FRIDAY THIS N THAT-FINAL OCTOBER IDEAS

 

I am one of those weird people

(..I hear those of you that KNOW me..)

Anyway, I am one of those weird people

that STILL keeps notebooks of ideas.

Yeah, yeah--I know all about

Pinterest and the internet but

there is something satisfying to me

about sitting down and looking through a

BOOK OF IDEAS.

I have one notebook for each season..

(well- Christmas has 3 or 4 binders)

These are all loose leaf 3 ring binders

filled with page protectors full

of inspirations and ideas.

Being as it IS Fall now..

I pulled my

PUMPKIN COLORED

notebook out.

Inside you will find things like this:

Yep- Here's the binder~

Yes! They are colored for each Season-

White For Snow/Winter.

Red For Christmas.

Pink for Little Girl Ideas.

Blue For Little Boy Ideas.

Yellow For Easter Ideas.

Green For Gardening/Outdoor Ideas.

And a slew of white ones with

typed cover inserts.

Well, you get the picture.

But for Fall

(and Halloween)

I dug out the Pumpkin Colored binder.

Here are a few of the images I have saved.

These are pictures of magazine pictures

so don't expect award winning 

photography on my part...ok...

no whining about it either.

I have always loved window boxes..

and I like the earthy simplicity

 of this one.

and a  white pumpkin surrounded by Fall gatherings...

A peek at a birdbath that is

Closed for the Season

(poor birds)

And the path of pumpkins

that leads you through an arbor..

And brings you home to this..

A place to spend an afternoon,

or an evening,

or a life time.

I have had these images for many years

and don't know WHERE they are from...

but Thank You to the people

that photographed these.

Now..

Please excuse me..

I am headed to Starbucks...

to get a latte.

Can you say..

Pumpkin Spice Latte?

Sigh-sadly, I don't do sugar but

if you do...

OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY!

Now wipe the drool off your chin

and get busy (did I SAY you were lazy)?!

                             Hmmm...would that be what they mean

                                  by the pot calling the kettle black?

You KNOW you need to get ready for 

this final week of October, right?!

I do, too...

(if you are already done I DON'T want to know about it-m'kay...like I don't feel bad enough already?!)

Have a wonderful weekend.

I am going to try to get a couple

more rides in the VW bug

with the top down.

Soon she will be stored for winter

and I might spend a couple of weeks

in mourning.

DRIVING MISS DAISY 

(for a pup cup)

FRIDAY THIS N THAT-EARLY MORNING IN MY LIFE WITH THING 1, 2 & 3

 Want to know what a typical day

in my life looks like?

I wake up about 5:30 am

when my little Coco stretches herself

and has to go potty.

                Up and out we go-no matter the weather.

When we come back in

Coco wakes Daisy up.

She sleeps in her crate because she

is not fully potty trained.

                                          Soon Scruffy joins the potty party.

He also grabs the neighbor's newspaper

and delivers it to her porch.

                                               By now it is 6AM and 

I have had at least one cup of coffee.  Yep!

I am up early.

If the 'kids' are very good

and the weather is nice

we go for a latte and 

3 pup cups!

All have harnesses and ride nicely.

                                         Then it is back home and by now

we need another 'potty' break

and then a little nap.

                                         And some of us like to sleep

protecting our assets.

From that point on it is 

all work and no play for me.

sigh...wish I could nap without

a care in the world.

I am always careful what I wish for

because I don't want to get 

ZAPPED

with a permanent nap----

if you know what I mean.

Happy Morning to all of you!

Much love from my home to yours.

FRIDAY THIS AND THAT- BEFORE PINTEREST I HAD THIS-STOLEN IDEAS-GUILTY AS CHARGED

 

Well, here I am again with things

that I cut out of magazines

over the years.

My own personal Pinterest!

I have NO idea what the source 

these outside ideas came from

so I can't reference them.

I LOVE this.

Here's the funny thing- 

I hung a lit pumpkin like this from a

 Shepherd's Hook

in our backyard.

I thought I was SO CLEVER.

Well, that cleverness must have come by osmosis

because I found that in my 

Book Of Ideas

two weeks after the "hanging"!

 At night it's very eerie because

the wind moves it and it looks

like it is floating.

Scared the beans out of someone I know.

I think the urn under it is just gorgeous!

 I need to put something like that together.

The green urn looks great for the base, doesn't it?

Crazy about this idea for a birdbath!

I can't tell you how many ideas I have copied

over the years.

Are there really ANY new ideas?

Or am I the only copy cat out there?

You know I  just sit around 

and eat Twinkies and wait

for others to come up with ideas

for me to steal use, right?

Remember when EVERYONE had burlap?

