At long last, we wrap up the Halloween home tour today! Y’all come on out to the back porch and sit for a spell. There’s always room for one more… My one new thing out here this year are the plates over the fireplace!! They are so cute and fun and go perfectly. I also… Read More
Our tour is winding down… just a few more happily haunted spaces to share! In the kitchen I’ve got my Ballard Designs jack-o-lantern shades out, touches of Halloween in my vignettes and bowls of candy on every counter. On the kitchen counter I went with sweet and salty snacks this year. Little bags of Halloween… Read More
Our Halloween home tour continues today with the living room and office. I can’t think of anything more appropriate for Friday the 13th. I’ve never put anything Halloween in the living room before but I do love to add one new thing to our collection each year. So, when I fell in love with this… Read More
Welcome back!! Our Halloween home tour continues today in the den! Creepy crawly spiders are scurrying up the fireplace again this year. I found them at Michael’s a couple of years ago and use painter’s tape to attach them. We added another title to our Tales from the Haunted Mansion stash. Since we took the boys’… Read More
Welcome, foolish mortals, to our Halloween home… (I couldn’t resist) I’m kicking things off with the exterior. And, I’m kicking myself that I didn’t get to taking these pictures all.day.long and was left with the most pitiful light at the end of the day. Our ghosties are out front again in the shrubs… (Michael’s) And,… Read More
My old fireplace screen has been living a tenuous existence for about eight years. I picked it up at an “antique” store (code for junk store) back in our old house and had one side of it rigged for ages. (You can see the top isn’t even hinged in this picture from last March!) It… Read More
I’ll admit, eight years ago when we moved in here I had a thing against ceiling fans. They just weren’t good looking. Ya know?! Well, in the process of updating John’s room we all agreed that there was no way we could keep this lantern – or any other hanging light fixture for that matter.… Read More