I took these pictures this evening with my new Canon that I don't use very often, mainly because it is so big. I do like it and am figuring out all its features little by little. I realize the above picture is crooked but I kind of like it that way.
Dan put these pergola lights on a timer for me-very convenient!!
It would be handy to have these on a timer too-we will see. I still need to hook up my deer and that will be it for the outside light show.
Painting the patched up yellow an olive green...
Hooks in place and new Target rug....
a curtain and a little tweaking in the decor and it's finished!
The green that you see in the living room is now the color of our dining room. It's called Dusty Olive from HD and I really like it! I decided it was time for the yellow that we've had for years, to change and thought using the same color would tie the rooms together or help the flow. I think it worked! The reds and yellows that I have in my decorating really pop against the green. After painting all the green, I moved back to painting the wainscott paneling white. I will finish the DR tomorrow and then hopefully can decorate some of the spaces and share a few pictures with you.
Since it's been over a week since I last posted, I feel a need to make up for it. These are just some random pictures I've collected just because they spoke to me. This horse has a nice life, don't you think? The opening in the branches reminds me of the path to the beach at Captiva. No horses there though.
Big Kitty waits patiently. She looks like she's planning something naughty though!
This is a pretty and simple way to recycle Christmas cards. You could use vintage or current cards. I always hang onto a few every year and like to find ways to use them. I don't know what I will do for Christmas cards this year. Last year I cut out old recipes and put them into little folders. I'm not doing anything like that this year. I'm waiting for a creative urge or idea to happen.
Tuesday is my last day of school before Thanksgiving break-yes that's TOMORROW!!! Normally, we have school on Wed but got it off for our conference comp. day this year. I'm sure the kids are looking forward to it but not as much as the teachers in my school!! It's been a busy two weeks with the end of the first quarter and then conferences and all the preparations they require.
I've never seen a gourd decorated in this manner and thought it was very pretty. You could hang it anywhere.
This picture just gives me a warm and happy feeling. I'd like to add crackers to that plate, walnuts too and a little glass of red wine. I have been loving this beautiful fall weather and hope it lasts for a good long time to make up for October.
I won't be making this but saved a picture of it just in case. It's in my favorite Waverly vintage rose material. Shari has this apron pattern, I believe.
I'm into super easy craft ideas at the moment. I thought this was a cute way to store extra ribbon-wrapped around clothesline pins.
This is a fun and easy way to use some of your paper scraps. It makes a cheap notebook special & sweet!
I thought these little gift tags were very cute. I like the use of yellowed paper for the pots. Who knows if I will ever make them but maybe you will!
I am heading up here in a few minutes to finish painting. Can you tell it's a very pale shade of blue? It's hard for me to see it as I'm painting it. I am itching to decorate this room, so I guess I'd better paint it. I'll post an after in the next week I hope. We have conferences again on Monday night, looking forward to being done with that. 
I wasn't sure how I was going to address the privacy issue and still let in natural light. I decided I would try hanging up some tea towels that I would cut and sew. Instead, I found these at K-mar from their new Country Living line. They look just like the old embroidered towels and are all ready to use. They had a lot of cute stuff in that line. I bought some big wonderfully soft white towels for 7.99 there too. Cute vintage bathrugs, but none matched my decor. Check it out next time you're near a K-mart.
The lights and mirrors are from Home Depot. I'm very happy with the results here and didn't have to spend a lot of cash either.
Here's an angle in our shower that you haven't seen yet. We're getting another (longer) arm for the shower head.
We washed clothes in here for the first time today. The washer isn't leveled right so it shook pretty hard, then discovered that the venting isn't quite finished. Hopefully, next weekend, the bugs will all be worked out in here.
This is my favorite room in the remodel. I spend a lot of time here in front of the fireplace correcting papers, reading or just warming up!
Here's a close-up of the juniper greens and berries. It works very nicely with the red in the dogwood. It was a good afternoon to collect greens and decorate. I had grades to enter which I did right away this morning, just to get it out of my mind. The painting and priming on my list will just have to wait for another day. 
I went out for a walk with my little red wheelbarrow and collected evergreens on my own property, bittersweet way down on the point, and balsam, juniper and dogwood down the road.
Or should I say, "Good Riddance!" You really let us down this year. Nothing like this picture shot a few years back, just gray skies and rain and a blast of snow at end as icing on the cake. Today, the morning is full of sunshine and blue skies so November is off to a great start.
Hope you had a nice Halloween! My parents came up for dinner last night, actually Mom brought dinner-chicken pot pie. It was yummy! Dad's birthday was on Friday and since it's been so wet, he had time to come over. Hopefully, things will dry out this week so they can get the corn and beans out soon. Mom has been here during the remodel but Dad hasn't so he was able to see everything that's been going on around here in the last couple of months.
Did you get snow where you live? On Friday, a para asked me if I'd looked outside lately. I stuck my head out the door and saw what appeared to be a blizzard blowing across the plains of Barrett. I crawled back into my white cave, happy- just for the day, to be in a windowless room.
Dan has been after me to post these pictures that he took of the new rip rap down at the cabin. The north winds have been pounding our shoreline and the rocks that were there, weren't big enough to stay in place. If this doesn't take care of things, I don't know what would. So, our shoreline looks more like Lake Superior now. We'll need to put some grass seed down this fall or early next spring. Fall would be the best, I know.
I'm glad I was at school when they did this. It would have been stressful for me to watch.
