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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Postcards from the Ridge

A very good morning to all my dear (and patient) followers out there!  It is apparent to me that my blog has unintentionally defaulted to a seasonal blog being that in my fast pace summer life, I just do not make time to post.  Yet as soon as the weather turns chilly and we start to deck the halls for the holidays, oh what-do-you-know, up pops a new post!  Wow, I am terribly sorry to let you all down by dropping the ball year round.  

So what have we been up to here these days?  We recently dove into the daunting task of wallpaper removal in many of our rooms.  Being a Victorian home, every wall here had been pasted with layers of paper.  

For months after moving here, I struggled between keeping our Victorian home congruent in period and style or making cosmetic updates to it.  Over time, we realized that the dark, printed Victorian style is just not us, so we are now working at making this space ours!  I cannot wait to show you some of our progress with before-and-after photo posts.  If you stick this out with me, you will not be disappointed and I will show you every room change soon!

In the meantime, I am visiting over at Postcards from the Ridge today!  Angela has graciously invited me over to her lovely blog to share our fall farmhouse tour!  Thank you very much, Angela!  It is such an honor and delight to be featured there!  Please *Click Here* to head over to check it out and say hello! 


Thank you all again for your great patience and choosing to continue to hang out with me here despite the lapse!



Hope you all have a lovely fall day,



Monday, November 9, 2015

Thank You, Midwest Living Magazine

How have you all been?  I hope all is well in your neck of the woods!  I am way overdue on touching base and filling you in with some small happenings over here in our life.  But first, I have to send a huge thank you out to Midwest Living magazine for the feature in the November/December holiday issue on newsstands now!  You will find our farmhouse Christmas vignettes featured alongside the extremely talented blogger and friend, Jennifer Rizzo.  It is such an honor, thank you for making my day, Midwest Living!


{Photo courtesy of Midwest Living}


{Photo courtesy of Midwest Living}


On another note, I know I promised you a fall tour, and don't worry, I will squeeze one in yet before Thanksgiving!  We have a few tiny home repair mishaps to wade through first.  One being our tiled shower in the upstairs bath in need of some serious attention.  The entire tile shower flooring is leaking water through the sub-floor into our kitchen below.  At this point, we are most liking going to have to tear out the whole tiled shower as well as deal with the new hole in our kitchen ceiling.
Ahh, the joys of home ownership, right?
But all this merely a hiccup!  Life is good!


{Photo courtesy of Midwest Living}


So here is the plan, share a little fall decor with you sometime before Thanksgiving, all the while repairing and painting our home, then it's on to the annual Christmas Housewalk beginning November 30!  If you have never joined us before on this fabulous, virtual Christmas blog tour, hosted by Jennifer Rizzo, please come back here for more details and updates regarding the Holiday Housewalk posted throughout November.


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