Our Fall Home

I finally got around to adding some touches of fall around the house.  I don't have much in terms of decorations but I thinks it's just enough to know the season is here.  Honestly I sometimes think less is better.  I have to revisit our Christmas decorations and do a little house cleaning.  For Christmas I'd like to totally switch to a more nature inspired theme around the house.  Ok enough about Christmas back to fall.  Here we go...............

My living room mantle

Dining room buffet cabinet

(its actually our old tv stand lol)

Dining Table

Two tiny fabric pumpkins and a ceramic scarecrow :)

It's not much but enough to feel fall in the air.  The weather turned back to how October should be

a little bite in the air.  Last week it was humid and 80 Eewww :)

How do you decorate for Fall or do you.  Is this your favorite time of year?  

Happy Wed!

Corners Of My Home (Part One)

I thought it would be fun to take a tour of our home.  We live in a modest town home.  It's not a huge mansion, can sometimes feel cluttered with baby toys, shipping boxes and supplies but it's ours and we love it.  It's home...... (note I realized I neglected to take pictures of our dining room and second floor so we'll do this post in 2 parts)

When you enter the front door immediately to

the left is our baywindow/eat in kitchen nook

This shot is the view from our kitchen table

(I'm thinking of painting my cabinets...eek! 

Possibly a cream color with an antique effect)

View in the kitchen looking down to the nook

When you come out of the kitchen there is a little openish hallway

then you enter the living room/dining room comb

This is our living room before we repainted 3 of the walls

(the wall color is Benjamin Moore Chopped Dill)

Living room re-painted.  Wall with fire place was left green

Remaining 3 walls were painted Benjamin Moore Squirehill buff.  

It's the color most of our home is painted

I love how the furniture stands out more against the lighter wall

Dining Room 

Thats it for this addition.  Now to photo the rest!

XO,

K

The Baking Soda Challenge

My oven has been a sore spot for me.  No matter how I try to clean it I still can't get the greasy grime off the oven door or the inside.  I have a self cleaning oven which does work to a point but definitely doesn't get the door clean.

My goal is to get this oven spic and span.  I've pinned a million ways to do it on pintrest.  Most searches come up with good o'le backing soda.  Who new?  I've seen a lot of other bloggers try and document the process with amazing results.

Ok so now I had to try.  I only did my oven door just to see if it worked.  It's the grossest part of my oven.  Here's my take.......

This is what my oven door looked like...

a gunky mess, caked on goodness

I first sprinkled dry baking soda all over the door then spritzed 

with water until all of the baking soda was moist. 

 I let this sit for about 3 hrs

Most instructions on the web will tell you to take a paper towel and wipe clean

This may be the case if the grease and dirt isn't caked on I found that I had to use a little 

elbow grease with a copper scouring pad.  After scouring away this was the result....

An improvement but still visible grime.  

I tried a second application.  

This time I took about a cup of

baking soda and added just enough water to make a paste. 

 I then brushed the mixture all over the door.

I let this application sit for another 3 hours. 

After 3 hours I took my handy dandy copper scrubber

and scrubbed away.........

BINGO!  we have a winner.  The door looks brand new

I think if you keep up with this method (about a month)

You can just apply the paste, wait 2-3 hrs then wipe clean without scrubbing.  

If your oven is caked like mine you'll have to do a little scrubbing.

I only did my door.  This weekend I'm going to try the inside which isn't as bad.  

I think I'll try applying it at night, then let it sit over night.  

One thing's for sure I'm a convert to using baking soda as a cleaner...

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Last day for Custom Orders

Today will be the last day to get  your custom orders in.  With my due date quickly approaching, a growing belly, lots of orders to finish and a laundry list of things to do for the baby (Nursery isn't even started!) I moved the date from 9-1 to today.

I just have too much on my plate to get complete in 2 short months.  The shop will remain open but only for semi custom, ready to ship, DIY and character dolls.

Keep following to see my progress on the nursery and shop updates.

Enjoy your Sunday!

XO,

K

Nursery Decorating

My daughter will be arriving in early November.  My office will become the nursery and my office will move to our other spare bedroom and be a shared office/guest room.  I already have some plans on how to decorate both rooms.

First I'm concentrating on the Nursery.  I'm not an overly pink person so the room will remain yellow(one of my favorite colors) but just get a refresher paint job.  Some of the walls have some rouge paint splatters from painting my little pegs.  I'm a bit messy when I paint.   I'll add touches of pink here and there.  So the theme will be yellow and pink.  I have a few favorite artists on etsy that I plan on buying art prints from.  I also want to get individual black and white photos of both sides of the family. Make a mini art gallery.

With my new sewing machine I want to make a bunting flag to go hand across the curtains.  Not sure if I'll leave it plain, add her name or add some cute animal appliqués.  I'll see what mood hits me while I'm making it.  The crib will be white (haven't picked one yet).  Not in a rush because she'll be in a bassinet in our room for a while.   I'm taking a white dresser from our other spare bedroom to use as a dresser/changing table.  My brother and sister-in-law are buying us a rocker!

The room is small so a crib, large dresser also posing as a changing table, and rocker will fit perfectly.  We want to replace the rug.  Some how it took a few hits of paint, wonder how that happened????

When my mom came up from Florida last month she brought the cutest child's rocker.  Someone in her  community was throwing it out.  It's in perfect condition.  All she did was clean it up.  I'm going to spray paint it white to match the room.  I'll share a tutorial when I do it later this summer.

Here are some nurseries I googled for inspiration.... The pink in the third picture is a little too bright for me.  I would definitely tone it down.

Enjoy your sunday!

XO,

K