An Affair of the Heart

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It’s official.

I am having an affair with my back porch.

 

I can’t help it.  Seriously. 

 

If I wasn’t already married, I would be on the first plane to Vegas with my porch.

I love its wide grey planks and its stately molded columns.

I love that little wink it gives me when I sit down outside to eat.

I love that my porch lives on the wild side with it’s Christmas decorating…..

…..like adding leftover black tags and letters to wire trees.

The worst part is…..

I think my husband is catching on.

The problem is….it’s getting serious.

So if you a girl with blonde hair and shellac nails on a plane to Vegas with a porch….

mum’s the word.

30 thoughts on “An Affair of the Heart”

  2. You cutie pie…that porch is just dang near as cute as you are !!
    Love the decorations and the black and white makes my heart sing….
    xo bj

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  4. Haha what a cute post, I totally understand your love affair with this porch, it’s gorgeous. I pinned it on Pinterest so I could savor it forever. Thanks for the sweet comment on my chubby snowman 🙂

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  5. i get it. sometimes i want to leave my husband for my living room…
    your porch is lovely, as well as the rest of your home {yes, i’ve been peeking around here}! Thanks for stopping by my blog so I could come by and visit you…your writing cracks me up, you are so clever with your stories. welcome to blogging and I am happily following you now!

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  6. Well you’ve given me my giggle for the morning and I too can identify with porch love, yours is beautiful. I think we must be thinking on the same lines as I have some beautiful black and white fabric just waiting to be used on my porch. Your certainly have given me inspiration for a winter project. The wire trees are a perfect touch, yup I could be on a plane to Vegas too if I had your porch. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. You’re so funny! Not sure that the airlines will let you take it on board, but hey, it’s worth a try! Ha! I really love that wire tree with all the black and white tags. It goes perfectly with your decor on the porch and is definitely unexpected. I bet it’s nice to sit out there in the Spring and hear the birds with your morning coffee. That’s a wonderful addition to your home.

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  9. I love your blog. Your decorating is AWESOME. BTW you have one of the best husbands in the world. DUMP THE PORCH! It’s not in this for the long haul. It will continually require more and more of your time and skill to keep it beautiful. Keep the husband. Send me the porch.

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  10. Mum’s the word! I’ll never tell! I would be doing the same thing too. I love you’re porch! The black and white is wonderful! The table and chair set with the darling tree is perfect! You’re blog is great! Your storytelling is too! Now, I need to know what the darling building is with the wreaths! More later? Merry Christmas!

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  11. Love the porch. And thinking it must be well-heated, or else you live somewhere sunny and warm.
    I think my favorite thing is the wire tree. So whimsical.
    Maybe the husband will turn a blind eye to your infatuation!

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  12. Tisk, tisk, if I see you, I will attempt to set you straight. I may tell you that if you dump your husband you might lose the porch, too! 🙂
    Your porch is beautiful! I think I would have a serious crush on it myself, in it’s black and white handsome-ness.
    Hugs, Cindy

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  13. Can I come and stay at your house:)) Love the backporch, when we added our deck I wish I had screened in the part off our kitchen!
    Let me know when I come over:))
    Bristol

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  15. Ohhhhhhhhh happy sigh… I want to just *pop-into* this picture, and come and live at Thistlewood Farm. Ya’ know, the way Mary Poppins and the children just *popped-into* Burt’s chalk drawing. 🙂

    The gray and white is delightful, and the on-the-wild-side decorating is too.

    Gentle hugs,
    “It is good to be children sometimes,
    And never better than at Christmas.”
    ~~Charles Dickens

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  16. I think I’ve fallen head over heels for your entire house. Yep… I’ve got it bad. Your “main” tree is beautiful, but I adore all of your smaller scale trees. The feathers, the pine cones and Oh! that gorgeous wire tree on your boyfr… uh, I mean porch.

    Thanks for stopping by to say hello! Those sprouts have converted some of the most finicky eaters in my family. A small batch might be worth a try… :~)

    ~Mrs B

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  19. I don’t blame you one bit! I’ve got a bit of a porch crush myself. Yours is decorated so beautifully. It is a very inviting space. Thanks for sharing. I’d love for you to share your porch and more of thistle wood farm at my Show & Tell party. It starts on Wednesdays each week at mrshinesclass.wordpress.com

    Sharon

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  21. I hate to tell you this, but I plan to start flirting madly with your back porch. I usually stay away from other people’s romances, but in this case I think I will make an exception. So fair warning that you should start watching your back. Oh, and I plan to start by stealing that little wire tree from your table.
    🙂

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  23. Just lovely! I’d fall in love with that porch too!! Found you at Mrs Hines Class. I too received the Liebster Award!!

    Congrats to you!
    Jen
    athomeinthenorthwest.blogspot.com

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  24. well i would be on a plane ANY WHERE with your porch!!!! it is a dream come true!!!! sooooo gorgeous! so fabulous in black and white! absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!! so glad you visited me because now i found you!!! : ) thanks for sharing — sending holiday hugs!!!

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  27. I think we may have a love triangle here – I also am infatuated with your porch.
    I have a back porch too, not as quite as awesome as yours, but still lovely. My porch would like to know where you got those stunning black and white cushions, if you’d be so kind as to reveal the source.

    Thanks!

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