Look What I Found!~~~

HI everyone, You all know that I have gone through every nook and cranny of this house in preparation for the BIG MOVE:) Well, I found this pottery basket under one of the kitchen cabinets. I have had it forever and forgot about it. So today I went to the place where I used to work and got this great FAUX succulent to put in it! I LOVE it.

 I Love the curved handle on the "basket/pot". I got this from a local potter MANY years ago and I bet I only paid a dollar or 2 for it!!!!
 I don't think I showed you my palm tree canisters when I posted the kitchen. I found these in Fl. many years ago and they HAD to come home with me. I got them at Steinmart before we had Steinmart up here in the north! I love the basket weave detail on these. And the bamboo detail around the rims.

 A plate on a palm tree stand.

 Here we have a pineapple lamp and another palm tree plate. Did you know that the pineapple is the symbol for hospitality? Oh yes it is!

 I have this tricolored candle in a palm tree holder. This is all metal and pretty heavy!

 And, next to that is my wax warmer.

 I just love these candle holders too. I love a touch of black in any room!

 One of my favorite arrangements. Love that container! YOu can see in the background that we now have 4 placemats on the table;):)

 The palm trees on this candle are raised.

Hope you have enjoyed this little tour around my kitchen. I have the ITCH to redo things all over the house right now. I got some other goodies today which I will share tomorrow. XO, Pinky
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Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Meet Me Monday http://youaretalkingtoomuch.blogspot.com/

Motivated Monday at Be Colorful

Making the World Cuter Monday at Making the World Cuter

More the Merrier Monday at DIY Home Sweet Home Project

Savvy Homemade Monday at Home Savvy A to Z

Tabletop Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Tutorials and Tips Tuesday at Home Stories A to Z

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

It's A Party on Thursday at A Creative Princess

Show and Share on Thursday at Southern Lovely

Open House Party Thursday at No Minimalist Here

Share Your Creations on Thursday at Kristen's Creations

Remodelaholic's Anonymous on Friday at Remodelaholic

Addicts (not so) Anonymous on Friday at Addicted 2 Decorating

Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Potpourri Friday at 2805

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Sew Darn Crafty Sunday at http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/

Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming

~~~The Move is Complete!!!~~~

Good Monday afternoon my friends!!! Wow, it has been a VERY busy few weeks around here! I apologize for being MIA but as I told you in an earlier post, our daughter, SIL, and their 2 dogs moved in with us this weekend. They will be here while their BEAUTIFUL, new house is being built!!!!!! I am SO over the moon happy for them! So, I took some pics, mainly so they would have a record of their first move together, and I thought I would share them with you. On Fri. they both took a half day off so I went over to help pack up the last few things. The dogs greeted me when I got there!!!

 Tracy bought this house almost 6 years ago so it is a little sad to her to be leaving it. The ironic thing about this house is that if you sit on that bench on the front porch you are looking directly across the street at the middle school that she and our son attended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are bags etc. of things to come here.

 This hutch was our sons and he gave it to Tracy when she moved into this house.

 Boxes for here and storage....

 The kitchen getting packed up too. We left the decorations over the cabinets for the renter since she wanted us to.

 The table and boxes go to storage.

 On Sat. morning we took apart the bed that was in the guest room so they could bring their bed here.

 Their lamps, in place.

 Now, their bathroom. I am so glad we have a bathroom with each bedroom. It makes it much nicer for either guests or people living here:):):) All my African decor is packed away.  Maybe I will change things up when they go to their new house???

 The truck arrived after the guys packed all the furniture etc.

 Their bed, dresser and office furniture is coming in here. Tracy and Dave each work from home a day or 2 per week.

 LOL, poor Joe looks confused:):) he wasn't, maybe just a little overwhelmed!

 Their dresser, in place. It actually looks nice with the shelving unit that Joe built.

 Nice, COMFY bed. Much better than what we have in here! I haven't gotten a shot of their beautiful linens, maybe I can sneak in there on day:):)

 Yesterday Tarcy and I went back to the old house to CLEAN it. The renter is moving in today!!! I am so grateful that it is a good friend of Tracy and Dave's, so we know she will take GOOD care of it. She is a neat freak too:):)

 The living room is clean..... and empty.......

 One more box to go...

 The table is gone....

 the counters are clean.....

 It is time to go. I left before Tracy so she could do the floors as she backed out! I also figured she might want to be alone to leave. She did say last night at dinner it was a little sad to leave. I remember when Joe and I moved out of our first TINY house, it was bittersweet. They have a whole lifetime ahead of them and I feel blessed to be ablt to share this happy time with them.

Thanks for stopping by. I will join some of these parties this week:

 Kristen's Creations for Share Your Creations Party,

The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home,

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday, 

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Meet Me Monday http://youaretalkingtoomuch.blogspot.com/

Motivated Monday at Be Colorful

Making the World Cuter Monday at Making the World Cuter

More the Merrier Monday at DIY Home Sweet Home Project

Savvy Homemade Monday at Home Savvy A to Z

Tabletop Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Tutorials and Tips Tuesday at Home Stories A to Z

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

It's A Party on Thursday at A Creative Princess

Show and Share on Thursday at Southern Lovely

Open House Party Thursday at No Minimalist Here

Share Your Creations on Thursday at Kristen's Creations

Remodelaholic's Anonymous on Friday at Remodelaholic

Addicts (not so) Anonymous on Friday at Addicted 2 Decorating

Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Potpourri Friday at 2805

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Sew Darn Crafty Sunday at http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/

Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming

Please go visit some of these fun aprties too!! XO, Pinky

New/Old Kitchen Table

Good Wednesday afternoon! I am still a BUSY girl, getting ready for "the kids" to move in this weekend. We decided to give T and D the kitchen table we were using, since their "morning room" will be ALOT bigger than our breakfast room, AND it has 6 chairs. I love the style of the table and chairs. The way I acquired it was our son tried to sell it at a garage sale here for....are ya ready... $150.00, brand new in the boxes!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it didn't sell! You can't get a not so nice table and FOUR chairs at K Mart for that let alone that table and 6 chairs. Anyway, now T and D will have it to enjoy. I always felt it was a little too big for our room but didn't want to give it away. So today Joe and I took it apart and brought our old table and chairs up from the basement in anticipation of THE MOVE this weekend.

 Here is our "old" table. It came from Pottery Barn and it, too used to be our sons. It was in their kitchen. When they moved they didn't have a place for it.

 Is it weird that I get my CHILDRENS hand me downs:):):) So, I CLEANED the table and chairs of the basement grime and set it up for us.

 The chairs are painted green and have rush seats.

 They are in perfect shape, thank goodness!

 But we are going to use these cushions that we had on the other chairs to try to KEEP the rush seats nice.

 I found these placemats the other day that REALLY match the runner beautifully! And they wipe right off!!!! Perfect for the Mr.:):)

 I also switcehed out the candle holder for my centerpiece. I love this monkey holder. It was here in my "office" so I brought it out to the kitchen for now. I have been switching around alot these days!!!!!

 So now the room FEELS so much bigger. The old table is 35 by 71 inches. This one is 36 by 60 so doesn't stick out into the throughway so much.  Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment to let me know you did. I will join these great parties:

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Meet Me Monday http://youaretalkingtoomuch.blogspot.com/

Motivated Monday at Be Colorful

Making the World Cuter Monday at Making the World Cuter

More the Merrier Monday at DIY Home Sweet Home Project

Savvy Homemade Monday at Home Savvy A to Z

Tabletop Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Tutorials and Tips Tuesday at Home Stories A to Z

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

It's A Party on Thursday at A Creative Princess

Show and Share on Thursday at Southern Lovely

Open House Party Thursday at No Minimalist Here

Share Your Creations on Thursday at Kristen's Creations

Remodelaholic's Anonymous on Friday at Remodelaholic

Addicts (not so) Anonymous on Friday at Addicted 2 Decorating

Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Potpourri Friday at 2805

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Sew Darn Crafty Sunday at http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/

Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming

Paula and Patti at Ivy and Elephants for What's It Wednesday

Run over to visit some of them, you won't be disappointed! XO, Pinky

