Getting Our Spooky on the Buffet

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I dragged one tote of Halloween upstairs for some decor accents at the beginning of October.  I haven't purchased anything new here, but I loved using some of our  old goodies.

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I don't have a shot of the whole buffet because I have two huge plants residing in front of it, so excuse the angles of these photos.

The Mirror in the back was in my Grandmother's Attic. We trimmed it just a bit to fit under our existing cabinet.

Left, very Old Silverplate pitcher with dead roses. Morticia would be proud.

Next an old (30 years maybe) ceramic pumpkin light I made, the Cat is a wonderful gourd creation by an artist, then a real pumpkin from the garden. Fabrics are scraps of spiderweb fabric used in my shop from early 2000's.

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Black sitting cat is an artist piece, a gift from a friend, thrifted skull that winks with one eye that lights up...

I also have some little pumpkin canning jar lights, that just aren't showing up unless the room is dark.

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Helena Bonham Carter doll in a Steam Punk outfit from an Ever After doll. She has her ex-boyfriend with her. The corner Pumpkin stack came from a thrift store and the pumpkin sign also.

A Danish chrome bowl is filled with Fall potpourri. 

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Helena is known for her quirky parts in movies and was/is also connected with Tim Burton...well, the story is her Ex, Fred, was being difficult, so she turned him into a Frog...and he has to eat bugs for the rest of his leashed life...

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Helena is also channeling her character in Enola Holmes...as a steampunk suffragette Mother to Enola...equally talented in Ju-Jitsu and making bombs. Can't wait for the 3rd season. The spider seems to be glow in the dark, 

Are you sharing your Halloween? 

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Poor Fred...I do love the ruffled collar and his chalice of snacks.! He really doesn't eat much.

Thanks for LOOKING at my SPOOKY! 

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Our Halloween Outdoor Style!

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Our Halloween decor has been out for three weeks, but continually tweaked here and there. We finally had a calm day with sunshine, perfect for some photos.

 

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Our pumpkin lights are ancient. I originally cut holes in a bunch of trick or treat pumpkins years ago to place on lights stuck in the ground along the walk. Then the solar chargers were perfect size to use as a black hat as the pumpkins sat on the ground. Now with the railing and the railing solar lights, I tried the old pumpkins and it works. 

We have a bit of a spider theme going, so I added a spider to each one...also very old.

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It's been summer here in Chicagoland until this week...goodness, I have blooming Dahlias and everything is still thick and growing. Frost is forecasted for this weekend, so that will be the end of flowering and tomatoes.

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Our garage walkway...with all the decor.

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We didn't put any blow ups this year, we had two weeks of wind/rain and mayhem, so if it couldn't be anchored to the ground it didn't go out. 

Our Skellies are standing guard...and really creepy at night.

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Keeping trick or treaters in mind, our decor is basically pretty friendly. All my decor is really old....I just move it around...look at the blooms still going.

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Dahlias in the pots along the garage, each has a thrifted lit pumpkin!

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Mermaid is going fancy this year

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Hubby brought three gates home, perfect against the mustard garage.

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That Dahlia produced tons of leaves and not many flowers...maybe next year.

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Another gate and my orange pots of flowers work well with the season.

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Everytime our neighbors ancient Elm spews a branch I steal it for structure in my pots.

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There is another one..its over 6 feet long and stripped of bark...will move it somewhere else. 

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The porch is sunshine and cozy...lots of color and a bit of Halloween with the pumpkinns

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I can't wait to show you the night pics...and maybe blow the leaves off ...a daily problem.

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My Metal Greenhouse is decked for Fall, just a couple of solar lanterns to set it off at night.

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What is more Halloween than a Bat Wreath..bought last year at 90% off. Cardboard decor is a quick fix for windows, also from years ago 20 or so.

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Come on and sit a spell...I promise the cat will leave you alone...! 

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Last of OUR Midwest Gardening 2025

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On Wednesday this week, I rescued all our houseplants and our 4 blooming Mandila from outside and brought them in. Our home is a bit of a mix-up with a visiting Dog and a Cockatiel in a LARGE cage. So now, I have plants everywhere, and nowhere to put them. 

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My Ivy Tree loved it outside this year with so much rain, sunshine and heat...I think it is thicker than ever. Eventually it will land in the bedroom. I used a organic bug spray on all my plants and tied them up inside plastic bags for a half-day before bringing them in...hopefully I brought in just plants and no bugs.

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Our crazy weather year, so many plants were late...the too hot June and July was great for growth, but no flowering.  Too much rain kept vegetable blossoms from being pollinated. My Impatiens look the best right now...and the Mandilla only began blooming in September...yep, a crazy year. 