Well, everyone except me. 

I didn't like it-it reminded me of all the

bags of feed I had to move

on the farm when I was a kid!

But I DO think this is clever!

How about some glowing 

BURLAP LIGHTS

for your porch?

This says to use a topiary frame but I think 

it would work with a

tomato cage tied together at the top.
I'm not sure what the little "balls"
are but they look like burdock(?)
to me.  

It doesn't say what they are.

Here's the directions.

 Speaking of glowing.....

How about getting a little glow on 

INSIDE the house?

Oh- Wait-That looks like soda pop

to me!

Hmmmmmmmm-

Maybe you'd care for some of this instead?

IMAGE

Just make sure you don't 

drink too much

because you don't want 

to end up looking like

WC Fields

As for me?

I'll be warming up with a

sugarless Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Courtesy of Starbucks-

Thank you very much!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!

 

FRIDAY THIS AND THAT-BITTERSWEET IN SO MANY WAYS~

 I LOVE BITTERSWEET!

For my 50th birthday

(don't ask when THAT was

it was a LONG time ago)

my family and friends

threw a huge bash.

My brother, Charlie, came from

out East, friends from Florida,

and from around the area showed up

to surprise me.

One of the things that

surprised me most was

this watercolor that

my friend, Carol Ball, asked

an artist friend of ours

to paint.

When Carol said she wanted

a painting of Bittersweet,

Lois Christensen, the artist,

about fell over her easel laughing.

WHO would want a picture of

BITTERSWEET? Lois asked.

When Carol said it was for me..

she "got it".

Hmmm...guess SHE knew I

am a tad "off-kilter", too!

Here it is! It hangs in my

foyer/hallway.

Sorry for the poor photo..sigh...

I see it several times a day

and always smile to myself.

A close up

So, when I dug out an old

Better Homes & Gardens

magazine for October

I was tickled to see an

article called

Bittersweet Romance.

I think every Fall decorating

should have a bit of

BITTERSWEET in it,

don't you?

I love this table with a

bit of bittersweet color on it.

And look at these pumpkins,

wrapped with bittersweet.

How cute are these for

place markers?

Aren't these votives sweet?

I also found a bit of

BITTERSWEET

color in the shot of this room.

Maybe just a tad

TOO MUCH

of saturated color for me!

And, where is the

BITTERSWEET here,

you ask~

Well~ It is

BITTERSWEET

that my own backyard

looks

NOTHING like that!

It is also BITTERSWEET 

that so many things have changed

over the years.

My dear brother is gone-

never to experience another

Earthly fall.

Lois Christenson is gone and has

 her easel set up somewhere

beyond this realm.

My friend, Carol, has moved away

and I miss her.

My friends, Stan & Mary, that flew in from FL

have passed over.

Life is surely

BITTERSWEET, isn't it?

And, yet, we solider on, don't we?

In a perfect world,

all the people we love would stay

safe and sound and forever young.

In this world,

we accept the reality of life and

move forward as best we can.

Just so you know that I don't mean

to make this post a downer 

(because I don't feel "down")

I will leave you with this.

Unfortunately,

I DID NOT have the

WINNING LOTTERY TICKET

in the last drawing-

so, to all those I promised to

"share the wealth with" if I won,

I apologize.

Hmmm...maybe this IS a 

BITTERSWEET DOWNER POST

after all.

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

FRIDAY THIS N THAT-FALL IS FALLING-READY OR NOT

 I don't know about 

where you live

but I can feel

Fall in the air.

I noticed some of our trees have leaves 
that are tinged with color. 

Remember before Pinterest?

I had books-

lots and lots of 

loose leaf books.

They were full of ideas 

and things that I love.

I am digging a few of them out for 

FALL IDEAS.

Most of them came from 

Better Homes & Gardens Magazine.

Outside, I am smitten by this.

Fall is moving in 
but there is 

lots of green left.

I would love to have 

chairs and plants

that looked like this.

How about a little corner 

of the garden

decorated like this?

At the end of the day

 what could be better than 

hanging out by a firepit?

Know what else is magical 

about Fall?

A Fall Fairy Garden?

Do you remember when 

the  little girls and I
used to put together a
 Fairy Garden 

of our very own?

Here is what it looked like 
when we first made it.

Want to know how it looks 

decorated for Fall?

We let the fairies 

take care of their own garden.

Can you spot the house?

Stinking Fairies!!!!

Hope you have a 
wonderful day and 
enjoy every last moment
of pre-winter weather because
WINTER

will soon be upon us---

ready or not! 

Blessings & Love

to all the sweet

readers that follow along

with my nonsense!

YOU are THE BEST!!!

ps-Three Months Until Christmas Day