Nanny Is Coming To The Lowcountry!

My sweet Nanny moved to Savannah!!!!!  I am so excited because she is going to be living about 5 minutes from me, so I will get to see her all the time.  I used to only really see her at Christmas, but now I will get to go shopping, to the movies, have her over to eat dinner, and all that fun day to day stuff.  She was very lonely living in Nashville, and she is getting older and the relatives in Nashville are as well, so it was for the best to have her right here with her daughter and granddaughter to help her with doctors appointments and cleaning her house.  She is so fun and has tons of fun antiques to look at in her apartment, so we always have a good time talking about the old days (or anything really!)

It was decided when I came home from our honeymoon that Nanny was moving down here.  I was so surprised because Nashville is where our family's heritage is and where she has always been.  She said she was ready to be closer to us, so she was very excited.  I was able to come to Nashville a little earlier than the rest of my family that came to move her, so Nanny and I took some time to say her goodbye's to her hometown.  Of course, she will be back, but she wanted to show me some places that she loves and I was very excited.  Although I have never lived in Nashville, my mom and dad and my whole family is from there...so it's home for me too in a sense.  We went to eat lunch at the Picnic Cafe, which was delicious, and we went to some of her favorite stores, Hot Pink and The Pear Tree Shop (I think that's the name).  They were so cute and fun!  Then we went to look at the "castles" as my Uncle Joe calls them.  There are some massive houses out in Nashville that are beyond anything I have ever seen.  They are pretty, but excessive to me.  I would much rather live in one of the older homes in the area (which are probably very expensive too since they have been added onto through the years).  

We also drove down Tyne Blvd. where Nanny grew up.  She told me stories of visiting her friends and showed me all of their homes (which have been added onto, but they look the same pretty much according to Nanny).  She told me stories of riding her bike down the hill all the way to Granny White Pike (such a cute street name).  We drove up in the driveway of her childhood home and I took a few pictures.  If I am ever a millionare, I am going to buy that house.  It is so pretty and has such a heritage.  I just love my Nanny so much.  

Fall Decorating

Before I left to go out of town, I took some time to decorate my home for Fall.  I really prefer to decorate my house in a "Harvest" style versus Halloween, and then Thanksgiving.  However, I would really like to put a few fun touches out in future years for each holiday when I have more items to pull from for decorating.  This is a little taste of how my home decorating is coming along right now too.  I hope you enjoy!

My front porch!  I fell in love with this wreath that I saw on Pinterest.  It seems like a lot of people did too because it on a few blogs.  It was super easy and inexpensive to make.  When I started to hang it, I liked the pumpkins sitting on the side, so it's now got my flair on it.  :)

My new foyer table that I found at a family friend's yard sale (it's antique and beautiful!) I decorated it quickly before I left right after I brought the table home.  Excuse the cord, I was cleaning the weekend before I left, and snapped a quick picture.  I went ahead and put out my Thanksgiving items my mom gave me since I won't be home again until November anyway. I propped the mirror up in a hurry to decorate it, but I am thinking it might be too large for the table  It works for now though.  I made the wreath by wrapping a long garland from Michaels around a couple time to make a circle and then hung it with the leftover burlap I had.  I also put plastic pumpkins up under the table since I had them laying around and thought they would look cute and festive.  

 The kitchen table.  The candlesticks were a wedding present, the white ceramic pumpkin was a steal from Hobby Lobby last year for like $2 or $3 at the end of the season, and the burlap and pumpkins were bought at Michaels.

The sofa table in our living room.  I took a garland and cut it in half, and then put them behind the mirror and put the extra plastic pumpkins I had out in the front.  Excuse the lack of pictures, I am in need of getting them filled!

AND, if you haven't noticed...I went ahead and got my blog Fall spirit too.  I have had some experience with website design and graphics manipulation from college, so I have been researching how to design blogs.  There is so much information out there, but some of it is dense...and then I have to walk away for a bit.  But seriously, it's not really that hard to do!  I have had so much fun doing this!  I made my last design and it was my first.  It was a headache, but it went so much faster this time and I learned a lot of things that make it look more professional than the last one too.  I am working on a Christmas design right now and I am actually toying with making our Christmas card for this year.  It's so fun!  I just wish I could think of more things to do like this! Maybe I need to make some more blogs for my sewing or recipes just to be able to make designs! haha!  Have a happy day!

Where In The World

Well, I dropped off the face of the earth for a little while, didn't I?  I haven't meant to take such a long absence, but as you know...life happens.  It sure hasn't been a lot of fun stuff either.  It was end of the year at my office, and I am halfway through a LONG business trip.  Between keeping up with work and preparing to leave my home and day to day life for this trip, there was hardly any time to even check in.  I left y'all in the middle of my wedding week, and I have so many projects, recipes, and fun things I have been meaning to blog about!  I just want to let y'all know that I am trying to get back into the groove this week, and hopefully will have lots of fun things to share soon!  Talk to y'all soon!