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We've been so busy with projects and yard work. I finally got in my doll room after almost 3 months. I had stories and themes to do there. The yard and produce from the garden really kept the kitchen too busy to decorate.
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Every day in October brought heat, more work, rain...inside projects, beautiful days for outside and today...????
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The last two mornings it has been very heavy frost and SNOW. Such is Chicagoland weather. And, NO, I'm not ready for Winter yet. I haven't done Fall.
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Because of the frosts, I brought herbs and plants in from outdoors. And, finally have some sort of decor set up that isn't flowers drying or tomatoes ripening. My ivy topiary is so thick, I may have to start clipping it. I had transplanted it in Spring...and it loved the extra dirt.
HOW TO MAKE THE IVY TOPIARY HERE.
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I take that back, I still have flowers drying for seeds. Maybe I will sort tonight while watching...GASP...Christmas movies. In these turbulent times, it's silly relief.
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This sweet stove was a purchase this summer, and never left the kitchen. The pots and pans were found in a tote of my mom's stuff. Eight pieces in a bag, brand new, marked $1.99. Guess how old they must be..LOL.
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| oldnewgreenredo |
Long as I finally was putting up some Fall, I added my Turkey platter, plates and my rustic Pilgrims. It really doesn't take too much to make it cozy.
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My centerpiece is a pot full of last of the Zinnias (actually drying on the stems), an old pumpkin bottle (Pumpkin Spiced Rum---it was SO GOOD!) and drying flower buds for seeds in an old Mason Jar and some coin glass from the 1960's (wedding present).
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| oldnewgreenredo |
On the island, the usual suspects, a little less blue than normal. The crock on the right is full of cough drops, an Atlas jar (very old), my old scale, a Swedish trivet, a very early McCoy pitcher another crock (from Glenn's great-great grandmother, and some vintage S&P.
This island has been so busy, I just finished making pumpkin butter. This week, I will begin deep cleaning the kitchen, and oiling the counters.
Something I do at least twice a year.
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Here is my only Halloween decor up---a large rubber spider captured in a jar. In the living room are my plants from out doors. We will see what thrives.
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| oldnewgreenredo |
Love the Mandilla flowers. I brought in 4 of those plants...I hope they will be happy inside. The mini Spathiphyllum on the right was in the pond. Which reminds me, I have to put the pumps away...YIKES! So, much still to do.
What are you planning to do inside for WINTER?
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Thank you for your cooperation,
Sandi
Sandi
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