Come and Knock On Our Door!

The annual Halloween Party was a blast as usual! And great costumes to boot...here are just a few!

Holly and Heff

A Cereal Killer ( runner up for worst costume) and the Grim Rapper

Jailbirds...Nicole, Lindsey, and Paris!

Bed Bugs, they were going for comfort!

Speed Racer and Trixie

Lindsey and the Caveman of her dreams.

MBM and I were set on Donny and Marie. Then at the very last minute (Friday) one of my friends was going solo (Penn State Football widow) and did not have a costume. One quick trip to Walmart...say hello to Jack Tripper, Chrissy Snow and Janet Nobody Knows Her Last Name!

Oh, the shorts! Mine were on clearance at Walmart for $3, flattering for my figure, huh?...MBM had his vintage Op's from a previous costume. He had visible panty line! And Chrissy well who can get past the socks?

All in good fun!

Email

This was in my INBOX today!

Costumes!!!!

Every year, MBM and I are invited to a huge Halloween party...HUGE! It is the kind of night I can only handle once a year. The hosts go all out...caterer, bartender, music! The house is decorated top to bottom...they even move all the furniture out of their family room for dancing. One year the DJ (side note... went to my "brother" high school), said this party is like "Yuppies Gone Wild" This party gives us a whole year of material to talk about! The costumes are taken pretty seriously. There are PRIZES!!!! And everyone keeps their costumes under wraps until the night of the party! MBM and I have had some really good costumes over the years...this year we can't think of one thing...not one!!!! Some years we do a "couples" costume some years not, some are tasteful, some not, we have done current events, play on words, you name it we have done it! So, any good ideas out there? Here are some costumes either we or our friends have done in the past...Barney and Betty Rubble, Martha Stewart(incarcerated, of course) Donald Trump, Liza Minnelli and her battered husband David, Ugly Betty, The Crocodile Hunter, Magnium P.I., Gold Digger, Fashion Police...I could go on and on! We need help!!!!! Come on all you creative people out there...HELP!!!!

Happy Birthday LULU!!!!

Today, Lulu, my baby, turned five years old! We celebrated with her closest friends, in costume, with lunch and lots of TRICKS and TREATS!!!!!

Lulu making a wish!

The table set for lunch...the place mats, look like cows, but they are actually ghost!

The whole gang!

After too many juice boxes!

Tonight on TV

Tonight on HGTV my cousin and his wife will be on
Spice Up My Kitchen...
check it out if you get a chance!

Friday Night

This is what I did Friday night...wild and crazy, I know!!!!

Headed to Virgina Beach tomorrow for a christening. I am the Godmother to my cousin's son.

I am going with my parents, MBM and the girls are staying home for a Dad/Daughter weekend. Five hours in a car with my parents...Oh Boy! I am having flashbacks to 1988 in the backseat with my Walkman and Seventeen magazine!

Have a great weekend!

Kitchen Table

Sometime in August, I went "junking" at the shore with my mom and mother-in-law. I wanted to check out a new place MBM and I had passed on a new route to the shore. It had LOTS of junk outside, those are my favorite kind of places! I was looking for something/anything for our new screened in porch, instead I found a kitchen "set", we were planning on a new table and chairs in the fall. I was really only interested in the table, but, it was being sold all together...a seven foot table with 2 leaves, 2 chairs , 2 benches, and a hutch...all for $350!!!!!

***THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS***

For a solid pine for a six piece dining set...I would have paid double that amount for just the table!!! Of course, when you pick things up at junk shops they usually require a little TLC.

(one of the benches....before)

(after stripping and scrapping)

(table with stripper on it...forgot to take a before picture(

(halfway stained)

Stripping, scrapping, sanding, staining, polyurethane, sanding polyurethane, and one more coat of polyurethane this is the result!

I am so happy with the result...kind of looks like this table...don't you think? I have the ladder back chairs from our old set for the ends of the table. They are going to be stripped, stained and the seats are going to get new rushed seats. Although I would love to find upholstered wing back chairs for the ends...someday!

I have done a lot of furniture refinishing, this has been my best piece to date! I forgot how much I love it...it could just be all the chemicals getting to my head. The hutch is still in the garage, untouched. I don't have a place for it in this house. I think it will be heading to the beach house in a few years, when we rebuild! And the chairs...headed to the curb...ugly!!!!!

Just FYI...the products I used...for stripping, the stain in English Chestnut, the polyurethane!