Kitchen Furniture

Happy Halloween!!! I started this End of The Month Randomness series last month for September and I had so much fun putting that post together that I have been looking forward to doing it again this month.  The main reason for this post is that it encourages me to clean up my picture files at the end of the month. I happen to take a ton of pictures every month, and so as to not take up too much of my computer's storage, I like to regularly go through all of my pictures, keep the best ones and delete all the rest. As I'm going through my pictures, I realize that there's a ton of stuff that I never posted about. So today, I'm going to share with you some behind the scenes, project fails, and just random bits of my life moments. Let's start with these adorable little pumpkins that my husband's secretary grew and gave to us. I placed them in a tray in the center of our table. The most exciting thing that happened this month, was celebrating my son, Jaxon's 9t...

On Friday the 13th my boys and I decorated for Halloween. Most of our decorations ended up in our entryway, and I have to say, I think it turned out pretty cute and so I wanted to share it with you today. Now when I say my boys and I, I really just mean I decorated and my boys watched :) But that's not my fault.  I wanted them to have fun and decorate, but they just don't seem to enjoy it as much as I do. They did however, have a lot of fun pulling out the decorations from the bins and reminiscing over it all. But other than placing a few things around the house, they left the decorating up to me. Which is fine because then I could do my thing and create a fun, cohesive display. I like to keep the decoration contained in one area and not scattered all over the house, which I think always tends to makes the house feel too cluttered and a bit chaotic.   So all of our decorations are just ones we've collected over the years, mostly purchased at the Dollar Tree. Nothing is ne...

Happy Halloween from this Jokester family to yours! I hope you all have a wonderful day & night. Be Safe and Have fun!

Our kitchen nook area was looking a little plain and so I decided that it would be the perfect spot to create a fun Halloween display. When I shared my post, How to hang a cow skull on the wall , I received a comment from someone saying that they didn't know why I would want to hang a skull on my wall, that it was evil... or something like that. So I thought, Why not use my skull as a Halloween decoration and decorate it up a bit? However, I think my skull is beautiful. It represents new beginnings.  A cow is the symbol of Mother Earth in many cultures because it provides milk, meat and clothing. Cows are generous and selfless and are considered the most sacred animal in India. And Buddhists see the cow as calmness and holiness. So there! What really inspired me to decorate this little nook area in our kitchen was this fun menu sign that I found at the Dollar tree. Most of my Halloween decorations come from the Dollar Tree.  They always have lots of fun decorations to pick fro...

 Boo! My boys and I did a little Halloween decorating around our home and today I wanted to share our scary Halloween mantel with you. When it comes to Halloween decorations I like to create fun little vignettes that tell a story rather than just place decorations here and there. If I have too many Halloween decorations all over the house it starts to drive me a bit batty and I want to take it all down before Halloween even gets here. So the story I created here is that this is an old creepy house that has been abandon for years.  It was abandon because it got so badly infested with rats and spiders and snakes..... Oh My!  The mantel that was once a cozy place where the owners kept their beloved books, where they would pick one off of the mantle and cuddle up on on the sofa with the fireplace roaring and enjoy the stories they would read.  But Then.... Out of No Where ... These dirty rats and spiders and snakes came out of the cracks in the walls and took over the ho...