It all started with a few compelling Pins on my “Decorating Myself” Pin-board:

The look of chunky, layered, beaded necklaces is to-die-for, and is all the rage.

Oh, how I was itching to buy a gorgeous necklace that would steal the show!  I was bound and determined to find something just as lovely as those in the pics above… if not more lovely.

So I hit up one of my favorite shopping resources: etsy, of course. And when I was searching, I hit gold, folks!

That is when I found Tara of TaraLynEvans.com.

…. and promptly begged her to become a sponsor at Fieldstone Hill Design. Can you blame me?? Look at a glimpse of her amazing necklaces:

I know. The girl has skills.

I have been thoroughly thrilled to team up with Tara to help her amazing business to grown. She is a complete sweetheart.

Tara was even gracious enough to send me one of her gorgeous necklaces , lovingly named Lemoncello {hello!}. You can see it in this picture of me and Nester {Oh, how I wish I had a better shot of that necklace, this clearly does not do it justice. But it was all about hanging with my girlfriends at Relevant… not many pics were taken! But, take my word for it. The piece is amazing.}. I love this necklace because it looks equally awesome with a gray t-shirt as it does with dress-ups.

But, being the discerning reader that you are, my guess is that you noticed the magical words in the title: 50% off???

How very keen of you.

And Yes!! For the biggest shopping weekend of the year, Tara and I are excited to offer readers of Fieldstone Hill Design a 50% discount off of her entire Etsy inventory {via this link}.

When you go to check out of her Etsy shop, with your cart full of gorgeous necklaces, enter in the code “fieldstonehill” as a discount code. And there you have it! 50% off of amazing-ness.  *this discount is only available at Tara’s Etsy storefront.

Tara is graciously keeping this deal open from now until Monday at 10PM. But, if I were you, I would shop early to get exactly what you love!

A special thank you to Tara! I have the best sponsors, no??

Now. THAT is the perfect way to shop on the busiest shopping day of the year, isn’t it??

{P.S. If you are totally loving Tara Lyn Evans’s necklaces as much as I do, you will be excited to know that she has more treats up her sleeve for Fieldstone Hill readers. Those monthly giveaways I told you about are about to start this December, and Tara is going to help me kick it off with a GORGEOUS piece from her high-end collection. Stay tuned!}

So, tomorrow is the big Turkey Day.

I love Thanksgiving, because is is low on materialism, high on family, and big on food. What’s not to love.

SO, as you are preparing to set your Holiday table, I just had to share the spreads of two of my most favorit-est bloggers ever.

I love these girls because they have BIG personality and guts and laugher. I am pretty sure I love them both to death. We could all use lots of personality, guts, and laughter, no? I think so.

Without further ado, wouldn’t you love to set your table like Angela does?

or like Edie does?

I know. I know. They are brilliant. And I am pretty much going to have to adopt them.

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I won’t be posting on Thanksgiving, so I want to wish all of you the most wonderful and blessed and happy and yummy of Thanksgivings!  I will see you here on Black Friday, to share a wonderfully yummy shopping morsel with you!

Until then, I had to leave you with some decorating inspiration, of course. Of a dining room, of course. A funky one. I’m thinking you would need to put sequins on your turkey at this table. Love. It.

{This room is a part of FHD’s  “ A Room I Love” series….just a simple hello, from me to you, featuring a Room that I Love, and a quick list of why I love it. Do you love it?}:

{ via Interior Decline}

WHAT I LOVE:

1. magenta Platner chairs. oh yes.
2. brown and cream zig zag. I am a fan.
3. a furry, feathery, white chandelier. adoration.
4. pretty books all in a row.
5. white ceramic accent pieces; en masse.
6. a ceiling medallion. Maybe not for everyone, but I love them.
7. the glossy, wooden, round table.
8. that very cool art thing on the table. the perfect place to prop your turkey.

DO YOU LOVE IT?? WHAT DO YOU LOVE? Would you dare to get this funky?

Happy Thanksgiving, friends!!!

A little tidbit for you: Did you know that the X in X-mas is a reference to the Greek word for Christ? So the actual translation of X-mas is from the early church and means Christ-mas. Did ya know?? Now, you are SOOO ready for this year’s holiday game of Trivial Pursuit.

anyhoo…

I am excited to share a free eBook with you today, chock full of easy-peasy Christmas and Holiday D.I.Y. projects.

This book is a collaboration of wonderful projects from talented bloggers around the web. Myra of My Blessed Life, and Mandi from Life…Your way, were the creative minds behind the book. One of the projects featured in the eBook is from Fieldstone Hill, {the one that is not so much D.I.Y. as much as it is T.T.S. – Take To Seamstress. That’s how I roll.}. You will just love all of the fun and lovely projects in the eBook.

All you need to do to download the eBook {I said free, right??} is click on the image below:

I hope you have fun adding special touches of Christmas beauty to your home. Enjoy!

and because I can’t write a post without adding a picture or two of  beautiful stuff, here are a few of the more recent Pins that have been inspiring me to start my Christmas decorating:

Do tell! Which picture motivates you the most to start some beautiful X-mas decorating?

I hope you love your free eBook! I would love to hear which projects you try!

This is it! The big week for dining rooms!

In many homes this is the only week of the year some dining room’s see any action. Of course, I think that is a shame! Even if you don’t want to move more of your weekly meals into your dining room, you can still move more of your life in there!  You should never have a room in your home that only gets used once a year. If this describes your dining room, I encourage you to really enjoy this space over Thanksgiving, but also, begin thinking right away about how you can get more use and better use out of this space in your home.

Of course, the week of Thanksgiving is the perfect time to ditto a beautiful dining room. And I love this delicate space that is designed by Kara Mann. It is another fine example of the gorgeousness of one of my favorite color combinations in design: Mixed Metals.

{kara mann}

DITTO :: {WHAT I WOULD STEAL FROM THIS SPACE}: