New fireplace!

Happy wednesday!

We've been in our house for 6 years now and

since we've been here I have longed for a mantle.

The fireplace itself is so pretty but has stone

ledges that just didn't give it a comfy feel.

So this past sunday we got busy and transformed

the fireplace. 

You can see in this picture the ledges. 

At Christmas I would try and create a faux mantle with one of the ledges.  Just didn't cut it.....

And..... here it is! all transformed!

I am LOVING it! 

We started by scoring the ledges with a masonry

scoring tool then taping the ledge with a mallet

and they suprisingly popped right off. 

This is the only ledge that we ran into trouble with.

When we popped this one off it took away some of 

the stone and masonry. 

We patched it up with masonry chalking. 

The mantle piece I ordered from Amazon.

It's a company called "Dogberry", they

have a website, but I was surprised to

find them on Amazon prime days discounted. 

Once the patch job dries you can paint it.

The mantle came with this wood bar that gets

screwed into the stone with a hammer drill.

Then you just mount the wood mantle right 

onto the ledge. 

Using a hammer drill made drilling into the stone so easy.

There were five screws that needed to be drilled. 

They took minutes, that's it.  

And the result is awesome!

Fall paint and sip

Last night my friend Alison had a fall paint and sip,

it was a blast!

We ate delish fall food and incrediable desserts.

These gals were so talented!

check out their creations......

Each one is getting even better.....

This one is mine, can you see I am into the 

ghosties! 

Have you been to a paint and sip?

Your creations

Happy saturday!

Totally love when you send me your styled pieces that you've made

from my blog.

Cheryl sent me her vignette in her kitchen of the fall framed pumpkin piece as well as her buffalo plaid led candles.

This is so pretty! 

Laura shared her fall vingette with all the things!

Framed fall art, the napkin covered candle, the boo broom,

the napkin modge podged covered plate and the little

apothecary bottle with tic tacs.

Keep them coming!

I love to showcase what your doing! 

Happy creating this weekend!

I'll be working on some things in my home, hopefully putting up a mantle ledge.  I have always wanted a mantle at our house and nows the time with the holidays fast approaching.  Wish us luck!

Might be a challenge to drill into our stone fireplace wall!

Ghost Pendants

Happy thursday!

I did my dollar tree run this week to find some more of this

creepy cloth.  I have a few left from over the years but needed

just a few more of the white/cream colored ones. 

What am I using them for?

Take a peek~

I have round pendant lights in my kitchen that hang over my sink as well as one in my butlers pantry and decided to use the creepy cloth

over the lights to create some cute ghosts!

I covered each pendant with one of the cloths, it's big enough to fold 

and wrap around the light.  I adhered it with a small safety pin. 

Here is it lit up....

I used some black cardstock and a oval punch to make the eyes.

I added them using some glue dots. 

The pendant light in my butlers pantry.

I have light switches that you can dim, so I can

make them super bright or dim them lightly. 

Aren't they fun? 

I am loving everything ghosts this year! 

Suncadia Harvest Festival

This is tradition!

We have been coming here for over 16 years. 

Every year it gets better and better.

It's part of our fall festivities.  They have so many

activities, hay rides, corn maze, lots of play structures

for the kids, horse rides. pumpkin farms, food vendors,

and more! 

Can I just stay here all day long....

fall is my fav by far....

Creative class

Last night we gathered for some Halloween creative fun.

It was time to get our spooky on!

All smiles

Here are some of the projects they made,

most of them you have seen in my previous posts.

These are those cute little bottles that they filled

with tic tacs. 

The framed fall and halloween art. 

Halloween treat holder

Let's make a halloween treat holder with some halloween napkin!

This is an easy and cute one.

Start with any halloween napkin.

Starting at the corner fold up the bottom to the top as

you see here...

Open it back up and just fold the very small corner at the bottom to

the center fold.....

Now fold up the bottom where you folded the little triangle into

the center again....

At this step you will fold each corner to the center,

at this point this is where the fold becomes the pocket.

This is upside down view of how the two triangle

folds come together, you can see where I tucked one

into the other to hold the pocket together. 

This is what the pocket should look like once all folded up. 

Now to add some treats and a ribbon to finish it off. 

I added a mini bag of M&M's and a mini snickers.

You can make up quite a few of these once

you get the fold down.  They are perfect for kids classes,

parties, employee, party favors, any holidays.  

Let me know if you make some!