Garage Sale Saturday

Don't you just love a good garage sale!

Well...our fairgrounds has one every so often

and it's my favorite...because it's not just

a bunch of junk...you can find some pretty good stuff!

I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was to

find this Silver French Fireplace screen! 

This was the second time that I had run across it...

the first time I let sweet husband talk me out of buying it!

And then of course it's all I could think about for months after...

I guess it was just meant to come home with me..

because the lady still had it for sale...

can you believe no one had bought it!

These 4 prints are completely different then

anything in my house...but I thought they were

really interesting! 

This is only two of them..the other two are similar

Now if only I had a Library in my house

decorated in English Hunting design i'd be all set!

But I like them...so i'll find a spot for them...somewhere

Now this print fits in here just perfect...and I have a spot for it

And we're back to the English library look...

i'm really starting to wonder if my taste are changing again?

Anyways....I thought this leather bag was really beautiful

and had a lot of storage potential!



You just never know what will strike your

interest at a garage sale...

Happy Hunting

Happy 1st day of Fall

Yippeee......

it's officially the first day of Fall!

I'm going mum....gourd...and

pumpkin shopping

this afternoon!

How about you?

Photos from Country Living...except the first one and I just can't find

who to give credit to!  If it's yours let me know...it's a beautiful picture!



The Pineapple Room on Facebook

Sooooo.....

I thought it would be really fun 

to have a Facebook page

to go along with

The Pineapple Room blog!

A place where I could share maybe

just a little something that I

was doing....or something that

caught my attention that day...

or a new recipe....or...

well you get the idea!

So please join me on Facebook!

There is a button on the right hand side

of my blog that will get you there!

If you go right now you can catch a

sneak peek of what sweet husband

is doing with all of those green shutters!

See you on Facebook!

One thing always leads to another

Sorry i've been MIA lately...

I realized it had been to long 

when my Dad asked me if I had

given up the blog....Opps

With school starting, buying a car,

going away for the holiday...blah blah blah

the weeks flew by me!

Anyways....we've been very busy around here!

It's funny how one little thing can lead to another...

Well I guess in this instance I don't mean little...

I mean HUGE....

While we were away in Sea Island this month

my girlfriend Sondra spotted this at an Antique Show...

She really has the knack for finding cool stuff!

I love my Christmas present...Thanks Sondra!!!

My girlfriends Sondra, Ann and I had a great time

"stealing" sweet husbands truck and going to pick

this up from the show....Girl Power!!!

Even though Ann (who was brave enough to drive the big truck)

said.....let's hope this is a straight shot...

there will be no backing up or parking of this truck! 

Don't you just love girlfriends who stick with you and help

you carry out crazy schemes...no matter what!

Well once we got it back to Florida I realized it needed a

great spot...which lead to us looking around the yard

and realizing it really needed some serious help.

So begin the 2 week process of cleaning up and cleaning out!

Then while at Ikea....I stumbled across these beauty's...

For $14.99 you can't beat these lanterns..they
are awesome!  And I just knew I wanted to
place them on the back steps!
Well wouldn't you know it...but when I went
to put them out there I realized the back steps
had rotted and were caving in so they
 needed to be replaced.. to work sweet husband went.

 While I love the shabby look of them right now...they are
going to be sanded and stained to match
 the existing surrounding wood.
But for now...I few pumpkins and flowers won't hurt!

And do you remember the shutters
 that sweet husband brought home?

Well he did something really cool with them...

I would show you but my mother claimed the first one

and loaded it up in her truck before I could even take a picture!

But he's building more for me to put in the garden

and I promise to show you soon!

So you see how one thing can lead to another....

But the good news is the back porch and yard

are finally getting some well needed TLC.

Just in time for (fingers crossed)

some lovely fall weather!

(photo Country Living)

Fall Baking

There is just something about the

Fall that makes me want to bake...



While the calender may say the first

day of Fall is September 23rd...

every magazine I pick up is packed full

of Fall fun....so when I received the

Southern Living this week...I couldn't

help myself, I had to make the cake on the cover!

Apple-Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

It is soooo yummy....

it tasted good when it was

first made....great the next day....and

out of this world the day after that.

