Autumn Mantles

 I love Fall!

I had so much fun this time

adding in my Autumn decor.

Today will start with my Fall mantles.

First up is our keeping room.

Kept my document box.

added in a small pantry box.

Notice the treenware Bob recently brought home.

Finished with a hank of twisted tobacco.

On the left iron candle holder and tin one.

This French Wine barrel which turned

from copper to this fabulous patina.

Finally a vintage pewter/ ceramic mug. 

Right side is another tin candle lantern.

Whisky jug and the other crock candle holder

Bob brought home.

Hung my gentlemen pics back up

and added in my newest cross stitch piece.

Placed my newest treen on top of a small

pantry box with a hank of tobacco.

I wanted to portray a tavern look for my 

Autumn vibe for this mantle.

More tobacco leaves, powder horn

and water canteen to the right.

Subtle colors of yellow and orange.

For our fireplace mantle in our living room,

this is what I came up with.

Pheasant and leather books.

Pheasant feathers in a brown crock,

with a bail handled crock jug.

I dont move our clock, so just 

placed a small pumpkin on top.

Underneath the mantle I placed

my cornhusk/ gourd garland.

Am loving my subtle touches of Autumn

 for this mantle too.

In other news,

last week went to lunch with

a store customer who I now consider my friend.

Sandy and I could talk alot...

and talk we did.

It has been awhile since we seen each other,

so we did need to catch up. 

Sandy told me about a greenhouse

which had bumpy pumpkins.

So I just had to go there.

I ended up buying 2 pumpkins along

with some gourds.

Thanks Sandy for letting me know.

Last night we were asked to turn off any

non-essential outdoor lights between 11pm-6am.

Over 17 million birds were expected to migrate.

Diminishing the lights helps them navigate

without the extra skyglow.

This morning we woke to 54 degrees.

Autumn is definitely in the air.

It was nice sleeping with the windows open.

I don't know what is going on with Blogger.

My reading list has no new posts

from the other Bloggers I follow.

What the heck???

I sure hope they their act together.

Autumn Mantle Blessings To All!

Janice

 

September CupboardScape

 

Hello friends.

Today's cupboardscape will not

be as primitive as I usually do.

Am adding in items I took home

from mom's house.

Starting with this quail picture.

In the house we grew up in,

I loved hearing the quail sing.

One year Bob and I actually saw 

a quail in our front garden.

It was so cool seeing it as I had not

seen a quail in decades.

My mom made this scarecrow.

She actually made lots of these to sell

at craft shows in the 1980's.

She made them in all colors and sold quite a bit.

She obviously kept one for herself.

Now I have it.

Will cherish it forever.

Added in some faux pumpkins in one

of my trenchers.

Again not much of a prim look

for my September display,

but I had to include the memories

for this month.

In other news,

tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary

of 9/11.

I can still remember that horrific day.

I was at work and several co-workers

yelled to turn on CNN as a plane

had hit the first tower.

I watched from my computer.

At that time we all thought it was an accident.

However watching the 2nd plane fly

into the next tower was terrifying.

I was numb.

How could someone fly a plane into

not one but two buildings.

I saw folks on the street staring up

at the flames coming out of both towers.

Everyone was in shock and disbelief.

I watched folks on the ledges making

the difficult decision to jump to their

death rather than be burned alive.

I watched as those folks fell.

It was so horrible.

Then it got worse.

A third plane hit the Pentagon.

Then the 4th was in the air.

Those passengers were heroes.

Taking control of that plane and crashing. 

I dont  remember getting much 

work done that day.

I dont really think  anyone did.

We all just kept watching the news.

Afterwards we Americans had so much

pride in our flag.

Folks had the flag flying on cars,

and it flew on our homes.

Days and even weeks after, I remember

firemen and police standing at traffic lights.

Most everyone stopped to donate money.

At a time of a tragic history, we were coming

together as a nation.

Now unfortunately we have a pathetic man

who said we all deserved 9/11.

This is the so called leader of the DSA.

How anyone could say we deserved 9/11

is abominable, revolting and simply shameful.

2977 victims died that day.

Remember the day.

We all must remember the day.  

Remembrance Blessings To All!

Janice

 

Sunday Starts

 It may not be on the calendar yet,

however Autumn is in the air here.

My first Fall start is this Brenda Gervais one.

I Love Fall Most of All.

Fall is my favorite season...just wish 

Winter did not follow.

I have had this pattern for years.

Never liked the orange color for the pumpkin.

I decided to change lots of colors in this.

Orange pumpkin- CCW Autumn Spice

Red Berries- DMC 400

Green Acorns-DMC 581

Brown Acorns- CCW Hickory Sticks

Crow- Weeks Charcoal

I decided to add both green and brown acorns

into this piece like the acorns here in

my neck of the woods.

Don't get me wrong, Brenda is a fantastic

designer...just sometimes I like to

tweak things as I see them.

Next I started another little sampler.

This one is called Eliza's Little Sampler.

Another stitch for my Heritage wall.

This one will I will add in initials of 

my paternal grandparents 

with their children.

