The Everything Post: Random Fun Stuff Worth Sharing

Okay. This may be the weirdest post I've ever written for BNOTP. I'm always taking pics or saving fun stuff to share with you when you stop by for a visit, but sometimes I never get around to sharing it all.  Often it's because the pics just do not fit in with what's going on at that moment, here on the blog.

Today, I'm sharing a bunch of different topics and pics.

They are all totally random, and I do mean random!  I'm presenting them in no particular order.  We're gonna be all over the place...a severe case of Blogging ADD. There's probably something in this post for everyone.

Here goes!

Check out this amazing Hobbit House in Trout Creek Montana!  .

I wish I was about a foot tall right now. :)

If you live in Metro Atlanta, here's a fun place to check out some Saturday.  Have you visited the Sweet Auburn Curb Market?

There's a great coffee shop inside called the Cafe Campesino Coffee Bar.

You can find almost ANYTHING in this market.  It's quite an adventure!

A friend and I had lunch in the wonderful Italian restaurant located inside the market at the very back.

The restaurant is called Ciao Bocca which means "Hello Mouth!" and the food is insanely good!  My mouth was very happy...downright ecstatic!

Go!  Your tummy will thank you!  (I think they are closed from 9-29-11 thru 10-02-11, but put it on your calendar to check out after October 2nd.)

Mary, followed the tutorial I posted HERE and made her own flag with some "help from hubby."  Mary said her husband cut the stakes and made the frame for her and she did the painting.  What a great team!  Mary, you and hubby did an awesome job!

Lori at Cottage Art Shop blog shared these images of her wonderful bottle tree.  Love all the garden art!

Have you checked out, Knock Off Decor, yet?

Beckie has a great site where she links to blog posts around Blogland that have posted tutorials showing how to make all those wonderful items we drool over in catalogs and popular stores.

For example, she recently linked to a tutorial I created HERE, showing how to make Christmas garland that's very similar to the garland we see each year in the PB catalog. Check out Knock Off Decor for links to some awesome tutorials.


Many, many months ago, my sister, Glenda and I attended a tour of the historic Rosehill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia.  It's an interesting tour...lots of rather famous people are buried in Rosehill, including musician, Duane Allman and architect, Neil Reid.  Their yearly ghost tour is coming up soon.   I took a few pics to share, but who wants to read a whole blog post about a cemetery tour, right?  So here are just a few of the interesting things I saw in Rosehill.

There's a whole section where all the monuments are designed to look like chess pieces.

Pretty neat.

I saw this engraved on one of the monuments.   Wish I knew the meaning or why they chose this.   Update:  Jackie tells us in the comments below, these are they lyrics from a song on the album, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.  Faith shared the words are from the song Eclipse on that album.  Interesting...huh?  There are some famous folks buried at Rosehill...wonder if this is a band member from Pink Floyd?  Or, maybe just a fan?

There's some really beautiful sculpture in Rosehill.

This concludes our Rosehill Cemetary tour. ;)  Moving right along...


Another one of my fave places to lunch is a French restaurant called Douceur De France.  I've only visited the Marietta, Georgia location but they also have a location in Roswell, Georgia.

The food is yummy and the desserts are awe-inspiring.  Here's are just a few of their amazing desserts.

Not sure if they ship, but you'll find their website HERE.

When it snowed here last winter, I took these pics but never got around to sharing them.   This is the magnolia tree whose leaves you so often see me using in table settings, holiday centerpieces and last year's Christmas wreath and front door decorations HERE.

Thank goodness we had mostly snow during this storm.  Ice is brutal on magnolia trees.  Their leaves are so large, they grab all the snow and can get really weighed down.  Whole limbs will break off when that happens.    The top has been broken out of this tree twice during bad ice storms over the 21 years I've lived here. It always puts out a new top when that happens, but it takes about 3 years to semi-recover.  Fortunately, this past winter, there were no broken limbs and the top survived intact.

A monstrous oak tree lives outside my front door.  If this baby ever falls, it won't stop until it hits the basement.  Wasn't it pretty silhouetted against the blue sky after the snow storm?

A few folks wanted the formula for the paint on the walls of my Upstairs Family Room in THIS post.  It's an old Duron call called Tea Biscuit.

Here's the formula for Tea Biscuit and any Home Depot can mix it up for you.  I would imagine Sherwin Williams paint stores can mix it up too, since they merged or bought out the Duron stores.

This is the formula for Sugar Cookie, another old Duron color that I've used in the following rooms of my home:  kitchen, master bedroom, entry and office.

I posted this pic of my son, Chip and his sweetie, Nancy, when he graduated from law school in May, for THIS post?

When I created that post, Nancy's glasses reminded me of another place and time.  I think I was around 18 when the pic on the right was taken...maybe a bit younger.  I sent this pic to Nancy and we had a good laugh.  Isn't it funny how the styles just cycle right back around?

Last Halloween I shared about a Boo and Brew event HERE that was taking place in my neighborhood on Halloween night.   If we wished to participate, we could have drinks and food available for the Moms and Dads as they took their children around for trick-or-treating.  It sounded fun....kind of like a roving party.   I never got around to sharing the goodies I put together for those who came calling.

I had two kinds of cake...pumpkin and spice.  I didn't do any baking...found all these yummies at Publix.

I also had sugar covered donut holes.

I served hot spiced cider (made with Williams-Sonoma mulling spices) in this Fitz and Floyd witch pitcher.  This funny guy...

...held the cinnamon sticks...

...for the cider.

I totally overdid it...had a lot left over.  I need to buy or make about half this much for this year, if the neighborhood hosts another Boo and Brew.

Pinterest is still letting me send out invites. If you aren't sure what Pinterest is, click HERE. If you haven't joined and want to, OR you're just tired of waiting on your invite, e-mail me at betweennapsontheporch@gmail.com and I'll get one out to you.

Don't forget to include the email address where you want the Pinterest invite sent.  If you've emailed me or left a comment on the Pinterest post I wrote previously, requesting and invite but didn't get it,  1. Check your spam file and 2. Did you remember to include an e-mail address where you wanted the invite sent?  

Hope you enjoyed this "everything" post.  Is your head spinning from such a crazy variety of topics?  lol  I think mine is!