more. Love the way it turned out, and so simple to do!
As you walk in the front door, the formal (?) living room is directly on the left. This room has been many things over the years (including scrapbook/craft room), and we never really spend any time in it, and we've never had really nice living room furniture for the room. The only time the room really looks good, is at Christmas. And that’s not saying much! LOL!
This above photo is a view from the stairs looking down in to the formal living room. The white armoire used to be in Madison’s room. Even though it sits in the formal living room now, if you were to open the doors, you would find a ton of crafting and sewing supplies. Gotta use storage where you can, right?
You can see our fat, cat Jax in the bottom right of this photo. He’s rarely around for photos!
The photo above is a “Joy to the World” card that I ordered from Katie Daisy. Love it!
This is the view going from the front door towards the breakfast nook. The stairs going UP to the bedrooms are to the right, as well as the stairs going DOWN to the family room. The kitchen is to the right of the breakfast nook. One of my favorite Christmas decorations has to be my dollar store wreaths in my bay windows. I bought them probably 10 years ago, and they have held up great. I love the cottage feel they add to our home.
The shelf above is usually decorated for whichever season is coming up. I have Santa's on the shelf for Christmas, and I will switch them out for snowmen in January.
A close up of the Santa shelf.
More red and silver ornaments in a glass jar on the kitchen table. Those ornaments are everywhere!
My kitchen box window. The JOY letters are the ones I made at Craft Weekend and the “Merry & Bright” sign was party of the cool swag we got.
The above photo is of the stairs heading down to the recently renovated family room. This room recently got a new paint job, carpet, window framing and we also painted the fireplace mantle. Oh, and all the furniture is new….or new to me. Not sure if we are keeping it or if it will be going to California with Tyson, when he moves in to a permanent place. We will see.
Chloe’s favorite place is in front of the cozy fire!
Close up of the painted fireplace mantle. The mantle is pretty low key – just garland and silver reindeer stocking holders. I just wasn’t sure what to do this year. So much has changed with our house. It’s like a blank slate, and I’m not sure what to do with it. Notice the silver and red balls on the wreath……once again!
The tree behind the chairs is the “kids tree”. We give Tyson and Madison an ornament every year for Christmas (and sometimes during the year, if we have traveled somewhere special)……those ornaments go on this tree, and is decorated by them. Tyson was home for Thanksgiving this year, and he and Madi decorated the tree the night before he flew home to California.
Close up of the Kids Tree
Temporary TV/media cabinet. Not sure what is going to happen here. Rumor has it that Santa is finally going to bring the Moll family into the 21st century and bring a flat screen TV….but we will see. Can you imagine it? LOL! Something other than the monstrosity pictured above? *wink*
Trying to get a photo of both trees……
Well, that is it….so far anyway. I hope you enjoyed the tiny glimpse in to our Christmas home. It’s not much, but it’s comfy!
Happy Monday, friends! Have you decorated for Christmas? If so, do you go all out? Or do you keep it simple? Do you have more than one tree? I’d love to hear from you!
As some of you may remember (due to my roller coaster blog posting!), Tyson went away to college about 4 years ago! About two years after he left for college, we moved Madi into his room (sorry, slacker and no photos – believe me - it was a CUTE room!). Then SHE graduated from high school, and decided to move out! What?
Wait, no worries. Her "new" room (the bigger of the two spare rooms) became my craft room! Excuse the mess, this was right in the middle of Christmas present wrapping!
I finally got out my Valentines Day decorations. I had been meaning to bring the bin up from the basement last week, but life got in the way. I always seem to switch things around from year to year, never keeping things the same as the year before……oh well! Keeps it interesting, right?!?!
First up, my cupcake liner wreath. Super easy, but super cute! I have it hanging in our entry way.
The mantle this year – similar to last year's mantle, but a little bit more simple.
And the big shelf in our breakfast nook. Nothing too spectacular, but it makes me happy to see some red/pink and hearts!
Do you decorate for Valentines Day? If so, I would love to see what you've done!
