Some Pics From "Hometown"

Hello everyone!

Remember me telling you about the new show on HGTV called Hometown?  It's hosted by Ben and Erin Napier in Laurel, Mississippi.

Well several of you said that you didn't get a chance to see the pilot episode last Sunday.  So, since I recorded it, I thought I would snap some pics to share with you today!  I heard that they will be re-running it again, but the network doesn't have a date set yet.  

Anyway, my pics don't do it justice.  If you get to watch the show, you can see everything more clearly and hear the interesting stories behind everything that they did to the home.  I'm only sharing the after pics.  They are the pretty ones, after all!

Share Your Style Party #50

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Welcome to this week's Share Your Style party!  I hope that you are having a good week so far.  Are you still covered up in snow?  Ours melted long ago and we're expecting warmer temps this weekend.  I'm hoping that I can finally get outside and clean up our yard.  The gusty winds, last weekend, blew down a lot of limbs everywhere!  I can't wait to see what you all have to share this week.  Barbara from 21 Rosemary Lane is your host.

Hi everyone and welcome back to another Share Your Style Link Party. This one is number 50 and I am your host this week Barbara from 21 Rosemary Lane.

Barbara @ 21 Rosemary Lane

Lynn @ The Vintage Nest

Kelly @ The Essence Of Home

Did you Survive the Blizzard of 2016?

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I hope that if you're reading this, that means that you're inside a warm house with the power working.  I know so many of you in the Northeast have had a rocky weekend.  Hopefully, the worst is behind you now.

Here in my neck of the woods, we just got a light dusting of snow but we endured extremely cold temps and gusting winds.

Some Pretty New Things

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I wanted to share some things that I purchased with my Christmas money recently.  I have a thing for fur this year.  Faux fur, not real fur!  So, when I found this fur covered stool at World Market, I grabbed it up.  It was on sale, which helped me afford it.  It is only available online though.  

  

Share Your Style Party #49

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the 49th Share Your Style party!  I'm Kelly with The Essence of Home and will be your host this week.  

Barbara @ 21 Rosemary Lane

Lynn @ The Vintage Nest

Kelly @ The Essence Of Home

Martina @ Northern Nesting

Decisions Have Been Made - Finally!

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I feel like I've been "over sharing" so much of what's going on in my life lately.  It has been therapeutic for me though, actually.  So, I hope that you don't mind.  I hope it's nice to see that real life does happen behind all the "staged" photos I share on this blog!  

My husband and I have been on a decision journey for a while now and I'm happy to say that a decision has finally been reached about some things that affect our future.  We have decided to hold off moving for a while since our son is starting high school this year and we don't want to have him change schools.  He doesn't deal with change very well and gets extra help at school, so keeping him where he knows his friends is probably the best thing we can do for him right now.  

Also, since my husband is retiring from the fire dept., he will be in a transition with his next line of work.  With moving, it will be too much stress to deal with a new job AND trying to sell our house and find a new one.  Moving is stressful all by itself!

We will re-evaluate things in a year.

So..............you know what I'm trying to say????  

We will be staying here and making LOTS of changes to our house so we can enjoy it while we're here a little longer.  We hope to increase the value of our home while we're at it too.  

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My Life Through Someone Else's Eyes

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I guess this post is more of a philosophical one rather than a decor related one.  This week has been extremely busy and somewhat stressful.  But, I'm now learning to take a breath and "turn the page".  

The first thing that happened, was I went to my GI doctor to discuss going on a biologic medicine.  I had some tests run and have slowly been getting the results back.  It seems that my inflammation levels have gone way down since last month but are still elevated.  I expected that.  Now, I have to decide between which biologic medicine to go with based on the info we received.  So, my question to you is, do you take one of these types of medicines?  Do you like it?  Has it changed your life? I am considering either Remicade or Humira.  

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