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I forgot this cute Halloween pillow that I got at Ross's too

I did a little shopping today.

We FINALLY got a Ross store in our town.

It opened yesterday

Even though alot of the shelves were empty I found some awesome treasures

I got all this for $56

The pillow in the back is part of my inspiration piece for the living room.

Loved this and it fit in with my color scheme

This photo does not show the colors correctly. It has mustardy yellow, turquiose, red and green on a linen background.

Loved this bird house too and for $9.99 I couldn't pass it up

I have wanted to try this purse organizer to so at 4.99 i thought if I don't like it I won't have lost much.

We were needing more silverware and they were a steal too.

I usually only get to go to Ross when we are in Destin so I am over the moon that we have one right here!!

Scott is not so happy !! ha ha ha

COCKADOODLE DOO

Look what I found at Freds

Isn't he the cutest little thing!!!

I never go to Freds but I was looking for a eye mask for Scott and I didn't want to go to Walmart. Dollar General didn't have them so we decided to try Fred's.

He was the first thing I saw in the store and I just had to have him.

I will be rearranging the top of my fridge so that he has a happy place to be.

My new favorite rooster in the house!!!

BEFORE AND AFTER

I have hated our tv set up since we bought the new flat screen (that wouldn't fit into my cabinet) and we had tossed around several ideas. I wanted to have cabinets built in all along this wall, but it was out of our budget and since we hope to sell it wasn't our best option. Any hoo, Scott called me from Walmart on Thursday to tell me about this tv stand he found on sale. While we were talking (I was at another Walmart) I went to the furniture isle so he could tell me exactly what he was seeing. While there I saw that the shelves were marked down too. Long story short he bought the tv stand and 2 shelves.

Here is the befores and afters!

BEFORE

Before

AFTER

AFTER

He took us out this afternoon to look for baskets to put the WII stuff in. I found cute baskets but he found these red boxes on clearence for $3.50 each. I couldn't argue.

I finally have a place to put my 12x12 scrapbooks, on the bottom left shelf. It is going to take me awhile to decorate the shelves but I am going to wait until I find things I absolutely love. I also have to adjust my clock to center it above the tv.

For less than $200 I have a better set up and lots more storage. I am happy with it.

Coco and I took a photography walk today and got lots of cool photos of the snow, I will post later. She is so excited because school is cancelled again for tomorrow. I have to go to work and the roads are clear once I get to the main roads.

Everyone be safe

Blessings,
Pam

Merry Christmas from my home to yours

WELCOME TO OUR HOME

THIS IS OUR TREE IN THE LIVING ROOM

THIS TREE HAS ALL OUR COLLECTED ORNAMENTS AND ORNAMENTS COCO HAS MADE FOR US

THIS IS OUR RED, WHITE AND BLACK SANTA TREE

ALONG WITH SANTA'S I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS OF FAMILY

A LITTLE WREATH ON THE LAMPS

OUR FAMILY PHOTOS FROM PAST YEARS

THE DECOR IN OUR BEDROOM. I DECIDED AGAINST PUTTING UP A TREE. TIME GOT AWAY FROM ME

I HUNG THESE CANDLE WREATHS ON THE CABINETS IN THE KITCHEN

MY CHRISTMAS VILLAGE ON TOP OF THE FRIDGE THIS YEAR

THE KITCHEN WINDOWSILL

MY DINING ROOM TABLE WITH MY FRIENDLY VILLAGE DISHES


MY NUTCRACKERS ON THE TABLE IN THE HALL

I LOVE DECORATING AND COLLECTING FOR CHRISTMAS

HOPE YOU ENJOY THE TOUR

HAVE A VERY MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS

PAM

BEFORE AND AFTER

I want a new couch and I am leaning towards something neutral, unlike what I currently have. I have loved this couch and it took me over a year to find it. I am NOT a impulse furniture buyer. It is showing some wears and tears and Scott says we can't buy a new one until Coco learns to stop jumping on it.

Here is old faithful! It has been good for a many a nap.


And here she is with a new slipcover.

