Thanksgiving Decorating

The day after Election Day...I'm happy that the discussion and debate is over and just happy to continue on with my little life. For what it's worth I believe that whoever runs for the office of President will do his best for all. As for Thanksgiving, I look forward to such a beautiful holiday cause I have so much to be thankful for and I realize that EVERY day! So out with the turkeys--here are some adorning my breakfront. I love to decorate for Thanksgiving.

I have a fair amount of stuff after all these years but I don't overdue it because I usually start decorating for Christmas the day after turkey day.

Caitlin and I are making these as long as I can get more netting....

Pretty quiet here...just putting back all the Halloween boxes. Oh, we went to see another awesome show at a theatre here in Northport. 1776. What a terrific show! My husband and I have our little date night and it's been fun.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's Christmas decorations and crafts on all the blogs. Christmas trees are popping up everywhere.  Here's my son with his girlfriend Brianna. In front of a tree in Tanger Outlets.

have a great day!

An Awesome Halloween

I can't believe Halloween is gone...from the calendar but not from my heart. Till next year! Still my favorite holiday to decorate for although I love the others. I just love the colors and all. The decorating goes so well with my country decorating! We had two parties this year. One big one with the family and cousins. Another one smaller~~actually a haunted sleepover with Caitlin's friends. We had so much fun playing games and eating. And eating. And eating!

 This was an awesome spider web cupcake my daughter decorated!

We had so much fun making goofy food!

Did you get your Happy Meal buckets from McDonalds? We did. These truly made me happy. REALLY HAPPY!

As did this incredible gift from my awesome neighbor!

 My husband did his annual pumpkin carving. I'm still lighting it at night! I hate to see Halloween go!

It's just been a whole month of fun! On to the turkeys!

Lots of Fall Fun!

Happy Saturday! This month is speeding by too fast! I have so much to do and the days are disappearing so quickly. I always say I wish October had a few more weekends to it so I could do everything I want to! I haven't even had time to get my pumpkins yet!!! Most of our October weekends have been rainy but this one is supposed to be good so it's pumpkin picking for us tomorrow. Finally starting to get over this awful cold I have had too....the good part of that is that I spent a lot of time in my craft room since I felt too sick to go anywhere and produced some cute new friends from some cupcake picks I got from TJ Maxx:

The pictures are a little dim unfortunately...they are very cute and I have also been making party favors for our two Halloween parties coming up. We are having a big family Halloween party and then a smaller party with Caitlin's friends.

 The cups will be filled with popcorn. The candy people are new this year. Plus we make the old reliable lollipop ghosts, lollipop spiders, witches hats candy bags and pumpkin candy bags...candy candy candy!! Before I forget........

Look at this amazing cake my cousin made! We went to her birthday party last week and the theme was horses! It was one of two cakes that had a horse theme but I thought she did an awesome job on this. There was also a cupcake cake of a horse's head!

But back to Halloween now....my cousin from Connecticut was down yesterday and we had such a fun afternoon. She brought these adorable cake pops for the kids:

And she always decorated a lot for Halloween but this year she hasn't even started yet as she was away on vacation and pretty busy. When she came to my house she said I inspired her to go home and decorate!!!! Hurray! I thought these cake pop ideas were really good.

I painted this little haunted house from Michaels and added some decorations...what do you think? It even lights up!

All in all, I'm just having my Fall fun and enjoying each day the best I can! I hope you are too!

My Favorite Time of Year!

It is my FAVORITE time of year! And I try to enjoy as much of it as I can. I wish October and November were longer months like maybe 6 weekends per month! This way I could fit in everything I want to do. There are so many festivals and fairs and things to do and people I want to invite but then I run out of weekends! But before I start going on about my love for Autumn, I have to show you  my son's graduation picture:

This is one of the many poses. And before you say "Why isn't he smiling?" Well, the photographer told the kids it has to be a serious photo and that "smiles can make you look goofy. keep it serious."...anyway, I can't believe he'll be graduating in June. I'm very proud of him.

