Gather Together. . .

Hello my friends,

 

in America November is the month that we GATHER together with family and friends and thank the good Lord for all of our many blessings.

 

Thanksgiving has always held a special place in my heart!

 

A Bit of Spooky Fall Tour

 Fall has arrived and you can finally feel it in the air.

 

It certainly is a beautiful time of year!!

 

 

Fluffing For Fall

 

 Hello my friends!

 

Welcome to our

 

 

A big thank you to Amber from Follow the Yellow Brick Home for all her work putting this together.  I am so happy to be included!

 

If you are hopping over from visiting Janet at Rosemary & Thyme then I know that you have already been filled with wonderful ideas!

 

Although it still feels like summer outside, I definitely feel a bit of fall in the mornings and evenings.

 

So,

welcome to our home.  I hope you enjoy the touches of fall.

 

 

My summer home was filled with watermelons, bees, and sunflowers.  It was easy to add a few pumpkins to ready this beauty for fall.  I love the velvet pumpkins!

 

 

Fall touches in the entry.

 

Black and white checks seem to be all the rage this year.

 

 

Love it, but I am still mad for plaid!!

 

Small quilts add a pop of fall color.

 

The living room mantle houses my vintage corbels I bought while vacationing in Charleston.

 

I made the stitch work quite a few years ago.  I still love the dimensional fabric leaves!



I had fun styling my farmhouse table.

 

 I recently bought the giant bee skep.  I just had to leave it out for a while.  The thrift find t.v. tray gives it a fall feel.

 

I love plaid throws!  I made the owl pillow 2 years ago.

 

Family room mantle.

 

I hung my rag garland across the front.  I'm not sure if I love it.  I'm sure I'll do some tweaking.

 

The kitchen table has an owl theme.

 

 

I am such a dish addict!  It's an easy way to add seasonal décor.

A lot of them are thrift store finds.

Don't you love this child's tractor toy?

 

 

I'm excited for fall now that September has arrived!

 

It's time to enjoy the harvest.

 

Next up is Terrie at  Decorate and More with tip Can't wait to see what she has to share!

 

Here is a list for all of the other fabulous posts.

 

 

 https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/5908f0f6e28c4d26bd38401a32dc621e

 

 

hugs,

 

A Beautiful Fall Day in the Canyon

 

Hello my friends,

just down the road and to the East of us is the beautiful American Fork Canyon.

 

We love going up there, but on the weekends it is so busy.

 

Why not go during the week?

One of the benefits of hubby being retired!

 

 

Officially Fall Home Tour

Hello my friends,

today is officially the first day of fall.

 

Although, I started decorating for fall the first part of September,

I decided that I would share it with you before it all goes away.  :)

 

 

Yes, next weekend I will be switching over to Halloween.  I'm so excited, because last year we were in the process of getting new hardwood floors, so I didn't decorate for Halloween.

I missed my cute little spooks!

STEPping it up on the Front Porch. . .

Hello my friends,

Here it is the first of October and we are definitely feeling touches of fall.  Cool breezes, leaves bustling, and frost will soon be on the pumpkins.

 

Right after I had my surgery our youngest daughter, Kylee came and decorated the front porch for me.  With the help of my grandson, Braxton they quickly changed my summer porch into fall.

 

They removed the aqua glider and brought around my two coral metal chairs.  I have a collection of leaf rakes and Kylee corralled some of them in the old milk can that came from my husbands grandparents farm.  The cute 'Love' pillow was a gift from my friend, Shelley.

 

My friend, Ann gifted me with ornamental pepper plants.  I  planted one of them in an enamel teapot and the other in an old watering can with an orange spout.

 

She added them and my little chippy red ladder to the display along with a plant I had in a rusty gallon can.

 

I also had picked up a few mums at Walmart.  She placed two rust colored ones in an old wooden crate.

 



 

The weather remained hot for some time and it certainly didn't feel like pulling out the pumpkins weather.

 

Recently it has cooled down and I decided I would STEP it up just a little and add my ladder to the left side of the door where the old filing cabinet usually is.

 

I'm so excited!  All of these pumpkins, except the gourds; came from my garden.  I've left a couple big ones out there that were still quite green.

 

 

I feel so blessed to have such great family and friends that share.  My sweet cousin, Betty gave me two giant sunflower heads from her garden.

 

And my long time friend, Joyce gifted me with the Indian Corn.  Can you believe we have been best friends since 6th grade?

 

 

I scored this orange toolbox at a thrift store for $10 last spring.  I could hardly wait to use it for fall.

