not so little puppies

so my pups aren't so little anymore...

this is lola when we went to pick her out...

ginger her first night home...

lola her first night home...

ginger today...

lola today...

~new project~

So I have been living in my house for a few months now and am still without a dining room table and chairs. crazy i know. I found a table, an ugly one and some ugly chairs too. I wanted to share a before (I only have one of the chair):

I took the caning off because it was tore on all of the chairs, I actually like tha outcome:

I will post pics soon of the end result!

glam halloween?

So it seems that Halloween has taken a bit of a glam turn.
thats ok with me.
I found these plates that I really liked at Pottery Barn:


So I decided to try and make my own:

Not exactly the same thing but same idea.
All you need is glass plates, mod podge, tissue paper and a skull template.
And now all I need is some cute orange dinner plates to go under these guys.
Has anyone started decorating for Halloween?

Time Traveling..

Well sorta...i haven't posted in forever
I know.
I'm sorry.
But I have a reason; I've been super busy,
decorating,traveling, being lazy.

So I'm going to back things up a bit to August.

My mother, my daughter and myself had the opportunity to travel to New York City for one day at a very, very, very cheap rate.

How could we say no?

We didn't.
So I'm gonna bore you with some pics of the trip.
we arrived at 9 am and left at 10 pm.

NYC nonstop for 13 hours.
We were tired to say the least.

Top of the Rock...literally...

This guy was in FAO's he's made of Jelly Beans!!!


We simply had to go to The Plaza; my daughter is a huge Eloise fan and we had to stop there to check things out...



Love, love, love the stained glass ceiling...

Carriage ride in Central Park...this is (according to the driver) the same carriage that was used in the movie Enchanted~and we rode in it!

Staten Island Ferry...it was very overcast but we wanted to see lady liberty...

Central Park~the BEST park EVER!!!! We spent a few hours there and barely scratched the surface-so much to see!

Central Park Zoo.

Every city we visit we have to vivist the zoo.

It's a rule.

(my 9 yr. old made that up)

Times Square~we had to meet our group there-it was so cool at night~

Not sure what this is really called but we called it the Today Show Fountain...

Falling...

for fall! I love this time of year, the leaves around here are starting to change color and I'm in the mood to do a little fall decorating. I haven't decided exactly what I would like~things are so different this year! New house and new spaces to fill!! Here's a few pics I found that I really liked...

Excuses, Excuses

First off I'd like to say sorry to those few, few (few) people who read this blog-I have been uber busy lately and unfortunately my blog is the 'thing' that paid the price. I FINALLY moved into my 'new' house. There is still so much to do and I promise pictures. soon. There are a few other reasons why I have been MIA; work has been super busy, my daughter started school, my computer is on the fritz and I have no Internet at my new house, yet. I'm working on all of those and will bore you with the pics later. I promise.

I have yet to decide on what to do with my bathroom so help me out! I found these inspiration pics from Country Living:

This one is closest to the layout of my bathroom already & the tubs are very similar~

I just liked the tub in this one~

I love, love, love the shampoo/towel rack~

I would love to have a chandelier over my tub like this one~

or this one~

Share your bathroom pics with me!

~to the fair we go~

We are slowly etching away at our summer 'to do' list; crossing more and more off every week. We decided to go to a local fair the other week and had a blast! It was a typical country fair which is exactly what I wanted my daughter to experience.

Here's a view as we drove up...

Rides aren't exactly my most favorite part of a fair, so we mixed going on rides with visiting the barns~

I decided not to get too close to this fellow, I've heard they can spit and I wasn't willing to stick around and find out.

This calf was the SWEETEST~he had the softest fur...

This poor momma pig had ten babies pullin' at her and all she wanted to do was sleep. See the little piglet by her face? He was biting her nose the whole time trying to get her to wake up~she didn't budge though!

Luckily we still have fairs running well into September so we hope to hit a few more up before the season ends! But in all honestly I'm more excited about the fair food~funnel cakes, corn dogs, french fries, cotton candy~ooohhh I'm making myself hungry!