Contemporary or Minimalist Home Design?

This is a guest room design combines classic and modern minimalist decor. Use a brown color on the walls and chairs and sofas classic impression compounded by using a colorful carpet. Not many other components or decor is one characteristic of the minimalist model. Combining these styles can inspire you to organize your living room.

How I Am Getting Ready For Winter

We planted a garden this year with plans to do a lot of canning and freezing.  I really wanted to get some fruit and veggies put away for the winter when we couldn't get what we wanted. 

I have tried to start buying as much as I can from local farmers and growing the few things that we could grow.  This years garden had tomatoes, okra, bell peppers, jalepeno peppers, and several things that didn't make it.  Our squash and zuchinni all died.  Got some good advice from an old farmer here in town so hopefully next years garden will be even better.  Lessons to be learned...

I also picked and bought lots of blueberries this year and picked blackberries that I made jam out of and also put in the freezer.  I also bought a bunch of peaches that I made peach preserves with.  Delish...

My last canning the other night was tomatoes and blueberry jam.  My next thing to do is hopefully to pick apples from a grower down the road from me and make apple butter.

Now, I want to make sure it doesn't sound like I am boasting or bragging about what I am doing.  I just wanted to let you know what has taken up a lot of my time and what I am doing to prepare for winter. 

This has been a busy yet very productive summer.  I feel very good about what I have accomplished for my family.  I can't wait to pull blueberries out of the freezer in December and think about the day the kids and I went blueberry picking in July.

Blueberry jam made with some of the best blueberries I have ever eaten.  They were organic and locally grown. 

We go through jams and jellies very quickly.  We love toast, bagels, and english muffins with jelly. 

We did green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, salsa and spaghetti sauce.

My freezer is full of strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, corn on the cob, fried corn, okra, squash, and peppers.  It's also stockpiled with other foods that I find on sale at great prices.  (mainly breads, bagels and such that I get at good prices and stock up on)  I have also started making a breakfast casserole that I put in the freezer so that I can use up some of the many many many eggs that we have.

There you have it.  My summer job in a nutshell.  I feel like the ant who was getting ready for the winter.  The difference is that I have lots of help from my three kiddos.

Do you can any of your foods?  What about freezing?    I would love to hear about some of the things you are putting away for winter.

Can I just say one more thing?  My nanny would be so proud.  She canned everything that she could possibly can.  Her shelves were always stocked with food they had grown and preserved.  I am thrilled to be following in her footsteps even just a little. 

Tell me some of your preparations.  I would love to hear about them.

Linking up over at The DIY Showoff.  It's not a craft but I did do it myself.

Also linking up over at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam.

CSN Winner !

I want to thank each and everyone of you for entering my CSN giveaway and for supporting my blog.  Also, a big thank you to CSN Stores  for their generosity.  The winner of the CSN $80.00 giveaway is.......

Claudia @ Dipity Road

Please drop by and tell Claudia congratulations. She has a lovely blog and she also is the host of Friday- Finding Beauty.  Congrats Claudia!  Send me your email and you can start shopping.

xo, Sherry

Minimalist Interior Design Ceramic White House in Spain

This is a minimalist house design interior and white ceramic. Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez designer has transformed the attic of a house in Madrid, Spain into a new living space with a variety of spaces. Ceramic nicknamed House, all parts are protected with ceramic interior, reasonable name. Home interior designDesign is considered as three-dimensional objects, allowing each one of the rooms or

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Restoration Hardware Look-A-Like

There is still time to enter the CSN $80.00 giveaway Here.  Entries will be accepted until midnight 8/23/10.  Good Luck to everyone!

I promised to show you my new Restoration Hardware look-a-like table that I purchased for $379.00 compared to RH price for the same table of $1295. You can read about my obsession to find a similar table at a reasonable price Here.

It's funny how one little table can create so many changes!  Of course we had to pay to have Sheetrock repaired,  new paint color was selected and the wall painted, a wall unit had to be sold to make room and a new lamp, mirror and accessories were purchased.  I have the best husband in the world to go along with my crazy ideas and constant changes.

New $10.00 lamp reminds me of antique wine bottles.

I love the new mirror from Anthropologie...especially at 70% off!

We originally had a large wall unit on this wall. I loved the piece of furniture but it completely blocked the

in-take vent. We noticed this summer that the family room was not cooling as well as the rest of the house and that the air conditioner ran constantly downstairs. This resulted in some very high electric bills.

I really don't like that you can see the vent but we noticed immediately a dramatic difference in the temperature of this room and I know it will pay off in our electric bill.

I have a busy day tomorrow working on a project I have been putting off for two years. Thanks for dropping by and all your kind comments.

Fondly,

Sherry

I am linking up at the following parties:

Southern Hospitality 

A Stroll Thru Life 

My Romantic Home 

Finding Fabulous 

Color Outside The Lines

Coastal Charm

Minimalist Design House Italian Style

Minimalist Home DesignsHome interior designThis is a modern and minimalist house design Italian style created by Andrea Oliva. All the characteristics of minimalist house combined to make this house truly minimalist. Start with simple rectangular shapes, flat roofs and white palette and the use of gray on the exterior and interior. The house is also equipped with sustainable features. Flat roofs