My Fall Cottage

Hello Blogger Friends!

I can't believe there are only 38 days left in this year! Where did the time go? It seems like just yesterday we were coloring Easter eggs. So fall is upon us now and winter will soon be knocking on our door. I took all of the cute Halloween decorations down and packed them into their special plastic bins, hauled them up to my perfectly organized attic and got the fall decorations down so I could adorn my sweet Oklahoma cottage in the appropriate style to celebrate this wonderful season of . . .

I took some paper mache letters and covered them with beautiful fall scrapbooking paper, then added a beautiful garland of fall leaves to decorate this shelf.

You can see from this picture that things have changed. No more black and white! And Miss Molly (my mannequin) got a new place in the room. She is now the official door greeter, waiting to welcome you when you walk through the front door.

I love the way decorations can completely transform a room. I had so much fun decorating this sweet fall cottage. Every nook and cranny got a pumpkin or leaf or something to make it feel more like fall inside.

My fireplace mantle is just stunning this year. I wish you could see it in person. I put orange Christmas lights underneath the decor and when you turn off all the lights a soft amber glow is emitted from this foliage. It is so much prettier in person!

I had quite a collection of pumpkins this year and my favorites are made from taffeta fabric. They are on this table with the ivory doily. They are so beautiful!

Here is Miss Molly all decked out for the fall. My mom gave me this sweet dress and I added some embellishments for the season. I made the roses from ribbon that adorn her hat. Isn't she lovely?

The kitchen got a fall makeover too. The rooms usually get cleared out until they are bare and I add pieces back in as I decorate. It is so much fun to have a new space to live in by being creative with your design!

Even the tops of the cabinets got some new decor. I just love how it all turned out!

My little cottage is so sweet and cozy, especially in the fall because of all the warm, inviting colors we get to use. I can't wait to get home from work every night to play and rest in my sweet nest.

Here is the dining room table and the china hutches. They are just as sweet as the rest of the house! I especially love the dishes I used for the tablescape.

Don't you just love these sweet turkey plates? I used a round fall place mat, a gold charger, a Rose Point dinner plate, and that sweet turkey plate to finish the ensemble. So lovely!

Here is the hutch that holds my Rose Point china collection, well most of it anyway! It is always so fun to try to come up with creative ways to decorate everything so it all works together.

The larger china hutch usually holds my seasonal dishes and then other decor to fill in. This season's china is some brown transferware that was made in England. I think it is called "stagecoach" because it has a stagecoach scene on it. I think they are beautiful!

The china blends in perfectly with the other fall decor and garlands of leaves. I think everything turned out so lovely in my sweet fall cottage this year!

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my sweet Oklahoma cottage all decorated up for the fall. I had so much fun and I hope I have inspired you in some way. Please let me know what you think!

Oh, and it might be a good idea for you to stand back come November 26th because I will be pulling the pin on the Christmas grenade! Plenty of pictures will be coming soon! I can't wait!!!

Blessing to you!

Love Tammy

Pink Pumpkins

Happy Pink Saturday My Sweet Blogger Friends!

I was actually able to find some pink to post this Saturday but I had to create it myself! That was so much fun!!! My mom Ginger inspired me with her pretty pink fall pumpkins so I decided to try my hand at it to decorate up my pretty dresser in my bedroom for the fall. This is what I came up with. This is a ceramic pumpkin that was white. I gave her a lovely shade of pink paint, some glitter, and some beautiful embellishments to decorate her up. I think she is so pretty . . . and she has a baby!

Here are mama and baby pumpkin together. I used a different kind of glitter, shade of pink paint, and some different roses for baby. I think they turned out so pretty!

Here is another view of the ceramic pumpkins all fu-fued up for the fall!

This is a flat wood pumpkin that was white and I painted, glittered, and embellished her too. And guess what? She has a baby too!


The baby wood pumpkin already lived with me and she was orange so I gave her some spurcing up and now she looks like she belongs in the family! I had a lot of fun embellishing these sweet pumpkins!

