FALL AT HOME............WELCOME!

Hello and happy Fall to you All!!! Come on in wish I could serve you up some spiced cider and a cinnamon roll!  Its Fall here finally to spite the recent Hurricane Irma. Our weather has begun to cool down enough for roasting marshmallows at the fire pit, one of my favorite fall things to do.

I have made use out of some materials that flew in my yard from the hurricane such as some metals which I incorporated in a Farm house style tray for the dining room .  My very wonderful neighbors lost their olive bush so I took some clippings to use for Fall. I never realized just how nice the leaves were.

I used a piece of scrap plywood , painted it added a galvanized metal frame and two handles.

Love the olive bush clippings !

The garland on the fireplace was super easy to make just take a roll of burlap and thread some cording all the way through and pull and as it gathers it ruffles, I just stuck some leaves through  and some corn that I found at Hobby Lobby

I found these pretty flowers at Walmart , The bottle of wine I thought instead of tossing it I added a chalk board and some cording.

 I had been saving all the scraps of wood from our remodeling so I did a bit of an Autumn block

 This is the dining room baker rack , I did a bit of black and white

 Whats Fall without Apples?

 This Bakers rack is in the kitchen

 Avintage lunch box that a cloth rooster call home.

 Found these two plastic vintage vegetable picks it so reminded me of my gram

 I am using an iron candle wall holder in my kitchen window, Love to light candles in the window at dark

 The vintage ladder is home to an array of witch things.


                                   So happy you could stop on in today and celebrate Fall with us!!
                                                                              Lisa

AN EASY HOMEMADE WEDDING SIGN, A LITTLE MAKEOVER FOR MY KITCHEN CART

Hi there, so happy you could stop on in! Well ya know that Cow stencil that I used making the new pillows well someone ought to come on over and take that thing away from me......now I decided to give my little kitchen island cart a new look and yes it does include the cow stencil. If you remember I bought this cart for 5.00 at a church thrift store, it was originally a weird type of filing cabinet that pulls open from the top and slides back and closes. Well I never use things for which they were fully intended I like to put some fun in the mix.  If you would like to take a peek at what it looked like when it first came to live with me ,   https://mrsblackstone.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-cutest-addition-to-my-kitchen-my.html    It has seen a few new looks along the years, the last look was this:

I did have a red rooster stenciled on all sides

Homemade cinnamon buns that I have been baking for years.....Sometimes I make them on a Sunday but for sure every Christmas morning.

Vanilla coffee in my favorite Pottery Barn Cups.

I moved many things around so I added this mirrored shelf a Hobby Lobby find to the dining room it was previously in the kitchen, just added some Fall!

Found the metal leaf napkin rings at our local thrift store.

We had a wedding this past weekend so I crafted this easy sign. Just a 1/2 in plywood, first a coat of dark brown, then I used an off white and just notched out the wood when the white was still wet to give the illusion of slats of wood.  Used stencils , some flowers and a couple of heart tins I picked up along the way.

This is the kitchen island /cart now, if you remember I bought a sheet cake pan and it was so large it would not fit in my oven so.....I turned it upside down and I have a cool top for my island

This is a Walmart find for about 5.00

Just a bit of Apple Cider and some cool weather snacks

It has been so nice visiting !

Join us for our Fall  virtual open house next time!

Enjoy your weather

Lisa

A MUCH NEEDED DAY OF SEWING AFTER A DIRECT HIT FROM HURRICANE IRMA, A FIERCE STORM that left so much damage!

I am so happy to return to  share my crafts! This has been a very hard situation for all , Hurricane Irma left our neighbor in mad annihilation. For many of my neighbors have lost their homes. For us we had minor damages which I am truly thankful. Many of my neighbors vacation here to stray from the cold northern temperatures, so this is their 2nd homes. When I returned the sunrise after the storm I was shocked at the  evident annihilation the storm had left behind , the roads were littered with metals from torn apart homes and falling trees it looked as though someone picked up Naples fla and shock it and through it back down. We hurried and checked our home including  the roof . oddly everything was in tack, even the lanai. I couldn't help to think why me why was my home spared while most others here lost so much? I am truly grateful . We went over 2 weeks with no electric, water , food gasoline was in short supply at first was not even available. Neighbors all worked together to clean the ruble from sunup to sun down , the red cross and salvation army and national guard fed us and gave us cleaning supplies . They brought me a huge bucket with mops, bleach and various cleaning supplies for that I am so grateful. Today most is cleaned up many have to rebuild and put new roofs on. I was later told that the wind was tracked at well over 200 mph. The home I stayed at a cement building was safe until we tried to leave and found that the 3 lakes that surrounded the area had flooded so we drove in my daughters truck and took a chance, well we made it in her white truck that has earned the name "The great white".   So we have washed our home down and made the needed repairs and are forever grateful for surviving Hurricane Irma. So with all that said I decided to take a sewing day and add a bit of Fall for ya all!  I have to add I really am loving the luxury of Electric !

I had bought a new condition canvas shower curtain a short time ago at our local thrift store so seeing that I didn't need it as a shower curtain I turned it into some pillow covers and a runner to match. I had a wonderful visit to our new Hobby Lobby in this area and found a cow stencil which added fun to my sewing crafts .

I  sewed the covers with a flap over so the pillow could be tucked in and secured and easily taken off to launder. I would highly advise this if you have children, pets etc...

I guess I went somewhat cow crazy...I love the way you can shade the stencil so it looks like different cows and not all the same.

This rusty cloche I found at our local tractor supply, I just added a pumpkin to the pot some leaves and a berry garland.   My runner is simple with a 3 cow parade and a little ruffle at the ends.

A fun day of sewing is just what  I needed!  I am so happy that you could stop on in today!

Until next time 

Happy Crafting!

Lisa