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I searched through my old laptop and here are some of the pictures I found.. That paint color was really quite something.

In the end, we had a couple of pumpkins that looked like this!We left them to dry on some plastic wrap for about 2 days, or until they were as hard as rock.. We used some orange and black paint to make them a little bit festive and that was it!.

They don’t look half bad when they’re grouped together with a whole bunch of real pumpkins in the mudroom..This little mini guy was my test pumpkin.You can see that if you want to take your time with them and make the paper towel strips a bit smoother, that you can actually get a pretty cute pumpkin out of this method.. …or you can just let your kids go nuts and make some great Halloween memories!.

Have fun getting messy!If you don’t know about this one and you’re a baker, even on occasion, then you’ve definitely been missing out.I live in a fairly humid climate, so I always have problems with baking supplies clumping together, but brown sugar going hard is definitely the worst.

It becomes completely unusable!.

I’ve heard of all kind of different things that were supposed to work for this problem: a piece of bread, a piece of terra cotta soaked in water, things like that, but none of them really worked every single time.. Just a few years ago, I learned of this little trick.How is that possible?

Now, we have an old unfunctioning chimney, just no fireplace.It’s OK, house, I still love you..

I decided I still needed something mantle-ish to accommodate my decorating needs, so Chris built me a little something..The top is reclaimed barn wood and the legs are old 2 by 4s that Chris took out of the wall upstairs when we was re-studding Kennedy’s closet.. I’m not quite done decorating it yet, but I’m sharing it anyway.