Category: Decorating

I love white paint!

Decorating

I really, really love white paint.  It can take anything and make it beautiful.  Well, most anything.
I’d been slowly accumulating old picture frames from the thrift store, so I finally laid them all out and got to painting.

They started in various shades of gold and brown. (And, yes, that’s an obnoxious vinyl tablecloth that I use to paint on) IMG_8439 (Large) This gold one I’m really excited to work on.
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I quite like this frame, too.  Great detail!
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And this mirror was a find!
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I confess I did no priming at all, just went right to work on them with my white paint and a brush.
I just paused every hour or two to brush another coat over everything until I was satisfied…

Just look at this great collection now!
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I’m so pleased with how they turned out.
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Most of them will end up on my dining room walls with family photos in them, but the mirror is already on the wall!
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Sigh.  I love my living room…
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I also love this sweet face.  She had to try one on.
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I just wish you could hear her little voice saying “cheese” IMG_8502 (Large)2 “Tseez!”  I love those pudgy little hands…
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Too bad you can’t hang that on the wall!  Ka-yoot!

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Free fall decor

Decorating

I was parked in the parking lot at my husband’s office the other day when I noticed some cool weeds in the field behind the lot.
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The thought struck me that I could find something to do with them, so I cut a few and took them home.
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I really like the deep, rich brown of these weeds.  It’s so pretty.
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After some thinking, I decided to try filling my urns in the kitchen.  I have two linen cabinets that sit on either side of the doors to my husband’s office, behind the kitchen table.  I keep my sugar scuttles and an large urn on each of them.  Usually these urns are empty, which doesn’t bother me because I think they are beautiful by themselves.  A few times I’ve gone hunting for something to fill them, but I haven’t found anything I love for the right price.
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I got out a couple of spools of fall-ish ribbon and tied a length of each around the urns.  I decided to add a little ribbon flower to the knots.
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Lastly, I just cut the weeds down and filled each urn.  I didn’t want it to look too tailored.
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I placed each urn back in it’s place and ta-da!  Fall beauty for free!
Here’s one cabinet:
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And the other:
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I just had to put that picture in to keep things real.  I’ll freely admit that I was so excited about my project that I didn’t even notice there was a diaper on the cabinet until AFTER I took the picture.  Oh well, such is my life right now.  So, we’ll try that again.
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Much better.
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Very pretty, and it will look great at Thanksgiving!
I wonder, what kinds of great weeds will you find near you?

HH

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Halloween decorating

Decorating, Halloween

I must admit that I prefer simple fall decorating to Halloween decorating, but I’ve been hearing things like this from my kids:

“Why is it Halloween at other people’s houses but not at ours?”
And I wonder, since when do you have to have decorations up in order for a holiday to come?  Hmmm.
Well, I decided to surprise them and have a few things up when they came home from school.  So, Happy Halloween!
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The dining room is where the official Halloween spot is, I guess.
I hung some spiderwebs on the wall, over my pictures.
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The web is actually made of shimmery little beads.
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I also hung one over my silver.
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On the table I used this really cool tablecloth I found a few years ago.  It’s spider web lace.  A fun twist on table linens.
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Lastly, I pulled out one of my cake platters, some letters and came up with a centerpiece.
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I have to just say that my favorite part of fall is the pumpkin.  I love pumpkins!
In fact, I’ve decided that next year I’m growing a pumpkin patch.  I have big plans.

Last year I pulled out my vintage crowns and put them on my pumpkins.
I liked it so much that I think it’s my new fall tradition.
It sort of fits the way I feel about pumpkins.  I love that fall is when the lowly pumpkin is crowned queen of the season.
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I like that thought, crowning the pumpkin Queen of the Season.
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Well, I guess now it’s Halloween at our house, too.  Especially with pumpkins dressed up as queens.

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