Sorry!

Okay so if I have talked to any of you in the last 3 months, you have heard me complain about my busy-ness. It's all good busy-ness but nonetheless still busy! Sorry I have not updated this in awhile but I do have some things to update on and I will try to do it all this week. I'll update you on our grass situation (we now have some! yay!), painting the guest bedroom, fall crafts, and some other little projects and purchases here and there that we have worked on.  I enjoy chronicling the things we do around the house so I hope you haven't missed this too much (or maybe I wish you do) because we are planning big things in the next couple of months once it cools down.

One of my favorite things about our house is our fireplace and the mantle. Seeing as it is getting into Holiday season (can you believe it???) I am practicing my decorating skills currently as a baller on a budget.  Today I made some letters spelling out "FALL" using scrapbook paper I already had, a stencil, and dollar store frames.

I think it turned out pretty fun for $4.00.

I also bought the leaves ( a package of 50), all 3 pumpkins on the mantle and the scarecrow on the left of the mantle for $1.00 at the Dollar Store. The black material hanging is pinned in with push pins and I bought from Michael's yesterday for 1.15 because it had holes in it. Which I thought was PERFECT for a Halloween look.  The scarecrow on the right is from Dollar General and was a whole $2.00 and the lanterns I got when we first moved in.  It will look even more fun at night when I turn those lanterns on and the dim lights shine. I still feel like there may be something missing from this though. Some height maybe? I'll get back to you if I figure it out. :)

I love being crafty which is why I love Pinterest! I got the idea for the FALL letters there but I was able to customize it on my own and for cheap! I am planning on making a bunting with the letters Happy Halloween to go across the black material. If not though, I"ll probably add some other "spooky" element sometime in the next couple weeks in anticipation of Halloween and I figured after, I could leave most of it on the mantle, take the black down and add something turkey related. Ouila! Fall decorating! Hope ya like my festiveness. I'll be back with more this week!