Remember the pumpkins and holders from Texas?

Well, here they are again...

Only this time, they are in Florida....

 I am loving them on our deck...

Our neighbors were in town so it gave is a reason

to celebrate....

We had a great time!

Hope you are enjoying the fall as much as we are!

A Promise

I made a promise to myself

that the first order of business

today would be blogging.

I am keeping that

promise!

We have been doing a lot of this

since arriving at our condo in

Miramar Beach.

Can you blame us?

I do have some things to share,

so let's start today with the

below.....

Can you tell what this is? 

Many of you will recognize that it is

Pattern Tissue Paper 

from a vintage pattern.

 This is what it has been turned into...

A delicious looking very large flower!

The center is made out of

shredded sheet music...

My brain will not bring up the

correct word for what the center part

of the flower is really called.

Guess I should have googled it.

Here it is on my wall

framed with

a beautiful

vintage frame

painted

and 

distressed

with 

Annie Sloan

Old White

Chalk Paint.

Of course, it doesn't

look

quite like

this.

I almost wish 

it did!

I played with my

IPhone Snapseed AP

again.

Hope you have a  very promising day!

Oh My Goodness!

Well, what can I say?

No way can one do the antique show in TX in 2 days....

I tried...

Ran my legs blue....

BUT

Maybe a good thing I only had 2 days

Cause I got lots of wonderful

SmAllS.....no trailer....had to contain myself...smile...

I am going to post a lot of pictures without much commentary..

Tomorrow we have a 12 hour drive, if we decide

to try to make it in one day....

I will post more on what I bought and learned and smiled about in another post. For now, I will show pictures of where we stayed and some of my favorite displays and things... Will elaborate more later...

Round Top, TX

So hard to see the beauty of these Willow creations

holding flowers and pumpkins!

A closer up look of one of the Willow

containers that folds up and then spreads out to

hold a pumpkin or a flower pot..

Darling...

And speaking of darling......

I bought a bunch of clothes...

This is the dressing room....

inside a traveling mobile....

should have taken more pictures,

Do you know how hard it is to try to merge

two days into a week of antiquing at

Roundtop , TX?

Oh My...

But

I

Am

Grateful

For

Two

Days!

On Our Way To Florida!

We are on our way to Destin, Fl. for our two month stay there....

Our First night on the road brought us to this wonderful restaurant

that our friends, Jim and Barbara recommended. It is in El Paso, TX , so

I highly recommend it too, if you are ever in El Paso.

I asked Randy to get off in Odessa, TX and drive by his home in which he grew up...

We were sad that it did not look like it was being well cared for....

Do you recognize the high school name?

The book and the show was

Friday Night Lights....

my husbands high school...

and

yes

he

knew

some

of 

the 

real

people

depicted

in

the 

movie...

Me with Barbara, in front of my

favorite

restaurant

in the whole wide world.

It is in Midland, TX and they

have the best Chicken Fried Steak

I have ever eaten!

Randy loves the Grilled Quail and Etufe'.

Barbara's Fall Table

Love the light streaming inside.

Drove through Fredricksburg, TX to eat at

the best barbecue joint we have ever been to...

Do You SEE the sign...closed on Mondays...

This is Monday...    :(

But consequently, it led us here....

in Fayetteville, TX where we found

Jo's place...

Yum!

Now we are in New Ulm and tomorrow

 I will antique in Roundtop, TX

( another favorite )

And

Randy 

Will

Golf...

His Favorite

Ain't Life Grand

Spoken like a true Texan....

Which I am not but would be happy to be!