Do You Boo? Halloween Countdown

One of our favorite family traditions during the month of October is "boo-ing" our neighbors.  It makes the perfect family night activity-- making treats, eating treats, attaching a fun poem, then sneaking around in the dark ringing doorbells while giggling hysterically and finally running away like mad after making the drop, all the while hoping not to get caught.

Oh yes--it is definitely my children's favorite thing to do ....mine is eating the extra treats!

Today I'm sharing some of my favorite boo printables--all darling, and free!

                                    Download this FREE printable from TomKat Studio HERE

 Want one with a little more spirit? Here is a kid friendly "SPOOKY" printable....HERE

                                        OR

                    This one from Grey Square Designs - HERE 

Moving inside.....in the past I have never really decorated for Halloween, mostly just FALL. This year I find myself smitten with all the fun decor and broke down and attempted to get into the "spirit of things"

I felt it was missing something.........I added some scrap fabric I had laying around and filled my spider cider with coffee beans

Found this free printable and printed and framed it.

And these free labels I printed and adhered to my jars with 3M glue spray, added water and food coloring.....then went outside and found branches to add to the look.  -  LABELS HERE

Everything was "FREE" I surprised myself with how many things you can "download" on the internet.

Although not as nice as these...............

FREE Spooky banner download - HERE

source:TomKat Studio

I love this.......but it would never last a day in my house

Great idea for "the party" love the frightful names.

 source:house of smiths

 One of my favorite Blogs: Brooklyn Limestone goes all out on Halloween, check out her archive 2008-2010

Brooklyn Limestone

Vintage style haunted Halloween party via Hostess with the Mostess

spooky tablescape via Good Housekeeping

 

Featured Blogger & 2011 Texas Design House

Happy Friday!! It's been a long week around here and hot.......when will it feel like October. Today's feature is on The Apprentice Extrovert blogged by Courtney from Australia, who is very talented and obviously really busy with projects. 

She paints fabric, sews, reupholsters, refinishes and builds furniture. Here are some of my favorites.

Look at her PALLET PROJECT what a beautiful job!

She has a great post for this hand painted fabric and chair DIY project.

I really like her choices for this chair makeover...I can't wait to see the rest of her home.

Stop by her blog and leave her a comment



I want to leave you with some beautiful images of this years SOUTHERN LIVING DESIGN HOUSE in TEXAS

Take a tour of the rest of this property HERE

House Tour

Todays tours take us out of the country, no  

need for passports just grab a warm cup of 

coffee, sit back and linger awhile with these

two rustic farmhouses...... You can almost 

see the stories of their  history in every 

picture, my imagination ran wild with these 

maisons in provence.

I can imagine living here can't you? It has been carefully renovated by it's currant owners and the rustic finishes like wooden beams, stone floors, wood shutters and this side entrance won me over.

       I love how simple yet breathtaking this property feels.

     Entertaining would be so relaxed and carefree can you see it?

    Reminder.....next house......a large fireplace in the kitchen!




Our next house is Maison DuJour, La Maison 

Bleue. An 18th century farmhouse Set in the 

national park of Luberon overhanging a 

breathtaking valley with 180 degree views.

    Not too shabby....would make a great vacation home(insert laughter)

    I'm finding it really hard to come up with words for this property!

  The home includes 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms a tutor house on the properties 27 acres, where lavender winds its way through some 100 olive trees. A well maintained garden and an overflowing swimming pool with views that go on for miles.

            Can you imagine the sunrises and sunsets?

   I did not expect such a wonderful restoration....hard to believe  this is 18th Century?

                      I even think my food would taste better cooked here.

                  Enjoy the rest of your day !!

 

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Featured Blogger

Today's Featured Blogger is on Lauren of West Furniture Revival. Lauren started her blog to showcase her furniture makeovers to friends and family at first. And it has now grown even bigger than that. She now selects every Monday as "Revival Monday" where a few of her favorite handmade and redone furniture pieces from other talented people are selected and featured.

LINK

Her is some of my favorites from her site.......

You should see the before picture and her step by step tutorial.

She is very talented, you won't believe how this table started out.

One of the many projects featured!

Featured Revival

Featured Revival

Head over and check out the Revival Monday post she did Yesterday on Modern Vintage Market where she featured my....................LINK HERE

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RETRO UPDATE

NEXT UP IS A FEATURE FROM

CAROLINE @ MODERN VINTAGE MARKET

THANK YOU LAUREN!!!!!