Meg & Tori's Thanksgiving Porch!

I gathered up all my Halloween decorations...

I repainted all my pumpkins... 

and just as the weather finally cooled down...

I called my girl Tori and we set it all up!

 Ta-Daaaaa!!! Our Thanksgiving Porch :)

SWEET!!!

We worked so hard and had such a blast -

I don't know what I would've done without Tori!

Please take a tour and check it out...

YES, YES, YES, GIVE THANKS!!!

 ~ Tori and Mrs. Puff ~

(no my puffy face has not gone away

and I don't want to talk about it!)

But I had to post these pics -

just look at Tori's adorable face :)

 CUTEST. GIRL. EVSKIES.

Thank you Tori! I love you!

xoxoxo

toes and porch teasers

Guess who came and stayed with me last week?!

Can you tell by our foot photo?!

If you guessed my cousin Shell, you would be right!

Oh, how I *LOVE* it when my Shell comes to visit!

Naturally, we had to have our pedicure first thing -

and then take our traditional pedi pics!

I call this one "Fun Feet on Fake Fall Leaves" :)

So naturally, when Shell is here, it's porch time!

And boy, did mine need it! It had hit bottom :/ 

Besides - summer porches are SO last summer...

Mine was definitely ready for fall!

(AND MAY I JUST SAY HOW READY *I* AM FOR FALL?!)

I don't know what I'd do without Shell - 

she is such a hard worker and an amazing help! 

 So to keep you in suspense a day or so longer

- muah-ha-haaa - here is porch teaser #1! 

And here's porch teaser #2!

*Stay tuned peeps! It turned out AWESOME!

fall

~ finally some fall color! ~ 

Fall color has been even more elusive than usual around here this year.

There are countless trees shedding crunchy brown leaves, of course...

But where is the color? The crisp air? The show that is supposed to be fall?

I'm sad to say I can miss my very most favorite season just by blinking.  

Then the other day I was driving down the main neighborhood street to my house,

and in between all the huge, crunchy trees, some beautiful colors caught my eye!

There stood a smaller tree, with it's little leaves like gems of fire and rubies!

The sun was hitting the top of the tree just enough to make it glow,

and the turquoise sky behind was the perfect backdrop!

You can't get much better than that! FINALLY!

Ah, now how lovely is that contrast? 

Leaves in their vibrant stages, on a canvas of green.

I just can't get enough of the beauty that is fall.

Now, I know ours can't hold a candle to a "real" fall -

and I hope someday I can see several up close and personal.

But no matter what, remember: always find joy in the little things!

Cuz the little things are really the big things :)

Fall Porch

DONE! I'm very happy with how my white pumpkins turned out - both the 2 big fakies and the small real one. And I think I'm liking how my little porch turned out. So come take a tour!
This year I added a few of my antique doll cradles among other things, and I like how they look. I put all the Halloween decor out front and kept the porch "Fall" so it can remain up through November. It looks just a tad sparse (?)... perhaps I need to add a trade blanket or a quilt... or perhaps I need to leave well enough alone :) Truth be told, I would love to do the whole porch in white & black pumpkins with big white candles - wouldn't that be spectacular!!!
Okay, back to reality - LOL :) I approached drawing on each white pumpkin a little differently. The large stars came from a stencil I had made for some terra cotta pots. I used a thin black Sharpie to outline the design onto the pumpkin (making sure it was straight!), and then used a larger black Sharpie to fill in the stars.
This little wreath is really nothing special, but it had lots of color and interest from all kinds of different cones, pods, berries, leaves, etc, and it was very cheerful.
I actually taped off and spray painted a few small orange pumpkins with white spray paint! See the "W" pumpkin? Well, it was lots of fun but you will definitely not be seeing any close-ups! LOL!
As shown in my sneak peek, the other large pumpkin was done by free-handing large numbers in pencil, then I filled the numbers in with different sizes of black Sharpies. That fakie pumpkin material, by the way, was very easy & fun to work with - FYI.
The small pumpkin with all the dots I just drew free-handed with the Sharpies - no pencil required!
Thanks for taking the tour! Hope you liked it! Happy Friday, Happy Halloween, Happy Weekend, and Happy Fall!