Get your votes in!!  Today is the last day for voting.  The WINNER will be announced tomorrow! 

Thanks to everyone for participating!!!  Please be sure to expand all the pics so you can check out the cuteness in all the nooks and crannies!  You can vote by leaving a comment here, sending me a text or emailing me at cottagecharms@msn.com!!  To give everyone a chance to vote – I’ll leave voting open until Thursday night & announce the WINNER – FRIDAY MORNING! Have fun, they all look fabulous!!

I’m pulling the pics together for the Fall Porch/Vignette Challenge – They’ll be up for voting tomorrow!!  Since I’m not competing in my own “challenge” I wanted to share my little vignette with you.  Technically those cute crates belong to my daughter, we had them for her wedding and I borrowed them for my Harvest Party which was Saturday.  Pics from my party will be up later in the week.  Can’t wait for you to see all the fabulous porches!!

Technically a bit more than 48 hours, lol.  Get your pic emailed by THIS Sunday night to be entered into the Fall Porch Challenge!!  I’ll do my best to get entries up on my blog Monday for voting . . . email me one pic to: cottagecharms@msn.com while there’s still time!

My “Fall Porch/Vignette Challenge” is almost here!!

6 more days to get your pics to me . . . It doesn’t HAVE to be a porch but somewhere outside, front porch, back porch, sitting area, any outdoor fall/halloween vignette will work! Email your pic (one pic per person) to: cottagecharms@msn.com. I’ll take entries through Sunday, October 16th! To give enough time for voting I’ll announce the winner on Monday, October 24th AND this time you’ll win a $10 gift card to Starbucks!!

I already have 3 entries – Judy, Terri & Debbie – Thank you ladies!!

Who will be the lucky winner of this great trophy??!!  LOL  My harvest party is a little less than 2 weeks away!  The chili cook-off was a great idea (Maurene) and you can’t have a winner without a trophy, right!  So, instead of just a Chili Cook-off trophy I made a generic all around “City Girl Farms 1st Place” trophy (great idea Chip).  The lucky winner of this baby will have to return it next year for another challenge – maybe it’ll be a dessert cook-off, side-dish cook-off, or best pumpkin cocktail?  I’ll keep track of the lucky winners on the back of the trophy, too much f.u.n.!  Get those crock pots ready!

For the trophy – It’s an unfinished wood cut-out I bought at Hobby Lobby.  I just spray painted it, used rub-on letters, sprayed a clear coat on it, then hot glued the little scarecrow and wood #1 cut out.

Just a friendly reminder . . .  my Fall Porch/Fall Vignette Challenge is just 2 WEEKS AWAY (from this Sunday).  Any Outdoor Fall Vignette will work (or even Halloween, my daughter’s request).   ONE PHOTO per entry.  Entries but be received no later than Sunday, October 16th!  To give enough time for voting I’ll announce the winner on Monday, October 24th AND 1st place will win a $10 gift card to Starbucks!! Bring on the Pumpkins!!!

My Texas Bestie’s daughter, Jena lives on a farm in Texas with her husband, 4 kids (children) and several animals including milking kids (goats).  Actually maybe a goat kid is a young goat and not a milking goat?  Anywhoooo, Jena has been making her own Goat’s Milk Soap (farm fresh goat’s milk and essential oils) for a couple of years now and she is launching her own website: http://www.oliviatye.com, you can also follow her on Facebook @ Olivia Tye Soap.  I can tell you that this soap is awesome!  I’ve been using it for a couple of years, in the shower and as my face soap.  It’s very creamy and moisturizing.  Christmas is around the corner (sorry for THAT realization) and they would make great gifts!  She is also coming out with some new scents, check out “Hunt’d Game” for those of you with hunters in your life.  I love her latest one – Mint’d Hippie!!  Give’um a try!!  You will NOT be disappointed!  In case you were wondering . . . “Olivia Tye” is her youngest daughter’s name.

Just a friendly reminder . . .  my Fall Porch/Fall Vignette Challenge is just 3 WEEKS AWAY (from this Sunday).  Any Outdoor Fall Vignette will work (or even Halloween, my daughter’s request).   ONE PHOTO per entry.  Entries but be received no later than Sunday, October 16th!  To give enough time for voting I’ll announce the winner on Monday, October 24th AND 1st place will win a $10 gift card to Starbucks!! Bring on the Pumpkins!!!

Thank you Robin for my adorable little owl coffee mugs!! They look so cute on my shelf!! xoxo