~~~Some Vignettes Using my Antlers!!~~~

Hi everyone! Today I wanted to share with you some vignettes I did using my antlers and turtle shells I got from my BIL! We are going downstairs to the family room today. I found these 2 large candle sticks at a local gift shop and fell in love with them!! On them are 2 birch branch candles that my BIL also made for us. He is a very handy guy!!! Thanks, Dale!!! See how LARGE that pinecone is?!!

 I fixed this tray for the other end of the coffee table. I put some pine cones, twig balls, a turtle shell, and some antlers in a pottery bowl. Next to that is another birch candle and behind that one of the VERY large pine cones I got this year.

 This is the runner on the table. I got it at Pier One many years ago, I love the texture and just a touch of pattern on it. It is a burlap material and backed very nicely.

 I love the "chippiness" of the candle sticks.

 This is a partial skull and antlers. Please know that all of these pieces, my BIL, FOUND while walking on his property in Michigan and the surrounding woods.

 This little table he also made for us!

 There are a set of bookshelves on one wall of this room that hold some pottery and books etc. I added some antlers here too.

 Sorry this one is blurry??

 I wanted to show you the grain of the wood, SO pretty!

 This is on top of the stereo equipment cabinet. The mug is a leather handmade mug that my hubby bought in Williamsburg many years ago. He has 2 feathers that he found here on our property in the mug

So that is some of what I did with the antlers. I have some upstairs too but my camera batteries went dead so I have to change them. I'll share more in another post. Thanks for stopping by! I will join these great parties:

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

Meet Me Monday http://youaretalkingtoomuch.blogspot.com/

Motivated Monday at Be Colorful

Making the World Cuter Monday at Making the World Cuter

More the Merrier Monday at DIY Home Sweet Home Project

Savvy Homemade Monday at Home Savvy A to Z

Tabletop Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Tutorials and Tips Tuesday at Home Stories A to Z

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

It's A Party on Thursday at A Creative Princess

Show and Share on Thursday at Southern Lovely

Open House Party Thursday at No Minimalist Here

Share Your Creations on Thursday at Kristen's Creations

Remodelaholic's Anonymous on Friday at Remodelaholic

Addicts (not so) Anonymous on Friday at Addicted 2 Decorating

Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Potpourri Friday at 2805

Saturday Nite Special at Funky Junk Interiors

Sew Darn Crafty Sunday at http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/

Sunday Showcase Party at Under the Table and Dreaming

Paula and Patti at Ivy and Elephants for What's It Wednesday
XO, Pinky