Welcome back to The Scoop

The weekly link party featuring the scoop on the best posts from around the web!

More exposure + less time = win win! 

  

We are

Anita from Cedar Hill Farmhouse

Linsey from Farmhouse Porch,

Debbie from Confessions of a Plate Addict 
Anne from White Lace Cottage and Barb from The Everyday Home.

Linsey here, from The Farmhouse Porch.
Before I move on to the party stuff, I want to remind you about our mega party coming up. It is a "Creating Fall Vignettes" themed, week long show and tell, featuring day after day of inspiration and fabulous photos and how-to's, by your favorite bloggers! Here are the dates and a schedule:

  Friday Nov 8 Back Porch Musings On Sutton Place Sophia's  Chateau  Chic Confessions of a Plate Addict

  Saturday Nov 9 Cedar Hill Farmhouse Town and Country Living A Stroll thru Life Mom 4 Real Setting for Four

  Sunday Nov 10 Savvy Southern Style Hymns & Verses Lilacs & Longhorns Marty's Musings White Lace Cottage

  Monday Nov 11 Stone Gable The Everyday Home Our Southern Home At the Picket Fence My Soulful Home

  Tuesday Nov 12 Top This Top That Inspiration for Moms All Things Heart and Home Domestically Speaking The Farmhouse Porch

This week I'm "hosting a host". Our guest host joining us this week is the beautiful Suzy of  Worthing Court. She's going to tell you a little bit about her blog and pick out our featured links from the party last week.

Hi everyone!  My name is Suzy and I blog at Worthing Court.

I'm a Southern girl living right smack in the middle of North Carolina.  My goal at Worthing Court is is to inspire others to beautify their surroundings and their lives by sharing home decor, decorating tips and how-to's, diy projects, crafts, recipes and more.  

In addition, I have a weekly series every Friday called House Snoopers where I get other bloggers to let us come inside and snoop around their homes.  At House Snoopers you'll find homes decorated in every style and on all types of budgets.  

 

I am honored to be visiting at The Scoop with you this week!  The Scoop has long been one of my favorite places to party.  There are so many talented people who link up that I never fail to find oodles of inspiration.  Now comes the really tough part - narrowing it down to just a few favorites.   

    

I'll start with Debbie at Painted Therapy who repurposed a piece of furniture and created this fabulous bench.

Go check it out.  You won't believe what it started out as.

Duane at Cottage In The Oaks put together a wonderful center for beverages that will take them all the way through the winter. 

Note to self - must get a tiered galvanized metal stand. 

Krista from The Happy Housie created a unique and cute door hanging for Halloween.

You''ll want to take a look at the rest of her cute Halloween porch too.

If you're looking for a super easy appetizer or snack for Fall, you'll want to grab this recipe from Linda at Crafts A La Mode.

You'll be surprised at what I call the secret ingredient.  Definitely gonna try this one.

Tammy at One More Time Events shares a great idea for displaying and serving Fall and Thanksgiving dishes.

Now I need to go cut down a tree.  lol

Over at Number Fifty-Three, Angela has been steadily working to give new life to her oak cabinet filled kitchen.

I love the eclectic modern, country look that she's putting together.

Thank you ladies, for having me over to visit at The Scoop today!  

Thank YOU Miss Suzy Q! We were so glad to have you help us pick out some "featurees" this week.
~Linsey at The Farmhouse Porch

 

  Thank you for linking up, friends!

Please read the guidelines before participating:

• Follow (GFC) and/or subscribe to your host blog.
• Be sure to include THE SCOOP button or text link to in your linked post  Mandatory to be featured!
• By linking up you are agreeing that the photos are yours or that you have permission to use them, that we may use those photos to feature your project on a blog post, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter with a link back to your blog, of course.
• Please go to the source of a photo to pin it to Pinterest so that the originator of the post gets the credit

General Store Vignette Vintage Can Labels and How a Tornado gave me a Nest

Something about old time-y general stores appeals to me greatly. Maybe because it is the polar opposite shopping experience to the modern grocery store. Creaky wood floors, natural rustic grains, sugars, coffee and produce nestled into neat rows of barrels. Jars of peppermint sticks behind a bead board counter and fresh meat wrapped in butcher paper and twine. And of course canned goods and household necessities lining the tall shelves around the rest of the one room display. 

I borrowed this Library of congress photo from HERE, a great blog post about the history of the antiques inside CB restaurants and how they are acquired. 

It's no secret that I haunt my local Cracker Barrel restaurant. True, it feels a little kitsch and granny-ish, but it's the retail equivalent of the food they sell- pure comfort. If my kids knew I was in there without them they'd be pretty upset. Maybe I can get a seasonal job there doing displays? Have I told you that my dream pantry will look like a general store?

♪♪♪ Ok so before you read on, press play and turn on the music . It enhances the experience of old time-y ness. I I just love this song...♪♪♪

 As a kid did you ever imagine being locked in your favorite store overnight? I think there was a movie like that. Anyways, this is where I'd want to be locked. I could be blissfully content with the nostalgic candy, plush country blankets and glittery candles and lights and bluegrass cd's to entertain me. And then there's the lovely porch full of rockers and chess boards...ahh.

