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Fall is falling around here and wow, has it ever been blustery which is making the leaves tumble down  They are very pretty, from the warmth and comfort of my home that is. This pretty much sums it up for me:

So yep, watching the leaves fall is what I have been up to (just kidding!).  Here is what you have been doing:

Junk Fest shared these coffee sack chairs

Great tailgate bed from Freddy and Petunia

Sweet polka dots from The Shabby Gals

Reposhture Studio's new desk

Pumpkin Pie latte from Lazy Budget Chef

Adorable decor from Knick of Time

Lovely ottomans from Number 53

Looking forward to your links!  {Please remember to read through the guidelines before linking up!

Thanks for linking up and for sharing you with us :) !!

Under $100 Linky Guidelines:

1. Please link to the specific post, not your blog!

2. Please only post ideas that cost $100 or less--it would be great if you share the cost of your project, but not necessary.

3. Please include a brief description in link up.

4. Grab my Under $100 button on the sidebar and include it in your post or a link to Beyond the Picket Fence so people can find you and more great ideas.

5. Please check and make sure your link works. If it doesn't you can delete it and try again.

6. Please no direct links to sales sites, i.e. ETSY or just a plain ol' commercial site, we are looking for inexpensive ideas we can recreate.

Coming Soon

Coming soon, starting November 1st, the 12 Days of Christmas at Beyond the Picket Fence, complete with really bad rhymes.  If you look under my holiday tab, you will see some ideas from the past 2 years.  This year my 12 days will include on ongoing linky party for you to link up your Christmas or other winter holiday ideas. I am also starting lots earlier than usual so hopefully you will have time to make some of the ideas.  I can't wait to see what you link up--starting November 1st!

Glacier in the Fall

I am blessed to live in a state that has two national parks.  Earlier in the summer I showed you pictures of Yellowstone.  This past weekend we made a brief visit to Glacier National Park.  I worked in Glacier for two summers when I was in college, and it is definitely one of my happy places.  You can't go very far into the park this time of year, but we did go to Lake McDonald and into Apgar, where I worked.  Here are a few photos--some I am saving for my Sunday Verses.

 

Hubby and I

 

 My son's rock sculpture

Skipping rocks

 

My sweet daughter is growing up so fast!



PS--If you didn't notice, I added a holidays tab with some of my past holiday projects--check them out!





Sunday Verses

Chippy Table

I love paint, and now that I am an Annie Sloan paint convert, I love it even more.  Painting any old piece quickly is so easy.  And as I have said before, I do not make a dime off the sale of the paint, I just love it!!  It helped me transform this little Goodwill table,

 into a chippy little table with some character and new life. 

I used Old Ochre and CoCo for the detail, with a partial dark wax on top.

I didn't intend for it too be quite so chippy, I was talking on the phone and distressing it at the same time, multi-tasking strikes again.  I was distressing with a wet terry cloth, did you know you can distress ASCP that way? But, I still liked it.  The key with distressing is to not distress evenly. I cannot stress this distressing point enough--I see it too often, equal distressing, evenly spaced.  That is not natural wear and tear, that is made in China to look old distressing.

 

Yes, paint is good!

Under $100 Linky Party

I feel like I have been missing in action, in a little of a new idea slump, topped with doing lots of special orders, attending lots of football games.  But, today I got rolling on a few new projects I will be sharing next week.  You all don't seem to be slumping at all, busy with all kinds of new things such as:

Red Hen's bodacious Bombay chest

Restore and Renew's lovely grey cabinet

Dollar store elegance from Salvage Dior

Feeding My Temple's jalapeno pepper jack cornbread bites

Simple key and sunglasses holder from The Thinking Closet

DIY mercury glass acorns from In His Grip

Looking forward to your links!  {Please remember to read through the guidelines before linking up!

Thanks for linking up and for sharing you with us :) !!

Under $100 Linky Guidelines:

1. Please link to the specific post, not your blog!

2. Please only post ideas that cost $100 or less--it would be great if you share the cost of your project, but not necessary.

