Christmas Wreath!

We leave in just over a week for Dallas (yeah). We will be there for Thanksgiving visiting my family, but we are also celebrating Christmas during this time. So my mind is already on the things of Christmas Season.

I have been working on a few christmas projects and one of them is a Winter Wreath for our front door. I have never made a wreath before, but my friend Hannah made our fall one so I decided . . . I'd give it a go also. I am going to decorate the house with Christmas decor before we leave for Dallas (well that's the plan) so that it will be ready for us when we get back here! I am trying to maximize the amount of time that we can enjoy the decor, because it's so fun! Needless to say, I decided I better get going on that wreath.

Here's the supplies . . . from Michael's of course! and It was all on sale, yeah! You can't totally tell, but those are little red berries to the right. I love the whimsical look to them. I also LOVE pine cones, and when I saw those gold ones, I thought they would be perfect.

And here is the finished product (I really need to use our really camera instead of my phone). Pretty inexpensive to make and it only took about an hour or two. The wreath is on the floor here not the door. Our door is white. :) I'm still learning to tie bows, but it turned out better than my last one!

The Chocolate Factory

Last week Adam and I took a day trip to Hershey, PA-- The sweetest place on EARTH. Yep, this is where they make Hershey Chocolate. Milton S. Hershey, built the entire town around the chocolate factory so that his workers and their families would have a great place to live. You can read more about the story here.

You can take a little ride and for free and learn about the process of making chocolate. Which of course we did!

Here's the melted chocolate!

Then, the chocolate is formed into these molds that is later melted into the deliciousness that we all know and love.

They had singing cows telling you about the "milk chocolate" -- they were pretty funny!

Of course they have rows and rows of candy you can purchase. So hard to choose!

I wanted to get this, the World's largest Kiss, it's filled with little Hershey Kisses! I refrained!

After the tour of chocolate we hit the outlets in Hershey which are also great! We were doing a little Christmas shopping!

I also really wanted to go here, in Hershey:

How amazing does that sound? I have yet to find a yoga place I love . . .to0 bad that's to0 far away! Check it out: http://yogaonchocolate.com

Thrifty Chair!

I bought a chair last week at a thrift store for $2.50. yep, 2 dollars and fifty cents! It's sturdy and and a cute design so I went for it. It' another piece for the guest room. I love little chairs in rooms. It's nice to have places to sit down. It's also nice to have chairs to pull up if you have extra guest to dinner.

All the chair needed was a few new screws and new fabric. (and a good toothbrush scrub) I wanted to add a little more yellow to the room so I covered the cushion in yellow. I was hoping to get a really pretty upholstery fabric that was a solid color but an interesting texture/pattern built in. There are not two many fabric stores around and I don't know about ordering fabric online. Maybe I'll venture out with that next time. I may look when I'm in Dallas next month. I was thrilled though b/c this color was perfect!

A Few Fall Things!

As many of you know Adam is a huge KC Chiefs Fan. He posts about it all the time on Facebook, talks them up like crazy, and he would wear a KC shirt every day of the week if he could. He loves the team. Well there is one thing I didn't know about A. Scheidegger that I learned this weekend. He is an amazing artist. Check out his KC Chiefs Pumpkin below. I was actually out of town this weekend while he stayed in town and went to a pumpkin carving party. I was pretty impressed when I got a picture of this in my inbox.

In case you need to see the a picture of the logo . . . to understand how close it is, then here you go!

I also wanted to post a few pictures from a few weeks ago when my friend Hannah and I went to the Covered Bridge and Arts Festival at Knoebel's a few weeks ago. Knoebel's is actually an amusement park, but for one weekend in October every year they turn the entire park into a huge art festival. They have live entertainment, great food (that you will see below), and booth after booth of hand crafted items. There were a lot of really talented artists there. Handmade rugs, pottery, place-mats, pillows-- you name it. Pretty impressive. I bought a few really great items -- but they are presents so I can't discuss on here!

It would be so fun to enter a booth next year and try and sell some stuff. My friend Hannah likes to craft so we were coming up with all kinds of ideas of things that we want to make!

Here's a picture of Hannah and I mid-sugar coma . . . eating a huge cinnamon roll.

Yes that's the cinnamon roll (but most people here call them sticky buns), huge . . . and delicious. Either way . . . it made me very hyper!

Hannah thought so too!