Sort of a family portrait. TeeHee...

Catt, remember that apple candle of yours that I love so much? What is the link to that? I need it!

Koidom, well done, and it looks great!

Deb, I love your family tribute outdoors. Cute, cute, and I liked reading your site. Love the Charleston book you mention.

The fall topiary I made in a class,,,cost more than if I had just purchased the sample that inspired me to take the class!!!

Featuring some of my roosters

Loving all of your cute pictures and ideas,,,thanks!!

I am not really that big on decorating for Halloween, so I don't have anything to show on the inside.

I love all the skeletons I see in this post! I may have to make a trip to Michael's and find one to replace the witch. She gets kind-of bored sometimes just sitting on the bench. LOL

robbyrob - I ove the topiary pairs! I think I saw that idea in the Southern Living magazine last year. Perhaps I should go ahead and take my summer plants out and replace with the topiary. Those look like they can take the heat. LOL

JUST KIDDING :) We have one of those, but rummaging through their home goods area is not my favorite thing to do. We have a Decorators Warehouse, though. It's more expensive than Michael's.

I love all these vignettes. I need to get some pics loaded of mine.

Robbyrob, I love your iron and glass sofa table. Where did you get it?

Tammy- thank you! I bought the table at a place called Shoemaker's Country Furniture. It's a small family owned store here in MD.

Here's the extent of mine...does this count? :)

That's my kind of decorating, Georgiagal!

I love the outdoor decorations. Phyl345, I love your cute skeleton (if a skeleton can be cute!) And Newhomebuilder, I could tell your witch was a girl -- she has pretty, girly eyes. What a sweetie!

So many gorgeous displays!

hoosiergirl - Very pretty dining room!

Catnap and phyl3435, where did you get your skeletons? I would love to have one or two of them for my party decorations.

I am having a party in just over a week and I don't have anything done - been too busy finishing our remodeling. Yikes !

All I have done is this cheese torta I took to a party last weekend. When everyone left the party the hostess packed up my leaves so I could use them again - she thought they were fake - they were real 'Autumn Blaze' maple leaves :

Oh, I guess that isn't true, here are a few more quick things I put together for the screen room :

an arrangement for the entry :

and something for my family room coffee table :

I was just out in the screen room taking these photos and look what I found !

- - - - - - - - A REAL BLACK WIDOW ! - - - - - - - -

In my screen room, I just cleaned that whole room this past weekend,
cleaned the screens, vacuumed the spider webs, scrubbed the floor,
Where did she come from ? I might have nightmares on this one.

She is huge - almost the size of a silver dollar !

Kitchen table

Living room...

Coffee table (my old toy box that my father built me :))

Another picture of some of the leaves I have been making. This is the top of my treadle sewing machine that sits in front of the window in the living room.

springvillegardens - Are you sure that's a Black Widow? Where do you live?

BH&G magazine, October issue page 148, has an article about garden spirits with some real cute outdoor displays with pumpkins. They have one display with white pumpkins piled one on top of the other, impaled on a stake, and they write the word welcome - one letter on each pumpkin (that would be 7 pumpkins tall) - I would like to do that for my party - hope I have time. They have it stacked up in an old washtub with little pumpkins stuck around too - I wish I had a scanner so you all could see it.

sweets98, what cute country displays and I love your old milk jug and I bet your toy box is really beautiful - how wonderful you still have it. The leaves you are making - how are you doing that - they look festive.

linda1949, that black widow is really, real ! Imagine how I felt last night. DH had already gone to bed, so I thought I would go out on the screen porch to take a few photos to show you all. I was walking around barefoot and then I saw her. I am saving it for DH when he gets home today. He hates black widows and is always scaring me with stories he sees on the medical channel about people bitten by them and having their skin slough off. Yuck !

newhomebuilder, we live in the Sierra foothills in Central California and we have tons of black widows every where, tons of ants and we even have tarantulas. I saw a 4 inch tarantula in the front yard one day. My cat was looking at it, so I quickly scooped it up in something and took it way down to the lower part of the property. Just writing about this is making me squeemish.

I kind of hate killing anything though, I usually carry spiders that are inside the house, to the outside on a broom and shake them off - but the black widow will probably have to be killed - but like I said, I am saving that for DH this evening.

Georgiagal - those are my kind of decorations, lol - I adore candy corn.

