More Decorating

Today I got some more decorating done. Fall and otherwise. The first picture is the top of my linen press. Sometime I will post a picture of the whole thing. My father made this linen press one year for me. I saw the plans in a Country Living magazine and fell in love with it. I asked my dad if I bought the plans for it, would he make it for me. He said he would buy the plans himself and make it too. So the year he made it, it was considered our anniversary, my hubby's birthday, my birthday and Christmas gift all rolled into one. It was worth it too. It is very well made and prized possession of mine. Made even more special because my father made it for me.

Some new things are added this year in my fall decor. The pumpkin in the middle I found at a Hallmark store marked down to be sold as is. There are some marks on it, but on the back side. So displayed the way I have it, the marks don't show. The one to the left I got recently at Hancock Fabrics. The three smaller ones to the left I got a Walmart for 99 cents a piece. The garland is new this year too. On the shelf the scarecrow bears are also new which I got at Walmart. The basket of fake flowers I got on clearance last year at Michael's and the sprigs in the vase on the left I also got at Michael's. That vase is actually a pitcher and it sits on a matching trivet. I think that was a wedding gift. If it was, I have had it for 29 years! The pictures above show us and our daughter. You can also see two of my teacup and saucers from my collection. That is the last of the stuff I have for fall decor. I need to get more things or something because I have more areas I can decorate.
Today I also took the time to hang up some signs I had bought, but had not gotten around to doing anything with them. So yay, they are up where I can enjoy them. I have several old timey type signs, in wood or metal. Above is a new sign for my laundry room. I found it at a craft store called Beverly's. It is sort of like Michael's. Beverly's has fabric and Michael's doesn't.
I already had the top coffee sign. I got the bottom one at a local store that was closing and had things marked down. The grinder on the right I found at an antique store one day. I saw coffee mugs displayed with cloth napkins on small shelves like this in a restaurant earlier this year. So I adopted the idea for a couple of my coffee mugs. The little metal pitcher was in the stuff that had been my husband's grandmothers things. I have several old things of hers.
The peanuts sign is another thing I got from the same place I got the coffee sign. This is in the soffit area in my kitchen. Those little white marks on the cabinets are exploded whip cream. I have one of those whip cream things like they use at Starbuck's to dispense whip cream. I had a hard time getting the lid off of mine one day and it exploded whip cream everywhere. Today when I climbed up onto the counter to put the sign up and rearrange things to accommodate the sign, I found spatters of dried whip cream up there. That was last winter when that happened and I am still finding bits of exploded whip cream!
This laundry room sign I already had up, but moved it to another location and hung the new one where this one was originally. This one was a gift from a former co-worker. It was a good feeling to finally get those signs hung up. That has been on my to do list for awhile.