Our house is on HGTV (sort of)

Tune in to HGTV at 9:30 tonight to see our house!!!

The people we bought the house from moved to Germany and contacted HGTV House Hunters International to follow them as they moved. Some footage of our house will be shown at the beginning.

If you miss it, it comes on again at 12:30 a.m.

So Bare

I love our back yard. It has a huge porch, tall trees, a fire pit, and lots of areas for potential wonderfullness ;)
Yep, I love it but boy is it bare!!

There is not one piece of grass, one flower (accept for the planted flowers via Aunt Anne), and barely any plants. It kinds a sad sight. With the weather being so warm I am starting to see my neighbors flowers pop out, trees start to bud, and grass grow greener. I am soo jealous.

I do not have a green thumb but am hoping for some help by my vary talented Aunt.

Here it is:

Ohh so bare :(
Much work to do

Disney

What a Magical Experience!!
Jeff and I went to Disney World this past weekend - his first trip ever! Our inner child came out as we road the rides and searched for the "characters". We had a great time.

Our (my departments) annual sales meeting was held at the Beach Club Disney resort that week so, I decided to stay the weekend and have Jeff fly down to met me. We went to Epcot Friday - went around the world! Then the Magic Kingdom on Saturday.

The weather was perfect Friday - mid 80's and then got a little cooler on Saturday but still relatively nice compared to Memphis.

We missed out on "Soaring" at Epcot but made it to all the other rides. Plus all of the countries!

Of course we had to stop in Paris and get a glass of wine :)

It's fun seeing people get together smiling, relaxing, and acting like children!
Such a fun place!

Atlanta Here I Come

I am heading to Atlanta this weekend with my sister and Mom. A little girls trip - YAY!!

We have a long list of places we want to go but one of them is Scott's Antique Market . I am sooo excited about going because I have soo much I want to buy for the house. I have never been there but hear it is AMAZING!

Things on my list to look for:

• More bookshelves items - which is harder than it sounds because my bookshelves are not tall which limits a lot of the cute items I want to use. For example, I love when bookshelves have lamps that illuminate the area - Unfortunately, no lamps will fit :( So the search begins.
  



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  Potentially, a chair for the office - I've been in search for one but keep going back and forth on the fabric options. Part of me want to choose something that is young and different but then the other part of me want to pick something that I will like for a while and wont get sick of.




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  Frames & Art work for Office and/or Bedrooms - I want to use different types frames for the office similar to what Kate Spade did: (P.S. I love her - we just got a Kate Spade store in Memphis and I am soooo Excited!! Spent about two hours in the store the first time i went - not really sure how, considering it is pretty tiny. Needless to say, they had some great items and great sales!!!)

via Habitually Chic

via Alanna Cavanagh

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  Seating/Bench - I have been wanting a bench in my mud room/laundry room. I have found this cute little bench from West Elm but just checked recently and they don't sell it anymore :( I will have to keep my eye out for something else

No matter what I find or don't find it will be a fun trip. Dad is hooking us up with rooms at the Ritz Carlton so it will for sure be a great time! Thanks Dad! Wish us luck!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

For the best fall cookies ever go to our recipe blog "Here's to It"
and get the recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate chip cookies.
They are soo good and are the perfect little sweet for a cold fall day!



Enjoy!

Bday Bash / 1st Party

We had a b-day get together for my brother in-law/ our first house party this weekend!! What a great way to break in our house!

After several long days and busy nights our house was ready for a party by Saturday (and so were we). Mom and Aunt Anne came up to Memphis this past week and were a HUGE help in unpacking/decorating/hanging/etc. I took a couple of half days off from work but it wasn't nearly enough time to get everything done. Poor Jeff did not have any time off and as soon as he got home we put him and Bern to work doing the heavy lifting and major mirror hanging.

It was a busy week - I went to the grocery store at least once every day, Lowe's about 6 times, and Sheffield antique store 3 times. I guess I'm not good at making one big list to avoid the several trips :)

This awesome green distressed table was a present from Mom and Dad- we found it at Sheffield's. Mom had a vision and knew exactly where we were going to put it in the house (more on that later). Aunt Anne also got two great Gothic shaped window panes. I am sad I didn't snap a pictures to show you - they were cool! The lady that worked there told us that they are opening up an upscale consignment store in December- it will be across from the Walmart in Collierville.
Soo Fun!

Jeff and Bern were put to work assembling these Adirondack chairs.
They still need to be stained and weather sealed - a project for this week.

Aunt Anne worked her magic on the deck and helped make it festive and inviting!
I can't wait for her to take on the bigger job of working her magic in both the back and front yard. It needs help in a major way.

We had a blast having everybody over.
It will be the first of many gatherings!

HGTV

I just found out that HGTV was at our "soon to be" new home filming last week!!!!


Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of details. We are waiting to hear back from their agent about which HGTV show was filming it. They do know that it will air sometime in February.
Sooo exciting!! I'll keep y'all informed as I learn more details.
In less than a week we close!

Have a good weekend!!