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Happy Fall Y'all!

I've had this baker's rack on the deck all summer with my herb garden on it. Here in the corner of our entry I've always had an antique phonograph.

So I decided to put the baker's rack here and fill it with garden decor and my herb garden.

It's a perfect spot for my topiary. The little sunflower picture was painted by our youngest son and is perfect for Fall. I'm just in love with sunflowers lately!

It's also a great place to display some more Fall decor. I love the 'garden look.' And this is giving me that feel.

I am much more comfortable with this being here now and I don't have to fill my family room window with plants.

So I've had a lot of fun adding to my collection of stuff this year and deciding what I like. I'll be back soon!

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Fall in the Family Room

No matter what your color scheme in your home, most of us like to add some warmth when the temperatures outside start to drop. I do, too.

I have never loved fall colors in my house but this year I've modified them. If I had to say I had a 'fall theme' it would be 'copper.'

I lightly sprayed all my faux fall foliage with a light layer of copper to tone down the reds and yellows.

And then I was much happier.

A mix of real and faux gourds and pumpkins fill a dough bowl on the coffee table.

I found this faux silk brown plaid fabric when I found the blue plaid for my living room. I thought it was the perfect fabric to add some warmth to this room for fall. I very rarely buy throw pillows. I like to make my own so I can have as many as I want and use the fabric elsewhere to tie the room together.

I filled the vase on the sofa table with fall foliage, branches and eucalyptus. A bust of a horse brings some of the brown to the table.

Remember the topiary I made in the Spring? It's still going strong. I never transplanted it out of the plastic pot it came in and I set the whole thing in a copper pot for fall.

I'm enjoying the changes and I'll most likely keep the room like this until Thanksgiving is over.

I'll be back soon with our Fall kitchen and a complete Fall Home Tour.

We got our new stove (love it!) and all that's left to finish in the kitchen is the back splash. From Farmhouse to French Country Part Two

AND we're finally getting an estimate on our new bathroom tile today! We've had to keep rescheduling because of being busy. Our Master Bathroom

I hope you're having a wonderful day!

love and blessings~

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Fall in the Family Room

I lightly sprayed all my faux fall foliage with a light layer of copper to tone down the reds and yellows.

And then I was much happier.

A mix of real and faux gourds and pumpkins fill a dough bowl on the coffee table.

I filled the vase on the sofa table with fall foliage, branches and eucalyptus. A bust of a horse brings some of the brown to the table.

Remember the topiary I made in the Spring? It's still going strong. I never transplanted it out of the plastic pot it came in and I set the whole thing in a copper pot for fall.

I'm enjoying the changes and I'll most likely keep the room like this until Thanksgiving is over.

"A friend loves at all times..." Proverbs 17:17

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A Fall Centerpiece in the Dining Room

I hope you all had a great weekend! We had some great house guests this weekend and I found and bought a fabulous French dresser!

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. We may use it for a vanity in our master bathroom or I may finally move our piano downstairs and put it there. Either way I was so happy to get it! It was about an hour away from our house so we took our sweet grandchildren and went for a beautiful drive through Michigan's farm lands. They had fun counting barns and silos.

It's always fun to add a centerpiece to your dining room table. I wanted to tie my dining room fall colors to my living room since they're completely open to each other.

I used some more of the mercury glass pumpkins that I used in the living room, combining them with dried hydrangeas and some faux pumpkins and acorns. My pumpkins were originally orange and I sprayed them with a layer of silver spray paint and then painted them lightly with my shutter paint (hand mixed) and SW Interesting Aqua.

My hydrangeas are dried Endless Summer and Strawberry Shortcake The Strawberry Shortcake dried such a pretty shade of rose.

I also mixed in my mercury glass candle sticks from Ballard.

A tray makes it a little easier to clear it all if I need to move it.

I mixed in few brown sequined acorns and pine cones.

I like that this is a little more formal than the rustic decor I used in the entry way. And in the evening the light from chandelier and candle light make it all sparkle.

And with the sun setting now a little earlier in the evening, it's nice to have a little bling at dinner time!

Have a great day!

love and blessings~

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A Fall Centerpiece in the Dining Room

I hope you all had a great weekend! We had some great house guests this weekend and I found and bought a fabulous French dresser!

It's always fun to add a centerpiece to your dining room table. I wanted to tie my dining room fall colors to my living room since they're completely open to each other.

My hydrangeas are dried Endless Summer and Strawberry Shortcake The Strawberry Shortcake dried such a pretty shade of rose.

I also mixed in my mercury glass candle sticks from Ballard.