I like the chocolate brown cover but after having it on for a few days it is a pain to keep it all tucked in and the fabric shows every little speck of lint. It does hide the piping coming out and the little tear. I went today to buy some giraffe print pillows that I had seen at Kirklands but they didn't have them in the Rogers store so I will have to look elsewhere or I just thought I maybe can find them online.

Enough about the couch. Are you watching BIGGEST LOSER? I felt so bad for Rebecca tonight but she didn't let being sent home stop her. She looks AMAZING. I can relate to wanting to be the person she always wanted to be. Unlike her I want to be the person I used to be. I couldn't gain weight growing up and when I hit 28 years old the pounds slowly started piling on and now I want to lose 80lbs. I wish I had trainers like that here or could afford to pay one. I am going to print off her photos for inspiration. I also found a Biggest Loser book on clearance at Barnes the other day so I am going to delve into it to see what kind of tips I can use! She is going to be on Jay Leno so I am off to watch her.

Blessings,

Pam

I Love Fall

Oh I am loving our weather here in Arkansas. The temps stayed in the 70's today and it is expected that way all week.

This just made me want to jump into my Fall decorating. Coco and I went to the local pumpkin patch after work today and came home with 6+ pumpkins for the porch and a few for her.

All I need now is a Mum and this little chair on the porch will be set. It is a old chair I found in my mom's storage building this past summer. I thought about painting it but I kind of like the old character it has. Looks like it has been around for awhile.

This is my updated Fall wreath. I couldn't get a good photo of it against the glass door so I took a couple. I was trying to stay out of the photo in the glare of the door.

A couple of the pumpkins we picked up. My summer plants are still going strong and I hate to dump them out but it is time for Mums. I found that the pumpkin patch is much cheaper than Walmart. All these were $4.00 each except for the white one in the first photo, I think it was $6.00.

I made a quick trip to Hobby Lobby at lunch today for a few pumpkins. All the fall stuff is 50% off this week. I will show you our after photo of this project when we are finished. Coco was excited to help.

Now if I can get Scott to stop long enough to move the honkin TV I will be able to get all my other Fall decor out for the house. He moved my hope chest into the living room to set the TV on and that is where I store most of my Fall / Halloween decor.

Blessings,

Pam

BEFORE

Sorry I haven't been around. I missed y'all!

But I have a good excuse. See this below.....

Our garage was way overdue for a clean sweep. Boy did we clean. We spent alllllllllllllllll day Saturday and Sunday cleaning, painting, hanging shelves and organizing.

This is all our junk in the front yard. We had lots of people stop to see if it was a garage sale. We should have sold it all for $10 and called it a day.

But I am so glad we didn't give up. Here is the AFTER!

We still have a few things to do. We purchased 3 cabinets for the space and the first 2 we tried to install were broken so we took them all back and now we will be looking for metal cabinets or wood.

This is one of the items I demanded out of the remodel. I wanted shoe shelves right outside the door going into the house. And we have to use the garage entrance. We have horrible carpet from coming in with dirty, grassy, wet shoes all the time. Now we have a special place to put them. This area is small space between the steps and the wall so it was the perfect space.

I am so excited about it and come winter Cocomama will be parking in here too!

Be back soon!
Pam

OUTDOOR DECOR

I found one of those old brass bakers racks in my Mom's storage building a while back. I think she had it since I was a baby. Anyhoo, I thought it would look great painted black and on my back porch.

Here is the result. I didn't take a before picture but I think you can imagine the brass!


Doesn't it look so cute. I should have taken Coco's goggles and the grill off the porch but oh well you get the idea.

I also put up some stars I found at Gordman's on our storage shed. I see these everywhere now. Even my neighbors have copied my stars and put them on their sheds.

It is raining here this morning, I hope it stops before the evening so that everyone can have their cookouts and fireworks. We are going to some friends for the evening.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

INDEPENDENCE DAY DECOR

I wanted to show you my July 4th decor around the house.

I love this little heart on my china hutch

Love this Liberty sign on my tv cabinet. I found all these 40% off at Hobby Lobby.

This was cute too.

This is my centerpiece on the table. I made it today. Coco has to play ball all week and it worked out that we are celebrating her birthday at my Moms next weekend so it will be a July 4th theme and I will add some birthday stuff to this for her.

Do you decorate for the 4th??? Show us some of your decor.

