New Chalk Wall In The Works!!

 

I decided to change up our chalkboard wall and boy was it hard to erase this masterpiece!!

Our daughter’s boyfriend created this amazing chalk wall for us and I am totally in love with it but decided it was time for a change.

See all the details on that post here

http://furniture-ology.blogspot.com/2013/04/chalkboard-wall.html

I have been looking and pinning ideas on Pinterest and loved the idea of some type of crown molding, maybe some antlers, possibly a table and a lamp.

Here are a few ideas I found.

Antlers!

YES PLEASE!

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Crown Molding!

YES PLEASE!

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Lamp!

YES PLEASE!

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So I started erasing and erasing and erasing and it was a HUGE mess!

I should have taken more photos of the mess!

I did snap one with my phone :)

Messy! Messy!

 

And this is what I have come up with so far :)

I hung a gold frame for fun.

And also included a chalk vase and attached some cotton to the wall.

And I have started on the crown molding.

It is a work in progress :)

We will see how well it goes!

I am no artist :/

I might have to bribe Lee into coming over and fixing it for me!

We shall see :)

I plan on attaching some type of hooks to the wall/antlers and hanging these super cute ornaments I snagged last year on clearance!

I considered ordering an actual bust but decided to go with chalk instead.

Easier on the ol’ pocketbook!

But I love the idea of ornaments on the antlers!

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I’m thinking it will look awesome!

Here it is today.

I found a place for the yearling heifer above this old ladder.

I removed the magazines and replaced them with a knit throw :)

The boxwood wreath I moved to our hearth room above the buffet.

I also took the swag from our Halloween mantle and shortened it a bit and hung it from the knobs on the buffet.

HAPPY THURSDAY :)

Autumn's In The Air

 

We have several projects in the works and we can’t wait to share them all with you!

If only we could get them done without this thing called “life” getting in the way :)

But of course I always seem to find time to play!

With Halloween behind us I switched up our mantle and removed the Halloween décor.

And replaced it with some simple Autumn decor.

This year I am obsessed with cotton!

I have it everywhere :)

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I also cut a few mums and popped them is this basket.

And sprinkled a few pumpkins here and there.

We made this sign/plaque a couple of years ago out of some scrap pieces of wood we had on hand.

I am still madly in love with it!

“Bottes Sur Le Singe”

Translation:

“Boots On The Monkey”

It’s what we say when we are stressed :)

 

More cotton!

A cup of coffee and the November issue of ANTHROPOLOGIE is calling my name!

Happy Wednesday :)

This Little Cart of Ours, We’re Gonna Make It Shine!

Around here we like to

Recycle & Reuse. 

And of course save money in the process!

I know this is an odd time of year to share our hose cart makeover. 

But it actually works out perfect because now we have a place to store our garden hose for the winter!

This is the second  time we have refurbished this guy.

Here is the before.

And here is the after!

Unfortunately we did not take very many during pictures.

But I did find these three :)

 We have been working on this guy all Summer!

Once again, good ol’

Rust-Oleum paint to the rescue!

One more time!

BEFORE

AFTER

Happy Tuesday :)