DIY Fall Festival Time!

It’s been another crazy week with me still having a heavy work load and the Roomspiration linky parties and voting and Mr. DIY’s birthday and even though the chilly weather won’t let me forget it’s Fall already, I did have a chance to add a touch of fall to our living room (see the before and after pictures I shared earlier this week here).  

This week I decorated the mantel for Fall. Our mantel is a bit of a challenge with the tv being there and the need to disguise wiring but I like how it turned out this year. 

 Candle light and warm colors = coziness.

What do you think?  Busy? Yes!  Just the way I like it! 😉 

Do you decorate for fall?

Link up! Inspire me! FALL DIY and decorating ONLY please!
The DIY Show Off
Let’s see your DIY fall projects! Show off!




Rules:


•Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that YOU HAVE CREATED. Feel free to include a past link, however please make a note on a recent post about the DIY Fall Festival to invite everyone over to join in or to search the collection of fall inspired ideas.


•Add your project title to Linky party below.  (example: House # Pumpkins)


•Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)


•Please add the DIY button or link to the party in your post to share the party with your readers.


•Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. It just must be your project.  Please only link up same project once to one party.


•If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!



• By adding your link, you give the DIY Show Off permission to highlight your project in a future post. Enjoy and be inspired!


Have you voted for Cassity & Roeshel today? We’d LOVE your help + YOU’ll be entered to win  new flooring from Shaw for a room in your home! We’re not too proud to beg!  🙂  We want a chance at winning too!  Find out how Shaw’s 30 Days of HGTV Home tab:  http://www.facebook.com/shawfloors?sk=app_178630008866363.  Enter your email and vote for Cassity & Roeshel. That’s it – every day you vote in September, you’re entered to win that day’s prize of new flooring for your home!

Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
Thanks to those voting and entering to win everyday!!!  I’ve been trying to reply/visit you personally in return to thank you personally, but in case I’ve missed you – YOU ROCK! Your help is so appreciated because this means so much.  Thank you! 😉 

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Congratulations to the winner of the 3M Couples Speak giveaway!



Shel said… 2

I entered the contest..my submission:

She says: Are you sure? I know you work so many hours at your job and you’re tired when you get home.

She means: Please, let me pay someone to do this so it doesn’t turn into a home improvement mini series that lasts an entire season.

Autumn Love Pinterest Linky Party

Welcome to the first official 
A special thanks to Heather from At The Picket Fence for the DIY button makeover. Isn’t it pretty?! Inspired by the colors from the “Cassity & Roeshel” room design challenge. Heather, dear blog friend – you are so sweet and talented and I love my special gift. Thank you!

Cooler temps, shorter days and changing leaves are making it hard to ignore that Fall is here.  I’m daydreaming of new boots, warm sweaters, warm, rich colors, spicy autumn scents and mouth watering comfort foods & aromas coming from the kitchen. Snuggling in and getting cozy. Here is my autumn Pinterest daydream in pictures…some of which are inspiring enough to become reality in my home…
  
Pardon my casualness but this is my favorite attire for fall…
This year I’m decorating for fall in soft muted creams, browns and golds with a touch of smokey turquoise, deep red and rusty orange this year:
I love turquoise paired with orange almost as much as with red…

Autumn inspiration…
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New fireplace mantel in the dining room would look so pretty like this:
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or this…
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Favorite Fall wreaths…trying to narrow it down to one:
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Time for dinner!
Chicken Corn Chowder

Can’t forget dessert…
Apple Crisp Cheesecake (OMGosh!!!)

I want to be right here, with my cheesecake, in my sweater socks reading through your links and what you daydream about.
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Link up your Pinterest related blog post:
1. Please copy and paste the code above into your post to automatically add the button and link back.
2. Add your Pinterest related URL POST (not general blog address) into the linky party by clicking “click here to enter” shown below.
3.  Add a title.  (Your blog name, the topic of your Pinteres
t Pinfest post, etc.). Click add picture from the web.
4.  Select a picture that best fits your post to use as a thumbnail.
5.  Let me know if you need help.  🙂
6. Party stays open for one week.

Link up, daydreamers!

As you know (how could you not?! Thanks for the patience for my daily reminders), I’m working really hard to make a dream come true…please vote for Cassity & Roeshel by clicking the picture below. We really need your help, desperately!  You’re also entered to win new flooring for your home every day you vote!  We want to see new flooring/new area rug in our readers’ homes! YOUR HOME!
Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
We’d LOVE your vote even more than apple cheesecake (although it’s very close) and there’s still 2 days to enter the area rug giveaway (winner’s choice of style and size – imagine winning a huge 9×12 FREE for your livingroom, bedroom, garage – wherever you want to put it)! Thank you SO SO SO much to those entering and voting.  I can’t tell you enough that your help to make a dream come true means so much! If our room wins, we’re given an all expense paid trip to HGTV’s Urban Oasis in Chicago, dinner and 2 nights at Trump International Hotel. Keeping my fingers crossed!

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DIY Fall Festival

It’s been a crazy week and even though I haven’t had a chance to even think about Fall yet (other than throwing on a sweater), I think I’ve finally decided that Fridays would be a great day for the DIY Show Off Fall Festival this year and then the regularly scheduled DIY Project Parade on Sundays/Mondays. 
And since I’ve been working hard at a few non-autumn related projects and had an extra work load at my real job, I haven’t had time to think about Fall yet however here are a few of my past Fall projects to get things started. I know. I’m cheating. I mean these are my DIY Fall projects but Fall 2011 hasn’t arrived in this house this week.  It was cheat a little or cancel and I’m no party pooper!  

dress up a candle…
decoupage letters and a pumpkin…
glow in the dark pumpkin house #s 
Burlap leaves

ghost tree and faux mercury glass pumpkins…
Can’t wait to get started on Fall now that I’ve met some of my deadlines.  Link up! Inspire me!
The DIY Show Off
Let’s see your DIY fall projects! Show off!




Rules:


•Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that YOU HAVE CREATED. Feel free to include a past link, however please make a note on a recent post about the DIY Fall Festival to invite everyone over to join in or to search the collection of fall inspired ideas.


•Add your project title to Linky party below.  (example: House # Pumpkins)


•Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)


•Please add the DIY button or link to the party in your post to share the party with your readers.


•Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. It just must be your project.  Please only link up same project once to one party.


•If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!
• By adding your link, you give the DIY Show Off permission to highlight your project in a future post. Enjoy and be inspired!



Have you voted for Cassity & Roeshel today? We’d LOVE your help + YOU’ll be entered to win an area rug here (everyday through Sept. 14th) AND new flooring from Shaw for a room in your home! We’re not too proud to beg!  🙂  We want a chance at winning too!  Find out how at:
Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
Thanks to those voting and entering to win everyday!!!  I’ve been trying to reply/visit you personally in return to thank you personally, but in case I’ve missed you – YOU ROCK! Your help is so precious because this means so much.  Thank you! 😉