Dining Room Table Reveal

**I promised this blog back in the fall but as you know, I've been a bad blogger since becoming a homeowner.**

My husband and I already came into the home with enough furniture but we needed a real dining room table. When we first moved in together in Arizona, we bought a pub table from Ikea. It was a great purchase and served it's purpose in our apartment(s). It was time for a change and something that would properly fill the space.

I scoured the internet for just the right table. I knew exactly what I wanted after seeing our house when it was decorated as a model home.
I searched all around but kept coming back to this table. So I took my husband and family with me to look at this same table. Everyone fell in love with it which made me like it even more.
What do you think?

This is a picture from when it was decorated by a professional. The light fixture has changed since this photo was taken and I don't have anything hanging on the walls just yet.
I'm still working on finding the right buy on table settings. I promise to take a photo when I do.

We also purchased the side board to match the table because we needed the actual storage. Sometimes it feels a bit crowded but it made a nice dessert serving table at Thanksgiving shown below.

Like I said, nothing on the walls.

What do you think??

I'm back!

I realize I fell off the blogging map in the last couple of months. I even missed all of the holiday posts that I had been looking forward to all year. What can I say, life has been busy!

In addition to owning a new home, work has been quite hectic in the last couple of months. This is considered our rush season from Mid- December until the end of February. I love my job but it has been exhausting for the past month or so!

Our holiday season was wonderful! Truly couldn't have asked for a better way to end 2011!
We hosted Thanksgiving in our new home, and I believe the last time I posted I would do a dining room table reveal. I'll have to get to that in my next blog.

Makes me feel stuffed just looking at the spread

Then along came Christmas.

I always take pictures of new ornaments I got during the year.

And a mere week later, we were ringing in 2012.

he wasn't having a good night, i guess his friends couldn't make it to the party.

So here we are at the end of January, and I'm finally getting a chance to write a quick post. I have a lot of stuff I want to share in the new year. I hope to get a little more personal and share more of a background about myself. I get a little weary about putting that stuff out there but then I would love to have an outlet for the thoughts inside my head.

I wish all of you the best in 2012! Thanks for stopping by and I hope we get to do this again real soon!

A Look Back at Our Halloween

It's rare that I ever get to sit down at my own computer. I stare at a computer screen most of the day and when I get home, I don't even walk into our "office" room. Nevertheless, my apologies for not posting about Halloween sooner.

I did manage to do a little decorating before Halloween. I'm not big into the spooky stuff but I do love fall decorations. The Saturday before we picked up two small pumpkins at a farmers market which I later used to adorn my bottom step. Then, I put my two Ikea lanterns to good use and filled them with different colored miniature pumpkins which also came from the farmers market.

The scarecrow people were a gift from one of my husband's aunts, so here they are hanging out in my Carolina Rocking Chair. It wasn't much but it was a little something to give our house a fall look.

I also picked up some pansies at Lowe's to go in my baskets on the front porch. The porch was seriously lacking in floral, since the mums I bought when we first moved in died after a month. Hopefully the Pansies will lost longer, at least they're supposed to. 

It was a nice little Halloween in the new house... luckily we had mobs of children to take all of that candy off my hands.

Even Cal was kind enough to leave the bunny ears on for a couple of minutes while I snapped some pictures. Okay, we really just distracted him with food. :)

Next up on the blog- Dining Room Reveal...