My fall tree

Today I had my son Caleb, bring up our Christmas tree from the basement. " Why" you might ask.  Well I like to decorate the tree in fall decorations, and enjoy it up until Thanksgiving weekend when we decorate for Christmas. I decorated it for fall last year for the first time and everyone loved it, hope you do too!

Here are some close up's of the cute decorations on the tree:

I picked the little scarecrow on top and this cute decoration at Hobby Lobby today.

Here is one last look and also my mirror in the powder room:

Thanks for stopping by!

New fall decor and new rug.

Hope everyone is enjoying this welcomed cooler weather, it has been such lovely weather here in the south the last couple of days.  I have had a whirlwind weekend...hubby was home from California and we had an enjoyable weekend and stayed busy the entire time he was here.  One of the things we did was buy a new rug for the living room, we loved the animal print...what do you think?

Here is another view:

I have also been busy putting out some of my fall decorations. I had my brother take out the gas logs inside my fireplace so I could put my large pumpkin and some other fall items inside, I also added orange lights and three led twigs, the light's aren't showing up in the picture, but it is beautiful at night!

Hopefully you can sort of see the light's around the pumpkin.

I am not finished in the dining yet, but here it is so far: above and below:

This is a mirror I have in the study, notice my little dog Gracie in the mirror?

Well hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far, and I will be back soon!

What I have been up to.

I have some new things I would love to share with y'all, I have been sewing and rearranging and creating.  Let's start with the new window treatments, remember a while back I told you I was learning to sew?  Well, my very dear friend Donna who lives in Tn, skyped me on the computer for about 2 hours and stepped me through the sewing process of the curtains .  I found the wine bottle fabric at JoAnn's, it goes great with my kitchen decor:

 The sheer's were much easier to make than the valence's, but I did it, how do you think it looks?
  Next is our master bath, I bought the curtain at my favorite thrift store for $1.50 and simply added fabric at the top and bottom to pull the colors in that I have decorated with.

The shower curtain I bought from the same thrift store for $1.50 and added the same fabric to it.

Okay, are you totally bored with the bathroom pictures?  We are almost done!

Here is my beautiful travertine floor we had installed last summer, I love the medallion.

Oops we are not finished yet...hang on......

My shutter we hung in our bedroom, painted it black and then added gold....aren't the knob's wonderful?  Hobby Lobby has some great hardware.  I also made the coffee filter wreath and the tassel.  Now.....we are done, hope you enjoyed looking around our home!

Hello everyone!

Wow, it has been a looong time since I have posted anything, a lot has been going on, for one thing my husband is in California working on a geo-thermal plant.  I did get to fly out to spend some time with him and on the weekends we would go sight seeing, we went to Palm Springs and also San Diego. The temperature in the city where my husband is working was in the 100's everyday, so very hot!  The landscape is so different than Atlanta, it was pretty but I missed all the green! 

Here are some of our pics:

        We had just landed in San Diego, and was eating lunch right beside the bay, so beautiful.

                This was taken in Palm Springs in the court yard of our hotel, all the flower's and

                 fountain's were lovely.

Well, that is all I will post of our trip for now......I have completed another shutter and I will post
it later.....it's a little different than the other one's.
blessing,
Regina

Something New

Hi ladies, hope you all are enjoying this long weekend. My hubbie came home Friday night from California, and will be home for a couple of days.  Yesterday we went to my cousin's home for a 4th of July celebration, had a great time and really enjoyed the fire work's show!
I have been working on some project's using a couple of shutter's we had.

We had these shutter's in our bonus room for a couple of years, they were painted a different color and they were hung on both sides of the window's just like you would do on the outside of the house. I was tired of that look so I primed and painted them and had hubby hang them up side by side and bought the letter H for our last name and used double sided tape to hold it to the shutter's. Then, I went to Goodwill and purchased the picture frame's for .75, and painted the red ones and used tissue paper and mod podge for the other ones. I want to add some more frames, but have not had time to get back to GW.

This was my birthday present that my husband built me, it is also made out of shutter's. He used hinges on the back to hold them together, and then cut out the shelves out of 1x12 pine boards.  We got the shutter's from a house in our town that was being torn down. I used this to display some of my Mother's things.
Also, thanks so much for all the sweet birthday wishes!
love to all,
Regina

Happy Birthday To Me!

Today is my 4? birthday....no the question mark is not a mistake.haha  
Hubby is out of town on business but my son and my brother's family has some things
planned.  Hopefully I can get some b'day pics taken today and posted tomorrow.  I also
need to take a picture of my shelves by crafty husband made me before he left.
Wishing all my friends a wonderful day,
Regina

I am still here!

Hi ladies, so sorry I have fallen behind in my posts, since we got back from vacation it seems we haven't stopped.  First of all, today my son had out patient surgery so we were up early and at the hospital with him. Now he is resting upstairs with his cell phone by his side to call me when he needs
something. Not sure if I am going to like that set up or not.haha   Next, my husband is leaving tomorrow for California, he will be flying back and forth for the next 4-6 months. For those of you that don't know, he worked in Canada from Jan - July last year so....I was not to thrilled about this news.  But we are thankful that he has a job, so many people are hurting right now.  And lastly, I am decorating a clients home and that has kept me extremely busy. So please keep us in your prayers that this journey that my sweeties job is taking us on will go by quickly!

