October, 2020 | Not Quite Southern

Is It Halloween Already?

By Nancy October 30, 2020Easy EntertainingTrunk or Treat

Where has the year gone? It feels like Spring Break was last week! I guess the non-celebrations of milestones and events this COVID-19 year has contorted my sense of time. Tomorrow is Halloween, and all we’ve got on the…

The Living Room

By Nancy October 23, 2020Home Tourbeams, French country, living room, Texas limestone1 Comment

You may remember my post on our starting point in building our dream house—the east-facing window over the kitchen sink. When that point of reference was fully “pinned” down, we started thinking about the arrangement of the…

The Blue Door

By Nancy October 16, 2020Home Tourblue door, friendship door

Moving to Flowood, Mississippi (a suburb of Jackson) from inner-city Houston, Texas, was a life-changer for me and my hubby in 1999. On the first night in our new home, neither one of us could sleep. We sat…

Falling for a Season

By Nancy October 2, 2020Home Tourfall front porch decor, pumpkins

I admit it: I go a little crazy in the Fall. I can't get enough pumpkins on the porch to satisfy me, and there are way too many little pumpkins scattered throughout the house. I even…