Fall color is almost over

Most of the trees here have lost their leaves while others haven't even begun to change color.  Our mountain ash in the backyard is still green but all the rest of the trees have lost almost all their leaves.

This is the maple in our backyard.  All the leaves have not changed so it looks pretty cool with all the different colors.

The other day I took a drive to look at the colors and found a few good shots.  These are from Sterne Park in Littleton.  I was a little too late for some of the trees. I probably should have gone the week before.

These are from a neighborhood called Cherry Hills Village.  It is one of my favorite neighborhoods as it looks like you are more in the country with  all the tree lined streets and no sidewalks.  I wasn't able to get many good shots since a lot of the trees had already lost their leaves.  These are the only two that looked the best.

My trees in the front of our house look like the bare tree on the right of this picture.   At least we don't have any snow in the forecast for Halloween this year.  I remember taking my son when he was little trick or treating in the snow many times. 

My little pumpkin

I call my dog Kolby little pumpkin so I decided to get him a costume for Halloween this year.  Boy it sure is hard to get a good picture of a moving object.  He just wouldn't stay still.  I did manage to get a few good pictures.

I think he is telling me that he has had enough of picture taking.  See how he is looking at me.

Now he is ready for trick or treating.  Look who got a treat.

I need some help

I am trying to decide what I want to do for window treatments in the master bathroom.  I was thinking about putting panels in between the windows but my hubby thinks maybe just a valance.  What do you think?  Below is the bay window area.

This is the pattern that I am thinking of using.

So should I use the panels or just go with the valance?

A day at the antique mall

Sunday afternoon I decided to go to one of the antique malls.  I went to the one closest to my home called the Colorado Antique Gallery.  It felt good to get out of the house for awhile.  For the past month I have been spending my Sundays working on the bathroom so now that it is almost done I thought I would treat myself.  I found a few goodies that I couldn't resist taking home.

There are a few of booths that I always enjoy looking at every time I go there.  Some of my pictures didn't turn out to well since I was using my phone. This booth is all decked out for Halloween.  It gave me some great ideas.

I love the two booths that are all plaid.  I guess you could say plaid is my favorite color.  You can tell that the same person owns both since they have a lot of the same items.

I love this wine cork idea. I think I will have to make one for myself. I have tons of them. 

Here are the items that I bought. 

 I love the colors in the blankets.  I probably won't use them this year for my Fall decorating but they will be used next year along with the hat.

I love plaid and these will be used on my front porch for Christmas.  I saw some wool blankets that will work nicely there too.  The will get them the next time I go.

I spotted this basket within the first couple of booths that I looked at.  I was drawn to it immediately.  It looked very familiar.  That is because I have one just like it but it is smaller.  The one I have has been in my family as long as I can remember.  When I moved out of my parents house my mother let me have it.

 As you can see mine is just a little bit shorter.  My mother used it for rags and I so do I.  It fits nicely in the closet in my laundry room.  The new one will work nicely for blankets.  You never know what you will find at antique stores.

Mercury glass Halloween

I usually don't decorate for Halloween but for some reason I felt like it this year.  At least on my dining room buffet.  I always loved Vincent Price movies that were based on Edgar Allan Poe stories when I was little and I still do.  So I thought I would do my favorite The Raven.

Now for another update on the master bathroom.  I got the panels painted around the tub and the window sills.  I really like the way it turned out.  My hubby says it looks too dark.  What do you think?  Should I repaint them white or leave them the way they are?  Here is the before.

Now the after.  I like the after since it matches the vanity now.

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Master bathroom mini reveal

Here is the only room in my house that I had been embarrassed to show.  Our master bathroom looks like it is from the 80's when actually our house was built in 2001.  Don't you just love the teal counter tops? 

I am not a fan of white tile on the floor.  Yes the grout lines should be white.  The two pictures above are from the original listing when we bought the house.

We don't have a door on the bathroom from the master bedroom it is just an open archway and if you believe it they had saloon doors in the opening.  I didn't even think about taking pictures of it.  The minute we moved in I had my hubby remove them.  I was able to find a picture from the original listing showing the master bedroom from the bathroom and if you look at the bottom right hand corner you can see the louvered door.  And yes the mirror and drapes are gone also.

Now back to the bathroom. Here is the shower area before the demo.

This little nook is across from the tub.  It has a cable hookup so I guess you could watch tv in the tub.  We are going to take out the medicine cabinet and add shelves. 

 

The floor is done.  Now on to the next project.

I wanted to replace the vanity cabinets but we would have to special order the drawer sections so we decided to raise the height and paint instead.  We took down the huge mirror.  We were able to save it so it will go in the basement work out room. Now what to do with the wall.  It didn't get damaged much but we decided to add tile instead of patching and re-texturing. 

Now here is the shower/tub area before the shower enclosure is installed.

We have just a few more things to do before this is all done.  I still need my hubby to install the shelves above the cabinet across from the tub and I think I will go ahead and paint the panels around the tub dark brown.  Once everything is all done and decorated I will get it posted.

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