It is Autumn!

This is my favorite time of year! Autumn!
I love the cooler weather (or lack there of, this year...) the changing colors, and the fun!

We decorated our front porch a little. Joe has been working diligently on the yard. I need to get some more pictures. It has changed so much even from these pictures. He has completely revamped our yard. It looks like a lush green golf course now. I get yelled at to stay off the grass, so do random squirrels. Haha.

We tore out some of the bushes and plants in the front, and plan to replant some new bulbs and plants this weekend for next year. Joe trimmed up quite a bit. We took out a small burning bush in the back yard and have worked on it. It was in way worse shape than the front, so we will have to do more work on it in the Spring. We have quite a few admirers that stop by or comment when we are outside.

I ordered two purple mums from a co-worker's daughter. They are beautiful. We bought two other mums from Lowe's. We thought they were bi-colored, and much to our surprise - they are actually tri-colored. Very pretty. Added a couple pumpkins. I found a cute solar lantern that lights up at night to place on the bench. We hung some Halloween purple and orange lights. Joe hung some fake spider webs. We were going to do more, but decided that we weren't just yet. But - Christmas - ITS ON! :-)

I have been pretty busy working on little projects around the house, or for the house.

Mostly, I have been working on the living room. We are on the hunt for a new living room set. My huge sectional that we have now, just doesn't really fit. It's too big, and I have had it a few years and it has broken down in some spots. We want a more open feel to the living room so looking for either a love seat, or smaller sofa set. We are also going to get a new tv that mounts on the wall.

I found a really cute cabinet for dvds to go under the tv that I have been refinishing. I paid $20 for this gem on a facebook swap shop. I am still working on it, because it has been a long process and we don't have the new tv just yet. This is the before pictures. I didn't take a picture of the doors to it. I will before I start on them.

I had a mirror that I had put stickers and mod podge on years ago, it looked kind of silly. It was black, I had painted it silver in spots to make it look older. I thought it looked pretty neat years ago... not so much anymore. I redid it - took the stickers off and removed the mod podge and painted it a bronze/metallic brown color. Before and after photos. 

There are two candle holders I had from years ago too, I decided to paint them and give them a new feel. They were previously an off white color. I painted them a rose gold color. Before/After photos.

And the last project that I complete was the shutters on the bookcase. The previous owners created an in wall bookcase and with the wall mounted tv, decided to make a place where you could put your dvd player, dvr/cable boxes and hide all the cables behind doors/shutters. Which is super cute. However, I cannot stand the brick red color. So it had to go :-) Before/After photos

I still have plenty of projects that I am working on. Joe has a few of his own, too. I will try to keep this more updated.