Showing posts with label autumn colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autumn colors. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Thanksgiving Table

Had so much fun Tuesday setting up a faux table setting for a contest that Christine, of Vintage Yard Sale Utah, a Facebook page I follow, has going on.

I love my brown transfer ware collection, and used it for the first time last TG.  For this photo op I also pulled out my pearl handled antique silverware... So fun, but I only have four spoons so it won't be getting used any time soon.  (The sets were made for a fish course, so they just came with forks and knives .... Any spoons you find, like these, we're used for sauces, and are the size of soup spoons ... Still searching eBay for more of those.)

With the funky and casual center piece I thought I better add something else to balance all the antique dinner ware,Mao I tore up old flour sacks for napkins, and used ultra tarnished old napkin rings.

Thanks Christine, for the motivation and excuse to do something I love ... She is announcing the winner next week, if you want to go and see what other, better photographed entries look like.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Lovely Autumn Day

 With my witches' party coming up, I am on short order to finish my fall and Halloween décor.
 I could decorate a hundred mantels ... I love it, but the piano needs some festivity too!
 I thought the little picket fence gives the impression of a pumpkin patch! 
I painted my urn black and the pumpkin white to compliment the autumn leaves and complete my Halloween color scheme.

 The sign is a makeover ... just a bit of whimsy to go with my pumpkin patch under glass. Of course kudos are in order to Karen at Graphics Fairy for finding the antique pumpkin that I used.

... and just for fun, I thought I would share the window in my library ... its on the second floor of the house, and with Virginia Creeper growing up the wall outside, it looks amazing when it turns in the fall ... even through the lace curtains.  It makes me smile every time I walk in the room.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Autumn Colors on Display

Just did a new autumn display at the antique mall and thought I would share...
 
 

 The fruit still life sold almost immediately, and was replaced by this lovely autumn scene ...
... and a happy fall to all!