Vote or Die!

Tweet On Sunday we carved pumpkins and Chirstopher and I both think our own pumpkin is the best. So we're going to let you vote. Which do you like better? Pumpkin 1 or Pumpkin 2:


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We bought the Pumpkin Master Kit to carve our pumpkins.

Me gutting my pumpkin

Christopher picking out which design to carve

Lola says "Mommy, can I eat it?"

Leave us a comment. Which pumpkin do you like better? I'll let you know which one was whose at the end of the week.

DIY Showoff Fall Festival

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The DIY Showoff is having a blog party for fall projects and with my latest pumpkin obsession I thought this would be a perfect time to show you all my new fall decor.

The Front Entrance:

The side of the front porch:


The other side of the porch:


The dining room table (Click Here to see the tutorial to making the goblets):

The back porch lantern:


The living room fireplace:


What a great party! If you would like to join in The DIY Showoff Fall Festival Party, head over and check out the instructions.

Nestie Fall Exchange

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As most of you know, and may also be part of, I am a very active chatter on thenest.com at the Decorating and Renovating board. This fall the nesties decided to do a candle exchange.

The nestie that drew my name was: ShylaBeth and she sent me 5 votive candles (2 smell like Pumpkin Spice) and three votive holders. I still haven't decided where they will go.

Thank You, Shyla! I love them

This weekend I have a bachlorette party to attend for my wonderful cousin, Callie. Callie and her fiance, Dave, are getting married October 16 and I'm a bridesmaid. I'm really looking forward to spending some time at the bachlorette party with her. What are you doing this weekend?

Pumpkin Decorating

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Since, you all know, that this season I'm obsessed with Pumpkins. I decided to show you some ideas on how to incorporate pumpkins into your decorating. I was flipping through Midwest Living Magazine and came across these great pumpkin ideas and wanted to share them with you.

Pumpkin Place Cards

Patchwork Pumpkin

Message Tower Pumpkin

Inner Glow Pumpkin

Mumkins

Black Magic Vase Pumpkin

Tutorials on how to make these pumpkins can be found on midwestliving.com

My $50 Winnings

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Since, we lived in an apartment for so long, I refused to buy seasonal decor (minus Christmas) because we didn't have the place to store it all. I decided I still wanted some more seasonal decor for the house. So I bought these carvable pumpkins from Micheal's at $5.99 a piece along with these fake bales of hay for $6.99 each. I got some flickering lights to go inside.

As soon as the real pumpkins come out, I'm going to get some real pumpkins to sit on the stairs and some corn staulks for the corner of the porch. I can't wait. So my total for today was $60.

Check out where I got the idea from The DIY Showoff. I took Roeshel's idea and transformed it a little. Great Idea Roeshel!

What do you think?