My verse that stood out to me this
 morning in my devotions. 
This I recall to my mind,
therefore have I hope.  Lamentations 3:21

I am so thankful for Hope it is my favorite word.  It kept coming up in conversations and in my devotions a lot during my husband's transplant time.  I kept hanging on to that one word that meant soo much to me.

Orange to white and gray

I had some not so pretty pumpkins I wanted to brighten up.  I wanted more neutral looking fall decor inside the home.
Here is the before,

                                    

And the after, blending much better with my decor.  It is amazing what a little paint and spongebrush can do.  I used chalk paint from Joann Fabrics and some I found at Walmart.

Have a Happy Day!!!

Fall outside

Here is some of my outside Fall decor.  I have to get some white pumpkins and cinderella pumpkins yet.  I will be on the search much to my husband's dismay. He really doesn't see the need to decorate for Fall outside he is more into the Christmas decorating but he tolerates it for me. :)


Touches of Fall on the porch:

                                                         

Some old lanterns I had I painted gray and added decor.

My Summer flowers still hanging on with all this warm weather we are still having.

Another lantern

My sunflowers are doing great this year, even getting planted extremely late and not much attention.

  Hope you enjoyed the pics.  Have a great  weekend!

                            For Thou wilt light my candle; the Lord God will enlighten my  darkness.  Psalm 18:28

This verse was one I read this morning and it just encouraged me I hope it does you today too.  Have a wonderful day!

Little bits of Fall around the house

I have been setting out a little more Fall around the house.  I don't really do the orange too much inside.  I like to keep it more neutral, now outside I am doing more color, more on that at a later post. 

                  This is a stick on from the Dollar Store that I put on a canvas I washed in some gray paint.     We love the saying especially after our last year :)                    

                                       

My coffee table made out of an old trunk got a little Fall on too.

A lttle vignette on my iron birdbath

My trough my hubby built me last year before he got so sick.

 Filled with some cotton plant I found at Michaels. Dollar store leaf garlands and some sweater pumpkins.

 I tried to go a little rustic glam with my fall decorating with the mercury glass pumpkins and rustic wood.

Thank you so much for visiting, It makes my day.

It has been too long

Hello, I know I have been mia for quite a while.  This last year and a half has been quite a journey for us.  My husband has been sick with a bad heart for several years, Dilated Cardiomyopathy,   This last fall he became real sick and not able to do anything including sleep or eat.  We ended up in the hospital and on his way to a scan he crashed so they rushed him into surgery and he received an LVAD, which is an artificial heart and then was put on the transplant list for a new heart.  He was in the hospital through the holidays because his kidneys had taken a hit and because of insurance reasons he couldn't come home on dialysis.  God was so good to us, he repaired his kidneys to the surprise of the doctors, he came home on January 5th of this year.

He slowly worked on getting healthy again to help his body prepare for a new heart.  On May 5th we got the call!!  We had been praying for God to bring the right heart for him.. Also praying for the family that was losing a family member.  The surgery was 14 hours long, and when the surgeon came out at 4:00am and had such a discouraged look on his face I knew in my heart what had happened.  His new heart was not working, see we had experienced the same thing with our daughter when she was 15.  But God had started hers and she has grown into a beautiful young woman who is married and has two little girls now.  I knew God could do it again.  His heart started beating 5 days later, the longest five days of my life.  After many many complications, another emergency surgery on his intestines, waking up completely paralyzed, he came home miraculously on July 2nd with a walker.  He is now able to do most of what he used to do.  He still has a ways to go, but OH GOD WAS SO GOOD TO US!!  I tell you all of this to give Him the glory for all he has done.  I am so thankful for His love and mercy and grace.  Because it was grace that carried us through.

In saying all of this I hope you can understand the nostalgia I have for decorating for the seasons especially Fall and Christmas.  I didn't get to experience it last year and God has given us  a renewed excitement for it this year.

Here is a couple of photos of some vignettes around my home.


                       My faux fireplace mantle:

Dollar store pumpkins I painted white.

                                              A cute chalkboard pumpkin from Michaels,

                                                                         
                                                                                     

A late but gorgeous birthday gift from my sister

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3. I LOVE this.  My sister surprised me on her birthday with a late gift for me.  This is different from all the filter wraths I have seen.  I love the color and how scrunched it looks.  She will be selling these on facebook soon.