Cleaning, organizing, and decoratin

My house after decorating for winter.

Closeup of my plant of branches and sitting area. The pillows are made out of a vinyl table cloth found on clearance and the red is also a tablecloth on clearance.

Sitting area..

My son, dog Sadie, and myself went on a hunt for nature to use. We found these branches and green twigs.

Closeup of branches, pine cones and a lantern.

Another view of the lanterns and twigs.

My dad built this table for me. I added walnuts, pine cones, and green branches.
Gross, messy, unorganized garage.

Garage after clean up and organizing.

Blurry but another version of a clean garage.

I had a great time today. I got all my Christmas stuff down and pot away. Cleaned and organized garage. AND spent the afternoon with my boy!

Today is the last day of my break. School starts back Monday! I am ready to see my students and get back in a routine. I just wish school started at 10!!!!

Getting my life ready for the new year.

I saw this on someone's blog. It isn't exactly the same BUT it is my version.





















Pantry before.....






















Pantry AfTeR...................
















































The above 2 pictures are of my living room and kitchen window.

This pic is a thrifty redo. It's an olive oil bottle that I transformed to a caramel container for my coffee.

















My kitchen table. This old toolbox holds my napkins and salt/pepper.
















Another view of my table and my foyer.

















Hutch all decked out for winter!



















New and improved living room.




Another tool box holding my son's trains.













My "office". Actually it's a tool box turned on it's side with my laptop resting perfectly on top!
















Close up of my entertainment area. My snowman is holding his tree in the "snow" (sugar)!!!!

















Top of my entertainment center with more "snow".
















Other side of the entertainment top. Can you tell I like stars?













Full view of the entertainment center.
























My bed dressed for winter.


















Found these old show boxes at garage sales. They were too drab for me so I made labels for them. They hold my inspiration ideas from magazines, books, photos, etc. The first one holds food entries (recipes and such). The second hold holiday ideas and the third has decorations and organization ideas!













Thanks for looking! I LOVE decorating and organizing! I would love to make a career of it or at least part time. It is such a stress reliever!!!!!!! Only someone who loves decorating and organizing thinks this is a stress reliever and not a stress causer!

Welcome 01.01.10

Welcome 01.01.10!!!!!!!

Sadie

Let me introduce you to the newest member of the family....Sadie Beth Bratton. We think she is around 4-5 months old. Kourtney was volunteering at the animal shelter and fell in LoVe with this pup. She is a Shepard mix and so amazing. Kourt has wanted a dog for YEARS. She wrote a 3 page essay why she wanted the dog, how she would take care of it, and a promise that it would be her dog and her responsibility! How could we not let her have a pup. So far so good!!!!!!!! The first week was loud, stressful, and irritating but now I kinda like her! What a sweetheart. She LOVES her momma!! Kourt can't leave her sight without Sadie whining and crying....so sweet!

Thanksgiving....

What a great day! Spent it with my family and the movies with my best friend!

Random Memories

Halloween 2009. Daddy handing out candy as we drove to a friends house.


Zakaroo as Batman. He was so excited. I found this suit at a consignment even for $6.Batman found the Joker and the Riddler. (The joker is his sisses' fella and the riddler was a friend of the joker.)

Pumpkin carving at the president's House. Carved pumpkins all lit up.

Free Flu shots in our county. That was FuN!
Kourt's Senior Night for Volleyball. I still can't believe she is a senior!!!! WWwaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
Beautiful Arkansas scenery!!!!! I love Fall!!!!!!!
My creative husband fixing dinner.
My "new" living room. Had the bug to rearrange.

Bedskirt

Remember this bedskirt back in June? I paid $1.50 for it. How many ways can I use this as fabric?? Well let's just see....

One....little blurry but can you see the fabric?

TWO....holding up a sign.

THREE.....ribbon to spice up a glass jar holding a plant.

FOUR....wrapped around a candle.

FIVE....a valance in my dining room.

SIX....hard to see but it accents the lamp shade.

SEVEN....EIGHT....NINE....TEN.....who knows. I have a lot left!!

I can't believe this was $1.50 bedskirt!!!!!!!!!!!!