the Decorating Chica

I love Thanksgiving! There, I said it. It is absolutely my favorite holiday of the year. I think it is quite undercommercialized (is this a word, really?) and simple. Most people I know look forward to Thanksgiving because of Black Friday. This year was especially good. Our family gathered at our house and I think I've cooked enough holiday dinners that I didn't stress out too much, or maybe I'm just gettin' too old to worry about it! I love to decorate for Fall/harvest/Thanksgiving. I have done it for years back when nobody else was doing it. Now, I see more and more decorations and people taking the time to dress their homes for the harvest season. Since I pull down all my harvest decorations the day after and start Christmas decorating, I thought that this year I would pull out a few Christmas to mix with the Thanksgiving and fill in some areas. The centerpiece on the dining room table was a clearance silver tray with dollar store ornaments and a dollar store ...

DIY aka Do It Yourself Day at A Soft Place to Land . Ab out a year ago I was helping a friend clean, paint and ready her new house so that her family could move in. Down in the basement, tucked in a dark dingy corner by the furnace was this handmade sofa table. Well, I use the word 'sofa table' loosely but it was a table. Painted, of all colors, 1970s mint green! My friend glanced back at the table and said "oh, just toss that on the curbfor the garbage to pick up." Horrified, I told her I could not EVER throw out a piece of furnitue, no matter how rustic and beat up it was. So, I took it home stripped the ugly 70s paint off and spray painted the legs and sides black. But, now I was stuck. What to do with the top? Well, it sat on my porch for OVER a year because I truy couldn't figure out what to do with it. I kept thinking I wanted to do a mosaic table top. Well one day my husband and I were cleaning out the shed and I found these old fence slats piled up ...

Wow, I've been cruising through a lot of blogs lately created by seemingly unbelievable superwoman who are moms, photographers, decorators, writers and on and on. It is just a tad overwhelming! But, I've decided to jump into the blogging world 'feet first' as they say. I certainly don't feel like I have a lot to add but hopefully can contribute something worth reading. Let me just say that I LOVE TO DECORATE! Okay, there I said it. Whew, I feel a lot better now. I have tried just about everything in the painting world. Most people think I have quite a knack for it. When I discovered HGTV's Rate My Space (which I absolutely love, btw) I got pretty confident and posted pictures of my beautiful home. Oh, how humiliating! People ripped them apart and I cried for days! But I finally determined not to let it deter me from doing what I love to do. So, here is where I will begin though I'm not too sure how or where to start. Oh, did I mention we are remodeling o...