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!

~~Lola Bean~~

Introducing the newest member of our family...

Her name is Lola Bean...

and she already loves my daughter...

she's got the most kissable face...

She will be joining our family in 2 weeks once she's weaned from her momma and the adventure begins!

~beautiful blue~

My lovely daughter finally picked out a paint color for her room and it was a total shocker! She's a purple girl through and through but to my surprise she chose blue! A lovely light shade that reminds me of water and has a name very fitting 'Clearwater'. The room has been prepped, primed and painted. It took a whopping THREE coats of primer to get rid of the log cabin theme.

Here's some before pictures as a reminder...

I did feel a little guilty painting over all of the hard work that went into hand painting everyone of those scenes. But only a little guilty. Just a smidgen.

Here are a few after pics. The carpet is in the process of being ripped up and removing the tack strips. The previous owners decided to refinish the floors the same way they did in the other rooms: with area rugs still in place. So I have a nice 1 1/2 foot border of a completely different finish. Guess what? I'm paintin' over it with a nice purty white.

I have some lovely white accents to add to the room. I'll keep you posted!

~wallpaper free & lovin' it~

So I've been M.I.A. for quite some time but I promise to be posting much more often. House progress is coming along slowly, but it's still coming. I've gotten all of the wallpaper down in the living room now! The only wallpaper left is on the landing and hallway upstairs. Here's the before of the living room and the lovely wallpaper:

another picture of the wallpaper:

Here's the after:

I still need to wash and prime the walls...

Paint colors have almost all been picked out...so stay tuned...

I'm back...

Well, actually we're back! I was off of work last week and got a ton of things done at the house but we took a break over the weekend. We headed up north to my grandma's lake and became beach bums!

I stitched this photo together it turned out pretty good (click on it to make it larger)...

My daughter has never caught minnows before (not too many at the beaches we visit) and this was one thing on her summer 'to do' list. We had to have caught at least 50...

At the end of the day we did let them go...

The water was pretty clear and cold. But I got in. We walked out to the diving dock and I chickened out, like it said it was cold. We still had fun, found a bunch of shells, caught minnows and swam a bit, I'd say it was a very successful beach trip!

This is the 'cold creek' we named it that when we were kids (not sure if it has an 'official' name)-it is the COLDEST water that you will ever touch! It empties into the lake, my daughter had a lot of fun in it getting really cold and then jumping back in the lake. The lake water didn't seem too cold after that!

Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend!