Love the Fall

I changed a few things around in my dining room today so that I could link up to The Inspired Room and join in on Melissa's 3rd annual Fall Nesting Party! Yeah!  Love the Fall, too, and sad to say I am glad to see this scorcher of a summer well behind us.  So here's what I have done in my dining room.

It's cloudy today and has rained all day.  Plus my kitchen/dining room is on the north side of the house, so light is always limited.


I love this sheep picture I got this summer in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at 'Cottage Caboodle'.  She is on the internet under this name and has the most awesome things which can be ordered online.

This picture I have had for years and obtained through the gift shop at the hospital I work.  Always appropriate for the Fall.

A shelf on the hutch with a few fall touches added.



A small tablescape...the plant is sitting in the middle of a eucalyptus wreath that is really a pretty green but just didn't translate.

Full view of the room.

Yep, still love this picture.






Used the flash here, as much as I didn't want to, tends to wash things out.



Well that's about it.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Easy crown molding

I am hooking this post to Donna's Funky Junk Interiors Getter Done Projects.   I have always loved crown molding and after seeing this project on another's blogging site, showing easy crown molding using corner pieces (inner and outer) from Lowe's, I had to do it.  Unfortunately, I have no before pictures, but just imagine no molding.  This was kind of labor intensive in that I got the less expensive corners (not hollowed out) so had to work a little harder pounding the nails through, even though there was a pilot hole there.  It might have been worth it to pay the extra $3 per corner piece.  Oh well, live and learn.  Still, I am pleased with the result.

Also, here is my chandelier purchased from 'thebluecabinet' etsy shop for $75.  Really love it, but still need to get ceiling molding for around the top.  I also decided to paint the ceiling, just like the blogger from

The Frugal Farmhouse.  So that's it.  Took me about 4 hours, not counting the caulking or painting the ceiling.  The Blue Cabinet folks were wonderful to work with...go check out their shop, REALLY BEAUTIFUL LIGHTING and top notch customer service!

Halloween mantle

Pulled out some Halloween stuff and starting throwing it up on the mantle.  Still a work in progress.  Also a pic of a chair sitting next to the fireplace with some spider webbing material.

Chalkboard project

Chalkboard--made from a window.  Painted the glass with chalkboard paint.  Then added some pictures found in a book, 'The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley' by Arthur Symons, 1967.  Here is the picture intially hung on the wall in my kitchen.  Because it looks so 'halloweeny' I moved it to the mantel.

My Review of Phalanx Vanity Light in Gothic Bronze

Originally submitted at CSN Lighting

Bring style and class to your bathroom with Accolade Vanity fixtures. The Pahlanx Collection features classic finishes that are complemented by molding accents and traditional lines. These sconces are a perfect way to add elegance to your home.

Features:

• Collection: Phalanx
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Phalanx Vanity Light in Gothic Bronze

Just what I was looking for!

By spam from springfield, mo on 8/23/2010

 

4out of 5

Pros: Great Value, Diffused Light, Attractive Design

Best Uses: Bathroom over mirror

Describe Yourself: Beginner

Primary use: Personal

Looks great in the bathroom and fits the bill for an old world look.

(legalese)

Restore to adore, $7 project

I found this book for $2 at a flea market.  Love maps, and an idea started to form.

Laid the fold out pages on the floor.  Then framed it.
Can you tell with what?  Got the frame stuff from my new love, 'Restore', a Habitat for Humanity store.

Great place.  Go there, you will find stuff!

Can you tell what these items are yet?  Yes, vinyl slats, which I bought in a bunch for $4.

I spray painted them gold and started framing them around my Wall Chart History of the World.

This baby is over 8 ft by 4 ft!  I have a huge wall, never been able to fill---big proportions and whatever I put up there was dwarfed by the wall.

More piecing, tacking, gluing, taping.

Side view, tape on, drying.

Tape off, from the other side.  I am so liking this.  Of course, I love maps.  It is colorful and informative.

Further back in the room.  You can see how big it is as it hovers over the couch. 





Close up of the first page of this huge fold out map.
This was a fun, fast, satisfying project.  Yeah!!!!
I will be linking up with Donna's Funky Junk Interiors
this weekend.

Medicine bottles

Found these sweet amber bottles at a flea market.  I just love that dark color!  Anyway, thought I would attempt a REAL tutorial.

Here they are again by themselves...paid between $1 and $3 per bottle.

Picked some labels that were particularly enticing.  They had some crazy ingredients back then.  Given what was in them, I don't know how anybody got anything done.


Here they are on the shelf of my newly revamped hutch.  I just cut out the labels and mod podged them to the bottles.  Easy and quick.  My favorite kind of project!

So, I got myself on the internet, looking for some wicked medicine labels, cause I know they are out there!  Oh yeah.  I don't know why these pictures don't come out in the order I command them.  Sheesh!  I will be linking this to Donna's Funky Junk Interiors Saturday Night Special?  Great inspiration!