Red Maple Cottage Living Room

Day 3 without power! This roughing it thing is getting old. I need dinner ideas! Help!

Since Red Maple Cottage has power and internet and I was told to stay home from work today unless they really needed me (still checking the phone), I decide to come to Red Maple Cottage to do some laundry and cook dinner (I will need to reheat it on the grill at home tho).

While I am at RMC I can post here, Facebook and Twitter and keep in touch with all of you. I really do appreciate all the sweet thoughts and comments.

So....since I am at RMC, lets show you around. Today, we have the living room......Walk in the front door and we have the small entry way.

I love the stain glass look on the door. It is a special paint that my mom used on the regular door window .

Now lets enter the living room.

If you turn to the left, there is the wall with the red maple.

Again the letter were cut out using my cricut and the pillow was found at Savers with the house already on it. Mom added the maple tree and the words. Next to the couch you see a red lamp shade.




It used to be white; mom painted it Red.









Ok..Now turn right again. Don't trip over the coffee table.

This is another one of mom's works of art. It was a plain wooden coffee table. She painted it white and stenciled the red boarder on. She also painted the "M" on the the wooden box. ( "M" is the initial of my maiden name, but I'm sure you figured that out). The coffee table matches the window valences. You can see those if you turn around. 

These were also painted and stenciled by mom. That lamp shade was crochet by my grandfather (mom's dad..aka my wild Irish Rose).

 There is Picasso, the watch dog. Next to him is another table painted by mom.

All hand painted. (FYI  you will soon see some of her stuff available on my new Etsy shop... and there will be a grand opening of my Etsy shop with a giveaway..soon)

Now turn to the right, near the front door.

That cabinet is another of mom's painted pieces.
ok now turn around..back toward the stairs.

Head toward the stairs. Can you spot the other mom paint furniture piece?

Yup the video cabinet. Painted with red maple leaves. She has painted this one many many times. But this look is definitely my favorite. OOOhh I almost forgot, turn to the left.

See the brick wall. Yea its paint with another mom painting of a topiary tree. The runner on the stairs is painted as well.

The wood on the stairs was wood but not nice hard word flooring. That is easily changed with some paint.

Hope you had a nice tour of the living room. See you tomorrow, maybe we will take a look at the kitchen.

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Halloween Treats and Tablescape

Happy Halloween everybody!!!!

We still are in the dark today (posting from Red Maple Cottage, that is lucky enough to have power). I went to work this morning only to leave at noon. We got hit hard and they are saying maybe no power for a week :(

The worst part.....they cancelled Halloween. I didn't care I still went to work in my Halloween outfit.







I work in a Doctor's office.








I also made Halloween treats for my coworkers and family. I got the idea to make mummy wrapped candy bars from the Idea Room. She has lots of great mummy ideas!

Since I had no power, I had no printer and had to hand write the tags, but it still looked cute!

They looked great on the table setting for dinner.

Dinner is at Red Maple Cottage tonight, since my house is in the dark.

That black shadow in the background is my parents' dog, Picasso.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!


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Autumn blizzard

I will not be able to update soon. The storm that passed through yesterday took many trees and wires down. I am posting right now from my phone. we have no power along with most of the state of Ct. Hoping to be back blogging soon.

Friday Night Soup

My family has a Fall tradition of Friday night soup. Every Friday night from Sept-Oct we have soup night. It is usually held at Red Maple Cottage, but occasionally my aunt will host Friday night soup (my place has been in a remodeling stage for over a year...almost there...maybe next year I can have soup night). The Friday closest to Halloween is always ghoulash night.

Ghoulash 

I love these bowls! My mom has had them for a few years.

Notice the pumpkin with the crow on it. I found this picture in the corner..

I thought it was done on purpose, but when I pointed it out my mom had no idea they matched (she painted this picture)

Halloween Decor.

I ran out of time to make a whole bunch of pumpkin pumpkins and leaves so I had to make some muffins too.

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First Snow "Fall"

Gotta love New England...a few days ago it was shorts and sandals weather then today there was  this

Yes that is snow!

Can't wait to see what it will look like in the morning. And I thought stores were crazy to put Christmas stuff out before Halloween was even here. 

Halloween Cupcakes

Good Morning!!! Are we all having a wonderful Thursday?

 The weekend is almost here! Woohoo!!  And its almost Halloween! I feel like I haven't done much Halloween/ Fall activities. I has been soo warm out, here in CT  and then sooo cold out. I feel like I missed Fall. I haven't even done much baking. ......But my mom did. She made these little cuties

 Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting, orange sprinkles and jack o' lantern lollipops.

These just have Halloween picks in them. It was the perfect after work snack. ! :)

Tomorrow is our last Friday night soup night for the year. I think I will make pumpkin pumpkins.

 I also need to come up with a healthy Halloween snack for the hubs ' lunch. I make him a lunch every work day that consists of 2 sandwiches (he says 1 isn't enough), a healthy snack, and a yummy snack. I would love your ideas or thoughts.

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30th Birthday Gift

I hope everyone is having a great Tuesday. Is it the weekend yet?
ahhh the weekend.
 Last weekend we went to a surprise 30th birthday party for a friend of the hubs. Since it was his friend I let him decide what we would give as a gift......ok ok I added to it, but his idea was still there. He decided on $30 worth of scratch off lottery tickets, I turned it into this

I got the mug at Savers and cleaned it out. (that's what was in the car when the hubs found his anniversary present) I added the lottery tickets and some candy I had leftover from the Beer and candy gift.

He liked the whole thing. He said the mug was great since it was larger than a regular mug and he drinks alot of coffee. The candy He was trying to hide so his kids didn't eat it all on him and we were all hoping he wins on the lottery tickets.
When the hubs turned 30 I got him 30 scratch offs $90 worth. He won $45. I was really hoping he would at least get my money back. Oh well. I also threw him a surprise party...I got him good too. I will post about that sometime in the near future.

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