Have you ever seen the children’s cartoon Dora the Explorer and wished you could jump into the pages of a book the way Dora and Boots do? Or have you wished you could jump into a framed photo the way Blue can from Blue’s Clues? Or maybe it is just me that always had this secret childhood desire to actually go into the world I see on book pages and in photos, I don’t know.
Well, this week I got to jump into the pages of one of my fave magazines… Country Living. I went to the Country Living Fair in Columbus, Ohio. And it REALLY is like stepping into the magazine for a day. There were hundreds of tents there with vendors, decorators, boutique owners, artists, ect that have been featured in the magazine. It was held in a historic little area that used to be a small Ohio town… where all the old buildings and homes have been preserved and left as they were in the 1800s. So while you shopped around and admired the reclaimed barnwood tables or the primitive Halloween decorations, you could stop and take a walk around the kitchen of an 1800’s farm family. Among all the tents were large apple trees so I guess the area used to have a large orchard too.
I took pictures galore of cool decorating ideas that I saw and I managed to keep my wallet in my purse for the most part, although it was HARD. I had some delicious mushroom soup and some divine pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting too. All in all it was a perfect Fall day and I can’t wait until next year…
I WANT this Halloween Tree!
I always wanted to jump through the Looking Glass! As a little girl we had a full length mirror on the door of the front closet. The stairs were directly in front and I used to sit on the step for hours looking through the mirror.