Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween

On Saturday Jerod and I had a little Halloween fun carving pumpkins and roasting pumpkin seeds. I will be sad to see our pumpkin porch go. . .I thought it was very cheerful. . .I guess I will have to think of something else to put out there. We are curious to see if we get any trick or treater's at this house (we never did at our old house). Oklahoma City moved Halloween to Saturday night luckily Norman kept it on Sunday, I am keeping my fingers crossed to see some costumed kids!




Sunday, October 17, 2010

Bad Boys

Well listen to this strangeness! Saturday night/Sunday morning I was asleep and Jerod was either still up watching TV or had fallen asleep on the couch . . . well he comes into the bedroom to find a phone because some strange man was pacing around our yard, getting on our porch and leaning against our car AND making these strange grunting/moaning noises! Needless to say he called the police. Both of us were expecting a scene like this


Fortunately, it went much more smoothly. The random guy told the cops he was staying a local hotel and ultimately the cop gave him a ride there (we think). As bizarrely as this guy was acting before the police showed up he seemed fairly coherent while they were talking to him (we watched and listened to this all go down from the couch and cracked the window a bit so we could hear). It made for an exciting middle of the night . . . although I really don't need excitement at 3 in the morning.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Fall Flowers

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Jealous of all of the cute fall porches in our neighborhood Jerod and I took matters into our own hands! Although it is still as warm as can be in Oklahoma our porch looks like it is fall!


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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Quick Change

Two weekends ago I was visiting my grandparents in north OKC. As always, they are wonderful and generous and offered to let Jerod and I use their old dining table. After some hunting in the attic we found all of the pieces (they had taken it apart to store) and hauled it back to Norman. Last week I put it back together and Jerod helped me get it in place. Below is a shot during the re-assembly and a shot of the full dining room with our lovely new to us table.

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The table is in good shape and with a little cleaning, oil and Old English (for the scratches) it looks shiny and great. Unfortunately, the chairs are a different story. . . while we love the shape of them the once blue paint is looking a bit green and the originally sky blue and white upholstery has become faded and stained, after decades in an attic. Realistically, I will not get the chairs repainted until spring (I don't even know what color I want them yet) but we needed to do something to spruce them up...QUICK! Sunday (Jerod's parents came to dinner that night) I pulled out a cute cream, red, pink and green plaid fabric and set to re-covering the seats. While, I still will be repainting the chairs the new fabric added new life to old chairs.

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As everyone knows I love "vintage" for it's character and uniqueness (my grandmother said they bought the table in the early 1950's) but it makes it even more special to have things that have been loved and used by people you love.
I can't wait to have more people over for dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, October 4, 2010

cutesomes

This is a boring post but here are a couple of things I think are super cute . . . that I won't be buying anytime soon. . .sometimes browsing is enough!





You can find all of these here, here, here, here, and here.