 

The plants in my urns were still looking pretty good, but I pulled them out to stack these cuties.  I did buy these pumpkins. Thinking I need some cornstalks underneath.  Truth told, probably won't happen.  :)

 

I teased on facebook and said, "Unlike me, these girls are stacked"  (wink)

 

 

Kylee had placed my Nesbitts soda crate on my rustic flat wooden wheelbarrow in the garden below the porch.  I added a few pumpkins and gourds.  I love the orange next to the purple Aster.

 

There you have it, my '2017' fall porch.

 

  I absolutely adore the unusual pumpkins you can find now days, but because I had enough in my garden to decorate with I am going to resist buying more.  Hoping to plant some unique ones next year.

 

hugs,

Jann

 

 

 

 

 

The Textures of Fall. . .

Hello my friends, I don't think there is any other season that nature provides us with so many wonderful textures.

 

The crispy fallen leaves, the slender blades of grasses, and the round roughness of acorns and pinecones.  Just to mention a few.

 

I had this thought in mind when I decorated my living room mantle for fall.

 

I started with a pair of old chippy corbels that I bought in Charleston, SC a couple years ago.  I sat this sweet blue glass pumpkin, that was gifted to me; on a wooden slice and tucked it in between the corbels. 

 

(notice the silly lady that got her shoulder in the photo?)  :)

 

 

 

The accent of the golden stem on the blue pumpkin prompted me to pull out a few of the gold mason jars that I've had for a few years.  They were originally made for a bridal shower.  I placed Hydrangeas in a couple and added some paper covered Styrofoam balls for more texture.

 

On the opposite endof the mantle I placed two metal pumpkins.  They were originally brown, but I sprayed them white and dusted them with gold glitter.  I thought I might add some bits of gold leafing, but never got around to it.  More paper balls, and a scalloped blue cake stand.  A shaft of wheat is tucked underneath.

 

 

The glass plate is the 'fall' one in the Currier and Ives" series.  I found them at a thrift shop a few years ago.

 

The clock represents a 'time for every season'.

 

I love this rustic wooden wheel I picked up at an antique store in Napa, CA last June.  the wood adds another texture.

 



 

After everything was all in place I tucked a burlap garland here and there throughout.

 

I planned on cutting leaves out of gold paper and draping a garland as well, but just did not get er done.  Sometimes things don't go as planned, but no worries, right?

 

 I hope you enjoyed my fall mantle filled with texture!

 

One of my favorite textures we see in fall is that of pumpkins and gourds.  Don't you love the unusual ones they have now days?

 

This is my favorite gourd.  I added it to a vignette on our entertainment center.





 

 

How do you feel about texture?

 

hugs,

Jann

 

An Apple a Day Keeps the Dr. Away. . .

Hello my friends,

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the old saying, "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away".

 

Well, if that's the case, I have not been eating nearly enough apples.  (wink)

 

Still, once fall rolls around I've got to have a bowl full in my house.

 

Nothing quite like biting into a crunchy, juicy apple!!

Thinking I should have oiled them for their photo shoot.  :)

I placed them in this sweet $4 Sunflower Pyrex bowl I picked up at a thrift shop a couple years ago.  Two small plates with sunflowers in the center was propped behind.  One of my scales helps to add some elevation to the vignette.  Notice the cute little sunflower S&P shakers?  I got them at an estate sale.  I thought they were so tiny and sweet!

The orange creamer was another thrift find.  I loved the diamond design.  Thinking I need to fill it with some acorns.

 

But you know the fun couldn't stop there. 

Did your mom ever tell you, "to stop playing with your food and just eat"?  I don't remember being told that, but not only do I play with my food, I play with my dishes as well.  lol!

 

 

I have such a sweet tooth and as soon as it feels a bit like fall I get craving Apple Crisp.  It's one of my favorite fall time desserts.

 

I have the complete set of four of these green Pyrex bowls called, Verde.  Another great thrift bargain.  My friends from one of the clubs that I am a member of gifted me with the darling dishtowel after my surgery.

 

 

Well, enough with playing, I'm going to eat that Apple Crisp!!

 

 

 

Here's the recipe just in case you get a hankerin for some too.

 

Apple Crisp

 

8-10 apples  (any variety.  I often mix, using what I have)

 

Top Crust:

1 c. brown sugar            1 c. flour

1/4 tsp. salt                1/8 tsp. nutmeg

                       1/2 c. oats                1/2 cup margarine or butter 

Mix together till crumbly I use a pastry blender. 

 

 Place peeled, sliced apples in a buttered 9x13 pan. 

Top with crumb mixture and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Bake in preheated oven for 30 min. at 350 degrees.

      

 

hugs,

Jann