Fall has Arrived in My Home

Welcome everyone!

 

I am later than I usually am this year in

decorating my home for Fall.

 

A huge reason I am so far behind is...

once we got my daughter settled in her sorority

new home for her Senior year,

for some reason I decided I needed to

purge and organize!

Can anyone relate?

 

I have also made huge strides, even in the midst

of a horrid tooth issue, antibiotics and finally

a tooth extraction.  Gladly, I am on the mend.

 

So lets get those pictures rolling...

 

Fall in my home comes to mainly our main

living areas, kitchen, entry and family.

These rooms blend well with the colors of

fall that I have chosen in reds, golds, caramels

and some yellows.

 

 WELCOME!
 

Our entry Hall tree is so much fun for

me to deck out in any season!

 

Then you will head straight through to our bright and

difficult to picture family room.

I really think my camera is acting up...ugh!

My Favorite area of all to decorate is our fireplace.

This year I decided to bring out all of my scarecrows

and add them to the base around the fireplace opening.

It just feels so feastive!

 

When I decorate for the different seasons I have

always been big on using more loose

items like, greens, leaves, fruits, veggies etc.

 that I can create arrangments from.

I never seem to do the same thing twice...

but that must be the artist in me, I think :)

 

Now in my Kitchen area I mainly prettied up our

eating area table, that we hardly ever eat at!

Again, using what I have and my Mikasa Stoneware

that I got 27 years ago as a wedding gift I crafted what

I think is a fun table scape!

The chairs have a pretty fallish

fabric cover that blends so well with everything. 

My pretty fall center piece uses more

 loose smaller pumkins/fruit

around plates of candles and then my

sweet painted Pumpkin.

More simple displays that are around my kitchen area.

 

Now my home has that cozy warm

feeling that Fall seems to bring!

 

Happy Fall Y'all!

 

I am linking to...

 

 Inspiration Monday

 The Creative Home and Garden Hop

A Return to Loveliness

Inspire Me Tuesday

The Scoop

WOW Us Wednesday

 

 

 

 

 

 



Pink Pumpkins? ~ Pink Saturday

Thanks to Beverly over at

HOW SWEET the SOUND,

 I am joining the weekly PINK Saturday Party!

 

I create in a sweetly Pink and pastel world

and

have created many Pink Pumpkins for FALL

and all you lovers of pink.

I do sell these sweeties in my etsy shoppe.

Some are still available or can be

custom ordered.

 

Hope you will enjoy these sweet pink pumpkin goodies

in honor of a softer side fall!

 

 

Have a SWEET Pink Fall y'all!

 

 

Linking to:

 

PINK Saturday

 



YoYo Pumpkins Tutorial (Recycling Old Sweaters)

It certainly is feeling like fall here in Michigan.

With that in mind, I wanted to share this

simple and easy way to make those darling

Pumpkins you see all over blogland, Pinterest and

on the web.

 

Here you see a few I have already made, a few years ago.

 

Lets Get Started with your Supplies:

 

Fabric/Sweaters

Batting

Sticks (you can get from nature)

Needle/Thread ( I use a thicker crochet thread)

Raffia, leaves, ribbons

 or other embellishments

Plates

(Varying sizes to use for pattern)

Glue Gun

Gather your fabrics and sweaters and supplies all

together.

For my pattern,

I already had some circles cut up, I used these fabric

rounds as my pattern for the sweaters I show below.

 

For your circles use the different sizes of plates

you have gathered.

 I used a saucer, salad plate,

and large plate for mine to have a more

varied size of circles.

Begin cutting your circles.

Side note:

Hubs and I did a MAJOR closet clean out and when I

was folding everything,

 I grab these two sweaters due to their colors.

Such a great way to recycle or upcycle

old clothing. 

I also cut off the arms for a

later project idea I have.

See my stack?

I am planning on making quite a few as I

sit and watch football with my family this weekend!

lol

 

So now your circles are cut lets begin sewing them. 

 

1. Thread your Needle and begin a BASTING stitch around

the top 1/3 -1/2 inch.

You will baste stitch all around the circle.

 I pull the thread as I go

and gather or create a hole.

2.  Now you have a circle complete with the mouth open

3. Fill with batting and tighten your thread.

4. Cinch and Sew up to secure, place stem in center

and then glue this all together and embellish

You can now embellish like I did with raffia, leaves

or even make varying sizes of pumpkins to stack

on top of each other.

