Touring Rural South Carolina Part 1

A few days ago, Jeremy took me on a tour of rural South Carolina. On the first day we visited Barnwell and Allendale counties. I LOVE living in the rural south. It is so quiet and so peaceful. 

 Here are few pictures that I took:

This is Smyrna Baptist Church built in the 1820s in Allendale county.

The next church requires a little story. A man named William Robinson Erwin got kicked out of Smyrna Baptist Church because of a little drinking and gambling problem. According to the church documents he was excommunicated for heresy. So he decided to build his own church: Antioch Christian Church.

This church was built in 1833 (and it is right down the road from Smyrna Baptist Church). There are now several Antioch Christian Churches located all over the south. 

Book Nook and a Shabby Chic Guest Room

Today I'm going to share with you two of my other favorite rooms. Our Book Nook upstairs and our Upstairs Guest Bedroom. They still need curtains but I LOVE how they turned out.

This is such a great space to relax and read a book!

One of my new favorite motto's

Homemade pillow my Mom made

Another motto I absolutely fell in love with. Found it on another one of my favorite blogs: Tattered and Inked. (click to get the printable too!)

Our Shabby Chic Guest Bedroom! I LOVE how it turned out! So pretty and welcoming. Most of the decor is made by my Mom and my late Grandmother.

LOVE decorating with quilting hoops. Grandma made the blue butterfly.

Stinky has found himself a nice spot for a nap

My Mom helped me recover the chair and we used some old fashioned guest towels that my Grandma embroidered to decorate.

Parlor Reveal

Goodness gracious... the past few days have just been a whirlwind! We got all of our big furniture from our old house to our new house on Tuesday. I am so glad we hired professional movers cuz when I say big furniture, I mean BIG furniture. And I'm glad I didn't have to haul it up the stairs. Then my Mom came and brought us the curtains she made for our bedroom. That was a chore putting them up but the end result it just beautiful! All of my down time I have spent trying to get all of the rooms just how I want them. So I'm going to start with the Parlor. I think this is my new favorite room in the house! It turned out amazing!

There was a huge old piano in the room when we moved in (it does not work)...so i decided to re-purpose it into a picture table.

Here is our old game table. I still can't get over how much smaller our furniture looks in this house.

All of our great memories!

This is Jeremy's contribution to the decor: a porcelain pee-pot. He was so excited when he found it in an antique store; I was like "oh no". I had such a darn time trying to figure out how to incorporate it into my table decorations. So this is my best attempt because I just couldn't tell Jeremy no pee-pot because he was so proud of it. LOL

And that's no yolk

Happy Easter Yall!

I hope everyone had a great day with their friends and families! This post is very picture heavy but I just wanted to share everything about our Easter this year with you!

This year we celebrated Easter with Jeremy's family in McClellanville and I was assigned to dye the Easter eggs for the Fudge family Easter dinner.

Getting everything ready on my kitchen table.

Easter Egg dye!

Pictures of the finished products.
These are all dyed eggs that I decorated with permanent markers.
It was so much fun!! And everyone LOVED them so I'm pretty sure I will be voted to do them again in two years.

We had the pleasure of going to Wren's Chapel in McClellanville with Jeremy's Grandparents this morning. They made it to double digits in attendance (10) with us there!
(Look at that sharp suit!)

After eating a wonderful Easter supper; we went hunting for Easter eggs in the backyard.

Happy Easter 2012

We Hope Everyone Has a Wonderful Easter!

New Kitchen Reveal!

Here is my new kitchen!! I LOVE how it turned out! The antique pie safe holds all of my linens and spices. I have a huge pantry to hold all of my canned goods and big bulky kitchen gadgets. There is a side porch that goes off the kitchen that is awesome. I imagine some rocking chairs out there some day. And I have a kitchen table now! I love getting up and having my coffee and breakfast at a kitchen table.

Love the organization in the cupboards! And check out my awesome vintage 1950s pink and black china!

Here is the gallery wall that I worked so hard on. My mother did the embroidery at the top in the gold frame and my late grandmother hand-stitched the embroidery sampler that is framed in green. The "F" monogram in the middle I found and printed online here. (you can make your own too; and it's free!) The plate that is in the plate holder is part of my Autumn Leaf Jewel T collection. And I found the cute "Eat, Drink, and be Hairy" cat print at the local craft show.

Don't you just LOVE? Stay tuned for more reveals later!

New House Preview!

Jeremy and I are still working hard to get our new house looking awesome. Here is a little taste of some of the things we have accomplished and a tiny look into our new house.

This is what you see when you come in the back door. These are pictures of the house we are going to be living in. The bottom two are of the plantation house that a lot of the current house's features come from. The top picture is of the house now and the two pictures in the middle are of the house over the years (from when it was built to about 1918-ish). Very cool. When yall come over you will have to take a moment to look at them closer.

These are a grouping of paintings of the Edisto Island area in our den. We got them at a local auction.

Our parlor Mantel.

And our entry hall from the front door.

So what do you think? We are very excited about it.