{shopbop friends & family sale picks}

Shopbop has 25% off the whole site right now for friends & family- which is seriously amazing but its giving me some anxiety because there is so. much. good. stuff.  Here are some of my faves (and honestly if you have to pick just one thing I would pick the Stuart Weitzman over the knee 50/50 boots because I already own them and I probably love them more than my dog).

dresses:  1 |  2  |  3  |  4

bags:  1  |  2  |  3

jackets:  1  |  2  |  3

boots:  1  |  2  |  3

{pumpkin crescent rolls}

I am like most people during the month of October- absolutely unapologetically obsessed with any food or drink including pumpkin.  On a recent trip to Trader Joe's I got sucked into buying pumpkin waffles, mini frozen pumpkin pies & pumpkin cream cheese.  It's clearly a problem.

Using the pumpkin cream cheese and a package of crescent rolls, I whipped up this easy dessert the other night.  If you don't include the cinnamon sugar topping (which you need to include obviously) it is truly a recipe using only two ingredients!!  Full recipe at the bottom of the post.

We had these for dessert, but they would be perfect for a Halloween or Thanksgiving brunch - or even to bring as an appetizer to a pumpkin carving party!

what you need (makes 8):

• 1/2 cup pumpkin cream cheese
• 1 package of crescent rolls 
• sheet pan topped with Silpat or covered in cooking spray
• cinnamon sugar topping mixture

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Unwrap crescent rolls and lay out on silpat. 
3. Spread about 1 tablespoon per roll of the pumpkin cream cheese on each roll.
4. Roll up crescent rolls in traditional way.
5. Bake for 12 to 13 minutes or until golden brown.
6. Before rolls cool completely- roll them in cinnamon sugar to top. 

{quick change headboard}

You might remember when we first DIY-ed our headboard back at our old place and then you can see how it fits into the bedroom at our new place in the first photo above.  Turns out our bedroom walls (which we aren't willing to paint) and our headboard are the exact same color which actually wasn't going to be a big issue since I had my eye on one of these beds to replace it.  But then we started taking some real measurements and realized this new bed frame would be just a few inches too big for the room if we wanted to keep our nightstands (which we most definitely do!).  So I decided I would just live with the old headboard until we move to a new place, until I realized on a recent trip to Joann Fabrics that a few yards of fabric could fix this situation in about 30 minutes!

I picked up 3 yards of deep navy duck cloth and this past weekend we simply re-covered the headboard by wrapping directly over the old blue/grey fabric.  While we could have fully removed the old fabric, that would have forced us to also re-do the batting and quite frankly I was just too lazy to do that. I love how it turned out so much that I might actually take some time to research an upholstery shop in Chicago that can make some matching buttons for the headboard out of the leftover fabric that way I can tuft it!

 {those holes on the back of the board are to allow for us to tuft this headboard if we ever get around to it!}

 {the headboard itself is much taller than it appears in these photos, but as you can see the ceiling height in our Chicago place paired with the larger pieces of artwork above our bed force the headboard to remain somewhat lower.}

Have you ever DIY-ed a headboard or even a bedframe before?