Spring Mantel 2017

It has been some wonderful weather here.  This morning was chilly and I love chilly mornings.  It was just right for bringing in some Spring cuttings.  The wisteria is still looking pretty and the roses are robust this year.  I decided to Spring up the mantel in the living room.  I prefer the more is more look and especially the mantel.  It is such a natural spot for pretties and you can't overlook them up there.  It's almost as if they are on stage perfoming for us.

The bees were not up yet this morning so I was able to get a little wisteria without getting them angry at me.  The pink hydrangeas are dried.



This is the first official day of Spring but did you know that sometimes Spring comes on March 21st?  Yes it does but not often. 








Bradford pear blooms are plentiful.








Do you think this iris will fully open today?









Jan

For The Girls

This is for the girls because most girls I know swoon over flowers.



Wisteria, irises, dried hydrangeas and dried roses sitting pretty together on the table.  Vintage plates with no pedigree along with an old lavender top, bring the colors all together.  I get in a hurry when I feel like I have the look I am aiming for.  I am afraid a big wind will blow it away or I will trip and hit my head or the dogs spot a lizard in it and break everything!   Then I feel like I better hurry up and share it because well...something could always happen!
















Wisteria, irises, loropetalums, oleander and crepe myrtles live back here.  I have seen loropetalums spelled lorapetalums and loropetalums.  The Southern Living Grumpy Gardner spells it loropetalums, so I guess I will go with the letter O after the R instead of an A.  I get confused every time I type it now.







The buffet is dressed with irises too.


































































































Jan

Fall Home Tour 2015

Hello!   It's time to take a tour of my house ready for Fall.   Let's start in the Living/Family room.  I do love Fall but I don't go all out decorating for it, I do prefer simple.

  The mister brought me fresh cotton, out of the field, displayed behind the sofa.

I have some models determined to be in this shot, Sonny, Layla and that foot belongs to Jacques.

There are Fall touches here and there.  Velvet pumpkins on the round coffee table for now.  There are dried hydrangeas on both skirted round tables.  I have switched out the table skirts to warmer colors as shown with the red and a warm green.

  I  antiqued the picture frame surrounding the poppies and fall like trees.  It was a dark brown and I didn't care for it so I used some Rub n' Buff on it.  It's right there to the right of the sofa and next to my bookcase.  I think it came out pretty good!

Here is a close up for you.  I don't have the practice of making anything look older or distressed, I usually try to go the other direction!

You can see it better here.  Right in front of the framed picture is a clear vase with my stems that I leave out year round.  I covered the bottom of my stems in the clear vase with dried hydrangeas.  I just stuffed them into the vase with the stems and the bottom of them is now covered.  It was easy to do and no cost!

The velvet pumpkins resting on top of my silver tray.

Aubergine berries and faux leaves sit atop the pine coffee table.

This table has vintage photos of family, dried hydrangeas and bird's nest all sitting fall-like here.

The mister as a boy and his father.

This was my first mantel decorating for the Fall.  It could stay all the way until Christmas if I had not changed it.

Here I went for a different look on the mantel.  A robust full Fall mantel!

 

 

 

 

 

The buffet ready for Fall.

 

 

 

I shared my dining table and buffet.  This is one large room with the kitchen to the left of the table in this photo.  You can see the beginning of the cabinets at the top left of the photo.

This photo is a miracle for me.  I have a lot of difficulty photographing in my kitchen with the fluorescent lights.  That's the tour for now but I am sure I will be changing things up so stay tuned.....

Jan



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Brought A Little Sugar Too

 

 

Hello, I hope you are doing good.  I took a little time this week but I am back and excited to be! I was planning on posting Monday but couldn't wait to get back at it.   There's been a fair amount of painting going on here.  Got the back porch done!  Yay!  So glad!

So there has been painting outside and drying inside.  Before we pressure washed the back porch, the mister told me to go ahead and cut the hydrangeas because they could easily get sprayed away since they are beside one end of the porch.  So I have been drying these on the dining table in cups and glasses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm...those are the cups and plates from the last post.  Wonder who didn't put them up?!  Yes I have a cup from 1987, you got a problem with that?!  Ha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you see why I don't have a pretty table set up!  And the back porch has been off limits.

 

 

 

Now on to some pretties!  I took these photos while most of the hydrangeas had dried and right before the painting started.  Just a couple were still a bit fresh but they have such a pretty color right now I wanted to capture it.

 

Another Flour container!


Brought a little sugar too.

All on a old lace tablecloth.

Got a little surprise!  Wisteria blooms in June.  It did that last year too.  Ha! ha!  I meant July!  If you think that's bad I am forever not knowing what day of the week it is!  I do posts that will be shown on days coming up and when I get through I have no idea what day this is!  Talk about getting a strange look from the mister when I ask him what day is this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan