White Pumpkins and Fall Mantel

I have been seeing all the white pumpkins in magazines the last few years.

I have been making pumpkins like crazy since I found a good tutorial.

I made some cute ones to go on top of my 

nodders.

I made some black, white and lime ones during our labor day weekend crafty weekend..


Last weekend I got busy making some bigger ones for an antique basket for my hearth. 

I used white burlap,

white quilted fabric
 &
 a drop cloth.

I stitched up various sizes while I was watching HGTV.

I trimmed them out with greens, black, burlap and berries and

I set them on the hearth.

I ran to get my passport photo. While I was gone for about 35 minutes the hot mess had destroyed all my work!!

Here they are before the destruction.
I was too annoyed to take a picture of the destruction.

Really she just chewed off the sticks and trim.

I got the glue gun back out and retrimmed them all.

I put them all back together and took pictures. I will tell you right now that this dog will not be left alone with these pumpkins again.

I've had this basket forever. 
It was my grandmothers. 
It's in its "as found" state.

It usually only comes out for 
pumpkins in the fall.

I can picture her using it in her garden.

I popped a white pumpkin from Michael's in the garden trellis.

I picked up these deep toned daisies at the grocery store.

 The gate started out black. I found it in the garden area at Home Depot. It was only $14.95.

  
A little white spray paint and some metal embellishments and it's done.  

 I love my new white mantel. I am sure you all are sick of it by now.
I couldn't add too much color for fall.
I am just to wild about the lighter palette.
There you have it, my first fall display.
There will be plenty more coming. :)
Sprinkled with white pumpkins,
Katie

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Crib Spring Memo Board

So...

I have been seeing cute memo boards made out of old bed springs on pinterest.

I was in the attic looking for crib parts for my head board project for the guest room.
I pulled the spring down when I pulled the crib down. 

The crib was from the 40's or 50's so the spring is nice and crusty. I decided to hang it in the sunroom.

It's pretty casual in that room so we can use a bit of rust to go with other chippy, faded stuff.

I put some vintage postcards on it.

A photo or two and a cup fragment from the trash pile up at the mountain cabin where I went in July. A feather from a road trip. 

 

 A precious drawing my husband did when we got our trailer. 

Pine cones from the day there was some tree trimming going on at the lake.

Cooler temps have come to Texas. I can't wait until we can go camping. 

I think I have shared with you  how much sentiment goes into my decorating.

I'm not solely a grab it and get it from HomeGoods type of decorator. (Although, I love a good browse at the retail decorating emporiums.)

My decorating usually stems from some sort of memory.

Anyway it's cute. I like it. I don't know if I'll keep it long term, but it has been a fun display.

I can't wait to add some fall stuff in the next few weeks. Christmas might be fun with it too.

Just thought I'd share.

Sprinkled with rusty, crusty,

Katie 
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New Living Room Furniture

A few weeks or so ago I told you about the update to the fireplace surround.

Here.
I love it.
It is crisp and clean and bright and white.
It pops off the tan brick.
But...
We are still in the process of warming up and updating the space a little.  We have a bound carpet on order and I will show pics when that comes in. 
One thing we wanted for a while was more seating.

I moved the little curbside loveseat to the garden room. Look forward to that post, please.The living room was in need of another piece.
I moved the antique settee from the sunroom up to my room and moved the chaise downstairs. 

I love a chaise, but for a living area I prefer a one armed  chaise so that two people can sit on it. I enjoyed it for a few days of lounging but, I knew no one would ever sit on this but me. I haven't done much sitting on this in a while and it needs a redo. The stuffing is a little flat on the back of the seat.

 I love the white, not the scale. It was a little too dainty for the space and the settee was really too small with my 12  foot ceiling upstairs. Argh!!!

I moved this little parson chair in and created a reading nook. I will show that later also.
So I went out furniture shopping.
I went to the Rooms To Go Outlet hoping to find a leather chair to match mine. 

Unbelievably they had two recliners, but they were both in whole room packages. I convinced my salesman  to sell me just the recliner. I pulled up my blog to look at my chair and see if they were indeed a match. We both thought the chair was the same from the picture but the salesman had a check about it. He pulled up my original order from 4 years ago and sure enough it was a different manufacturer. I was so impressed that he gave up his sale to do what was right for my room.
He said, and I agreed, that the sheen of my leather was different from the new chair. 
So, I stopped in at Hemispheres and I found a couple  leather recliners that I thought would match.
 Mr. Bill and I  returned to the store with our leather chair cushion to see if there was a match.

 This one was very close, but suddenly, Bill wanted to move our Rooms To Go chair into his office and buy two new recliners for the living room. 
He wanted to check a few more places before he bit the bullet.
So we zipped across the street to Lazy Boy. Let me just say that Lazy Boy has some ugly recliners. 
You all know what I am talking about so I won't even  show you a picture. The cute ones were extremely expensive.
Finally, we went to Freed's Furniture.
I found a darling sofa and loveseat last week  when I was shopping for the our little sunroom.
Here  
I didn't get the love seat  because it was too big. 
I finally convinced Mr. Bill that getting a new sofa and loveseat was the best bet.  They were much, much cheaper than two leather recliners.  
He finally agreed and now we have these adorable Pottery Barnesque(or is it Pottery Barnish?) sofas.

I love the pillows.

I love the oatmeal color. 

The purple pops off of them. 

I am normally not a huge fan of floating furniture in this room. However,  I love the back of the loveseat.

All that to say... 
Step two of the living room project done. 
Before:

After:

 Step three is the rug.
More on that soon.
 Bill  is trying to convince me to move the TV out of the armoire during step four. He wants me to get a bigger T.V.  and a different cabinet to put it on. 
That should be a challenge. 
I think we need to use lower cabinets and build shelves above. 

Kind of like these I have pinned on my media board on Pinterest.

Here.

More to come. Rug, lamps and a T.V.? 
Stop back in to check it out.
Sprinkled with lots of new seating,
Katie
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