laundry rooms

(pictures from BHG)

I need one of these ironing boards...anyone know where I can get one (at a reasonable price).
I have a laundry room, but it looks nothing like this, even when there are no clothes waiting to be washed/dried. I think one of our next projects needs to be redoing our laundry room- maybe if it looks like this, it will make laundry more fun?! Or maybe not!

(picture from HGTV)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I really like the fall, but this year I didn't decorate for Halloween and I definitely won't be decorating for Thanksgiving.... but aren't these great fall decorations? I was browsing Better Homes & Garden again....and found the following....love the mantle....

And I haven't been able to set a Thanksgiving table like this in years since we have been going to the desert for Thanksgiving...not that I mind, because I don't have to do the dishes this way...

Riley, Tanner & I are off to Arizona on Friday for Riley's Regional Cheer competition...I would love to see them place, but then that would mean she would go to the National championships in Florida...and we really don't have the money for that...

Yesterday I was browsing around BHG and found some things that I want for my house. The pillows above- I want that color combination (and those pillows) in the room upstairs that is a complete disaster!

this wall- I love it. I want something like this by my scrap table- however, I am the worst when it comes to putting things on the wall- I still have 3 things that I need to hang by my desk that I won't hang because I am afraid to make that "commitment".

I need this chair in my room but not in that color....

And I liked this - the set up is just like my room. I need all that "stuff" in my room too.

What I really need is the following- time, money & an interior decorator. I don't think I will be getting any of those things in the near future, so I can only dream when I look at these pictures....sigh...

When we remodeled the house 7 years ago- we had to put in a sprinkler system in case of a fire. The fire alarm & water junction are in a corner in our garage.

This morning when Jake went to get his shoes from the garage, he tells me that he thinks Dad's radio is "buzzing' in the garage. I go out to turn it off- and guess what? It wasn't the radio! It was the stinkin' sprinkler system- one of the pipes burst- shooting water towards the wall- about 3 inches from the wall- spraying so hard that it created a hole in the wall! I tried to stop it and the water changed directions & created another hole. I shut off the water main- but realized that the sprinkler system is on it's own main....couldn't find it. Had to call Mark to come home from work to stop the freakin' water!

NICE! Great way to start the day!

How did your morning go?????

My only trick or treater.....He was the grim reaper (I guess??) Riley was at a birthday party sleepover & trick or treated there. Tanner went to a party, so it was just us with Jake. It was lonely for Jake, he is used to so many people to have fun with. We didn't stay out long, I think he was tired (from his sleepover the night before). We were home by 8:15....poor kid.

BTW- what's with the all the wrinkles- sucks getting old!

Great, great book- I could hardly put it down!