Taken from the Oakville marina near Toronto Canada. The young man sitting at the bottom of the light house was playing the guitar. My husband of course had to meet him and play guitar with him. Needless to say they hit it off right away, both being musicians, and swapped musical ideas for a long time. They drew quite a crowd.

Some new things

Hi Ladies,  hope everyone is enjoying the last couple of weeks of spring, it feels like summer here, in the 90's, way to hot!  I have been extremely busy since we got home from vacation.  I am decorating a clients dining and living room, it's been really fun, she loves Tuscan and so do I, that makes the job very easy! Plus....I have a friend who is teaching me to sew, I have always wanted to learn but just didn't get it.  I even took home economics in high school and my Mom could sew anything, well...I made my first skirt, it's actually for my niece Andrea, how did I do?

 

Here is a shelf that my father in law made me a couple of years ago that sits at the top of our stairs. I added and took away a couple of things. Below are the before and after results. If you can see the tray on top, I mod podged napkins on the tray.  Sorry I couldn't get a better picture, it was the best I could do without falling down the stairs.

 

                                       This is a beautiful gift from my garden, I am going to try and                                          dry  it  so I  can make an arrangement with it.

              Well friends this is all for today, hope everyone has a beautiful and blessed day!
               hugs,
               Regina

Back from Montana

Hi all,
We are back from Montana. Got back last week and haven't had a chance to do any blogging this week. Here are some of the pictures that I promised of our trip. More will follow as we get them from my cousin who went with us. She has a much better camera that ours and her pics should be fantastic, but ours aren't so bad. Anyway, hope you all enjoy looking at them as much as we did taking them.

Here I am in from of the West entrance of Yellowstone in West Yellowstone.

Here is my hubby. This is the 1st day at the park.

This is the first picturesque view of the mountains as you get into the park from the west entrance. This is only the first of thousands of beautiful views like this.

This is the first of MANY buffalo we saw. The park officials said that they were unusually skinny due to the long winter this year. They had over 200 inches of snowfall. Normally they have around 150 inches.

Here is one that is scratching his head on this small tree.

One of several Elk we saw. He was right next to the roadway.

This is the Beehive Geyser near the Old Faithful geyser. What is so rare about this picture is that they say it only goes off every 8-12 hours and it is so hard to predict. My husband just happened to be looking that way when it erupted and captured this photo. He had to use the zoom because it was so far off. Still it is both a pretty good picture and we are very lucky to have captured it on camera.

Here is the one that everyone goes to Yellowstone to watch. Old Faithful in all it's glory. Take a look at the video we took. It was shot with our camera, so the quality isn't spectacular, but it is still pretty cool.

From what we understand, we were lucky to have captured this shot. The park rangers told us that this was the last of the elk who still had his antlers. All the others had already dropped theirs but this was the only one that was being a little stubborn about losing his. They think it is because of the long and harsh winter.

This guy is a young one. He crossed the road right in front of us, swam across the river and then turned around and gave us this National Geographic shot. We were not able to get a pic of him swimming across, but my cousin did with her really nice camera. I will put those pictures up as soon as I get them for your enjoyment. He must not have been more than 50 yards away from us here.

This is a shot of the largest waterfall in the park. It is at the grand canyon of Yellowstone. Notice the snow? Boy, we sure did. It was sooooo cold!

This is the second of 4 grizzly bears we saw on our trip. He came within about 100 yards of us and them went over to check out a buffalo that down the meadow a bit from us. they circled each other for a while and then the buffalo came up to where we were and gave us a closer look at himself.

Here's the infamous standoff between the two that lasted for about 2 minutes.

This little creature is called a Yellow Bellied Mammoth. They live in the rocky areas scattered along the park. Not dangerous by any means, but still cute to look at. We don't have anything like that here in Georgia.

My husband and myself along with the Bar-N ranch foreman Ron. Yes he is a for real, bonafide, routin-tootin cowboy and helped make the trip one of a lifetime. The stories he told were amazing and he kept us amazed for hours while we were there. Thank you Ron for a wonderful experience.

Here we are at the top of the drive to Big Sky resort. They wouldn't let us go any further, thus the stop sign behind us. What you can't see is the guard shack and guard to the left of us.

This is the north entrance to Yellowstone. This is where they dedicated the park in 1872.

My husband at...well, you can read where we were for this photo.

Me at the same place but with the mountains in the background.

here is one of many shots of a baby buffalo. They are called "Red Dogs" when they are babies. This one is only about two to three weeks old. After they turn about two months old, they loose the red coloring and turn more tan. They turn darker as they grow older. Although it was really cold, it was a great time to be in Yellowstone because of the new borns.

Another red dog. They were all over the park.

I forgot the name of this small geyser, but it was one of the prettiest ones we saw.

Here is a bald eagle. We couldn't get a great shot of him because he was so far away and our camera wouldn't zoom in that close.

Two mallard ducks. Just more of the great wildlife there.

Here is a crane in the river. I didn't know there was any there in Montana.

I think the hubby liked the FJ Cruiser. Just take a look at the grin on his face.

This is a little close huh? The buffalo will walk right past your car door at times, blocking traffic for long periods at a time.

One of the many hot springs in the park.

Gotta go for now, but I will place more photos on as I get time.

Blessings to all,
Regina