Even though the second 

set of this alphabet is the eyelet stitch,

I am enjoying doing it.

The designer also said you could do

these in regular cross stitches,

or even smyrna ones, but I liked 

the look of the eyelets for this piece.

So I am going to get on the cross stitch

bandwagon and only stitch samplers

for Sampler September.

I already have 4 that I am currently working on.

Floral Motif Samlper

Eliza's Little Sampler

Faith 1831

AB 1816 Quaker Sampler.

The following 4 will be added

 into my daily rotation now for 

the entire month.

A small start on each thus far.

First is Mary Hill 1854 by

Needlework Press.

My son Matt has been bugging me when

will I stitch a piece with his name on it.

This is the one I decided to do.

His favorite color is green and there is lots of

it in this piece.

I already changed the border flower color.

Instead of Ye Olde Gold, I am doing

these in Summer sky.

Doing this on 36ct Rhyolite by

Weeks Dye Works.

Next is Hannah Ann Wallace 1850

by With Thy Needle & Thread.

Am doing this one for my daughter.

My first day on this one I finished

the one alphabet.

The secondary alphabet is 

the petite stitch (one over one)

UGH

Plus 2 of the motifs are also 1 over 1.

UGH again.

I already tried stitching the letter "A".

I frogged it out because to me it did

not look like the letter at all.

Now what do I do?

Stitching this on 32ct Pyrite 

by Cedar River Linen,

using all the called for floss.

Then I started The Winter is Past

by Blackbird Designs.

This one I will add in my name with Bob's.

plus our wedding date. 

Am stitching this on 36ct Fresco

by Picture This Plus using all

the called for floss.

The 4th new one I wanted to start

is on hold right now.

I ordered this pattern to honor

my parents.

It is The Pink House Sampler

by Plum Street.

I have the linen and called for floss,

however the pattern has been backordered

Was supposed to get it by Sept. 3rd...

well hat has not happened yet.

In other news,

last week Bob had a horrible toothache.

Kept telling him to call the dentist to no avail.

He thought it would go away.

Our friend Ed finally convinced him

to make an appt.

He made the appt and brought me out of retirement

I worked the store for him.

The very next day he had to have a root canal done.

Also last week we had 2 days of tornadic

weather all around us.

The sirens kept going off.

One touched down 20 minutes North of us.

More tornadoes touched down

a few miles North of my brother too.

My son gets the weather notifications

for our county.

When he received the tornado warnings,

he kept calling me to see if we were ok.

He knows I am afraid of bad storms.

It  was nice he cared about me.

Actually since mom passed, he has been

calling me more often now.

I think he is worried about me.

Heigh Ho

Heigh Ho

It's off to stitch I go...

after I eat some breakfast though.

A Quiet Sunday Blessings To All!

Janice

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Whippy Wednesday

Hello friends.

I am back to stitching. 

These are the projects I am currently

working on.

Floral Motif Sampler.

This is where I last picked this piece up.

Finished the bird on the orange flowers.

Went up to stitch these gray flowers.

Then went down to stitch this green one.

Back up again to complete

 the small raspberry one.

Next to that this red one in a black basket.

Finally this long red flower stemmed one.

I also came down on the right border a bit.

Still many more motifs to complete,

but am loving getting back to this.

Next up is AB 1816 Quaker Sampler.

So there was an error in the pattern.

The brown color in the border below

the first row of letters called for the

teal blue in the pattern instructions.

Which when I started did it in 

teal and not brown which is the photo color.

Did not look at the photo until day 2.

However I also screwed up in this line.

It called for the eyelet stitch.

I stitched the Smyrna one.

Oh well...am leaving it as is.

Finally I decided to add in another color.

I wanted this piece to have a little

more oomph.

Therefore adding in a bit of DMC 501 into it.

Next are the Prairie Schooler angels.

These first two I had already finished.

Have now completed the next two.

Am loving stitching these lil angels.

Hopefully I will have all 8 fully

finished to add to my Christmas tree

this year.

Next is Faith 1831.

This is where I left off last month.

I stitched these birds and flower pot.

Also the bird on the stem of flowers.

Although I did not take an up close pic,

I also started another flower on the left.

So much more to go on this one.

Finally this lil sampler called

Little Quilt Block Sampler.

This is where I was last month.

Almost completed.

Once the design is stitched,

will add in my maternal grandparents

initials and their children

for my heritage wall.

In other news,

well lookie what I found.

I wanted to finish these into pillows

before July 4th.

Just found these the other day in 

our bedroom under some of

my mom's things I needed to go through.

Why the heck I put them in here,

I have no clue...but glad I finally found them.

Today we are taking our doggie sitter

out for lunch for watching Tundra

the days we needed to be North

for mom's funeral.

We fondly call him Grandpa Ed,

and he calls Tundra his Grand dog.

However before we do that, we are

heading out to the farmer's market.

Last week we had the juiciest peaches

along with the biggest and best canteloupe.

Cannot believe the BER months have started.

Time and the months are flying by.

We saw our first trees turning colors yesterday.

Hope everyone is enjoying their

 final days of Summer.

Mid Week Blessings To All!