Honey We're Home: Our Christmas Mantle

Honey We're Home: Our Christmas Mantle

Love your mantle with the fresh greens and mercury glass-just beautiful!

Moved...

You can now follow me on http://www.yby5.com/ a vintage design blog with my partner in crime...see our latest finds...what we're doing to them...things we covet and all around fun ideas!

Hope to see you there!

Quick Craft

I love banners...and thought I could whip one up pretty quick with the things I had on hand.



spray paint, tape, fabric, liquid stitch ( the greatest stuff on earth) ribbon and stencil



cut your fabirc and triangles, tape down your stencil and spray away

glue fabirc onto ribbon





HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



Really!

Does Mother Nature know that is only October 27th?!



Time for a change

It's time for a face lift...not for me (at least not yet:) but for my dining room. I'm loving gray...the new neutral. I'm finding it a challenge to find the right shade...either too much blue, lavender or green undertone. I need some ideas...anyone have the perfect gray?

Here are some images that I like...

images from Martha Stewart & BHG

My current dining room is light beige walls and cream trim..not very exciting!

These are the two colors I found recently...they look more pale blue in the picture.

So what do you think...gray walls and crisp white trim??

On the Prowl..

I love stopping in to our local antique shop every few weeks to see what's come in. I seem to gravitate to the same things everywhere I go. See what caught my eye....

bird cages are so cool to display candles ,plants.. 

love big chipped cabinets

glass jars always look great with seasonal flowers displayed in a grouping

scales are classic...love how they can be used to hold things like papers at a work station

more great cache jars

this is what i walked away with...great simple vintage sign. appropriate since we have chickens

bought this too..metal tray for our desk area

it found a home

tray is great for holding construction paper

What kinds of fun finds have you found?

My apologize for picture quality..I forgot my camera...at least I had my phone:)

Fall Fun

Fall in upstate NY is the best!

Last weekend we ventured to a new apple picking orchard....beautiful day....huge apples....hungry kids!

My camera quit right at the end so I missed out on taking pic.'s of the most amazing homemade breads, muffins, donuts, turnovers.....simply amazing.

this pictures doesn't capture how huge some of the apples were-yum!

our stash

my three blondies and niece and nephew-takin' a break

i'm sure my daughter would love how i zoomed in on her teeth (beauties huh!). that apple crumb cupcake was to die for!

with all those apples this is a must..SUPER EASY!!

Apple Cobbler

¼ C. butter
1Tbls. Plus 2/3 C. baking mix (bisquick)

4 C. peeled apples
 ½ tsp. cinnamon

½ C. sugar
 2 Tbls. Packed brown sugar

2 Tbls. Milk

In 1-qt. shallow casserole dish, combine apples, sugar, 1Tbls baking mix and cinnamon. In a medium bowl, mix remaining 2/3 C. baking mix with brown sugar. Cut in butter until mixture is size of small peas. Stir in milk until moistened; drop by spoonfuls onto apples. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into crust comes out clean. Let stand for 5 min. Serves 6.

have you gotten your copy?