I wonder if I can rent it out for slumber parties. Slumber party in the Cracker barrel gift shop!! Who's with me?

Ok,ok. Stay with me here, there is a point to my Cracker Barrel ramblings. I made a little vignette in the corner of my kitchen dinette area that I'm calling "the general store". It all started with these vintage can labels. 

These can labels are actual real food labels from the 1940's and 50's. I recently acquired a bunch of them. A factory went out of business back in the day, and somehow some stacks of these labels ended up stored away all these years. I have enough extra ones, in fact, that I'm going to sell them in my etsy shop, for those of you who are into these also. But of course I'll be saving a bunch for myself. They are just too authentically cute!! And this is only a third of the designs I have. 

So "Driving Miss Daisy" dont'cha think? I simply attached them to new cans of green beans. Some are empty and I think they'd look darling with little flower arrangements in them, or as herb planters lined up in a window over the kitchen sink, or holding bright yellow pencils on a desk...

Squeal...clasp hands next to face...

Tell me this isn't Cracker Barrel General Store worthy! 

Disclaimer- no biscuits were harmed during the shooting of this post. In fact they were quickly devoured 2 hours later with our Pioneer Woman chicken and rice soup. And yes, eating it in "The General Store" did make it that much more scrumptious.  I made everyone wear bonnets and petticoats...

MMMM- Little House on the Texas Suburb Prairie...

Do you like this polka dot towel? I received it from Aunt Ruthie of Sugar Pie Farmhouse. It was made by Sweet Magnolia Farms Etsy shop. Thanks to Aunt Ruthie I am hooked to SMF now!

Better use a flame-less candle inside an old wooden pie safe. The key word is "safe" after all...

Now...I took this next photo AFTER dinner. 

I wanted you to see how the display will REALLY look on a daily basis. I can't leave a colander of fresh baked biscuits out everyday for heavens sake! Our baby fur monster (aka Junebug, the 17 week old yellow lab) would help herself to every last biscuit in about 5 seconds flat...

...and then would probably help herself to the flour sack dish towel...and the pie safe...and anything else that had the faintest molecule of biscuit scent on it.

And because I know you are extremely concerned about what I did with the little white shelf that had been in the dinette nook before,  I included a photo of it in its' new home. In the "White" dining room.

See that big birds nest? It fell out of a crape myrtle at our last house during a tornado. We lived in Bedford, TX at that time and a small F0 tornado came down our street. I was in the closet with the kids and dog, we all had helmets on, and we were watching David Finfrock (I sure do miss my old news crew on nbc5i DFW. Isn't it funny how you feel like you know them after watching them for so many years?). Anyways, he was actually showing the rotation and saying our street NAME. That is SO SCARY, let me tell ya! We could see power lines breaking and I thought I was going to have a heart attack!

Luckily it only blew down trees and fences and unfortunately, beautiful bird nests. So every time I see this nest it reminds me that God protected my nest and my baby chicks that day. And that we are extremely blessed and lucky to have such wonderful shelter in a world full of disaster and uncertainty.

Wishing you warmth and love and beautiful shelter in your nest today!

Love,

Linsey

*I was in no way reimbursed by Cracker Barrel for this post, nor am I affiliated with them in any way.

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Welcome to The Scoop Link Party

Hi there! I'm Julie and I blog at Lilacs & Longhorns.

I'm so happy to be here guest-hosting at the Scoop today!

I'm a farmhouse and cottage-loving, Northern girl living in Texas with my native-Texan husband and children. I blog about my love for all things home including decorating, DIY, cooking and gardening.

I hope you'll stop on by my blog to see how I incorporate my loves with the tastes and styles of everyone in my family!

When the hosts of The Scoop asked me to be a guest co-host, I was thrilled! But, honestly, it's a tough job narrowing down all of the great projects to just a few. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that there is a lot of talent in blog-land. You all are amazing! But, narrow it down I must, so here are my faves this week:

I love the breakfast room changes at Back Porch Musings.

I've been considering painting the chairs in my kitchen different colors for awhile and her fun chairs and gorgeous farm table have just about tipped me over the scales in favor of painting. I love this room! Click on over to her blog to see her gorgeous hutch filled with plates. This chalky-painted French script desk from Knick of Time Interiors is not only gorgeous, but a cute black cat is posing perfectly for the picture, too -- love the desk and the kitty!

You'll have to click on the link to see what this piece was before it became a desk. Oh, and if you like chalky-type paint, you'll want to read about what type of paint she used to transform this piece. Sticking with the black cat theme...I love these cute little DIY black cats and pumpkin by Our Clover House.

Check out the full tutorial at Clover House. It looks so easy I think I might give it a try -- I love DIY projects that are easy and inexpensive! From simple and small to big and impressive -- check out this DIY built-in bookcase at Home is Where My Heart is:

This project looks so amazing -- can you believe it's DIY? They can come to my house and build me a wall unit any time. I have the perfect place in mind! Finally, I love a good pumpkin recipe, so this easy pumpkin muffin recipe from Craft Dictator caught my eye. It calls for TWO ingredients -- how easy is that?!