You can find the recipe

HERE

It's a bit of work...but you won't be disappointed!

And it makes the house smell fabulous and fall like

I always hate to waste the apple peels when I am baking...

So I usually make a

Brown Sugar-Apple Simple Syrup with them...

Recipe is

HERE

It's great on pancakes, ice cream,

on top of oatmeal,  in ice tea....

it's so good!

 

And it looks pretty in the jar!

Happy

(soon to be)

Fall!!!

Linking up with Lisa at...

Lots and Lots of Shutters

There is a bonus to being married to a

contractor....besides the fact that he can

build just about anything I can dream up...

he also brings home really cool stuff!

He's brought home old mantles,

hutches, doors, windows, door knockers,

cabinets...you name it he brings it home,

because he knows how much I hate to see it

go into the landfill!

Well this week he brought home

21 green wooden shutters...

And a whole bag of these beautiful metal brackets..
I don't know why but when I look at them I think
of a barrel full of moneys...you know the game where
you connect the plastic monkeys....which leads me to
thinking they would be really cool all connected together to
form a chain from the roof to the ground...you know like
a rain chain...so when it rains the water trickles down it
instead of a gutter spout....which leads me to the thought
that we really need a rain barrell around here...which leads
me to the thought of I really need to get the garden back in order..
and yes I realize I may have a screw or two loose..
because that whole sequence happened in a matter
of seconds in my mind!

Now...let's see what I can come up with to do with all of them...

stay tuned!

Inspirations and Favorites~Places

Do you have that one place...

a place that speaks to you...

a place you feel most at home...

where you are who you are meant to be?

It might be a room in your home...

a place far far away from your everyday life...

or it may just be a special memory kept safe within your heart.

For me, besides being anywhere my family is...

my favorite place in the whole wide world is

Savannah, Georgia

There is no other place as beautiful to me as Savannah...

I could wonder around and look at the houses forever...
imagining what life would be like to live within those beautiful
walls...all the history and the
stories they could tell if only they could...

The squares and the parks....

And don't even get me started on the marsh...

while I love the ocean....if you gave me all the money in the

world I would still choose to live next to the marsh...

 

The spanish moss and the oak trees call to me...

 

When my sister and I where younger we lived

in Savannah for a little while...

and when our parents would take us to school 

we had to cross over the marsh in the mornings...

and there is nothing as beautiful as the sun coming up over the marsh

This picture represents my favorite moment of summer...

while there was lots of great memories from this summer,

this is my favorite....

I was sitting on a bench

listening to the church bells ring and the wind

was blowing ever so gentle...making the moss flutter in the

wind...and it was a moment of total peace...

When the moment passed I took a picture...

You can't help but just love the architecture

The church doors...where the bells I heard came from...

Alright, I guess it's time to tell you my Lady & Son's story...
I've wanted to eat here forever..so I was super excited when
we had the chance...and it was wonderful! 

 

So I was eating my fried chicken and

we were all talking and I mentioned that while

I loved a certain someones chicken (not talking about Paula)

but someone else...it just didn't have enough spice for me...

but that I would never tell this certain person that...

because I wouldn't want to be banned from

their table for life...

Well our lovely waiter...overhearing me says

"you know I can hear you"

not knowing where he is going with this I say..Okay??

 

Then he goes into this rant about how they

use a certain amount of spice and if I don't like it....

I immediately turn 10 shades of red and tell him I

was not talking about Paula...

He tells me that he is just looking out for his Momma...

because she protects him and he is gonna protect her!

Now honestly I would NEVER EVER diss my Paula...

she is worshipped around our house...so imagine my

distress at being misunderstood.

 I really don't think he ever believed me

when I said I wasn't talking about Paula, but

you really have to admire the fact that she must be so good

and kind to her employees and family that they stick up for her..

no matter what!

And really I should have followed my momma's advice...

If you don't have anything nice to say...

don't say anything at all!!!

If you ever get the chance to spend even a minute

in Savannah...go...you will never regret it...

there is no other spot on this earth so

beautiful and magical...like time stood still...

you can almost hear the past whisper to you