Fall Touches Inside and Out

 I decorated the top of my piano with a bucket of hydrangeas and few silk florals. I don't do a lot of interior decorating for fall~just a few touches. Lets go outside and see what is new in the yard~summer is waning and the garden is testament to that. Purple asters are in bloom under the cherry tree  now with just a sprinkling of roses left. The old iron bed is still covered with morning glories. This is also where my roses and tomatoes grow, side by side. The...

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180 FX Marble Counter Top

source  For a long time now I have been wishing  I had marble counter tops in my kitchen.   Every time I see a kitchen with white cabinets like this one, I want marble!    Our home is a pre-fab that came with the kitchen cabinets  and the laminate countertops in place.  I decided to paint the cabinets white~and am ever so glad I did... I used Chalk Paint® decorative paint by Annie Sloan in Old White. I painted the lower cabinets with a grey wash...

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My favorite summer home improvement projects

I was feeling like I didn't get that much done this summer, because I never got my rose trellis done...but when looking through my picture files, I surprised myself with the projects I did complete. My side porch came together when I grabbed these two rockers out of the neighbors trash (I'm never too proud) and painted them black. I paired them up with a black umbrella and hot pink toile pillows and filled my urn with pink geraniums~what a lift this space...

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A big girl sleepover

I am going to my first virtual sleepover~this is getting kind of crazy in blogland, but stick with me. It is kind of a neat idea~a bunch of bloggers are going to virtually sleepover at a pal's house and watch movies and have some refreshments and talk about girl stuff~to include our favorite all time movies, based on the set designs!  I have picked out my jammies~they are by Nick n' Nora and I got them at Target a couple of years ago.  I bought them for Christmas...

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