thanksgiving inspiration

I have been gathering pictures I love for decoration ideas this Thanksgiving. It has always been my favorite table decorating holiday. For many years I was in charge of just the table and an appetizer! I am cooking the whole dinner (which I adore) and the table again this year. I get very excited while planning. Below is my fabric which I will turn into a table runner and possibly napkins and some veggie inspired decor! 

Ready for Halloween

Our house is ready to go tonight! I love Halloween, especially all the cute kiddos in costume. We get tons of trick or treaters in our neighborhood and it is such a fun night!

festive drink table

a bit late but here is the drink table I made for new year's eve. i poured our pinterest other websites and found so much inspiration for NYE themed parties. this is my own color scheme due to left over christmas wrapping ribbon and paper and was so much fun to put together.

 I purchased noise makers from the dollar store and removed the multicolor fringe and glued on my own in matching patterned and solid scrapbooking papers!

reason to revel friday: puppy party

we had a puppy themed party for our daughter's 5th birthday last night. it was tons of fun to put together. i have so many cute pictures i will have to do 2 posts! all the kids had puppy ears, and i put a pink bow on joey's so she would be extra special. my lovely mom baked all the cupcakes so i just had to decorate. joey cut out bones from fondant for the tops. i made some messy but very tasty sugar cookies decorated like tennis balls, and we filled dog bowls with snacks!

reason to revel wednesday candy cane stripes

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one of my favorite things about this time of year is the availability of Bob’s Sweet Stripes.
i love, love, love them! they have inspired this week’s reason to revel with their red and white Christmas-y striped goodness.

1. candy cane shot glass, these were given as a secret santa/white elephant gift at a recent party with peppermint schnapps. yummy

2. candy cane cocktail from miss martha

3. candy colored tree

4. holiday cupcakes, these are the cutest things ever!

reason to revel friday: oh boy!

this weekend is the baby shower of one of my good friends. i did a little fun baby shopping for her today so i thought the reason to revel should be baby shower themed today. she is having a little boy so today all things baby boy.

the invites (by me)

this adorable punch recipe i sent her sister (with vanilla ice cream yum!)
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if i were a better planner i would have visited these lovely etsy shops for gifts. so adorable!

adorable custom letters by Shea Chic Designs

snuggly blanket the patacake baby

yummy washcloth cupakes from baby cakes and decor

even the packaging is to die for

reason to revel: staying inside

after a week of lovely weather today is an especially dreary Kansas day. wind is rustling up little leaf tornadoes out on the sidewalk and i can only dream of snuggling up under a blanket and watching a good movie. although we are going out to dinner to celebrate my upcoming b-day and our anniversary i could easily be talked into staying in! it is just as important to celebrate regular life at home (and definitely warmer this time of year!)

this snuggle fest requires the perfect blanket (we have 3!)

sweet & spicy popcorn recipe here.
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cute slippers (check out broken hallelujah’s etsy store for more crocheted cutness!)
including these mary janes

yummy apple cider floats recipe here
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reason to revel friday

the chilly fall weather has me thinking about cozy indoor dinner parties and intimate gatherings of family. of course i can't do any gathering without lovely decorations so this weeks reason to revel is centerpeices with fall flair. these are so simple and beautiful you can easily put them together yourself!

i found this awesome wedding blog The Wedding Dish with great fall centerpiece ideas incorporating food. this one below used pomegranates (that i am loving right now, the look+the taste+the scent = yummy) these are so lovely. i added this one to my must read!

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and this white pumpkin centerpiece is so clean and simple from Better Homes & Gardens

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these beautiful apple centerpieces and decorations make me want to go home and dress up my kitchen table with granny smiths!

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reason to revel friday

my new "reason to revel" will hopefully be away for me to show you inspiring images from the web that will hopefully give you a reason to start planning for fun.


its almost the weekend and that means we all need a reason to revel, whether its a small gathering of friends or a blow out bash! and fall means KU football tailgate parties for my family and friends.



and ohh miss martha is always so inspiring. check out her table runner and coasters. this makes me dream up all kinds of football fun like astroturf and helmet bowls.



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and these referree can coozies (in kansas yes we call them coozies, i know y'all may call them something else!) are so cute. i was thinking of getting some of my own out and using masking tape to do something similar! or click the picture to buy them.

where can i find one of those plastic grass welcome mats, and what can i make out of it?

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