More Fall Decorating!

The top of my pie safe is now decorated for Fall. Here I have the 3 pumpkins I made some years back. Prior to 1994. I say that because of where we were living at the time I made them. Also in that same house I made the two apple miniquilt wallhangings. And you can see a couple of my old time kitchen items hanging to the right. In the upper left is a strange looking container/vase I made when I took a ceramics class. It was part of the requirements for my Occupational Therapy Assistant degree. I borrowed the idea of using upside down wineglasses to add height to my display. You will see I did that in my header picture also. I got the idea from the blogger who decorated with dentures and right now her blog title escapes me. I will have to look for it and insert it here when I do so you can see what she did. Unless you have already seen that wild decorating idea. My husband made the three little pumpkin baskets that are in front of the larger cloth pumpkin. They are made out of plastic canvas. He made the ghost ones in the header picture as well. I still have a few more areas I can decorate. I will do them as my energy allows. Hey, it is not even October and I have two areas done already. I have never done that. See what all you wonderful bloggers inspire me to do! And I appreciate that too. I love seeing what others do with their fall decorating. I don't get many visitors, so you all are my visitors. Smile!


Oh, I was also going to tell you that we bought the pie safe unfinished prior to 1986. And again I know that because of which house we were living in at the time. My husband did the finishing and it has served us well. Mostly we use it to help with kitchen storage, but we have used it for other things too. It was office material type storage for awhile where we are now. But I have since switched it back to kitchen storage. My cookbooks are on the bottom shelf and I store boxed items like cake mixes, muffin mixes, pudding and jello boxes, stuffing and that kind of thing there. I am so glad I have it. It is one of the things I have that I really love.

Update: Here is the blog I got the wine glass idea from as mentioned above. Dana at the Stone Rabbit is a fun blog to read, Check her out. Her post about decorating with dentures is funny.

Cleaning the Family Room

I have been inspired by some of the beautiful rooms and corners and other special areas other people share on their blogs that I decided to jump in to start cleaning the family room. This is where we hang out most of the time and the mess has been driving me crazy. I needed to feast my eyes on something nice when I relax in my recliner. The picture below is the before mess. Now you know why it is driving my crazy. Plus the dusty smell we were getting was getting annoying. I would wrinkle my nose and say to myself "time to do something about this." Time to vaccum really good.

I went over the carpet several times to really get up the dust and dirt. What a difference! You can really smell the difference when you walk out of room and then come back in again. That makes me smile! Also got down most of the cobwebs and did most of the dusting.

This picture shows how much better it looks now. I can't believe I actually got the entire table cleared off. We took out a the center leaf to make it a circle. Takes up less space that way. That table is a very good maple table that used to belong to my late Godmother. I know the table cloth does not really fit that table, but I don't have any round table cloths. I have a fall theme table runner somewhere around here that I want to use. But I need to get a round fall color tablecloth first. Then I need to find that table runner. Right now I can't remember where I put it!

This morning my husband said, "what a different feeling to walk in here!" He is right. It does feel different and better too! I still need to finish straightening up the bookcase by the table and along the right side of the picture out of sight still needs to be cleaned up and straightened and dusted. I am starting to smile at my room now and that is what counts. I am now motivated to continue and perhaps get some of my fall things out do some fun decorating. I have a set of 3 cloth pumpkins I made one year. I usually put those out each year. Happy Monday!