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I don't know the name of this plant but it tripled in size. It's from my Dad from 2012 and has just been existing and now it's super big. I have a little Halloween here and there.

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I did an OctoberFest Fall with Fall colors, tankards and steins, my beer truck carving, earthy pottery pieces mixed with some blue and white. I love the Sunflower stitchery from my good friend, Dot. It's a favorite and moves around the house quite a bit. The sunflower bowl I bought at a thrift store to make a garden stake...well, next year.

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I didn't do many garden posts because the garden was such a disappointment. Despite generous rain, the heat actually shut many plants down.

I still have green tomatoes now, because we had none in July. We did have quite a bit of squash, and some pumpkins and smaller squash. I have a basket on the table filled with garden produce. I had a huge Zucchini, which must have pollinated with a pumpkin...and now it's orange? I'll show it when I open it to find out if it's a Zucchini or a Pumpkin???? Love surprises!

The neighbors' Chestnut tree had mature leaves this year, and they are just gorgeous copper and rust. I brought a few in to dry and use in decorating

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I'm not sure what I will do with them yet, I'll tuck a few in the basket. I spent a hour in the garden picking the last of the produce. The two sunflower heads were on stalks 12 feet tall....and the stalks were too big for my clipper.

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They are still quite moist. I want to harvest some seeds, and the birds/squirrels and raccoons have already had their way with them. Another blossom was ripped to shreds and dragged to the ground. These two (10-11" across) were looped over a beam across the garden. When I unhooked them they crashed down across the 10 foot high miniature corn...LOL.

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This is our miniature corn, 6-8" cobs of multicolored corn. We had excellent pollination and the ears are full except for a couple of the tips. There are still more on the stalks, (some stalks had 2-3 cobs), for later but they are still very green. Goodness it's the 3rd week of October. 

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I cut my basil and dumped it in a jar of water, and a bowl of tomatoes to ripen,

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Also a half a colander of small ripe peppers, seeds from flowers that are drying. I have more Zinnias blooming now than in August??? I have huge green Balsam plants that haven't bloomed yet? 

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Thats a 10" pie plate so those are small tomatoes, and the long squash is the last one and they are delish...I believe some sort of Delicata...I got the seeds from my friend.

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A few green beans for a treat for the dog, some cherry tomatoes, and a few mini broccoli...honestly a bunch of mini vegetables, Barbie scale, lol.

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Another garden pumpkin...and some Avocado seeds trying to start. My Begonia is coming back after being drowned and boiled in July, it was down to one leaf, but is finally coming back in the house.

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A bit of Fall, and some mini plants I'm babysitting for my friend.

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It's really Fall, finally. We expect a frost on Saturday. Hopefully we can get most things taken in or mulched. My Dahlias are monster green things and really blooming now...and they will all be wiped out. 

The Dahlia bulbs should be huge when I dig them all up.

Other Fall jobs, clean the garden, empty all the pots, greenhouse, take in the hoses and all the leaves which haven't turned or dropped yet...maybe when it snows, LOL.

Just 2025....A WEIRD YEAR!!!

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Inspired by Leaves, some kind of Mandala

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My Creative Mindfulness Class with Casey on Mather was on Monday. The entire month of October is themed on Leaves. 

This was a fun project, to cut out leaves from decorative papers (I used a bit of everything) and create a Fall Mandala. Well I chose Fall since the tones of my hand-painted papers were in golds, browns, and greens. I threw in some orange Cardstock for a solid and used a cardstock brown background

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You can see the paper cutouts to the side and some of the papers I used.

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Simple materials and open instructions always makes a project fun. We were encouraged to add decorative elements. I still may work some more on the background to make it darker.

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These are the markers I've used so far. First time using my Artists Loft Acrylic Markers from Michaels. Nice saturated color and dried quickly, tip is a bit mooshy. 

My Alcohol markers and some metallic markers....and a trusty Sharpie. I really need to buy a couple of super wide ones.

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An interesting direction was to fold and mount the leaves for a 3D effect. 

Since I chose some patterned papers, I did limited designs on those.

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This class was only an hour but I puttered for another 40 minutes after class...still thinking about darkening the background.

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I cheated a bit and measured out a circle underneath all this to maintain a good balance with my pieces. And I think that was a good idea. I had planned to use not necessarily balanced pieces...so at least having them in correct alignment helped ot keep this very measured. Again, I ended off the paper, so displaying this will require some sort of border or expansion of this piece.

Great idea for kids and just for fun. I think I will use this as a display piece for the season.

What sort of Art

 have you been doing for FALL?

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