So now back to the Halloween/Fall discussion...  :)    Caitlin, her friend Jackie, and I went to the annual Pickle Festival held nearby. It's become a tradition! A couple hundred years ago, Long Island was the first area here in the northeast to promote pickles from all the cucumbers grown so we kinda celebrate every year and every flavor pickle you could imagine is celebrated at the Pickle Festival. It's so fun. Caitlin even wore a green bow and shirt to honor the almighty pickle!

We did our visit to Hicks Nursery and while I enjoy everything we do while we are there, I love to look at the decorations and try to get crafting ideas.

I'm just about done decorating but really...who is ever DONE? As I see things or find more things, I add them!

This weekend we are headed upstate for an event, and I can't wait! It's the Great Pumpkin Blaze! It's held in Sleepy Hollow about an hour from my home and it's awesome. Over 7,000 pumpkins carved and displayed in different scene. There's a pumpkin bridge, a pumpkin cave. It's super cool! plus you get to walk around sipping cider and eating chilli and popcorn! I'll be sure to post a bunch of pictures.

My chickens are laying eggs every day! It's so cool to have fresh eggs every morning. I think if I had the room I would have 100 chickens!

I still have a few projects I'd like to do this month. Have you seen the ideas with clay pots? Look how cute!

 Well, off I go. Busy day this Friday is! Have a great weekend!

Halloween is Coming!

Good Morning! It feels so good to wake up on a chilly morning. I just love the crisp feeling! Schedules are back in place for the new school year and life is carrying on! I've been slowly decorating and we've also gotten a few more house projects done including my front walkway which I was so excited about!

Now we just have to finish the garden beds around it. It seems like there are always projects to do! We are thinking boxwood bushes or something low growing and of course annuals which we plant in the Spring but for the Fall we will fill with colorful mums.

I was so surprised to receive a gift in the mail from a lovely lady who also loves the Amish as I do.

 She made me this lovely doll! Isn't she awesome? I adore her. She originally came with a little flower basket but little Jinx our cat had other ideas for that flower basket so I replaced it with a pie. So much fun to get surprises in the mail.

She fits right in! Nestled in front of one of my Amish made pieces of furniture and more Amish kids behind her and to the side.

 Besides getting all ready for school, Caitlin and I have been crafting like crazy. I'm so happy we started early and we are really getting creative. She's thinking she would like to be Rapunzel for Halloween. Here is her photo from the first day of 6th grade so you can see her hair is plenty long enough to be Rapunzel!

Some things we made:

My nieces came over and we did some Halloween crafting with them and started making supplies for the two Halloween parties we are having this year. And don't ya know that when crafting is involved so is food!!! We took a break and had a great meal with a big chocolate milkshake. An incredible burger I had when I was out with them and I ate every bit of it too!

Food is always involved....I craft better on a full stomach! So we are making some of these:

and some of these....

I'll let you know how they come out! I also saw this adorable idea on Pinterest. Just get black straws and googly eyes. So cute!

I'm thinking what else is happening around here since I last blogged....Oh how can I forget? My husband and I were gifted with tickets from my Godmother to see the show Mama Mia! It was playing in a theatre nearby in Northport and what a show! We had such a great night preceded by, again, great a dinner ...We loved the show and it was so much fun to have a date night with my husband. We will actually be celebrating 28 years of marriage this Saturday! Woo Hoo!

I think I'm pretty caught up now...School, crafting, Halloween, Mama Mia....yup, I think that's it!

I know there are periods of time when its hard to get a blog post up but I can check in! I will always keep up though! My life is so much busier than it was years ago when I started back in 2009! I care for my Mom who needs so much help and attention now at age 86 and my son is home tutored due to his illness so it's a busy week. Plus I'm pretty active with my daughter's activities and my church but again, I WILL ALWAYS BE AROUND and will still be blogging!

Love you all!