And last, but not least, is my version of the stuffed fabric pumpkin. I think I had the most fun making her because I got to start from scratch. I made two more, one bigger and one smaller, but they have not been embellished yet. Hopefully this coming week they will get finished and I will be able to show you how they turned out.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my sweet shabby fall pumpkins. I want to thank my mom for inspiring me and giving me a great idea for how to mix fall and pink and I would also like to thank Beverly at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/ for hosting us again for Pink Saturday. Please be sure to check out her blog and the others that are participating this week! Happy Pink Saturday!

Thank you for visiting! I hope you will come back and check out my photos of my sweet fall cottage that I will post next time. The decorating turned out so lovely and I know you will enjoy seeing it! I hope you have a great weekend!

Blessings to you!

Love Tammy

Trunk or Treat 2010

Hello Blogger Friends!

I can't believe three weeks have already passed since Halloween but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to share these great pictures with you of my fun time at my church on the Saturday before Halloween. I don't know how it was in your community, but in mine there were tons of things going on all weekend for Halloween. My favorite event was the "Trunk or Treat" event that I coordinated at my church. Several church members decorated the insides of their trunks and dressed up to hand out candy to the community children that came to trick or treat.

James and I decorated the back of our trunk to look like Sherwood forest since we were Robin Hood and Maid Marian. We put a bunch of branches in the back first, then added the ghosts so the forest would look "haunted". Then we added a treasure chest of jewels that Robin had taken from the rich to give to the poor. James even made his own bow and arrows out of sticks that looked very realistic. I made a "wooden" plank sign (that you can't see in this picture) out of cardboard that said "Sherwood" and pointed to the inside of the trunk. Our trunk was one of the best and everyone that came by had a nice comment for us. This children, however, thought that we were Shrek and Fiona! I guess they are too young to know about Robin Hood.

Here is Shrek and Fiona, a.k.a. Robin Hood and Maid Marian. We had so much fun dressing up and passing out candy to the . . .

Sock hop queens . . .

and fair maidens . . .

and tin men and lions, oh my!

The children were so adorable and I hope you got your fair share of cuties knocking on your door to give candy to. This Halloween was so much fun and this event was a huge success. Our church members donated 3 large trash cans full of candy. We had over 900 people from the community come out to our event. I was really pleased with the results. I guess this shows you what can happen when we all work together!

Thank you for visiting today. I hope you enjoyed my "Trunk or Treat" pictures!

Blessings To You!

Love Tammy

Happy Pink Saturday My Sweet Blogger Friends!

This Halloween I decided to decorate my sweet little Oklahoma cottage in the traditional holiday colors, so I had to take down all of my beautiful pink and roses down and pack them away. Although I miss them it is fun to have a change and it will be even more exciting when I get to bring all that stuff back out again for Christmas!

I decided to completely clear the room except the furniture and use black, white, and orange as my pallette. I think the rooms are really lovely.

I bought some different kinds of black and white fabric to make table covers and slips for my pillows so everything is accessorized for the theme!

I love how clean and polished everything looks. It's really amazing to think about how a room can be transformed depending on the dressing!

I had a lot of fun transforming my home into a posh Halloween cottage.

I know you've heard me say before that my mantle is always my favorite thing to decorate. This time was no exception. I think it turned out really cute!

I bought these candy corns from a catalog and added glitter so they would glisten.

I love this sweet lady crow with the Halloween hat on her head. I bought these books at a book sale for super cheat just because they were the perfect Halloween colors. I love this little vignette. This table turned out so cute!

Last year I bought these wooden letters and covered them with Halloween scrapbooking paper and embellishments. They are the perfect "sweet" accent for this shelf above my television.

Here is my lovely mannequin that I need to come up with a name for (if you have any suggestions, please leave me a comment) and she is all decked out for the Halloween season. I have so much fun dressing her up like a giant Barbie doll, which was my favorite toy as a child.

The kitchen didn't get a while lot of decorations this year because I ran out, if you can believe that, (now that's scary!!!) but I did decorate the dining area for the season.

My centerpiece is a real pumpkin in a footed bowl and some candlesticks I glittered (of course). So cute!

