Autumn Blessings.....

I finally did it...:) 

I finally had my hubby and son drag all my fall decor out of the shed so I could decorate for my favorite season of the year! I love the warm colors of fall decor and I had fun decorating with my white pitcher and milk glass vase collections this year. I have little touches spread around the house and am enjoying looking at it even if I do still have the air conditioner running because it is still hot here in Florida!

 Here is my buffet and the shelf above. You may remember the shelf from this post. I love the fall colors with the jade color of the shelf....so pretty!

 

This is my favorite pumpkin. I bought it at Target years ago. It is glass...even the stem.

One of my little fall bears I have had for years.

And another one...:)

Here is the top of my entertainment center in the living room. I just moved a basket of green ivy, added the gold metal pumpkin and fall leaf garland and called it done.

I had forgotten about this pretty wreath I got on clearance a couple years ago at Wal Mart. Better Homes & Gardens.....normally $20 or $25 and I got it for $2!

A couple touches of fall on my little round table in the living room.

One of my two fall pillows I got on clearance from the Dollar General for a couple bucks a couple years ago.

An end table in the living room holds some fall flowers and my walnut candy dish with the little squirrel on top.

An apothecary jar in the kitchen holds some pine cones, acorns, and a gourd.

A small corner shelf in the kitchen holds more touches of fall.

I love this small bell shaped cloche.

A glittered pumpkin rests inside my aqua & white, vintage Buffalo cup and saucer. I love the aqua and orange together.

This small table houses our phone chargers, keys, and such. I added some pumpkins in the glass pedestal bowl and a sprig of blingy fall twigs in my vintage Pepsi bottle. 

My favorite project of the year and also my first ever tag project is this sweet banner. I had the little hand stenciled leaf prints that I thrifted earlier this year. The tags were made by hot gluing pieces of grapevine to form the letters. It was time consuming, but well worth it. I love it...:)

I moved the cone from the door to the china cabinet since I found my big wreath for the door.

Here's a close-up of one of the tags. I have wild grapevine growing everywhere in the woods bordering my yard. It is very flexible when you first cut it and very easy to work with.

Here are the stenciled leaf prints up close. They are stenciled on a flocked tag board. They were in a frame and I had forgotten about them. I was looking in my craft room closet Friday night for something for another project and spotted them. I was trying to decide how to use them in my fall decor when inspiration struck to make a banner! The banner cost absolutely nothing to make since I had everything I needed on hand...:)

I also used some grapevine to make some napkin rings. My mother in law bought me the prettiest plates today when we were at TJ Maxx for my upcoming anniversary and I didn't have any napkin rings that went with them, so I made my own.

Here are the beautiful plates! I fell in love with them the instant I saw them. I went ahead and bought the bowls to match. The colors in the plates are simply gorgeous and I love the square shape!

Here are the napkin rings. I needed something simple. 

I have some beautiful fall place mats, but I felt they took away from the plates so I went wit these. I am in the market for something different though since I am not loving these with the plates. They will do for now though...:)

Not the best photo but here is the whole table. I went for the less is more look here...:)

What do you think?

I love the little acorn shaped top on the tureen.

I am so happy to finally be feeling better. I missed a day and a half of work earlier in the week and ended up going to the doctor. I had a sinus infection and seriously don't remember ever feeling any worse. I am finally feeling better though and have been very productive this weekend. I am off to type my lesson plans for the week now so I can feel accomplished and ready for the work week. I love to be prepared before the week begins! Looking forward to having two early release days this week as well as the Homecoming parade Friday, then I'm going to Tallahassee to spend the weekend with my beautiful daughter, Miranda. I love our girl time together...:) So many autumn blessings to be thankful for. I will definitely be posting a couple times this week since I have some special blessings to share. I pray each of you have a beautiful week.

I leave you with this.....a little hello from Sadie. She's growing so fast. She is the sweetest little thing and is so happy to see me when I get home from work every day.

 I love her so much...:)

Jade & White and I Was Featured!

Hello and happy Wednesday to you! I am happy to report that I was actually able to sneak a spray paint project in today between rain showers! I'll share that in just a bit, but first, I wanted to show you a couple photos I took on the way to my son's college this morning. This is just not the kind of weather you want to be out and about in!

Needless to say it poured on us most of  the way! I couldn't help but notice how beautiful the clouds were though, especially in the second photo. These were taken just a couple minutes apart. The closer we got to the bad weather, the prettier the clouds got. Then we got to Branford and crossed over the Suwannee River as we always do. The river is so high right now. I snapped a quick picture when we went over. Look along the banks to see how high it is.....up in the trees! Unfortunately, there will be no boating until it goes back down...:( This is the second summer in a row the river has been too high to boat on! The reason you shouldn't boat when it is so high is because of all the debris.....trees, huge limbs, and trash washing down the river. It's very dangerous.

I also want to share some exciting news! 

Linda chose my solar light project as one of her features from last week's party! I was honored to be chosen out of all the great link-ups. Linda is such a kind-hearted and beautiful lady...:) I always enjoy reading her blog and  communicating with her through comments and e-mails. If you don't know Linda, you should go pay her a visit. She and Dianne co-host Thrifty Things Friday each week....such fun!

OK...so I mentioned in this post, that I bought something at one of my favorite flea market booths that was going to be getting a little makeover before I shared it. Well, the sun peeked out long enough today for me to dash out the door when we returned home from the college and do a little spray painting! While we were in town, I picked up a couple cans of Krylon spray paint in a new to me color....Jade. It is the color of the jadeite dishes I love so much. One day I hope to own a few real pieces of jadeite, but until then, I will settle for my knock-offs.....and this little project!

I tend to forget to take before pix and after I started, I remembered I hadn't taken one, so I made a mad dash into the house to grab my trusty little camera. Here is what I bought....a sweet little plate shelf. It was $10 and in perfect condition, so I thought it was worth it. Don't be jealous of my spray painted picnic table....it has a rainbow of colors on it....along with a little brown and white dog! That's my Sassy...sorry I didn't realize she was in the picture and cut her head off!

I gave the shelf 2-3 coats of paint, left her out to dry for a few and then brought her inside. Now....I also forgot to take an after picture until I had it on the wall and loaded down. 

So....no after photo of her empty.....sorry!

Here she is hanging over my buffet. I took the mirror down and will hang it somewhere else. I really love the way this turned out. I had run out of room for my little white pitchers on top of my china cabinet and had been wanting a different way to display them. I think this is perfect! How about you?

I'm sure I will switch out the plates occasionally, but I'm loving this look for now! Everything on the shelf was thrifted except for two of the little pitchers and the silk flowers.

This one was bought at Michael's. It was half price and I just loved the leaf and vine design.

And this one was bought at TJ Maxx a couple years ago. I bought the matching sugar bowl but this was before I started collecting little white pitchers...:) I love her curvy little handle!

I robbed the white flowers out of my 4th of July bouquet I recently packed away.

The top and middle shelf.

The middle and bottom shelf.

Love this platter I found at the flea several months ago. It has a chip in the side but you can't even tell since it's resting in the plate groove. One just like it was going for close to $100 on ebay and I gave just a couple bucks for it!

Well, that's it for today folks! I am steadily crossing things off my mile long to do list and I'm feeling pretty jazzed about that! I'm off to work on another cute little project for my classroom. Oh...if you didn't see my little lady in red and aqua from yesterday, click here to see her. She is just too cute!

Until next time.....