I thought I would start today by showing my fall entry.
Right when you walk in is my famous Pottery Barn chair. As I have blogged about it before, my husband and I were not in totally agreement about. Or it's been so long since I've purchased the chair I might have the story wrong. I think I told him I was buying a chair and he said fine. OK. Once it is in our home he couldn't believe I spent money on it as it is not even an ounce bit comfortable.
Yes I have to admit that, but I sure looks great!
Next to it is our computer desk that we refinished red a couple of years ago. Today, I am rethinking the red or should a dare say I've been thinking about it for awhile now. Don't tell my husband! He did all the work, he sanded, stained and lacquered. All I did was distress it with a little black paint and ordered the knobs. I didn't even put those on.
I love the look of curly branches! I have kept them all spring and summer season basically naked with nothing at the base. For fall I decided to add some fall orange flowers with beads and brown feathers. It creates more interest at the base.
I see metallic pumpkins everywhere this year and I bought a small one from Hobby Lobby. The pumpkin picks up the orangey color of the flowers in the branches.
I have had my book page wreath displayed here for the longest time, you can see it here. As I was browsing Pinterst one day looking for a new wreath, either to make or buy, I came across this one at save-on-crafts.com. It had all the colors I wanted to incorporate and it was just the right size. Plus the colors I thought could carry into the winter season after the holidays. I contemplated on buying feathers and making it myself. But once I looked at prices for feathers it would have been too costly.
On the other side of the entry is my gallery wall. I do change out photos according to the seasons.
One might think it's a bit nutty but I usually coordinate the photos to the season.
The ones I have up now are from my kiddos at the pumpkin patch last year. We are going to go in October and I'll take a gazillion pictures of them doing all sorts of pumpkin patch activities. Whether or not I put those up I don't know, but at least I have fall photos up now.
I always try to include some art work, and it's usually simple stuff that I do. Like this one of the leaves. I just double-sided taped these leaves onto white paper and stuck it under a mat. I also did it here on my fall mantel.
I also included pictures of pumpkins that are ironed onto fabric and then stapled onto a canvas. These are the first I did a couple of years ago. Now, instead of stapling them onto canvas, I use a piece of wood. The wood is free. We have wood lying around in our garage and my husband has a fancy table saw that he can use to cut me whatever size I want. If I want to hang it I simply hammer on a wall hanger.
I just did a search on Etsy to see if these images are still available and I did find the smaller pumpkin here.
We hope to go to the pumpkin patch this Saturday. We are all looking forward to it.
I just saw the weather forecast and it's suppose to rain. Boo!
Thanks for stopping.
Bye for now!
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