~Family Treasures~Handcrafted Baskets & Cement Leaves~

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful day! I know of 33 men who had an especially wonderful day! I have been watching the television coverage of the miners in Chile and thank God they are all now out alive! God bless each one of them and their families! God Bless all of the rescue workers as well!, they are all above ground safely now too! A very emotional day for everyone.

I thought I would share some treasures that my Mom and Dad brought to me while they were visiting last weekend. Lots of great family treasures that I will always cherish!

These fabulous green/blue Ball canning jars. I just love the color~

This Coffee, Tea and Spice Set. LOVE these and they are so special. They were my Great Grandmothers. Such a keepsake~

Original galvanized lids~

This crock that also belonged to my Great Grandmother~

Here are the markings on the bottom~

There is nothing like receiving wonderful antiques with great sentimental meaning behind them. I am so honored to have them passed down to me and I will take care of them, display them proudly and pass them down to our children someday!  Thanks so much Mom and Dad, I love you!

Next, I want to share some handmade baskets that I ordered from Pam They are beautiful! I have one of her larger shaker cheese baskets. I wanted one of the smaller 9 inch shaker cheese baskets. It is as cute as can be and SO well made! Pam is one talented gal!

A closer look~

I also got this weed basket in black (the one on the left)~

I am so happy with both of them Pam and I will enjoy using them for ALL the different seasons! Thank you!

And my last FUN new goodies! I went to get my hair cut today. My gal has a salon in her home. And lining the walkway to her door were these amazing cement leaves!!  Yes, I said CEMENT LEAVES! Her Mom makes them! They are fabulous, heavy but fabulous! I bought a large one to put on top of our birdbath, she said you can use the birdbath as a stand for them. And put water or bird seed in them. You can also just rest the large leaves in the rocks too, so as you can see..I haven’t made up my mind yet!

I haven’t put it out in the rock garden yet. I will do that tomorrow, but I just had to show it to all of you now.

They are made out of real HUGE leaves that she impresses into the cement. Then paints them and covers them with a protective coating. The detail is just incredible!

I also got a smaller leaf that sits on a small iron stand.

I just can’t believe the “vein-ing”. Not sure what I am going to do with this one. My hairstylist just had some little wrapped candies in hers. I might do a candle and some acorns. But I am not sure I want to cover up all of that detail. Stay tuned, I will show you both leaves when I get them displayed!

That is all I have to share for today. Lots of photos in this post too, what can I say…I have gone photo happy lately! Time for me to get off of the computer and work on some laundry. I keep waiting, but i just isn’t going to wash itself.

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate all of my followers/friends and all of your sweet comments so much! Stop by anytime!!

Until next time, take care.

~Sarah~

Antique Mall Treasures & Two Small Makeovers

Happy Monday everyone! I know I just blogged yesterday, but I thought I would pop back in today and share my new (old) treasures from the antique mall yesterday. And I took a couple pictures of my two small makeovers. I warn you, they are small, nothing major!

Here is a sign that I got at the antique mall. The color was perfect and I knew right where it was going to go when I got it home~

I got this jug and this crock, I LOVE the finish on both of them! The speckles and crackles. I always wonder, who owned these and how did they use them? If they could only talk!

Here they are with a tiny festive Fall touch. Haha~

If you are wanting one of the great wooden dough boards I use in so many of my displays they are made by Lisa She makes them in two sizes! Just shoot her an email if you are interested!

Close up~

Peek A Boo Pumpkin again~

I got this large crock bowl. It is 12” across and really deep!

It was a FUN trip to the antique mall!  My hubby and I always have fun wandering the aisles going back in time!

Here are my makeovers, the first one is rather boring but completely functional. I have been wanting to get it done forever and I finally made the time.

A wooden letter holder that I got from Goodwill for $4. The light blue flowers… have got to go Bye Bye!

Before~

After~

This is a small bench that cost me nothing~ Can’t beat FREE~

Before~

Not sure this is where it is staying. The lighting was not good for my pictures. But it is base coated black with some red. I wasn’t happy with the way it turned out so… after seeing Colleen’s colorful blog post I painted Burnt Sienna over the top of the whole thing. Sanded and stained it with dark walnut. Love ,the color now. But like I said the pictures aren’t a very true color.

