I'm not ready for fall....but my windowbox planter is. It's filled to the brim with a combination of mums and kale, twigs, dried seed pods and leaves. Of course, I'm not sure how long they're going to last.
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Showing posts with label autumn. Show all posts
Fall Window Box Planter
I'm not ready for fall....but my windowbox planter is. It's filled to the brim with a combination of mums and kale, twigs, dried seed pods and leaves. Of course, I'm not sure how long they're going to last.
French Country Fall Mantel: Neutrals, Naturals and Metallics
This year, I decided to keep my fall mantel decorating neutral and to combine elements from nature like pine cones, oak leaves, grape vine and white pumpkins (both real and faux) with spray painted metallic pumpkins for accents.
How To Make New Bushel Baskets Look Old
Today I'm going to show you a fast, easy way to age new bushel baskets (and any other light colored basket made from natural materials) using tea, white vinegar and steel wool. In about twenty minutes, you can make brand new baskets look like they've been around for years!
Embroidered Canvas Dropcloth Fall Pillows
It's a little over a week into September. My youngest is back at school, Labor Day is over and
DIY Horseshoe Shaped Natural Wheat Fall Wreath
I started decorating the farmhouse for fall this week. Yeah, I know. I can hear some of you groaning...
even through the computer.
Now that my youngest is back at college, it feels like fall to me. When you take the fact that I'm back to being an empty-nest'er and add to it the chance that I won't have a front door or a front porch to decorate by the time the season actually rolls around, it makes perfect sense that I made a horseshoe shaped wheat wreath and hung it on my door today.
It does, doesn't it?!
Fall Porch and Urn Decorations
I did some decorating on the front porch of the French Farmhouse last week. To be completely transparent, I did it so that the neighbors can tell that someone actually lives here now and that it's safe for children to come to the door to sell things. Take for example, things like Girl Scout Cookies...
Inside The French Farmhouse: Fall Decorating with Pumpkins, Pinecones and Bittersweet
Fall decorating continues this week at The French Farmhouse. I used a few more faux mushrooms (left over from my rustic fall grapevine mushroom wreath HERE to fill my vintage wood dough trough along with natural elements like moss and pine cones that I gathered from beneath one of the trees in my front yard.
Rustic Natural Fall Grapevine Wreath: Mushrooms, Pinecones and Moss
Since it is officially "Autumn" and I've finally located the boxes with the decorating supplies in the attic, this week I made time to do a little Fall decorating.
Flowers for an Autumn Wedding: Pinecones, Roses, Burlap and Cotton
Every now and then, I'm invited to be a part of something magical. This week is one of those amazing times. Sometimes the magic involves pine cones, roses, raw cotton, and burlap. Other times, it involves the phone company.
Fall Pumpkin Planter - A Cinderella Story
Did you read the story of Cinderella as a child?
Or, for that matter, do you still read Cinderella as an adult? I do.
In fact, I seem to have a fixation with that story. If you don't believe me, see Exhibit A.
I've got to admit that, any time I read a story that involves a handsome guy with money rescuing a kind, hard
working, girl from a life of cooking and cleaning, I think to myself,
"Really? Sign me up!"
Or, for that matter, do you still read Cinderella as an adult? I do.
In fact, I seem to have a fixation with that story. If you don't believe me, see Exhibit A.
I've got to admit that, any time I read a story that involves a handsome guy with money rescuing a kind, hard
working, girl from a life of cooking and cleaning, I think to myself,
"Really? Sign me up!"
Pallet Wood Sign, A Year of Blogging, and My Fall Mantel
It's hard to imagine that it's been a year since I started down the road to "blogger-hood". Yep. 365 days. One entire trip around the sun.
Pumpkins, Ironstone and Copper - Fall Hutch
decorating with Martha Stewart just isn't what it used to be
You've got to remember that while I do live with Martha Stewart, she's 14 now. In
yellow lab years, I think that's ninety-two. Unlike her namesake, she doesn't really have an opinion when it
comes to decorating.
Heck, she's only awake for about four hours a day.
Fall Planters and Urns: What I DIDN'T do this Sunday
I'll bet that you thought that you'd be reading about my fall outside decorations today, didn't you?
You probably thought that you'd be seeing photos of beautiful urns like these two that I did for my neighbor, right?
Iron Wheels and Pallet Wood: Building A Harvest Cart
Do you have friends who give you really cool gifts?
The kind that you didn't really even that know you needed?
Like these "wheels" that recently found their way to me via my friend, Paulie, the scrap metal dealer,
Scenes from the Vintage Market Harvest Market
You may remember the photo below from the Vintage Market that I participated in back in March. It was the first market of its kind in my home town. Held in the historic home of my dear friend, Polly and her husband Steve from Counting Your Blessings. There were a dozen of us who were vendors. We are all friends who know each other well enough to hold this type of event in one of our homes.
Ombre' Glitter Pumpkin - Beating Blogger's Funk
Do you ever have craft supplies talk to you? I do.
I was in the Dollar Tree, standing in front of the wreath forms, waiting for inspiration to leap off of the shelves and help me with the blogger's creative funk that I've been in for the last several weeks when I heard it.
Whispering at me from the hook way down at the bottom of the craft section, behind the glue and paint and misplaced flash cards trying to masquerade as craft supplies, "Pssst... Lady, down here. Yes, you, the one who has been hanging out in front of the wreath forms. It's me, OMBRE' GLITTER!"
I was in the Dollar Tree, standing in front of the wreath forms, waiting for inspiration to leap off of the shelves and help me with the blogger's creative funk that I've been in for the last several weeks when I heard it.
Whispering at me from the hook way down at the bottom of the craft section, behind the glue and paint and misplaced flash cards trying to masquerade as craft supplies, "Pssst... Lady, down here. Yes, you, the one who has been hanging out in front of the wreath forms. It's me, OMBRE' GLITTER!"
Spray Painted White Resin Owl - Escape from "Reality"
I found this guy on a shelf at a HomeGoods store somewhere in Wisconsin on Saturday.
The sign on the shelf read something like:
New Arrival! Resin Owl ~ Realistic Features!
And I thought to myself, Hmm..."realistic features"...Really!?
Too Soon? - Autumn Coffee Filter Wreath
Now that the daytime high temperature in my area is supposed to be 84 instead of 104, I was wondering...
Is it too soon to think about Autumn?
Giving Thanks
It starts when we're young. Older adults shape our lives. They teach us about love...and gratitude. In some of my very earliest memories, I was taught to say "please" and "thank-you". It's a basic concept for most of us. Human decency, kindness, thoughtfulness. I like to think that I do a pretty good job, most of the time, remembering, to express my thanks.
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