Far Ago Farm

 Hi friends, Fall is quickly passing and we will be headed toward Thanksgiving and - gasp! - Christmas before you know it. It is such a wonderful time of year, but yikes! It sure goes all too quickly.  I am still trying to settle into our house and get everything just so. This has kind of created a wall when it comes to blogging for me. You know - it's the old not clean enough, not perfect enough, not enough. Ugh! Today I decided that I wasn't (never will be) the next Joanna Gaines, but I am enough for me! So, while not the perfection I am striving for, I am sharing with you the current state of my coffee bar. I guess this is the start of my fall decor series, lol. Next up - our fireplace mantel.  See you soon! Thanks so much for stopping by. Joining these link parties: Metamorphosis Monday                                                     ...

Hi sweet friends, I am still working on getting settled in our new house, so I apologize for not having posted for so long. I am planning to do a fall home tour series soon. In the meantime, I  thought I'd share a little haul from the Christmas Tree Shops and Home Goods.  We did not have a Christmas Tree Shop any where near Wisconsin, so I was very excited to find one about fifteen minutes from our Kentucky home. I had been to this location a few years ago when visiting our daughter and son in law. I think this is one of those hit or miss kind of stores, but I will say they knock it out of the park for seasonal paper plates and napkins! Their prices for paper products are amazing and they have so many cute designs. I was picking up my Wal-Mart grocery order nearby and decided to stop into the Christmas Tree Shop for the first time since moving to KY in August. I was in need of some fall paper plates and napkins. Aren't these cute? These seemed really sweet for desserts and sna...

 Hi friends! Well, it has been a whirlwind the past few weeks but we managed to move from Wisconsin to our new home in Kentucky. We closed on our KY home on August 10th and moved in on August 12th.  Our main reason for our move was to be near our two month old grandson, daughter and son in law. This was a Christmas gift from our daughter and son in law last year and we are excited to give it a place of honor at our door! We've been busy unpacking and organizing, but I just had to play around a little bit.  This will all change, but it is nice to have a little area amid the chaos. I carved out a cozy spot in our kitchen overlooking the backyard. I was going to sell this chair prior to our move but changed my mind at the last minute. I'm so glad because it really works in this space. There is a sweet family of deer that congregate in our backyard a few times a day and this is a good spot to watch them. Hoping to get back to some  normalcy - its been a crazy year. I rea...

Hello sweet friends! I am excited to show you the exterior of our "almost finished" new house.  We are a few days a way from closing and a lot of finishing work has been going on.  Last week, they painted, stained, poured the driveway and installed the sod and landscaping.  There are a few exterior trim pieces that need installing as well as some clean up, but the outside is nearly done. Now let's chat about our house color, shall we? I have had my sight on a red house since 1989, lol.  Since that time, our houses have all been white. The first was an existing home with white siding.  Our most recent house was white and was built in a subdivision where only light, neutral colors were an option - a neighborhood of  all white and beige. Any other colors are strictly prohibited by the HOA.   Don't get me wrong, I've loved our white houses. White houses are so timeless and never go out of style. But my heart has belonged to red houses for a long, long...

 Hi everyone! Things are moving along at the new house! Although our neighbor's homes did not fare so well after the fire, we were fortunate to have not been delayed in our construction process.  The damage we did suffer was very minor.  My heart still hurts for the neighbors who lost their beautiful new home and the other neighbors who had considerable damage to their new home as well.  Let me show you the progress made on our kitchen this week. Everything is looking great! It's amazing how things are changing on the daily with the finishes going in now.  They are currently working on the exterior siding and I am so excited to share that with you soon.  The color choice will surely surprise you (and our neighborhood lol)!  We will be having double ovens. It looks like there is space for only one, but the bottom portion gets cut to fit oven #2.  Although we won't use two ovens at one time very often, I am over the moon about this feature! Thankful...

 Hi friends,   If you have been following my posts lately, you know we are building a new home in Kentucky to be closer to our daughter, son in law and "coming soon" grandson. Things have been moving along and we had been hopeful for an early August move in. Notice, I said "had been hopeful." Mother Nature showed who was in charge over the weekend and we are waiting to hear what type of delay we are facing.  Our delay is nothing compared with what our neighbors next to us are currently going through. Late Friday, a terrible storm came through our future neighborhood and our next door neighbor's home was struck by lightning, severely damaging their new roof.  The fire department checked the home thoroughly and were unable to find any hot spots or signs of fire.  The family left for the night to stay with relatives.  A few hours later, another neighbor noticed the house was completely engulfed in flames.   Sadly, the home is a total loss.  This...

Hi friends! Our upcoming move from Wisconsin to Kentucky has meant a lot of packing and purging. It also has caused me to think long and hard about what I want to take with me and also how we would like to style our new home. When staging our current house for sale, I really stripped the rooms to the bare bones in an effort to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible.  Our master bedroom (from our listing photos) below ended up so fresh, yet so welcoming.  It still is a little empty for my personal taste, but I loved how the staging turned out.  It also has led me to a decision on my whole house color scheme. I really like the idea of a whole house color scheme. It gives such a cohesive feel to a home and also allows furnishings/decor to be interchangeable between rooms. For most of our married life, my color scheme has been burgundy/gold/green/rust. I really love those colors. In the last few years, I worked those colors into my whole house color scheme and enjoyed...