The Farmhouse Guest Room

 Cows are huge! 

 

We were at the ranch one weekend and I thought it would be fun to give the longhorns their cow cakes. 

Bill was down at the trailer doing something else so I was alone.

I hopped onto the four wheeler, went up to the barn and collected the treats. 

I strapped the pan of cakes onto the back of the vehicle and headed toward the cows. 

They aren't stupid.

As soon as I got off and started unbuckling the pan of cow cakes, all eleven of the longhorns came running. 

Twenty two horns of gouge potential were headed straight toward me.
 Fearing for my life, I threw the pan of cow cakes and ran like the wind in the opposite direction.

I thought I was ready to be a cowgirl.
Nope!
A chicken maybe but not a cowgirl! 

I love cows.
I think they are beautiful and gentle creatures.

The cow print over the bed came from LaurieAnna's Vintage Home in Canton, Texas. 

 

The black ticking pillows are from Pottery Barn. 

I made the toile pillow ages ago. 

The tiny cow print was a download from The Graphic's Fairy.

These are the kind of cows I'm not afraid of.
I love this room. 
It's just so cute! 
I hope you are having a great day.
Katie 

Linking with, 
Peeking Through The Sunflowers 
Pieced Pasttimes
Dear Creatives

How to Decorate with Sweet Things

I can't help it. 

I like sweets.

I like to decorate with sweet things without getting a tooth ache. 
I was digging through the Christmas stuff trying to get ready for the upcoming season and I found this sweet cow. 

She is what's left of an old nativity. 
I've given the rest of it away but I kept her and a little donkey. 
 I really thought that she should have a little more exposure than just at the holidays. 
She provides a light farmhouse touch. 

One sweet little cow. 
Cows all over the room would be too much of a good thing. 
Just one will do.

One little cow sitting on my favorite book. 
One little cow and the last of the summer roses.

They are always so pretty in November. 
 

The Florentine table came from an antique shop for only $15.00.

 The French chair in the background got new upholstery.

Just enough sweetness in a room of neutrals and white. 
I hope you are having a good evening. 
Katie  

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Best of the Weekend

    

Feeling Farmish/Farmhouse Style

Farmly

Farmish

Farmington
Farmliness

I have been feeling very farm over here. 
I thought I remembered seeing my great grandfather in a big, red barn at their farm as a very small child. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why we never spoke to me. 
A quick check to my ancestry account has him dying nine years before I was born. 
Why on earth did I think that guy was my great grandfather?

I've added some farmhouse touches to the house in the past year. 
I told you about Bess my Bovine Beauty. 

There have been other cows as well but I wouldn't go as far as calling this a cow collection. 

The little cow plate came from the thrift store. 
I was autoless a few weeks ago. 
My friend, Sara picked me up and took me to the cleaners.
 I suggested a quick loop to the other side of the highway to check out my favorite thrift. 
I don't think she is a fan of thrifting but I appreciate her humoring me. 
I found the plate and it was only $5.00.
The plate matches the new art above the mantel. 
It also goes well with one of my favorite vintage postcards. 

The cow butter dish was a thrifted item last summer. 
The egg coddler came from the antique mall.

The black and white cow pitcher came from a flea market down in the hill country of Texas last fall. 
He is so cute with the black and white transferware. 

My little chick salt shaker is cute with it too. 
He is all that remains of a deviled egg set from my grandmother. 

The pig cutting board came from my mother in law. 

A friend at work was throwing away the barn bird house. 
It got a healthy dose of white spray paint. 

The Audubon Print of a crow tearing into an ear of corn is perfect of this time of year. 
It prompted me to seek out our corn teapot.

It took a couple of days of hunting before I was able to locate the teapot. We got it from Bill's granny Vi. 
She used it as a vase to root ivy. 

The farmhouse touches are great with my sunflowers for some late summer decorating. 


I wanted to show you something. 
I remember watching an episode of Rehab Addict with Nicole Curtis. 
Do you watch that show on HGTV?
She took old hardware with layers of paint and put it in an old crock pot. 
The paint just peeled off after a good cooking. 
We didn't have an old crock pot but we did have an old stock pot. 
We filled it full of gunked up hardware and put it on the stove to simmer. 

I love that all the colors are revealed. This hardware came from my classroom.  

It was that country blue when I moved in but I remember the bright green. 

These pulls didn't go back into my classroom. I replaced mine with oil rubbed bronze.
There are probably a hundred more up at the school that need this fix. 
If only I had the time...

We have finally gotten a break from our 100 degree days. 
Yahoo. 
What are you up to today?
Katie   
Best of the Weekend   
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