The Nashville Watsons: October 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Witch Way to the Candy?

Today was the final day of getting ready for Halloween at our house. We got our candy, racked the leaves up in the yard and put out our pumpkins. The inside has been decorated for about 2 weeks and it's been nice to have them up.

the candy is ready to go just in case...

I love the cute carved, glittered Halloween stand-ups (I have no idea what they are actually called!). I got them from sample sale for $1.00

Our cute witch has a perfect home in the foyer. She was another sample sale steal for $1.00!

I love my topiaries. I've had these and my ones from Christmas since my first month at Kirkland's back in 2006.

The sunroon needed a little something, so we hung the cute pumpkin guys in there. They didn't really have a home anywhere else, and they fit right in being so rustic.

Wednesday night we carved our pumpkins. I did a grim reeper that I was pretty proud of! Matt carved a creepy bat cave, but I don't have a picture of that one yet. Will post tomorrow with the rest of the Halloween.

I think it's kind of scary!

And Sadie loves her new present from Matt's parents. She got a stuffed black cat and she snuggles with it like a pillow. It's almost as big as her.

We'll have more pictures of costumes tomorrow. Sadie and Matt both have new costumes this year and I'm still lame and am not dressing up.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Ushering in Fall

My friend Nikki and her roommates hosted an "It's Fall Y'all" party at their house this weekend. It was a great way to celebrate all the great things that we love about Fall while hanging out with some friends and drinking some beer.

Nikki had all the making of a great fall meal: chili, mexican cornbread, carrot cake cupcakes, caramel apples and apple cider punch

The afternoon started out with tailgating staples: cornhole and botchi ball

The Cornhole Champs - Nikki & Jeremy

It was a fun, relaxing afternoon. Nikki was the perfect hostess and we all had a lot of fun. It started to inspire me to plan a party at Casa Watson. We've lived in our house for over a year but have never hosted a party. Maybe we can plan something before the end of the year!!

A Little Redecorating - Part IV

A while back I got a great sample from work that I thought would fit perfectly in our house. I had to wait for Matt's parents visit so they could help us bring it home.

This post isn't very interesting, I just like to see the before and after.

The dining room...

The foyer...

Monday, October 4, 2010

Quiet Family Weekend At Home

This weekend was GORGEOUS in Nashville. The weather was like something out a book... 60 degrees and sunny all day. The doors and windows were open and no AC or heat - My Heaven!

Being the homebodies we are we pretty much stayed around the house the whole weekend. While spending some quality time at home, the puppy girl was pretty funny. And being the paparazzi that I am, of course I had camera within reach!

Sadie gave me a kiss after I had just put on some chapstick. I promise, there was no peanut butter given to this dog.

All that licking can really wear a girl out. This little puppy was pooped!

A Little Redecorating - Part III

I've been out of commission for the past few days with my posts. The data cord for my camera was on the fritz so I had to wait for one to get shipped.

We've been working on the front guest bedroom since we moved. Every so often we would do a few things here and there. We think we are almost finished, just continuing to look for something interesting to hang over the console.

Here is where we started...