Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween everyone!

I hope everyone has a great day.  I'm excited to see all of the trick-or-treaters from our neighborhood tonight. There are always a lot of cute costumes, I just hope we have enough candy!  Darcy is being a skunk tonight ;) This is the picture from the package, hopefully he will cooperate and end up looking something like this too!

Weekend Recap

This weekend was really fun. Friday night we decided to go see a movie and saw Pitch Perfect.  It has been out for a while, but it was really cute and funny!

On Saturday, we woke up early to go on a drive to visit some puppies from a litter of goldendoodles. Yes, that's right, we are getting a new puppy this December!!!  We have been talking about getting a goldendoodle for years, and we finally found the right breeder locally that has some medium sized goldendoodles and decided that it was the right time.  These puppies will be ready right after Thanksgiving, so we'll probably get ours sometime between then and early December. This weekend, we decided to go visit them and meet their parents.

We don't know which puppy we are going to get yet, we won't pick for a couple more weeks, but they are so cute! Here are some pictures of the puppies we met on Saturday.

After we left the breeder, we stopped by Fearrington Village for lunch.  We ate at The Granary and it was the perfect little lunch spot.  We walked around afterwards in the gardens and talked to the cows ;)

On the way home, passing over Jordan Lake. 

We had a great rest of the weekend, watching lots of football and spending time with family. Hope you had a great weekend too!

Kitchen Nook Update

I finally hung some curtains in the bay window of our eat-in kitchen! I got a bay window curtain rod set from Lowes, I was so excited that they had it so that I didn't have to recreate something similar from scratch.

I originally wanted plain white curtains here, but I decided that a little pattern would be better. I got these curtains with an organic vine pattern in silver.  I think it really adds a lot to the space. Here are some pictures. 

In the last two pictures, you can even see the new coat hooks that we hung up. Since we mostly use the garage door as our entry, I'm always looking for a place to put my coat and it usually ends up on the chair at the desk. These letters from Anthropologie were so cute, so I got them and they work perfect in this small space and for hanging coats. They would also be really great in a bathroom for towels. 

Media Room Inspiration

With the recent purchase of a sectional for our media room, I've been thinking more and more about how I want the room to be decorated. We're hoping to get this room finished by next February, around Super Bowl time, but we'll see! Here are two pictures that I've drawn a lot of inspiration from for this room:

I decided that I want to make this room have a travel and/or map theme. I don't want this to be over done or too in-your-face, but I think it would be fun to design.  Here's an inspiration board with some of my most recent thoughts for the room:

Sources/ideas:

Red roman shades with gray ribbon trim

Map of the world

Charcoal paint on the walls

Sectional from Macy's

Mix of wood and metals, like these nesting tables from West Elm

Lots of pillows and fabrics in red, gray and cream

Interesting media cabinet, like this black console from Ballard Designs

Clock

Lamp

So, that's what we're thinking for the room. It will be a while before we can collect all of the pieces, but I'm excited to start to see it come together in the near future!

Fall Front Porch

I hope everyone is enjoying the cooler weather. I still wish it was warm like the summer, but it is nice to be able to snuggle up under a blanket on the couch in the evenings.   

I wanted to share my front porch and what I've done with it this season.  I love mums and pumpkins, so that is what I used, I don't think you can ever have too many!  I also started collecting some of the more interesting pumpkins and gourds, we have quite a few. I think the different colors and textures make it more interesting.

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you also saw that I did a mini photo shoot with Darcy when I put out all of the pumpkins and flowers. He was a little skeptical about what we were doing on the front steps, but it was cute. I used treats to bribe him to sit still ;)

Hope you're having a great start of the fall season!