Beaulah Welcomes Halloween Month

Welcome Halloween!!

Beaulah is so excited to 

come out and celebrate 

with us!  To tell the truth, 

she has been out flying 

around and decorating for 

a month now!  Can you 

tell we love Halloween? 

She is perched right where she 

can see all of our comings and 

goings - 

on our Pizza oven. 

Yes, we put another pizza 

oven in our new house.  

It has a custom built cabinet 

where we can place our 

pizza peels and other 

supplies.  It is another 

wood-burning pizza oven. 

I don't store my wood 

inside the house.  It is 

too messy and might 

bring in little creatures, 

but firestarters, matches, 

pizza peels and other large 

containers fit in here.

The pizza oven is again made 

by Mugnaini and our contractor 

installed it.  One of my husband's 

employees made this custom 

pizza oven door for us.  

It is one of the family's 

favorite dinners - always. 

Here is a crustless pizza 

my niece made the other day. 

The best part is everyone 

gets to make their own! 

I wonder what Beaulah 

would make.  Of course, 

she has to step aside when 

we are cooking!  

But then she flies right back 

to her favorite spot.

Beaulah has been flying in for 

Halloween posts since 

October 4, 2010! 

 

You may remember her from back then with her twin sister Zoulah, from Red Couch Recipes.

She and I love to be nice witches for Halloween!
Thanks for stopping by to enjoy our fun.

Happy Painting for the New House

Life has been extra crazy for the past year and a half because we are building a new house.  We have had this property for over 35 years and lived out here in the old house for 3 years in the 90's.  Our oldest daughter lives next door with her darling 7 children and we can't wait to live next to them.
It seems to have taken forever, but when I looked at the date on this picture, it was just a year ago, so I guess we have made good progress. 
Cabinets are in, painting is in progress and railings are starting to be installed. 
We are hoping for a move in by the end of the year.  I told them I wanted to be in by Halloween, but no one ever gets in by their move in dates, do they?!!

Besides sorting and boxing, I 

have had a few painting projects.  

I ordered these balloon chairs, 

but the color was way off from 

my table and the other cane 

chairs I had purchased.  

I am always nervous to try to 

paint something like this, but 

I started with Country Gray 

acrylic paint on a sponge 

brush and had a microfiber 

towel in the other hand to 

wipe off where I needed.  

It went really quickly, 

and I even did the second 

one while a darling three 

year old granddaughter 

played down in the basement 

by my side. 

This Orangerie is the room 

that will house these chairs 

and a gray washed table. 

An Orangerie, if you aren't 

familiar with the term was 

a place where tropical plants, 

including citrus plants were 

brought in during the winter.  

We have had palms that we 

bring out during the summer 

and bring into the basement 

for 20 years, so we will use 

it for that, but it will also be 

a room for entertaining.  

It is one of my favorite 

rooms in the house, and 

you will find me here during 

the cold winter months 

soaking up the south sun!

I will be posting this with 

Metamorphosis Monday