Linda - I will probably see your spider's relations as I garden today - they are prevalent here in So. California - hate those little buggers!

Great job on the decorations everyone - each one is really wonderful!

You sound like me. I won't even kill a fly or an ant for that matter - if I can help it. LOL I wouldn't kill the BW either. I'd just relocate it!

Heres some more pictures.

I had always wanted a stuffed horse every sense I went to the Roy Rogers museum as a kid and had my picture taken with trigger.

Sad loss for the bar but OH my lucky stars for me!

I put half down to hold it and had to go get my truck and two guy friends to help tie it in the back! LOL I was so worried about it getting broke that I made them ride in the back of the truck to help hold it, and drove ever so slowly home with my prize! and then I wondered how on earth could I ever tell my husband I bhought a stuffed horse? he hated it at first but now it's like it's part of the family. :) I even have the extra bedroom all decorated like a stall so it will have a place to rest when the hoidays are over.

looks as if she could move and stirs her brew don't it?.

Sometimes for kicks I get help and move it to the porch and dress it up like a pumpkin and put a child trick or treat pail in it's mouth.

Susan

sandyponder

here are pictures of four more of my skeletons ...

phyl345 - Your skeleton made me chuckle. Looks like he/she is having tea!

I bought more pumpkins and fall garland today. Also, mums and pansies. I plan to make the pumpkin topiaries tomorrow (while waiting for my son to come home from college. His on fall break and hasn't been home in three months.) I am also going to enlist his help in making a pumpkin man (like a scarecrow with a pumpkin head.)

I'll post when they are all done. Thanks again for the ideas!

sandyponder, love all your holiday vignettes. We have been working on our house for three years and still have some molding and baseboards in the livingroom this evening. But after this week, we are saying the heck with it too and are having a party next weekend. Where is that wonderful view in the first photo?

koidom, your horse looks so real. I'll bet kids really love that horse.

I finally finished my topiaries. Not sure they are going to hold up if it gets real windy, though.

I wanted to share this huge maple that I can see out my front door. Beautiful!

love2 weed-so pretty. I love that iron stand in the corner.

newhomebuilder-your topiaries turned out great! The best part is that you don't have to water them! I have to say though, no decoration beats that beautiful view. Outstanding!

This I have hanging inside

The maple tree is spectacular and so is the view. I have one maple which turned already and dropped its leaves. My other two maple are just now turning. All three are the same variety and were planted at the same time.

Lovely porch decors and topiaries all of them. So many talented and creative folks here.

I am so glad you posted this thread cattknap, thanks.

Best Witches.

they are only $2.50 & all the WALGREENS around here still have them in stock ... sorry for the unnecessary trip to the *other* wal place! ... phyl

Your wreath reminded me of this really cool large black wreath made of feathers, I believe, at Target that I would've had to have if our door was red or white. Our door is too dark so the black wreath wouldn't be noticed, darnit! The wreath is very plain, just the black feathers, but so unique!

Here is the view I like best!

Rainbow over McClanahan's farm

Beginnings of Fall

Love, love the last poster's porch! I am glad to see someone else mixing their fall with their summer flowers.:)

Wonderful vignettes as well ...

Bravo everyone!

sprinvillegardens, that view is a bay off of Lake Ontario in northern NY state. Here's the sunset from Sunday night, right off our LR:

sandyponder

Newhomebuilder, are you in TN or KY? (No need to answer really.) It just looks like that area to me! GORGEOUS!

newhomebuilder, everything is so green and I love the rainbow, there really is a pot a gold at the end of a rainbow, in a neighborhood like yours.

phyl345, no problem I had to go to wallyworld anyway to get plates and cups for my tour today and dinner group this Saturday. I will check out walgreens if I have time before Saturday, after that I am collapsing. I did get some outdoor ghost lights from the grocery and a plastic lighted pumpkin at Walmart to hang up - hope they look good Saturday.

Here are a couple of views from my garden in Winter and Spring this year. Hope you enjoy - isn't nature grand.

hoosier - We live in TN.

springvillegardens - Where are you located. Those mountains make ours look puny. LOL

I knew it, Newhomebuilder! It's just GORGEOUS!

And Springvillegardens, I wouldn't get anything done if I had that view!

(I can't see karezz's pics either -- I'll bet it's a Photobucket problem.)

I'll see if there's a way to link them in another post.

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