Happy Halloween!

My Oct 31st was pretty low key.  Handing out candy, watching Hocus Pocus, and carving the above pumpkin. Perfect!

Extra Acting

Yesterday was my first time being an extra and a movie.  It was definitely an experience!

  I originally wanted to see a real life movie set. Now, I can honestly say that the people I met were the most interesting part.  Perhaps it's because I spent most of the day talking and spending time with the other extras?  I don't know, but everyone got along so well. I loved hearing what everyone does on a normal basis.

Don't get me wrong, the actual filming part is really neat and I got to see Billy Crystal and Bette Midler in the flesh.  Hopefully I'll be able to see myself when the movie comes out!

Most of the day was spent waiting... and waiting... and waiting.  I definitely wish I remembered to bring a book. I saw one guy brought a pillow.  Smart guy.

Overall, this was a learning experience and I loved it!  I definitely want to try and do more extra work.  Hopefully it happens. :)

Fall Decorating

I love decorating for Fall. So, so much. Fall scented candles, witches, pumpkins on the doorstep. Since it's officially October, I started to decoration a bit around my house.

Ignore the price sticker on the mirror, haha!  I plan on painting the mirror frame a darker color at some point because I'm not too keen on the gold. Anyway, the left pumpkins were purchased at Old Time Pottery a few weeks ago.  The center candy dish is from Target, the Runner from Kohls (I believe) as well as the hour glass, and the cute skeleton to the right was bought at Michael's.  

I also was able to spruce up my mantle today.

 The cute little plastic mini jackolantern garland came in a pack of 8 for $2 from Walmart.  All I did was use a piece of dark orange yarn I had on hand and knotted them on.  Cute!  Not bad for $2.

Mum Madness!!

The other night I received the Lowe's ad via email which had 4/$10 Mums.  A great deal, right?  So, I planned to go the next day and pick up two.  Before picking out my sale mums in the front of the store, I went over to the clearance section in the back of the garden department only to find mums on sale!

I ended up getting 2 orange, 3 red, 3 white, and 3 little yellow mums.  That's 11 mums for $9.28!

Publish Post

Trash =/= Treasure

This is the loot I found while cutting back some of the bushes around my house.  One of the Holly Bushes was so leggy, the tallest leg was probably around 20+ inches tall.

We have: one angel statue, one plate, one plastic pot, one cat stuffed animal, an old bottle of pepto complete with some left over (and yes, it's still pink!), random plastic pieces, a little black thermos, a cup, and some plastic bags.

Mailbox Update

I finally painted my mailbox changing it from a rusty, green color to beautiful black. I cannot believe how much of a difference it makes!  I should have done this a lot earlier.

First I protected my mailbox flag by encasing it in aluminum foil.  Next, I covered the flowers below by tearing up the giant sized Kohls bags and covering the flowers surrounding the mailbox.  Then, I used Black Rustoleum spray paint to paint the mailbox.

Huge improvement!  Now I just need to paint the numbers back on and add some sort of protective coating.