Reorganizing My Closet

I am so ashamed to show this, it is literally is airing laundry but this is what I have been looking at for months when I am soaking in the whirlpool!  And yes, I could close the door but no, that is never the case:)  Who could relax ???? So finally one Saturday I decided to stay home from the Mississippi State vs Alabama game(thought it was going to be a waxing and we really played well) and spent 3/4 of the day on this.  I removed the summer items.  

After many years of hauling the large tubs out of the attic, I started  keeping my off season clothes in the space bags over a year ago and love them!!  They are great to put under the bed or in the top of your closet.

After waiting patiently(ha ha) for several weeks and stepping over the drill in the closet, my husband hung the rod for me.  Even though I straightened the shelves, I wanted this shower curtain to cover them so that when they are not perfect, like I am afraid that they will be in a matter of weeks, I will not have to look at them!

The basket on the left has belts and my scarves are folded in the basket on the right.

About a year ago I started purchasing wood hangers, mistake, mistake, mistake!  They are great if you have a huge closet but I needed more room.(Shameful shameful at the amount of clothes I possess and this is AFTER I culled out.  I went to Ross, TJMaxx and bought the thin felt hangers and hung my dresses with them.  Let me just say that I am a believer now!!!! They freed up soooooo much space!!  I have also been grouping my tops, blouses and pants by color.  You would not believe how much time you save looking for the "perfect" outfit for the day.  As you can tell I do not have my dresses grouped by color.  Hope to add more as the budget allows.

Hope this helps someone with small closet space.  The other side is for my husband's clothes and he promises to "tackle" them after football season.

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Shadowlawn Bed and Breakfast

This weekend we traveled to Columbus, Mississippi and stayed at  Shadowlawn, a bed and breakfast that was wonderful. I had to take pictures with my phone because, yes, I forgot my camera:(. AND, I did not get a front picture of this lovely Greek Revival home, so I took this from their website here. Isn't it beautiful?

We stayed in the Fleur de Lis Room. This place is decorated with gorgeous antiques.

Looooovve this chest of drawers. I asked the owner if they had any type of process done on them and she said it was simply aging.

The beautiful tablescape at breakfast.

The parlor.

The men's parlor.

Staircase in foyer.

Foyer

The backporch

Our wonderful hostess/owner

There is so much history in this town and home.  As always I wish that my pictures did this beautiful home justice so you are just going to have to check it out for yourself! Would have taken more but we had to hurry off to see our bulldawgs play.

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Black&White Pumpkins

Saw these with tutorial here and was not satisfied until I went to Dollar Tree to get the supplies. They were out of pumpkins :( so I had to pay $5.00 each at Walmart for the pumpkins. I had never worked with Modge Podge but loooovvvve that stuff! I could have gotten them much smoother but I LIKE the wrinkles, I am weird that way. My friend Monica provided the Spanish moss that her husband confiscated from deer camp, would love to have live oaks draped with the moss in my front yard!


                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                         

Pumpkin Wreath Tutorial

Items needed: 
 1 styrofoam wreath form
 2 packs of floral picks with wire(the bags did not have a count on them?)
 1 orange 4.5" roll of orange mesh
 1 green 4.5" roll of green mesh(mine was metallic since I already had it on hand)
  Burlap to form a loop in order to hang the wreath
 Steps: 
1. I wrapped my wreath with the green mesh. You could use something cheaper but it was all I had at the time. I secured this with u-shaped floral pins.

 2. Cut SEVERAL ( I did not count mine) 8- inch sections of the orange mesh. Pinch one of the long sides together, wrap wire on the pick around the end securely.  See picture below.

3. Start filling the form.  I started on the inside and worked my way around and outward.

4.  Once I had all of the orange picks I wanted, I made 4 green mesh picks to put at the top for the leaves.

5.  I wrapped a strip of burlap around it to hang it with and to serve as a stem.  I have seen real sticks put on them and they are super cute.

You will find others that have the "swirls" going in a more uniform direction but I like randomness!
The entire process took a little over an hour.  I hope that you find this helpful if you choose to make one!

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Fall Is Here

Yay!!!! it is finally feeling like fall in Mississippi!!! This is a vignette inspired by Potterybarn but once I got started with it I aborted their original idea and went out on my own.














I saw this wreath on Pinterest and could not find a tutorial on how to make it so I guessed. Tutorial found here.











Happy Fall Decorating !!!!











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Decorative Spheres

I feel like I am the only one in blogland that has not made these decorative balls. The white one is styrofoam covered in thumb tacks. I was very surprised at how many tacks it took and I still feel like I need more but this will have to do until I can get back to Wallyworld. The mossy ball is covered with pieces of one sheet of moss from The Dollar Tree. I found that straight pins worked better on these. The glue was a disaster!

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Cupcake Tree

On Thursday of last week my 18-year old daughter informs me that she is having a skin care party on Tuesday. I am going out of town on Friday and will not return until Sunday. These sorts of things can send me into a tailspin because they super motivate me to do projects that I have been procrastinating on for weeks or maybe even months! Regan(my daughter) wanted to serve cupcakes, among other things, and I did not have time to go out and look for a cupcake tree. I was browsing on Pinterest and was inspired to make this tree with some old Blue Willow dishes that I had stashed away. I just love Blue Willow! Anyway, the one I used for my inspiration used random dishes and plates and it looked great. I did glue the cups and plates together but keep in mind this was done 45 minutes before her guests were arriving! I used Tacky Glue but plan to go back and use something stronger. One more thing, Regan was great with the cleaning and cooking, she did way more than I had expected in prepping for the party. For this, I am very thankful:)

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