3. Please include a brief description in link up.

4. Grab my Under $100 button on the sidebar and include it in your post or a link to Beyond the Picket Fence so people can find you and more great ideas.

5. Please check and make sure your link works. If it doesn't you can delete it and try again.

6. Please no direct links to sales sites, i.e. ETSY or just a plain ol' commercial site, we are looking for inexpensive ideas we can recreate.

Lifestyle Change

Hubby is home sick, a stomach bug--we think.  As I have mentioned before, he has Celiac's Disease so it could be gluten contamination, but he doesn't think so.  He was diagnosed about a year and a half ago.  I was thinking this past weekend how much that diagnosis has changed our lives.  We eat differently of course, but we also shop in different stores, we eat at different restaurants, we do not get invited to dinner at friends' homes anymore, we attend fewer social events that involve eating, we travel differently, I buy different magazines--ones without a bunch of recipes like Better Homes and Garden has, we go to fewer movies because he misses the popcorn, medicines and home remedy cures for common ailments are different, yadda, yadda, yadda. 

I am not trying to evoke sympathy from you, it is all good and the new normal for us and just part of our life now.  Had you told me a year and half ago that so many things would change because of a gluten "allergy" (Celiac's is more than an allergy, it is an autoimmune disease) or that it would all seem normal I would not have believed you.  Guess you can teach an old dog new tricks.  Here is a favorite gluten free recipe in our house.  Keep in mind, for it to truly be gluten free, you have to make sure all of your ingredients are gluten free--some sugar is processed on equipment that processes flour, etc.

Gluten Free Monster Cookies
Cream together:
1 stick softened butter
2/3 C. white sugar
1 C. brown sugar
Add:
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
Mix well and then add:
1 and 1/3 C. peanut butter
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
4 and 1/2 C. gluten free oats (I use Bob's Red Mill old fashioned oats)
a few handfuls of chocolate chips
a few handfuls of plain MnM's
(typical Becky fashion--nothing is precise--just go with what you feel)

Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes--longer than typical cookies.  I love to cook them on parchment paper, come out very nice.  Enjoy!!

PS--It is Celiac Awareness month--do yourself a favor and check out the signs and symptoms of this life changing disease.

Sunday Verses

Wonderful Wood

Look what hubby brought home:

Oh, he knows the way to a girl's heart, at least this girl.  It is all different types of wood, some barn  wood, some other pieces.  A few square nails came out of some of the barn wood so it is old. My first project was a little, simple bench.

This is the most basic of construction and doesn't have a whole lot of stylish details, but a great shelf under the bench for shoes or storage baskets.

I painted over the barn red, yummy, delicious crackling paint--some bright green and turquoise.

Very little sanding and a little stain completed this simple bench.

Under $100 Linky Party

Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas--it was almost 80 yesterday, it is snowing today.  Oh Montana is such a fun place to live :)!  I harvested the garden, brought outdoor things in, I still need to cut back the perennials and do a few other outdoor chores before I start nesting inside.  Do you "nest" in the cooler weather?  Do you go crazy decorating for fall?  Bake?  Here are some fun things that some of you have been up to:

Seasonal decor from Antique Chase

Architecture of a Mom shared a pumpkin granola recipe

Simply bundled books from Knick of Time

Dresser drawer window boxes from Kammy's Korner

Treasures From the Heart's cute crow.

Can't resist sharing another great makeover from One Creative Couple

White works for fall at Chase the Star

Looking forward to your links!  {Please remember to read through the guidelines before linking up!

Thanks for linking up and for sharing you with us :) !!

Under $100 Linky Guidelines:

1. Please link to the specific post, not your blog!

2. Please only post ideas that cost $100 or less--it would be great if you share the cost of your project, but not necessary.

3. Please include a brief description in link up.

4. Grab my Under $100 button on the sidebar and include it in your post or a link to Beyond the Picket Fence so people can find you and more great ideas.

5. Please check and make sure your link works. If it doesn't you can delete it and try again.

6. Please no direct links to sales sites, i.e. ETSY or just a plain ol' commercial site, we are looking for inexpensive ideas we can recreate.