Paint Formula~

After I posted the Before and After pictures of our entertainment center and fireplace surround, several of you asked about the paint I used and the formula.  So, here you FINALLY have it. We have used this color in several areas of our home (entertainment center, fireplace surround, back staircase, kitchen island, all bathroom cabinets) and love it.  Very easy to keep clean and it goes with EVERYTHING! It was a custom color mix at Porter Paints.

Homecoming 2010~

This past weekend we hosted 7 of our daughter's friends for Homecoming pictures, dinner and an after party.  A great time was had by all.  I was VERY impressed with the entire group, their manners were impecable!  It was such a blessing to be able to host them in our home.  Okay, enough talk...I know you want to see pictures!!!

The table is set~

Some fall flowers for the entryway~

Our Daughter~

Hamming It Up with a friend of hers who is a great photograper, he came home from college to take pictures for the group.

The Group~

Dinner~

As you can see, they all had a great time!  I couldn't get over how beautiful the girls looked, and the guys cleaned up well too! After the dance they came back to our house to induldge in the chocolate fountain and hang out.  The girls spent the night...they were up early, out the door with bagels and juice in hand and off to church by 9:30am!!  I was super impressed.

Adding a little fall~

We are finally enjoying cooler temps here in the South, and with that I have slowly been changing out our summer decor with items more suited to this time of the year.  I am really trying to use things we already have this year, rather than buying new.  I figure the Christmas decor will come out soon enough!

The first  thing I changed out was the flower bucket on our front door.

Next, I traded out the seashells for some pinecones in the large bowl  that sits on  the table in our library.

I then swapped the seashells in a hurricane in the library for a grape vine wreath I loosened and placed in the bottom along with some green Spanish moss and acorns.

Once again the seashells were stored away along with the jute roping and sand, and replaced with miniature pinecones my daughter collected years ago on a trip to North Carolina.

The bird's nest with little blue eggs on my cake plate with a cloche now holds a little white pumpkin.  I love these!

The iron crow I purchased at Pottery Barn came out as well...

And lastly, as least for today, my newest love~my Willow House lantern (set of two, this is the larger), got

some of the grapevine wreath as a base for a yummy smelling vanilla candle and was placed in the center of our dining room table.

Little by little we are starting to see fall around here in the South.  A welcome reprieve after several long months of 95+ degree temperatures.