Things I love about the fall...

I do love the fall. It is one of my favorite times of year. The leaves changing colors and then filling your yard with a million dead leaves. Going on the perfect pumpkin search and finding it.( even though it's not orange :) Bringing out some of your favorite cozy cardigans, to find out they are out of style. Football,(mostly the tailgating food part of it.) The weather.( opening up the windows to let the cool air come in.) And of coarse it's the season that gets the decorating side of your brain going. I do admit I really don't decorate to much for fall but I do like to scatter a few fall type things around. Enjoy!!

Weekend junkin..

Just a quick post to share my finds from junkin this beautiful weekend.

 

I hit the jackpot on this stop. Just couldn't get enough!

 

Cute, very cute lamp...(my inventory is growing) 

 

I wished they could be displayed upside down.

The markings are the best! 

Decorating has gone to the dogs...

This is my very favorite picture. It reminds me so much of

of our sweet Brinkley, who was by our side for 12 years.

 

 

 

 It's really amazing how many different animals we use in  home décors. 
I don't have any animal heads, (well, the fake cow) hanging on my walls, but a lot of people do and they love it. I don't have any animal skins on the floor either, but it's a really big  decorating trend these days. Remember when ducks and rabbits were really hot in country décor a few decades ago?
Who hasn't had a duck or two around the house. Today, I think the country French craze has made the cow a must have. I love them. Sheep are one of my favorites, too.  A beautiful picture of grazing sheep is a classic. These are some of the animals in my life.  Who knew I had so many different kind.
Sometimes when the house is really quiet, I think I hear them come alive. (pretty spooky) Ha...Enjoy!!

 

I am using it in a guest room... 

Birds in the entry way....

 

 

Birds used to accessorize the great room table.

Love my cows, here they are used in the breakfast room. 

 

 

 

I have them in a set of 3.

I know you have seen this one around the web. I love it, I used it over the pantry doors.

 

MOO!!

My good friend Carol saw this set of 4 animal plates and knew I would love them so

I used them in the dining room with some of my platter collection. 

 

 

 

Love them!!

 

And last but not least my pig....

This little piggy is my newest find!!

Junkin around for a Bedroom...

Picking up where I left off in my last blog post, I have been busy finishing up the final touches of our
master bedroom. I  left you with pictures of the fabulous dresser/buffet piece I picked at a great dealer mall here in the Atlanta area. Since then I have arranged and rearranged, put a nail in the wall, took a nail out of the wall. ( geez, what a job) I've hung window treatments, laid a rug, made a custom bed ruffle ,and arranged the flowers. I think I can say without hesitation, I'v done it. A master bedroom from the bowels of the junk stores.  A master bedroom anyone would love.  Thanks to Goodwill, dealer malls, dealer friends, garage sales, yard sales, estate sales, discount stores and auctions. That makes me happy, happy, happy. (and my pocket book too!)
                                                ENJOY...

 

 

Decorating with Goodwill Finds!!

 

Many find it uncomfortable to shop in a thrift store like Goodwill, or pick up something that has been placed on the side of the road. God forbid they would dig in a dumpster. Hey I have been know to take a load to the dump and come out with more in the back than I took in. Honest, I have done that. Don't get me wrong I love to purchase new things too, but its something about going into a flea market, junk store, goodwill or even the dump and find something so awesome that you just cant wait to share it with someone. And after you find a few things like that you are hooked. You will never want to pay full price for anything else.Well it's been a week since our planned road trip but I'm sad to say we had to cancel, boo hoo!!:( but don't be disappointed because I'm always on the hunt . I shouldn't call it junk because the things that we find are far more that.

A beautiful pair of gold wall sconces was recently found  by a friend and she shared them with me.

Old books, old furniture, old prints, old fabric put together in your home makes it warm and inviting.Take a look at some of the things I found this last week. From Goodwill , good friends, antique shops and flea markets.

Could not pass this up...

Found this on junking trip on Wedesday..

Dupree's Antique

Marietta, Georgia

 

 

 

Love garage sale finds...

 

 

Senior day at Goodwill always pays off. This was on Tuesday!! 

Table found in a storage shed shop!

Definition of storage shed shop, a vendor who rents a storage shed and sells from it.

I call it a hole in the wall shop. They can be full of goodies but sometimes they are not.  I had to replace glass but thanks to my friend Sue (who is in the biz too)  had just what I needed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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One Thing I Always Wanted..... a Butler.....pantry that is!!

We've moved to a lot of different states in our 41 years of marriage and lived in a lot of different style homes. Tradition in Texas, adobe in New Mexico, rustic in Kansas ( My primitive years) ,igloo in Minnesota. Ha..(New built) old 50's ranch in Nashville, now trendy in Georgia. I always loved and wanted a house with a butlers pantry. A room not a closet to arrange all my kitchen stuff neatly in order. A place for linens, a place for china, a place for every casserole dish with it's lid attached. It's a dream, but maybe one day, one way I can manage to have a butlers pantry to enjoy. 
Enjoy some of the ones I found online.