My china hutch in the dining room is also a favorite to decorate. It always looks just like a little gift shop for each season. I love how it turned out.

The center shelf is my attempt to honor our favorite Disney princess. So many little girls dress up like her on Halloween and hope to grow up to be her one day. Who doesn't love the . . .

Bibbity - Bobbity - Boo!?

I hope you enjoyed my cozy Halloween cottage and I hope I have inspired you in some way. Please leave me a comment if you enjoyed it. There are more Halloween pictures to see so please come back!

Blessings to you!

Love Tammy

It's Pumpkin Carving Time!

Hello Friends!

It just wouldn't be Halloween without an annual pumpkin carving event! I think I have carved a pumpkin ever year of my life since I could safely hold a knife in my hand. With the handy tools and neat patterns they have available these days, you can easily create a work of art!

My sweet boyfriend James and I carved pumpkins together last Friday and we had so much fun.

After he scraped the "guts" out of his pumpkin he taped his pattern on and started working away. I was so excited to see how it was going to turn out this year. Last year he carved a beautiful ship with a massive sail and he did it without a pattern. It was a truly amazing work of art and so is he! I am so blessed to have him in my life.

I cleaned the goop out of my pumpkin too and used a pattern to carve a neat design instead of a traditional face. It feels so strange to pull all of the mushy strings and seeds out of the inside of the pumpkin. I think we enjoyed that task much more when we were little!

After James got done with the design and the carving, I couldn't wait to see what it looked like. His turned out to be a spooky castle and he did a really good job!

Mine says "welcome" inside a bat cave. It took a lot of hard work but it was worth it because of how they turned out and it was so much fun to spend that time with James doing this fun activity together. I drank some apple cider while carving my pumpkin which added to the experience!

Here is our fancy carved pumpkin duo in the light. They are so cool!

But they are even spookier in the dark!

I hope you enjoyed these carved pumpkins for Halloween. Please leave me a comment and visit again because I still have picutes of my cute house to show you and our fun "Trunk or Treat" event at my church on Saturday!

Blessings to You!

Love Tammy

Halloween Tea on the Front Porch

Hello Friends!

I love Halloween because I love CANDY! I decided to decorate my front porch for a cute Halloween tea for two and I think it turned out so cute!

It looks like a cozy place for tea, fellowship, and lots of sweets!

I used my favorite white teacups and these cute black dishes with candy corns on them. How cute is that!? I also made some of that yummy candy corn and peanuts snack mix. That stuff is so delicious and addictive. It reminds me of a payday candy bar. If you haven't tried it you should before the fall season is over! It makes a great gift in a cute bag or jar too!

After I decorated that day and took picutes it inspired me to have an actual tea party, so I invited my favorite guest, my mom, to join me the next morning for a Halloween tea on the front porch. I added a few more things to the table during our tea, including those scrumptious pumpkin and butter rum muffins. Isn't the witchy hat cute?

We had a delightful tea and a wonderful day together afterwards shopping, talking, and laughing. We always have such a fun time together!

I hope you have enjoyed my Halloween tea on the front porch. I have some more Halloween pictures to show you so please visit back soon and leave me a comment if you liked this post!

Blessings to you!

Love Tammy

Hello Friends!

I have been very busy with work, church activities, and other things and haven't been posting like I want to but here I am finally to show you some cute Halloween crafts I made. Now I know most of us like the sweet pink and pastels and roses, but I decided to do traditional Halloween colors this year. My house is really cute and you'll get to see those pictures soon, but I wanted to show you some Halloween ornaments I made for a tree in my kitchen.

I started with the basic supplies and these cute chipboard frames to create some cute vintage-inspired ornaments.

And this is what I came up with! Aren't they just darling?

Here is the tree with all the ornaments on it. I think it turned out really cute and I love it!

I also made some cute pumpkins out of black and white fabric and then embellished them. I think they turned out really cute too!

I found this bucket with my initial on it and tied some various black and white ribbons on the handle to decorate it up. It has gummy pumpkins in it for the holidays.

I have so many more things to show you so please visit again! I hope you enjoyed my Halloween crafts! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Blessings to You!

Love Tammy