Happy Fall, door hoarder status and wild turkeys running around your neighborhood!!!!

Fall is in the air.

Hope you all had a great week end.  We had gorgeous weather and our granddaughter for the week end so it was fun.

I want to show you some changes I made in my office this week end.  Not too many changes with having a 3 year old running around!!!!

Here she is being so Downton Abby!!!!

After lunch we needed to get a princess Belle costume.  My granddaughter said "MiMi I need a Princess Belle costume" and well, I had to agree.

She loved her new outfit and wore it all day and when we went to dinner she still wanted to wear it.

Here she is with Bop (that is what she calls grandpa).

Then we laid on the drive way and drew outlines of ourselves with chalk.  This is Abby's outline.

Here is Bop aka grandpa.

Here is MiMi.  Having a 3 year old is like having the Energizer Bunny all week end.  We had a great time with her but MiMi needs a nap!!!!

Now on to the office changes.  I love using these old wine holders for magazines.  Much more organized than laying in piles everywhere and I can see them without having to go through a pile.

I also wanted to show you a special door I found about two weeks ago.  Yep, another door!!!!

I gave Anne from White Lace Cottage a couple of my old doors and felt good about letting them go to a new home.  Then I thought to my self, there, see you are not a door hoarder you gave two beautiful chippy doors away.  I was feeling pretty good about this and then I saw her, a door, all chippy and vintage and screaming to me out of the corner of the booth she was stuck in.

I had to go over and see her.  She had a tag on her that said she was from a 1930's Chicago office and it was love at first site.

She was green but I changed that up quickly with some Annie Sloan paint  Old White.  Look at her pretty etched glass window and the vintage words private.

I felt like she was out of an old Dick Tracey movie.  Love that frosted etched old glass.

I hung her in my office.

For now she is hanging behind my desk.  I am loving the history that this hung in a Chicago office suite in the 1930's.  She is so full of charm, history and just enough chippiness.
Now I have to find things to hang on her.
Door Hoarder status back in tack!!!!!
My friend said she thought this door would be so cute on a bathroom.  Hmmmmm when I redo my hall bath I may have to think about this.

Oh one more thing!!!!!
I had to share these pictures with you.  It was too amazing and funny not to show you.

My girlfriend and I were out to the Vintage Market in Rockford on Friday and we were driving through Rockford we looked over and saw these three huge turkeys just running around.  I wish I could have gotten their picture when the had their feathers open.  They were magnificent.  At one point before I could get the camera out they were on a front porch with their feathers fanned out and they were so beautiful.  My friend and I both thought when we first saw them on the porch "oh wow look at those life like turkey decorations on the porch".

 Nope not decoration but the real thing.

We were not sure if they were wild turkey's or if someone owned these.  It was right in the middle of a subdivision of homes.  Not farms where you would maybe see turkeys roaming about.  I am not sure if someone had these in their yard and they escaped but they were were running around.  They seemed to like this church.  Maybe they were stopping in to pray they will not be someone's Thanksgiving dinner!!!
On that thought I will say have a great week.
Kris
:)