FALL is in the air.
The days and nights have gotten cooler.
My Sweet Autumn Clematis is in full bloom.
Smells incredible and looks like snow.
My Sweet Bay Magnolia’s bright red berries
are making the birds very happy.
Although Fall brings Winter…
Fall is my favorite season :)
As you may remember??
My brown hallway just wasn’t
cutting it anymore…
My green settee needed a happier backdrop.
FURTHERMORE…
The brown wall color just wasn’t me.
Decorators suggest you should decorate
your home with
the same colors you love to wear…
which is a suggestion
I have FINALLY begun to follow.
WHAT WAS I THINKING??
I DO NOT wear brown!
AND I do not even like Joe wearing brown.
For archival blogging records…
the ONLY brown I LOVE…
are the CLEVELAND BROWNS!
So…my brown painted walls were a novice decorator’s mistake.
Becoming a wiser decorator is one perk that comes with age.
(Oh…and grandchildren! My 4th comes in a few weeks)
After testing many paint samples in April…
nothing could compare to my dream wallpaper.
Finally…
my banker approved my plans and promises.
“I’ll never touch these walls again!”
Nina Campbell’s Parakeet wallpaper was HUNG!!
Happy to say…
I made a decorating decision I LOVE!
It makes the room feel completely different
and makes us smile..A LOT!
I think our settee is even smiling too.
We even removed the dated track lighting
and added a ceiling medallion and green chandelier.
Also…switched out the mirrors with bigger ones.
At this point…
I haven’t decided if I will add shades or not??
I plan to test drive some different options.
The wallpaper hanger even
papered our cold air return duct
that creates the appearance that it was hand painted.
It is no longer an annoying eyesore.
OUR hallway project is done forever
now it’s on to the next project :)
Our Saturday Kentucky hike…
We geared up with fresh spring water
rang a bell
well…tried to ring a bell but
the rusty chain broke
Adam surveyed the land ahead
The happy family minus Sam
This family pic was taken in the barn below.
A gorgeous old barn
That had wedding venue written
all over it…in my one-track mind.
A broken blue wagon with red wheels.
Love that color combination!
Wish it was FOR SALE…Joe was glad it wasn’t.
We hiked many stairs & hills & walked a lot.
But we drove even further…to get there.
Big brother Adam
carried his tired sister on his back
How sweet!
The views were breathtaking!
The weather was perfect!
The company was even better!
and Hannah’s refrigerator fudge brownies
would’ve made Martha Stewart proud!
Hannah has been without an oven
so she has been cooking very creatively.
Now… those brownies were
the perfect ending to our perfect day :)
We spent the weekend in Kentucky
with Hannah & Jeremy & our grandest kids
under the bluest of skies!
A picture perfect fall-like weekend.
We visited Fort Boonesborough originally called Fort Boone
The fort was established in April 1775 by Daniel Boone!
We experienced a rifle demo
(as I examined how his costume was designed…ha
that’s the Project Runway in me!)
We saw some pretty laid baaa-ck sheep
We counted our MANY modern day blessings
Thank you Lord!
We were blown away by the loom and the weaver.
It took her 4 years to learn to loom weave.
Her work was inspiring and beautiful.
We learned how to work the tools
in the cabinet makers woodshop.
We exercised using the equipment
which explained why
pioneers didn’t have weight problems!
We had A LOT of fun!
Joe’s dental hands
showed us how they work magic…
Hand carving a cherry spindle.
In fact, this reenactor wants to
hand carve a wedding bowl for Hannah and Jeremy
from the apple tree wood Jeremy is donating!
HOW SWEET would that be?
We smelled the scent of freshly poured candles
We learned about maps
before there was MapQuest & Garmin.
We also learned that these reenactors
do not call their outfits “costumes”.
I stand corrected!
They are their actual “clothes”.
Evelyn rested and ate a rock candy sucker
to gear up for our hike :)
Hard to believe…
it’s the official end of summer
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend…
especially if you’re spending it at this house.
The proverbial white house with
the white picket fence.
No wonder it’s the official American dream :)
A BUTTON CANDY WEDDING CAKE!!
Didn’t you LOVE those things?
I used to have different techniques for eating
button candy off their waxy paper.
Sometimes I’d eat them by colors…
LIKE I would eat all the yellow ones first
then the blue ones
then the green ones.
Button candy was like an edible rainbow!
Such a fun candy as a kid.
Someone made a button candy table
to honor that childhood memory
AND didn’t you hate it when the dot
was stuck on the paper and you had to EAT
some of the paper…
just to get off all that sugary dot :)
