Show Us Your Life - Dining Room

(Kelly has posted her link early tonight for tomorrow, so I am posting my blog post now instead of waiting until tomorrow morning)

Happy Friday my friends!  I don't know about ya'll but this week has flown by so fast for me but yet, was SO busy at the same time too.  Whew - I am so tired!  And a weird thing happened to me yesterday - I took a different bus to work (and parked at a different bus stop) and so obviously I had to take a different bus home.  Well, everything was fine until I found out that I was on the.wrong.bus last night! ACK! I was about to start panicking to say the least.  Luckily for me there was this very nice man who was sitting next to me who was getting off at the next stop and offered to take me to my car.  Thank goodness for nice people - though, I would never believe I would have gotten in the car with a strange man that I didn't even know!  Thankfully he was a nice man and not a psycho! God was watching over me that's for sure.  And you can bet I won't make that mistake again and will be more careful.

Anyway.... on to the Show Us Where You Live post.  If you'd like to play along please be sure to click over to Kelly's at Kelly's Korner and check her blog out and show us where YOU live! I don't know about you, but I love, love, love looking at other people's home and getting ideas for decorating my own.  :o)

This week is your Dining Room.  So please grab a Latte, cup of coffee, soda or whatever it is you like to drink, put your feet up, and enjoy the tour.  It is currently decorated for Fall but this weekend I will be decorating for Halloween and possibly painting my dining room to match my living room as well.  I hope you enjoy the pictures:  (I took these pictures with the lights out to try and reduce some of the glare that happens when pictures are taken at night with lights on)

This is looking in from the living room: (The Paris picture is going to get the frame painted and put in my daughter's room eventually as we are decorating her room in a Broadway type theme)

Looking inside from the pantry closet: (If you'd like to see my huge walk-in pantry - I did a post on it earlier and you can see it here.  It is one of my favorite rooms in the house!) :o)

Looking in to the other side of the dining room from the living room:

Looking again in from the living room:

Full view from living room:

This is the old chandelier that the previous owners left behind and I don't like it.  It needs some serious updating and I would love to hear any and all suggestions/ideas for updating it, so please feel free to send me your ideas and comments - it would be greatly appreciated! :o)  (P.S.  The globes are a really pretty Amber color and I do really like them but I also know it still needs updated)

Walk-in pantry, wine rack and china cabinet:

Close-up of table decorated for Fall:

Well, I hope you enjoyed the tour and I can't wait to check out all of your dining rooms too!  Now, tell me what is on your weekend agenda?  Anything new and exciting?  I am just hanging out at home and doing things around here along with some decorating, crafting and possibly painting of my dining room, but we'll have to see - I don't know how much energy I'm going to have.  LOL   My beloved Hogs aren't playing this weekend so that is one thing less that I will be doing.  Anyway, thanks for stopping by to say hello and have a great weekend my loves!

Lots of love and hugs,

Show Us Your Life - Dining Room

(Kelly has posted her link early tonight for tomorrow, so I am posting my blog post now instead of waiting until tomorrow morning)

Happy Friday my friends!  I don't know about ya'll but this week has flown by so fast for me but yet, was SO busy at the same time too.  Whew - I am so tired!  And a weird thing happened to me yesterday - I took a different bus to work (and parked at a different bus stop) and so obviously I had to take a different bus home.  Well, everything was fine until I found out that I was on the.wrong.bus last night! ACK! I was about to start panicking to say the least.  Luckily for me there was this very nice man who was sitting next to me who was getting off at the next stop and offered to take me to my car.  Thank goodness for nice people - though, I would never believe I would have gotten in the car with a strange man that I didn't even know!  Thankfully he was a nice man and not a psycho! God was watching over me that's for sure.  And you can bet I won't make that mistake again and will be more careful.

Anyway.... on to the Show Us Where You Live post.  If you'd like to play along please be sure to click over to Kelly's at Kelly's Korner and check her blog out and show us where YOU live! I don't know about you, but I love, love, love looking at other people's home and getting ideas for decorating my own.  :o)

This week is your Dining Room.  So please grab a Latte, cup of coffee, soda or whatever it is you like to drink, put your feet up, and enjoy the tour.  It is currently decorated for Fall but this weekend I will be decorating for Halloween and possibly painting my dining room to match my living room as well.  I hope you enjoy the pictures:  (I took these pictures with the lights out to try and reduce some of the glare that happens when pictures are taken at night with lights on)

This is looking in from the living room: (The Paris picture is going to get the frame painted and put in my daughter's room eventually as we are decorating her room in a Broadway type theme)

Looking inside from the pantry closet: (If you'd like to see my huge walk-in pantry - I did a post on it earlier and you can see it here.  It is one of my favorite rooms in the house!) :o)

Looking in to the other side of the dining room from the living room:

Looking again in from the living room:

Full view from living room:

