An Iowa Mom is officially a thug. I wanted to participate in the Open House at Don't Try This At Home yesterday and completely spaced it.
So, pardon my haste (and my dust) as I frantically rush through our house and snap photos before the kids insist I actually get up off my rear and get them ready to go trick or treating.
| Welcome To An Iowa Home! It's been cool here for a while now, so the mums are fiddling out ... wish I would have taken a photo before now! Bummer!
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| Welcomed by our "Watch Crows". They almost feel like part of the family!
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| Our sidewalk is lined with cat lights. They are really cool, except for Halloween night when I watch at least 20 kids trip and fall when bolting away from our house anxious to get to the next failing to use the sidewalk.
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| I didn't realize how "misformed" this poor wreath is until I took the picture. The neighbors probably wonder if I'm freakin' blind. Maybe I am!
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| The stair leading to the second floor from our foyer. Again, greeted by some temporary members of our family. Smilee "talks" to the ghost on a daily basis. Scary!
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| The formal dining room. I'm embarrassed to say that I have an absolutely beautiful table runner "top"completed down in my sewing room to replace the tiny place mat used to display my fall arrangement ... It just needs a back! Lately, I'm just unable to complete a project. Maybe next year. Yeah, right!
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| The buffet in the dining room.
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| The desk in the living room. I used to hate the pumpkin candle ... but he's growing on me now that it's time to put him away.
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| The living room. The skeleton and dog are for some reason a favorite of mine. When they are back lit by tea lights, I sit and stare. Don't know why ... and don't want to know. I'm a nut.
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| Again, like the dining table, I have 6 adorable pumpkin place mat TOPS made. Maybe sometime after Christmas I'll get them finished. I got the ugly Fall Arrangement on clearance for $3.35. One that can't pass up a good deal ... I showcase my treasure on the kitchen table for all to see.
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| More "family members" (do you think I should have had MORE kids?) I chit chat with these guys while I'm preparing meals ... which seems to be what I'm doing most of the time. I love it ... I talk and talk and they never talk back. A DREAM COME TRUE! I think I'll keep 'em!
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| Amazing that a $4.88 electric pumpkin can make 4 kids so happy ... and scared! *Sigh* Oh ... love the magnets ... in the Target Holiday aisle. I actually went back and got 3 more sets to give to friends in their "BOO BAGS". :)
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| Yeah ... Princess showing off the Autumn dishtowels ... like SHE made them. Maybe we should have dressed her as a WITCH this year. :) Yummy Spaghetti Sauce simmering in the crock-pot ... Recipe coming later this week.
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| The "Candy Corner". Throughout the season we keep this basket filled with little Halloween bags stuffed with homemade chocolate treats that we can surprise our visitors and friends with.
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| Some of the buddies from the candle on the desk. They freaked me out at first ... but are growing on me now. The sweet pumpkin in the middle was a gift from my friend that came at the perfect time to MAKE MY MONTH. Funny how something so small can mean so much. I look at it constantly as I do dishes and wonder how lucky I got to have such great and thoughtful friends.
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| An old country road runs behind our house, so I set our friendly ghost in a window facing that street to wish all the "country folk" a Happy Halloween as they drive by.
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| The powder room shelf. Maybe someday I'll put a towel on the towel rack. Sad thing is, I have 3 different Halloween fingertip towels, but too lazy to hang them up. Can you say ... LOSER!
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| Again, the powder room. I love the little leaf candle holders, though they are hard to see in this photo ...
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| Basement! I bought this stuffed pumpkin and then tried to recreate it in different sizes for other decorations around the house. Don't ask how that worked out for me. $40 worth of fabric, $20 in other supplies, and about 6 hours in time ... and you couldn't even tell what I had done were supposed to be pumpkins. That makes this pumpkin that much more special to me.
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| More Target Halloween finds. They had lots of fun stuff this year. I'm a sucker for Target, it's really sad!
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| My laptop screen saver is even wishing everyone out there in bloggerland, a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
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