Some people even fill these really tight and then

wrap with jute/rope to mimic real pumpkins.

The fun is using your imagination and creating

something just for you!

There is no right or wrong way to do these.

 

I have placed a few by the sweet lil Clay Scarecrows

I have made...tutorial is HERE.

Mr. Tiger has been having a blast with these!

I think there is something about the raffia that

is attracting him.  He will grab, claw at and

toss them all over, it is soooo funny to watch!

I would so love to hear from you if you give these a try!

Do you have other ways or ideas of how these can be used!

I would love to know!

 

I even made some up in Shabby pinks,

blue and greens!

 

Be Blessed!

 

Parties I am Link to:

 

The Creative Home and Garden Hop

 

 

 



Catching Ya'll Up!

Hi Everyone!

Well, I certainly have been MIA

 for most of the month of May!

But...it is all good!

My sweet hubby purchased a ticket to Jacksonville

for me, all by myself, so I could meet up with

my sister Marci who has a home there. 

We had wonderful sister time, even in the

midst of the worst 3 days of down pouring rain

I have EVER seen. 

But that didn't deter us from beaching, shopping, visiting

and just plain talking!!

It was a much a needed, much appreciated, break from

 the humdrums of my life!

But,

I did manage to get a whopper of a

bladder infection on my return and

spent the past few weeks trying to recoup while

entertaining my mom and dad.  They took an almost

3 week tour of the East Coast.

Visiting my sis in Jacksonville as I left.

Then up to South Carolina to see my dad's family there.

And finishing up their visit here with us in

 Michigan for 7 days before their return

to Seattle.

So...

I am back in saddle and actually spent some time

today in my lil studio!

Yay me!

I so appreciate feeling better

and be able to create once again!

I whipped up this darling LOVE sign and

got it listed today in my etsy shop.

Along with these darling canisters that I had

finished but never got listed!

It is truly good to be home and back

doing what I love...creating!

How are you all doing!

I'd love to hear!

Be Blessed!



Shabby ~ FruFru ~ Upcycling

Hello My Sweet Friends!!!

 

Oh gosh, I didn't realized how much time has gone by

and I have not been here to blog about what is going

on in my life.  I guess I have been so busy creating

that the time was all spent! lol

I do so apologize!

 

Anyway, we all know that I create in the

shabby, chic, romantic anything roses realm!

In my heart of hearts I have ALWAYS loved to

upcycle and create unusual items.

That would be exactly what I have been doing

this past month.

 

Below I am sharing pictures of items that I have

put together and upcycling individual items into

shabby chic pieces of art.

 

Starting with pretty frufru Pillar Candle Holders

Many of my Pillar Candle Holders were just that

simple, plain pieces that needed a touch more done to them.

So, I added color to the bases and

then atop each base I added pretty castoff plates or

saucers that had lost their mates.

 

I didn't stop there though,  this is where the real fun

began.  Going through my collection of pretty

laces and ribbons I then began to frufru pillar holder.

 Some were even given pretty crystals too.

 

The piece below show how you can combine found

objects, like these smaller milk glass bowls.  They

were glued together and a sweet hand painted

vintage plate was added. 

 

The thrift stores, yard/garage sales are full of theses

type of pieces.  Now when you shop, begin

thinking outside the box of how you can add

pieces together.

I didn't stop there.  I have created jars that are taller by

added candle bases.  Below you can see that I also frufru'd

many jars/bottles that would have otherwise been thrown

out.

Would you believe the brown bottle is a bath and

body works lotion bottle? See, using anything you many

have, that you would otherwise have thrown away!

 

DON'T throw out those old bottles with out lids or

candy jars...reuse, recycle and create unique

one of a kind items, using your imagination!

Originally, I had just painted these twisted wire sconces.

But after frufruing up so many other pieces, I realized that

these looked quite plain...so they got a frufru'd too.

Pretty laces, ribbons and I made lacy roses...

so pretty and shabby chic now!

 

I am encouraging you today to THINK Outside the Box.

 

Many of my glass pieces were just sitting, waiting for me

to do something to them.  Once the creativity began,

nothing was left just plain, lol.

 

Go out and Create/Upcycle/Reuse your items!

 

Be Blessed