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Yes, I don't do Christmas yet! I hang on to Fall as long as I can,
my FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR!
Not that I don't think a bit about the coming holidays, but Thanksgiving is our favorite formal meal of the year, here.
Our Family takes turns having Christmas, but we often do a casual New Years Day Smorgaasbord with everyone's favorite at our house.
Meanwhile it's still FALL!
The kitchen island decor sort of fell together, much like my early Fall, but the pumpkins are in now from outside. I've already cooked three others for recipes.
The vintage covered bowl is Blue Ridge pottery. I pick their dishes up to sell, but this one hasn't left the kitchen since I found it. I really appreciate the fluid Hand-painting on Blue Ridge. I call it SUICIDE painting because if you fudge it up, the greens are impossible to scrub off the fired once clay, and the reds have to have more than one coat or be very thickly applied.
The plants from the porch are settling in the South kitchen window. I brought them in just in time, you can see the snow through the window. Snow didn't last very long but we have had UP-Down temps this last week, and several hard freezes.
It's been a strange year! First frost date should have been October 15 or around there, but here it is the week of the 10th of November...like a month overdue!
The hutch is pretty much the same, except for the bottom shelf. I do love the dashes of blue with the oranges and neutrals. I haven't changed anything to drastically here.
The towel is a 1968 Calendar from my mom's kitchen.
The Coffee Pot was from my pottery days, I made many a piece with this matte cream glaze dipped in the Albany Brown clay glaze. Albany clay came from the Albany, New York area. The mines pooped out during the 1980's and the materials impossible to get. I heard from my supplier early and I bought 50# of it...and when I sold all my equipment in 2005 and supplies the new owner was quite happy to have a few pounds that I had left.
The small bulldog is iron and very detailed and old, the Dutch looking people were my grandmother's and sat on her window ledge in the kitchen.
I've added some dried flowers, next week I will put up my Turkey platter.
After years of not using the TV I had here, I put the stein set in for the moment.
This set is very heavy and HULL, I will be selling it when I get photos done.
My Etsy shop has been super slow, much like most people.
Think Vintage on ETSY....no tariffs!!!!
If you care to visit my Shop BarberryLane I'm running a sale starting November 24th...so check it out! link is in the side right of this post!
I love the colors this stray gourd turned...this may have come from the plant that cross pollinated with my Gourzucchumpkin from a few posts back.
The covered buffet in the kitchen holds all my plants and a few odds and ends.
An antique Thunder pot with deer on it, upper right is great for the Fall and winter season. With Christmas coming these plants will have to find a home elsewhere???
I'm super pleased my Rex Begonia has recovered...and is very happy here...which is where I will leave it.
My dried bouquet in a very old vintage pitcher that I will harvest seeds from this week, before I deep clean the kitchen for Thanksgiving.
This last month we have had nothing but Dr's appt. Hubby's Eye surgery had two false starts that had included days of prep and cancelled operations. Now We are THANKFUL the first one was very successful and he has 20/20 now in that eye. Considering he has had to wear glasses his whole life,
This is AMAZING 20/20!
Tomorrow, we do the second eye, and with another two weeks of him not being able to do anything, yes, right through Thanksgiving. The kids came last Saturday and the front yard got raked for the third time, and some Christmas lights were put up way out front. But, we are definitely short of our normal decorating schedule for outside Christmas! UGH.
Hubby and I normally tag team on all the chores indoor and outdoor including: cooking, cleaning, shopping and yardwork.
But, I'm bushed from doing everything and all the driving into another state 4 times! But, especially the yard work. So with the late Fall we are so far behind and it's definitely cramping my decorating and I haven't done any art for two weeks.
BUT, I'm Thankful our kids helped, oh and we made something like 12 apple pies for the freezer last Saturday, too! I cheated and bought crusts and dough on sale...first time ever. Crossing my fingers they taste good.
I'm Thankful for ALL my Readers, too!
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