Tree Branch Snowflake Decorations Giveaway

How about a giveaway? Sounds good right!? And its an easy one too.

For 1 lucky winner all you have to do is:

1) find me on Instagram under: inyournest and follow me 

2) Like and re-gram this picture.

Super easy! 

International contest open through Nov. 1st - Nov. 4th

Wow ! What a month

Phew! I am glad the month is almost over. It has been crazy busy over here.

The garden, lawn and surroundings had to be prepped for winter, even tho I am not ready to give up my flip flops just yet.

This blew into my yard, Thanks for the reminder!

I have been a busy bee with creating and adding new items to my Etsy shop. Still very low views and sales. :(

I have a new nephew! Love him to bits!

While Mommy and Daddy where busy in the hospital, I got to spend quality time with older brother.

And tomorrow is Halloween! My kiddos are older now and we don't have any little ones come around anymore so I miss out on all the cute costumes. What are your little ones dressing as??

An afternoon with my nephew

Today my nephew came over for a visit, my sister and her hubby went to a funeral. Since my boys are pretty much grown I don't have a lot of toys laying around for him to play with. So instead of putting him in front of the television we went out for a walk. First we went to the school where I work as a lunch program supervisor. All the kids flocked over to him and oohed and awed at how cute he is, Of course he is, after all I am his auntie ;) He shied away at all the attention and buried his head into my shoulders. We or should I say I decided it was time to walk home, it was pretty cold out and I was not dressed for the weather at all. We walked and talked and picked up sticks and admired the leaves that had fallen from the trees. God I miss this stage of curiosity and awe. I finally convinced him it was time to come inside, of course he was not having any of it. I love spending time with him and we had a great afternoon.

Crisp Autumn days ahead

All those sweaters I put away for the summer, Its time to bring them out! The mornings and evenings are cold here.Single-digit temperatures at night mean flannel pajamas for me.I wish summer would stay forever but then I would miss seeing all the beautiful colors of Autumn. If I could skip winter all together, I would be a happy girl. Now that my boy's are older I miss the times when we would rake the leaves and pile them high, Just to have them bulldozer threw them. My nephew is almost 2, I think I will have to steal him to have an excuse to run threw the leaves again. What is your favourite autumn past time?

A "new" dresser

I just finished refinishing an old dresser for my sister. She bought a dresser online for 11$ and was going to keep it as is, until I came up with a most awesome idea of painting it. I had no idea what I was going to do, but new it at least needed to be painted. When we brought it to my place I soon discovered one drawer was broken beyond repair. I decided to take it out and turn the space into a shelf.

Old dresser

Drawer taken out and shelf made

Now came the primer and paint, I chose an off white color.

I decided to distress the paint a little but quickly decided it looked to plain. Off to the store to buy some stencils. I used a beige paint for the chevron and stenciled the front of the drawers. Added the same color to the top and bottom.

I really like the way it turned out. All it needs now are some handles.