Far Ago Farm

 Hi friends!  Whew...can you believe Christmas is just a few days away? Are you ready?! Our Christmas celebration is small this year now that we live in Kentucky, but I've still been busy preparing for our family of five.  I have some baking and meal planning to do, but things are fairly under control. I don't know though, there is always that last minute time crunch I'm sure I will be feeling soon. Ha! I thought I'd share with one of our favorite places in our new house. We don't really know what to call it, but the builder refers to it as outdoor living. It just doesn't roll off the tongue, so if you have any suggestions of what to call it, let me know in the comments please! Whatever name it goes by, we absolutely love it, so without further ado, come take a little tour around our outdoor living space all decked out for Christmas. We love having morning coffee by the fire or watching Sunday football with a steaming mug of hot chocolate. It's very cozy thi...

 Hi friends, The calendar page has turned from November to December and that means the Christmas season is upon us!  This year we will be celebrating in our new state and home in Northern Kentucky which is very exciting for us.  While we probably won't have a white Christmas like we usually had in Wisconsin, we are more than blessed to be living close to our daughter, sil and five month old grandson. What a Christmas it will be! I've got lots of Christmas decor to share and today I am kicking it off with a plea to Santa Claus! Happy Holidays Y'All!

Hi friends! Just popping in to show a quick glimpse of our fall mantel before it gets the Christmas treatment. I really loved how it turned out.   Our sconces just make my heart go pitter pat - the long Edison bulbs give off such a cozy glow.  I think they are modern and farmhouse all rolled into one.  I love light fixtures and I really put a lot of time and effort into finding just the right lights for this house - within our budget of course!  Many years ago, when we built our first house (1988) our builder handed us a lighting catalog to choose our light fixtures from. This was before internet and the catalog didn't have prices listed. Well, weren't we surprised to find out the lighting estimate came to over $10,000! To put things in perspective, the entire house & lot came to just over $85,000. Obviously, we must have some expensive taste, lol. So back to the drawing board we went and found fixtures within the $1,000 allowance the builder had given us. I...

 Hi friends! Since we are still getting settled in our new home and state, I am keeping our front yard decor for fall very low key.  I think it turned out really cute! I will show you close ups of our porch in a future post. I know the magnetic mailbox cover and garden flags are pretty old school, but I am really enjoying them at this house and have been buying up some for each season. We moved here in mid August and so far I've displayed them for late summer, early fall and now Halloween. I also thought the his and her scarecrows were really cute. I found them at a local garden center. They actually are both girl scarecrows, but I was able to cut the braids off of one to make it look more boyish. They also had bloomers under their dresses so I just cut off most of the dress to look like a shirt - again to help make one look more boyish.  Now they are a happy couple!  Have a great day!

 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...