After~

So in a nutshell, that is what I have been up to over the past few days! It’s just that time of year when it is fun to decorate your home in wonderful Fall colors, go to craft fairs, antique shops and squeeze in a couple of makeovers!

Have a great day doing whatever it is that you decide to do! Maybe you have no plans whatsoever, and sometimes those can be the best days of all!

Until next time, take care.

~Sarah~

Lots of Fall Goodness To Share

I hope all of you had a wonderful weekend! We had a fun-filled, jam packed weekend! This post will be loaded with photos from the last few days. I hope you enjoy!

I finished decorating our porch. All I did was add some real bittersweet to my pumpkins, once I added it I thought that was all it needed!  The bittersweet just pops and adds SO much color!

These next photos I took might seem silly but I got all of this beautiful bread at The Great Harvest Bread Company for our family that came this weekend. So I thought I would have a little “bread photo shoot”!

Look at the Honey Whole Wheat Spider, complete with raisin eyes! Too cute!! 

A beautiful round loaf of Honey Whole Wheat~

In the front, Pumpkin Swirl , in the back Cheddar Garlic and to the right Cinnamon Chip! Mmmmm~

On Saturday we went to the Pumpkin Patch. We all had a great time and bought a ton of pumpkins! The temps were high considering it was October, but a gorgeous day!

Isn’t this little guy cute!?

This was our yummy meal Saturday night. BBQ ribs, BBQ chicken, and some of  that yummy bread!

I did a little more decorating inside. Here is where my new little crow  (also made by Alison)ended up, in one of my grapevine wreaths. Tucked a little faux bittersweet in for some color~

Well, I think I have overloaded you all with photos in this post! Next time I will share my new treasures from the antique shop Geoff and I went to today! And I did two small makeovers, I haven’t taken photos of those yet. So more to come soon!

Until next time, take care.

~Sarah~

Pumpkins, Gourds and Mums Oh My!

Hello everyone! I hope you are having beautiful Fall weather wherever you may be! It has been absolutely gorgeous here lately! The leaves are turning, in fact my extra camera battery is charging and I am going out  and about this week to take some pictures of mother nature Autumn style!

Today, my daughter and I went to get some pumpkins for the front porch. Last year I had some heirloom pumpkins that I just loved, so I went back to Earl May to get some for this season. They had all colors, shapes and sizes, it was SO hard to choose!

Here are my heirloom pumpkins from last year~

Today I went for pumpkins but then I saw this, it was a HAD to have~

Look at the Kale on the side, it is gorgeous~

Here are the pumpkins we picked out~

Obviously I took these photos tonight, I will take better ones, when they are all arranged and tweaked a bit. This is just where everything ended up after I brought them home.

We had a great time, and we took our own sweet time picking pumpkins, it was perfect! Did I mention…. I LOVE Fall?? Haha!

Here is a picture of my daughter the scarecrow! Awwww… good times! :)

I found this quote and I just love it~

“Delicious autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive Autumns.”  ~George Eliot

I would surely take Autumn all year round, wouldn’t you?

Until next time, take care.

~Sarah~

Looking More Like Fall At Our House

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! The weather here was beautiful, couldn’t have ordered anything better!

I am STILL working on my Fall decorating. If I don’t stop tweaking I will never be done! After tomorrow I should be finished, then I can start on the front porch! :)

I went to a Fall Open House yesterday,  a shop called Primitive Treasures. You can visit Alison’s Etsy  HERE. I got some great prim stuff! I am so excited!

I cannot tell you how many times I have looked at this jug. It is crackled and amazing and I finally bought it!

The wonderful shaker cheese basket was handmade by Pam It is the perfect backdrop for so many of my displays for all seasons~

Close up of the crackles~can you tell I am so happy to finally have it?~~~

I also got these great handmade black pumpkins~

And this prim pumpkin went on our front door to welcome our friends and family~

Harvest hang tag~

Door closed, Y’all come back now ya hear!

It is SO fun to get some new things to put out for the Fall season!

Here is my Fall flag swingin’ in the breeze today~

I changed my doughboard (again). I can’t seem to leave it alone. Oh well, I am sure it won’t stay this way either~ Haha~

How are you all doing on your Fall decorating? Isn’t it a perfect time to clean and rearrange? Except I am finding that with the beautiful weather and the windows open, the dust is very plentiful! Oh well, it is worth the smell of fresh air in the house!

Until next time, take care.

~Sarah~