Blessings,

Pam

HAPPY SUNDAY

This is what I am up to today. I have several projects I am painting today. Something for the wedding, Easter decor and something for my desk at work. I have to pretty up my cubicle!!!!

I went to Mom's yesterday and she is gathering things for our garage sale next month and I found a perfect little lamp for Coco's shade I made this week.

I found that big shoe at a thrift store for $1.00..... STEAL

This is a horrible photo but I blew up a photo of Coco to a 20x30 poster size for her room. I found the frame at the Walmart sample store for $5.00 and thought it would be perfect for this project. I need to mat it later when Hobby is having a 1/2 off sale.

We had a great day at church. Our Sunday school class talked about ways to impact the community and we had some great ideas. As a class we are going out in a couple of weeks to do some spring cleaning for people in need. We also discussed some long term things we could do. I am so excited about some of them. First we are going to do a community garden and the produce will be given away during our Angel Food weeks. That will be a blessing to so many.

I have a meeting with some other ladies this week to begin making plans for classes that we can offer to the community. Some of the ideas sound so fun. Just a few are classes on being frugal, budgeting, cooking, canning, meal planning, etc. I can't wait to get started on these. It will be so interesting you won't even feel like you are working. This type of stuff really gets me going. Helping people while learning yourself.

If any of you have ideas or things that you have done at your church, I would love to hear about them.

I think my paint is dry so I better get to it. I will post pictures of my finished projects, in between laundry. It is Sunday, I should be resting but this kind of stuff is relaxing and enjoyable for me.

Blessings,
Pam

Small Bathroom Redo

A while ago I showed you some items that I was going to use in our half bath. Finally I have taken photos of the end result. This bath is between my scrapbook room (not finished) and the laundry room so we don't use it alot. Coco has decided it is hers and she uses it some.

The tile in here is pastel pink and green from the 60's! I have always wanted to remodel it but just never got around to it and now with my job loss of 8 weeks, it will be awhile before we can do it. I just decided to play with what I had. I found most everything at Hobby Lobby for 50-80% off. I used hot pink, lime green and black. I think it turned out so cute. Someday we will trade my scrap room with Coco's room and she can have this bath off her bedroom.

This hangs behind both doors when they are open. Coco can use this for her robe or whatever.

This medicine cabinet and sink really need to be gone. The little picture on the left is a card I picked up in Destin, FL and just put it in a frame.

Mistreatment curtain and ugly taupe blinds. Those I change soon. Need to put on Wal-mart list.

Need to put photos in those frames. The little cup holder on the back of the toilet, Coco is using for her necklaces.

I hope you enjoy my tour of our bath.

Have a great weekend.

Blessings,

Pam

I'm still here! I can't believe it is already Thursday, this week has flown by for me. Coco woke me up on Monday morning at 4:30am with what she thought was heartburn. At 5:30 I woke up to her losing her supper in my bed! This went on until 9pm Monday night. I don't remember her being this sick since she had roto virus when she was 9 months old. It was easier with a 9 month old!

I did 8 loads of laundry that day and cleaned alot of carpet! I definetly earned my Mama pay for the day. Tuesday we woke up to a much better day, I kept her home so that I could control her intake and make sure she didn't get sick again. It must have been a 24 hour bug, thank the Lord. I don't know how you would handle it with 2 or 3 children. I just pray that Scott doesn't get it. He would be worse than 2-3 kids! Know what I mean. Men are just wimpy when they get sick.

Wednesday I got started organizing and cleaning out some spaces. Did anyone see the show on TLC about hoaders? The just of the show was these people have been diagnosed with hoarding disease. Can you believe that? What is the world coming to!

Anyhoo, I have had these sheers and new rods for our bedroom for months and couldn't get Scott to hang them for me. Well yesterday I nagged until he helped me put them up. This is the side window. They really look great in there and now it looks finished!
After Coco saw mine, she wanted some for her room. I went in to Fred's pharmacy here in town and I found these zebra sheers that are perfect for her room. Aren't they darling!!! She thought so !

I am almost finished with the little bathroom and I hope to have photos of that adventure soon!

I have to run and take Coco's friend home! Happy Friday to everyone!