Fall Decorations 2020

 I love decorating my house for fall.

{🎃🍁👻}

Garden Shed

It’s been pretty weather outside lately. I decorated my garden shed and did a few other things in the yard this past week. The garden shed decorations were holed away in one of our barns, and I finally got around to putting them out. My collecting habits are paying off {my husband may call it hoarding}.

{Georgie the cat showed up a few months ago and adopted us}

Quarantine

Today was sunny and warm, finally a break from the winter temperatures. Everyone is tucked away in bed but me; I haven’t slept well since everything with Coronavirus started a few weeks ago. My doggie Zoey is laying beside me, keeping me company but sometimes drifting into deep dreams that cause her to wimper and wiggle her legs. Makes me wonder what she is seeing in her sleep; she’s such a good girl, I love when she snuggles up on the couch.

We recently had spring break, and now school is canceled for April due to the virus, although we have been doing e-learning at home. The kids are doing well, Zaidey has her first loose teeth, the two middle ones on the bottom.  Lincoln did great with wrestling this year, but sadly we missed the state finals due to the virus. Trinity has been missing her dance classes and school, but seems to enjoy the e-learning her teacher has organized.

Everyone is currently under quarantine due to COVID - 19, and my family has been doing our part by staying at home. We haven’t gone anywhere in two weeks except for a couple of drive up grocery orders. We’re all getting pretty stir crazy. However, we’ve gotten lots done and made some amazing memories.

Here in rural Indiana, things haven’t been too abnormal, but I hate to see so many people across the world struggling. I’ve been praying for our country to be strengthened and to have faith that we will get through this. Thankfully, Spring is here and if nothing else it lifts my spirits to see everything come back to life after a dreary winter.

Re-Purposed Suitcase

Recently re-purposed this suitcase my mother-in-law gave me, and turned it into a decorative desk in my kitchen. I originally wanted to buy a buffet for under my windows, but after looking at the cost I started to rummage around my barns for other ideas. The suitcase worked great along with an old bench from my husband’s family and a wood chair from my dad’s grandma.

My Little Artist

 

Coffee Bar and Buffet

There have been a lot of previous posts on this blog about our remodeling journey. Here is a proud moment to share: we finally got the coffee bar area done and it’s everything we had envisioned. If you ever remodel your house, invest in the kitchen! It’s where hours of family time will be spent, and you’ll never regret putting a little more investment into the heart of your home.

Card Bouquet

 

A few before and after pictures

Remodeling your house definitely takes up a lot of time, but we are finally on the other side of our huge project. I couldn't be happier to see it all {mostly} done! My husband and I make a pretty good team : )

  

Pantry

The pantry every woman deserves! It's 6 1/2' wide, 7' deep, 9' tall and my husband lined it with shelves on three of the walls. In total he stacked five shelves in the pantry, and I measured the length of how many feet of shelving there is {just for fun}. Friends, I have around 75' of storage space! It's unreal! I'm going to turn it into my personal mini-mart so I can hopefully make less trips to the store. The possibilities are endless!

 

 

I Spy

I spy a baby snake, and it was in our garage a couple days ago. Even though it was so small, it still freaked me out trying to catch this thing. But I finally did with Lincoln's help and put it in this tote so I could release it in the woods somewhere.

A pretty roadside picture

I like to take the kids on a drive during the afternoons most days so that they will take a nap. It's the only sure fire way I can guarantee some quiet time. Today we happened to pass by this beautiful field of "weeds".

The last snow?

I took these pictures a couple weeks ago, realizing this may be the last snow of winter. Some may think I am crazy, but I will miss seeing the beautiful white fluff. I heard once that if you live in a cold weather climate you might as well embrace the chilly weather once it sets in. Notice the wording, not just accept, but embrace.  Life is certainly more beautiful when we are in love with something rather than just tolerating it.

I am never truly satisfied with winter unless we get a crazy big accumulation at least ONCE during the cold weather months. This year in southern Indiana we got several smaller snowfalls, but never the kind that merited being snowed in a couple days. Oh well. This will have to do!

My reading nook

Every girl needs one!