Where did you get those?

This is my Spring wreath, which became my Fall wreath, which is now another Christmas wreath..I kept my $7 lanterns and my stools from the Fall mud room and just filled them with various Christmas bits and bobs.. A dollar store Christmas tree, dollar store ribbon, and left over burlap and pine cones.

You can see just a bit of the hand painted sign I made last year when I seemed to have a bit more time on my hands.. How nice will it be when we have the wood floors one day?.Kennedy decorated under the windows with whatever she felt like from the Christmas boxes.. Yup, that’s Dora!.I really haven’t bought much new this year at all in the way of Christmas decorations, but having a new (old) house to play around in has made all my leftover stuff from past years feel brand new.. More Christmas fun to come soon!Have you been outside to play today?.

Today I’m reminding myself to always keep my family’s health and wellness at the very top of my list of priorities.I thought you might enjoy remembering this with me.We’re planning on starting a garden next Spring, so we had to dig up the grass in a section of the property because there wasn’t any garden from when the last owners lived here.. We decided to tackle the huuuuuge task this fall so that we’ll have a nice level area to make a skating rink for this Winter and then in the Spring, we can get right to work planting.. It’s really just a dirt rectangle right now, but we have plans for a white picket fence around it with gates on either end and berries planted all around.

Maybe next year.

Maybe.. Lucky for us the old owners left behind a whole bunch of amazing garden tools for us, which made the job really fun.. A rusty old red wheelbarrow.If you need a quick and easy, dirt cheap, temporary or permanent solution to an ugly floor, this just may be the ticket!.

Closets are impossible to photograph!Well, since Halloween is fast approaching, I thought now might be good time to share a little story about our house with you.Who doesn’t love a good scary story around this time of year?.

Once upon a time, back in 1900 when our house was built, it was just a little farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere.It had only the middle tall part, consisting of (what is now) the living room, dining room, front hall, and the 3 upstairs bedrooms, which I think were 2 bedrooms and a loft area at the time.