Thank you ladies, for inviting me to co-host your party! I've had a blast being here!Now, I believe it's time to do some linking up..

 

Welcome back to The Scoop

The weekly linky party featuring the scoop on the best posts from around the web!

More exposure + less time = win win!

We are

Anita from Cedar Hill Farmhouse

Linsey from Farmhouse Porch,

Debbie from Confessions of a Plate Addict Anne from White Lace Cottage and Barb from The Everyday Home.

Thank you for linking up, friends!

Please read the guidelines before participating:

• Follow and/or subscribe to your host blog.
• Be sure to include THE SCOOP button or text link to in your linked post...mandatory to be featured!
• By linking up you are agreeing that the photos are yours or that you have permission to use them, that we may use those photos to feature your project on a blog post, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter with a link back to your blog, of course.
• Please go to the source of a photo to pin it to Pinterest so that the originator of the post gets the credit.

A Funny Puppy Tooth Vintage Christmas Ornament DIY

This morning our 16 week old lab puppy ,Junebug, lost a tooth. She has been losing teeth steadily over the past few weeks but this morning was the first time we were able to get a hold of one. My daughter came running in with it and all of us were excited to have such a sweet tiny memento of our new babies quickly fading puppy days.

Stuff like this usually ends up thrown away or tossed into a drawer or jewelry box. But as I looked at it laying in the tiny metal tart tin I had temporarily put it in, the idea hit me to hot glue it into the tin and turn the whole thing into an ornament. I don't know why I had never thought of this before, I wish I had done this with the girls's teeth. I know they would be so tickled to see it each year as we sift through the Christmas ornaments and decorate the tree.

So here is how this funny little ornament ended up after I added my vintage style embellishments. I really do think we will enjoy looking at this this years from now...

Awww...such a teeny tiny tooth!

I used a silver sharpie to write and decorate the inside. 

I also used vintage style tinsel around the edge, and tea stained binding seam for a hanger. Sweet Magnolia Farm on etsy is where I buy it.

And there it is! A free Christmas ornament keepsake to remember puppies first Christmas.

~Linsey

Welcome to The Scoop Link Party

Welcome back to The Scoop

The weekly linky party featuring the scoop on the best posts from around the web!

 

More exposure + less time = win win!

 

We are 

Anita from Cedar Hill Ranch,

Linsey from Farmhouse Porch,

Debbie from Confessions of a Plate Addict

and Anne from White Lace Cottage

This is Debbie from Confessions of a Plate Addict and I am excited to be your host tonight because I have the honor of introducing our newest host…

Barb at The Everyday Home!!

We are thrilled to have Barb join us at The Scoop!  

And now...let's get this party started! We are excited to turn things over to our guest host this week! 

Hi there! I’m Linda and I blog at It All Started With Paint.

 

Oh, and I also recently started a second blog called Mason Jar Crafts Love.

 

That’s right. This is me …

the crazy lady juggling two blogs!

And two kids … and one loving husband … and one crazy dog … and a long, long list of home improvement projects … So, naturally, when the amazing ladies from The Scoop link party asked me to pick features … and co-host their awesomely inspiring weekly party … I jumped right on in!

Let me start by saying picking just five or six favorites to feature from last week’s party was a challenge ...

the creativity linked up last week was over the top!

 

But I had to winnow it down. Starting with this Milky Mercury Glass from Mrs. Fancee …

A perfect fall décor project idea … and she shares an incredible, detailed tutorial too!

Then there’s the Fall Table Setting at Home is Where the Boat Is …

I can’t tell you how much I would love to sit at this table overlooking that gorgeous view and clink wine glasses with Miss Home is Where Boat Is …

Then there’s this amazing DIY on how to Make Your Own Wire Basket from Remodelando la Casa …

Seriously? Make your own wire basket? I’m loving this idea!

Vintage Mellie shows us how she Painted Stripes on a Table Top …

A project that holds a special place in my heart … and the corner of my living room. Yes, I have a table that I painted stripes on the top too!

Shabby Criss has an excellent tutorial on how to Make Fabric Pumpkins …

I love the fun, graphic fabric she chose!

And I’m going to throw in one last feature …

No Bake Messy Monster Cookies from Shaken Together. I love those edible eyeballs. I think I’m going to pick some up at the supermarket and put edible eyes on everything I serve my family for the rest of the month …

Thank you ladies for inviting me to co-host your amazing party! And now I’m guessing now it’s time to link up …

 

Thank you for linking up, friends!

Please read the guidelines before participating:

• Follow and/or subscribe to your host blog.
• Be sure to include THE SCOOP button or text link to in your linked post...mandatory to be featured!
• By linking up you are agreeing that the photos are yours or that you have permission to use them, that we may use those photos to feature your project on a blog post, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter with a link back to your blog, of course.
• Please go to the source of a photo to pin it to Pinterest so that the originator of the post gets the credit.