A tray makes it a little easier to clear it all if I need to move it.

I mixed in few brown sequined acorns and pine cones.

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Welcome Fall!

It has started to feel like Fall here in Michigan. Yesterday was cool, overcast and breezy. We have three huge trees in our front yard that start dropping their leaves in August and our yard is covered.

A few of the them blew in our front door as I was taking pictures and I almost left them there for effect. Then I thought you would think my house was dirty! ;)

All my faux foliage was bright orange, red and yellow when I bought them. I decided I didn't like them so bright and went to my impressive collection of spray paints. I used a metallic copper and lightly sprayed until all the colors were softened.

I like how the paint tied them in with my copper rooster and glass pumpkin.

This copper rooster used to be part of a weather vane that was on the roof of our cabana. He broke off after several years but I hang on to him.

This is the view out of our guest room looking at the garden in front of the family room.

So Happy Fall, Y'all! It is such a beautiful time of the year!

love and blessings~

"No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light." Luke 11:33

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Welcome Fall!

A few of the them blew in our front door as I was taking pictures and I almost left them there for effect. Then I thought you would think my house was dirty! ;)

I like how the paint tied them in with my copper rooster and glass pumpkin.

This copper rooster used to be part of a weather vane that was on the roof of our cabana. He broke off after several years but I hang on to him.

This is the view out of our guest room looking at the garden in front of the family room.

So Happy Fall, Y'all! It is such a beautiful time of the year!

love and blessings~

"No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light." Luke 11:33

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Lots of Changes in the Living Room

I love fabric and will typically use a fabric as my starting off point for decorating any room. And I did that this time again - only my fabric was just a solid drop cloth.

I'd been feeling like our living room had gotten a little neutral for my liking and when I spotted this faux silk blue plaid at warehousefabricsinc.com, I thought it was perfect! When the fabric arrived it even matched my robin's egg blue linen perfectly!

I knew that I wasn't satisfied with the slipcover I had made for the round ottoman in this room and thought this faux silk plaid would be perfect to reupholster it with and add some pattern.

I also ordered a beautiful fringe that had all the colors in it to match.

This new plaid also has all the same shades that's in the toile in this room!

With a little bit of furniture rearranging, I feel like I have a whole new room!

I replaced my floral door picture with some French Country cows for Fall. They've been living in the basement for a while and were ready to come back out. I didn't like my Blue and White with this new fabric so I gave my secretary a library feel, which I also like for Fall.

I made an overstuffed pillow for the couch out of the same fabric and added the matching fringe.

I put a mix of glass pumpkins and a beautiful teal glass vase filled with dried hydrangeas on a rustic basket tray.

I've also moved another end table into the room and the mercury glass lamps that were in the family room. I'll probably paint the base of this table the same color as I've painted the others. I just want to make sure that these changes are gonna stick! ;)

I reupholstered this ottoman with very little sewing. I'll post later this week how I did it and how you can get perfectly spaced pleats without doing any math! :)

Hope your Summer had a great ending!

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Lots of Changes in the Living Room

I knew that I wasn't satisfied with the slipcover I had made for the round ottoman in this room and thought this faux silk plaid would be perfect to reupholster it with and add some pattern.

I also ordered a beautiful fringe that had all the colors in it to match.

This new plaid also has all the same shades that's in the toile in this room!

With a little bit of furniture rearranging, I feel like I have a whole new room!

I made an overstuffed pillow for the couch out of the same fabric and added the matching fringe.

I put a mix of glass pumpkins and a beautiful teal glass vase filled with dried hydrangeas on a rustic basket tray.

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Fall Mantel

It's a dark, rainy day here in Michigan. But inside I'm brightening it up with some Fall color.

We have two fireplaces in our living room~dining room~family room area so I'm always wanting to come up with new ideas to decorate them both. I want them to coordinate but not be the same.

I've used this basket on our front door before and had planned on using it again this Fall but suddenly got the idea that I'd enjoy it much more above our mantel in the family room.

I filled it first with eucalyptus. It smells wonderful and I was surprised that I could smell it clear across the room! I then added some faux fall leaves, some burlap hydrangeas and burlap sunflowers.

The ceilings are high in this room so I love having something a little over-sized here.

I added the wood and metal wall art, that used to be on my kitchen wall, behind the basket, and a few of my candle sticks and a basket pumpkin.

So sorry for these dark pictures. The sun is supposed to shine tomorrow! :)

Have a wonderful, long weekend!

love and blessings~

"May He come down like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth." Psalms 72:6

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