Pumpkins........

I've begun the annual placing of the pumpkins around the house.  Truth be told I'd probably keep
them up year round if I thought I could get away with it.  But on September 1st, the Great Pumpkin.....  Oh wait, that's a different story.  Anyhow, I've begun my pumpkin quest.  Every year I try to find a new one to join my "pumpkin" family.    Maybe this year I'll try to be creative a make one.  I'm really like the white ones that are so popular now.

The first thing I had to do was make pumpkin bread.  It's not fall until the pumpkin recipes

come out.  I'm am totally in love with my Nora Fleming platter.  I've admired it for 

quite a long time on Paige's blog (Simple Thoughts)  and I finally got one.  

The pumpkin decoration in the corner is interchangeable.  

I also have the turkey for Thanksgiving.  My sweet hubby ordered the 

storage case and a few more decorations to go in it for our upcoming anniversary but he's

doing a good job of keeping it hidden until then.  

And of course the candy corn flavored m & ms.   They're delicious but

very sweet so you can actually eat one or two at a time and stop.  

Aren't they cute. 

We've got our wreaths out.  I've seen such cute ones out there in blog world

but I kind of like the simple leaves.  I'm thinking about putting an initial in the center though.  

We were hoping that putting out the fall flag would bring on the cooler weather.

No such luck!!  I'm really jealous happy for all of you who

are blessed with weather in the 60s and 70s.  

my new center piece

lantern from Kohls (50% off)

owl from Kohls (50% off)

two small beaded garland strands  from Michaels (50% off)

I'm just realizing there's finger prints all over glass. 

;-(

and apparently I need to dust

My family tree that I finally printed the pictures for.  I've had it for one year already.

It's from Hallmark  and I really love it.  I might change the pictures 

out for black and whites.    Maybe next year.  

If you sign up for the Gold Crown card you'll get a 40% off  coupon on your birth month

 which makes the tree reasonable if you're a tree person, which I totally am.

Love my big resin pumpkins above and below.  We got them several years ago

at Big Lots.  Sadly they haven't had them since then.   If you turn it  around it's

a jack-o-laterns.  Great for Halloween.

Our golden wooden leaf was from our trip to Vermont when we visited a 

maple tree farm.  That was such a great memory.

I try to have at least a small pumpkin or two in every room.

This was my one "new" pumpkin from last year.  The velvet pumpkin with

the real stem.  

Of course my favorite little pumpkins come from "Our lil' pumpkin patch"

All our grandbabies in their pumpkin costumes when they were babies.

one of my favorite spaces

 where we watch our holiday specials and Disney movies and 

where we read our books and cuddle

with the grandkids

Lots of fun things happening this week.

we celebrated Mike's birthday on saturday

my nephew had a house warming party for his first house on sunday

having my GNO girls over for a crafting sleepover on this friday

spending the week getting ready with fun creative ideas

and yummy recipes 

I'm working on a project 

that I have in mind for November.

My blessing tree.  

I finished the tree.  It's made of felt.

I will be making leaves to pin on every day of the month and as we

 pin on the leave, we will write down a blessing, place in a jar and 

read it on Thanksgiving.

I'm pretty happy with how it is turning out so far.

It's 36" x 36"

and speaking of blessings, hopefully this time

next month our sweet little nephew will be home with his forever family

Meet Eli

we love him so much already

Eli and his mommy, our niece Jessica.

Remembering to be grateful in all things:

814.  Eli

815.  Jessica and Nick's heart for adoption

816.  counting our blessings

817.  pumpkin bread

818.  a young nephew starting out in his own place

819.  pumpkins in the stores

820.  family get-togethers

821.  birthday celebrations

822.  autumn

823.  re-reading 1000 gifts

Joining Ann's place for Multitudes on Mondays.