Simple Valentine's Decor

Simple Valentine's Decor

Late late afternoon, almost dinner making time and all my little lights I have on timers click on. I am just a sucker for the soft glow of little lamps and strings of lights.

A soft glow from the lights and fading light coming in from the windows. Daylights last reach indoors.

View peeking in from the front porch. I think our homes are like another member of the family. You grow to love them and they become a part of you. When we said goodbye to my parent's home of over 50 years, I just balled and felt like we lost another family member. I still miss it and the sounds and smells. The warmth and security I felt there. Ironing day, oh is there a better smell and my dad barbecuing on the weekends. It was a wonderful simple house that I hold very dear in my heart.

My husband teases the kids if they don't get the holiday lights on before dark. He threatens to put you on the list. Not sure what list as I have never seen one but he still tells us we are on the list. I guess he figures if he hangs them we should go through the trouble of turning them on.

On the Move

We were moving furniture around last night. Hubs and I get a burr in our pants and then just start moving things.Our kids think we are nuts but they are used to it.This desk was hubby's grandmothers. What do you think of it? It is sort of different but a great writing desk. I would like to paint it but for some reason feel guilty about it. I don't think it is worth anything as no one else in the family wanted it so that is how we ended up with it. Couldn't you see it in an antique white with some darling fabric on the seat in checks?

We had the red couch here before but never really thought it fit well so it is in the den now. We like to put our Christmas tree in here in front of the window so we are happy to have the couch moved. I have no desk right now of my own so I would love to have this little space for my paper goods and greeting cards. It has small little cubbies to hold supplies.

Here's an update on what we decided to do with the desk....Desk Update.

Little dry sink just gets moved wherever there is a hole. This room is so hard to decorate as the only wall has windows and the other wall the piano with four door ways on each side of the room.

Looking Back and Forward

Fall garden and fall decorating.

Looking forward to my mums opening up. My clay pumpkin has made it out to the front porch.

Gone will be all the fresh berries of summer.

But oh how I love that I can bake cookies again and serve them with a pot of hot tea.

It will soon be time to take down the summer decor. I believe the fall boxes will come down this weekend.

Oh how I love cool evenings and rainy days to snuggle with a favorite blanket.

And if you grow anything in your garden next year, plan on some cucumbers. A fresh picked cucumber tastes so wonderful. You will never want a store bought one again. I plant a couple of vines a year and plug in some new seeds around mid summer and I pick around two to three a week.

How random is that? Ending with cucumbers.

Decorating With Primitives

Decorating with primitives.

I mentioned before my love of prim among other styles of decor so I thought I would share a little of my primitive decorating. From firkins to crocks, I love the rustic look of primitives and have them throughout a few rooms in my home. I have made a few fall touches this week so I thought I would share.

The warm colors always draw me but I have sort of a dark dining area which makes it hard to photograph.

This old sifter was picked up on our vacation.

We thought maybe we would paint all of our trim this putty color but have since decided it will probably go back to white. I love the look but our house is sort of dark so we want a lighter trim. Bummer because that was a lot of work but at the rate I get to projects it will be here a while.

I am lucky my hubby shares my love of primitive decor and helps me arrange things especially the high spaces as he is 6'4". No ladder required.

I love pumpkins and the colors of fall so this Wysocki hangs all year long. The antique dry sink was a coveted  addition a couple of years ago. I wanted one so badly and when a local antique store was closing I was able to purchase it for half of the original asking price.

Vintage Colors

Any project in our house leads to redoing vignettes with vintage colors. My hubby is awesome at this and he compiled this one for me when I told him I wanted to do it in a vintage look with red and green. These colors just pop when put together.

Vintage looking tins sit next to my perpetually homeless little red chair. I think it has found a home finally.

My vintage watering can with the red spout looks perfect up here in a summer time display.

You can see my new crown molding in the back. We have yet to finish painting it but those types of projects move slowly around here.

Home is....

Love. Corny but it is true. It is where we come at the end of each trying day back to those that love us most.

A place where we seek shelter from the outside world. Where we can rest and re energize for the next day.

Home is where the light is always left on. Loved ones waiting for us to welcome us home. I always ask my kids and hubby how their days went. I try to give them a chance to debrief. Let it out if they have had a bad day.

Home is a place of beauty. Simple is all that is required but a clean and orderly home is a pleasure to come home to. After a busy day outside the home, we want to come home to order and calm.

Home is where we need to remember to value the ones we love the most. I know my family will love me no matter what but I also know that my attitude sets the tone for my home. If I am patient and calm, then the kids will follow suit. If I am stressed and snapping at them, then everyone is stressed. We must try hardest to speak kindly to the ones we love. I tell my girls that words do hurt and you have to watch how you speak to others. We want to leave behind beauty not bitterness when we leave our family. None of us is perfect but it sure makes a difference.

Linking to:

BNOTP     A Stroll Thru Life

Keeping it Simple

Homestead Revival

The House in the Roses

Homemaker Mondays

Coastal Charm

Mantel Makeover

After Christmas the fireplace mantel in my bedroom wasn't looking too hot. Christmas decor had been taken down and other junk remained.

See: Lamp from a project and kid toys, papers. Messy.

So I set to shoppin' around the house and even the garden.

      Some touches of spring. A floral tray, birdhouse and watering can.

                                                    
                                                                       From my backyard.
                                                  

Complete.

Linking to:

Remodelaholic

My Romantic Home

Fantastic Friday

Fingerprints on the Fridge

Bargain Hunting with Laurie

Cottage Instincts