Happy Holidays!

Hello, dear friends! We're all safe and sound in our new home in Montana. We just had a lovely Christmas, even though we're still getting settled in. I'll get back to blogging after New Years, and I'm sure I'll have all kinds of wonderful things to share with you then. See you, and have a happy and safe holiday!

Saying Goodbye - a Picture Blog

Now that we're moving across the country, I thought it would be nice to look back on the house we lived in during our last year in NC:

The neighbor's ducks

Our mutt chillin' on the front porch

Hummingbird at my feeder

Deer in the field behind our house

My flowers

More flowers

A rainbow over the cornfield next to our house

Fairy ring in the back yard

Goodbye, house!

Quick Folding Table Updo

When I saw this idea on Pinterest, I did a headdesk. I can't believe how simple it is, and somehow I couldn't think of it myself.

I have an ugly old card table that was in dire need of this makeover. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I finally had the chance to do it. I was visiting a JoAnn fabric store with my mother, when I just happened to wander down their fall clearance isle. I wasn't even looking for one at the time, but I found a pretty vinyl tablecloth for 70% off, making the sale price about two dollars. I just love when things work out like that! That evening I went straight to work redoing my table top:

Yucky table!

Phase One: Remove Top

Phase Two: Remove Tablecloth from Package

PHASE THREE: ?

(Seriously, though, I don't know why I don't have any photos of me stapling the tablecloth on the tabletop, but that's what happened next.)

Phase Four: PROFIT!

It took me about an hour to complete this, and approximately forty-five minutes of that was me trying to find a screwdriver, staple gun, and staples at my parents' house. But now I have a pretty, new table! Thanks, Pinterest!