Fall Entry Table

Fall is in the air.  It was downright cold on Saturday.  It was rainy and in the 50s.  Made me want to snuggle under a cover and eat a bunch of carbs.  

I love decorating for Fall, almost as much as I love all the apple desserts.... okay not quite that much. I had already decorated the outside of the house before Khloe's party, but this weekend I went ahead and broke out the indoor Fall decorations.  This past Spring I re-vamped my entry table and decorated it for Spring.  You can read about that in these posts.

Entry Table Re-Do

Mirror Re-do & Spring Happenings

I mentioned that I would change out the decorations on my entry table for the seasons.  Here is the Fall version.

I kept the same flowers that I used for Spring and added a few pumpkiny, leafy accessories.  

Now the challenge is keeping little hands off those pumpkins.  PS- I've already failed this challenge.  

-Brooke

Khloe's Ice Cream Birthday Party

What a hectic hectic hectic week.  Ugh.  Shake it off!  

So, to get my mind off of the 1 million things going on and the million more things I need to do, let's talk about Khloe's birthday party.

Last year for her 1st birthday party, we went all out with a county fair themed party.  You can read all about that in these posts.

Khloe's County Fair Birthday: The Decorations

Khloe's County Fair Birthday: The Food

Khloe's County Fair Birthday: The Favors & Games

It was so much fun, but leading up to it was crazy hectic.  We decided to scale way down this year and just do a simple party.  Khloe still had a blast and it was a lot easier on this momma.  

The theme this year was one of Khloe's favorite things... ICE CREAM!!


I went simple on the decorations making this ice cream cone banner out of tissue balls and kraft paper.  The table cloths were pink and white.

For the cake, I baked cupcakes in ice cream cones.  Let me tell you, this was a pain in the booty!  If you don't get the right amount, they overflow like crazy!  They did turn out pretty cute though :)

For the food, we did shredded pork BBQ, chips, cupcakes and an ice cream bar.
For the ice cream bar, I found the cutest little bottles with cork and silver buckets at Target's dollar spot.  The toppings were marshmallows, cherries, graham crackers, Reeses, Butterfingers, sprinkles, peanuts, strawberry and chocolate syrup and whipped cream.  I also got the tags at Target.

I pre-scooped the ice cream that morning and put the cups in my freezer so I could just bring them out when it was time.

Instead of games, we just had a bounce house.  Khloe had a blast! How cute is she??

-Brooke

Spoons

Every since my kitchen update started here, I've been struggling with what to put on the walls.  It seems like whenever I try to decorate my walls, my scale is all wrong.  I need to go bigger.  I always think something looks big until I put it on the wall and then it's dwarfed.  So with the phrase rolling around in my head "GO BIG OR GO HOME" I started mad Pinteresting to find something for the big blank dining room wall.  Here's a before shot.

Holy moly that was a long time ago.  See what I mean about the scale?  The picture frame looked huge when it was sitting on the floor, but once I put it up.... it's Bilbo Baggins (Mom, that's a Hobbit movie reference, you won't get it).

Since I was already re-arranging things in the living room, I decided to steal my window chalkboard that was in the entry.  It left the entry empty, but I've got plans for that.  The window was big enough, but I still wanted to add a little pizzazz to the top.  Inspiration hit and I decided on wooden spoons.  Plain old regular size wooden spoons from TJ Maxx.  I didn't know if it would work, so I bought them with all intentions of not liking it and just throwing them in my spoon drawer.  After putting them up with my trusty Command Strips, I really liked them.

 I'm playing around with the idea of painting them, but for now I'm kind of digging the neutral vibe.  Here's a little pro (yeah right) Photoshopping to show what it may look like if I painted them fun colors.

I'm not sold.  Pretty sure I'm going to leave them neutral.

Here's a wide shot of the dining room side of the kitchen.

Here you can see the open space where there should be a door to the laundry room.  Yeah, that's a funny story I'll tell you at another time.  You can also see my DIY ruler growth chart that I'm waiting on my wonderful husband to hang.

It's amazing what some paint and new things on the wall can do for a room.

-Brooke