This is the old chandelier that the previous owners left behind and I don't like it.  It needs some serious updating and I would love to hear any and all suggestions/ideas for updating it, so please feel free to send me your ideas and comments - it would be greatly appreciated! :o)  (P.S.  The globes are a really pretty Amber color and I do really like them but I also know it still needs updated)

Walk-in pantry, wine rack and china cabinet:

Close-up of table decorated for Fall:

Well, I hope you enjoyed the tour and I can't wait to check out all of your dining rooms too!  Now, tell me what is on your weekend agenda?  Anything new and exciting?  I am just hanging out at home and doing things around here along with some decorating, crafting and possibly painting of my dining room, but we'll have to see - I don't know how much energy I'm going to have.  LOL   My beloved Hogs aren't playing this weekend so that is one thing less that I will be doing.  Anyway, thanks for stopping by to say hello and have a great weekend my loves!

Lots of love and hugs,

Big Apple Circus

Happy Thursday my friends!  We are on the downhill side now of the week and rolling along - it will be Friday and the weekend before we know it!  Speaking of the weekend - I have some very exciting news to tell you about!  And if you are in NJ or NY and the surrounding areas - you will LOVE this!

Yep you guessed it - the CIRCUS is in town - WOOT WOOT!!!  (cue the circus music).  Anyway - here is a press release that I received yesterday from Monique and that you should be sure to check out as well!

The spectacular Big Apple Circus (http://www.bigapplecircus.org/) leaps into its 33rd Season with a thrilling All-New Show, Dance On! The World’s Greatest Circus artists swing into action in the spotlight under our intimate Big Top, where no seat is more than 50 feet from the ring! Invited to the dance: an awesome troupe of monocyclists and lasso twirlers from China! A mind–bending group of Mongolian contortionists! A kinetic collection of Kenyan athletes who shimmy up a pole as though gravity were a joke! A herd of hoofers — twelve miniature horses in an equine chorus line! And an Ethiopian juggler with a lively up–tempo act that’s hard to beat! Your Host is our charming and charismatic Ringmaster Kevin Venardos, aided with antic abandon by star clowns Rob Torres and of course, our leggy, lovable laugh–riot Grandma! With live music by the Big Apple Circus Band, there’ll be cavorting in the aisles — and even the audience will be dancing in their seats!

Doesn't that sound EXCITING?!  Now... because I don't have time for another giveaway so soon - Monique was kind enough to give me some codes to pass on to you for saving on your tickets to go see this giant tent of excitement!  Tigers, elephants and bears - oh my!

To purchase your discounted tickets to the Big Apple Circus online - go to: http://bigapplecircus.org/mommyNJ.aspx and submit the code MOMMY11 in the Promotional Codes box in the lower left of the page.   By phone: CALL 888-541-3750 and mention code MOMMY11.

Dance On! already started last Thursday! So make sure to pencil in the Big Apple Circus!  For the latest updates from the Big Apple Circus, be sure to friend them on Facebook (http://facebook.com/bigapplecircus) and follow them  on  Twitter (http://twitter.com/bigapple_circus).   Now, run... don't walk and get your tickets and take those beautiful babies of yours to see the greatest show on earth!  Or, if you're a kid inside, like me, then get some tickets for yourself to enjoy the excitement under the Big Tent! :o)

It has been one of those weeks so I'm slow at getting to everyone's blogs to comment - but I promise to do so soon, so don't give up on me, okay?!

Have a wonderful and blessed day and thanks for stopping by to say hello.  P.S.  I'm sorry about the weird spacing in the paragraphs above but for some reason Blogger is refusing to line those 2 up the proper way - *sigh*

Lots of love and hugs,

Wednesday Words

Alliye - 11th grade school picture (excuse the light - it is obviously a picture of a picture)

Those of you in NY and NJ and the surrounding areas - be sure to stop back by tomorrow - I have a post that might be of interest to you and your family - especially if you have small children.

Have a great day my friends and thanks for stopping by! :o)

 

Lots of love and hugs,

Happy PINT Day!

Happy Tuesday my friends!  If you are new to my blog - PINT day stands for - Post It Note Tuesday.  If you'd like to play along - you can make your own Post-its here and join in.  Once you've made them - be sure and grab the button, link back to your post (not your blog) and head on over to Only One Mom's blog and add your linky so others can come read what you have to say too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a fantasmic day my friends and thanks for stopping by to say hello.  See ya on the flip side!

Lots of love and hugs,

Happy PINT Day!

Happy Tuesday my friends!  If you are new to my blog - PINT day stands for - Post It Note Tuesday.  If you'd like to play along - you can make your own Post-its here and join in.  Once you've made them - be sure and grab the button, link back to your post (not your blog) and head on over to Only One Mom's blog and add your linky so others can come read what you have to say too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a fantasmic day my friends and thanks for stopping by to say hello.  See ya on the flip side!

Lots of love and hugs,