Autumn Creeps in

Hi everyone! Mo and I are waiting for the doggy spa van. Mo needs a manicure. He just hurled his toy at me, he knows something is up, his routine is changed.

I am so disappointed --the weather bug said we were due for some chilly days this week into the weekend. Instead it's glaringly brilliant sun and quite warm, verging on hot, 70s*. And just now as I placed my weekly grocery order, I discovered that there is NO Charmin and NO Bounty paper towels to be had. Deja vu all over again. What the heck?

Despite the summery weather I 've been Fall cleaning and adding some autumn touches to my house. You may notice things look a bit shabby, but not shabby chic. Between my ongoing health issues and Mo's national debt sized vet bills, my spruce up savings are pretty much gone. But I'll share anyway, ''keeping it real'', you know? I am not a grey and white '' Instagram influencer'' anyway, just sharing how I add seasonal touches as the year goes by. (notice new lamps were first on my list to get crossed off, sigh)

I love this Year in the Country quilt, pattern a gift from Penny in SA. It is an entire year but somehow speaks to me of fall into winter.

Close ups...

oldie!

new last year, Starry Eyed Jack.

My collection of autumn colored mixing bowls, chocolate brown, almost black, pumpkin and caramel. They need their fall wash up and to be resorted. I have two more stacks to wash, today's housekeeping plan.

I love nature finds and dried botanicals. The mini punks from Trader Joe's, c. 2019, dried great, as did some acorns I collected. 

These are tree pumpkins or branch pumpkins  HERE

These baby jacks, from 2020, not so much. They turned into zombie pumpkins! And one exploded in a discreet corner over the summer. Hilarious Fail. 

Nostalgia---the two throw pillows' fabrics and the quilt were found for me by my mom. I display them every year and think of her pleasure in seasonal touches.

The center crock below was hers too, always filled with hydrangeas. It came from Steamboat Springs Colorado, her idea of a cool souvenir. My dad brought home a 4" blue spruce seedling sprout, extracted from a Wendy's parking lot's flower bed, his idea of a souvenir. It grew tall in Illinois, then he moved it to the Cape, where it majestically grew to maybe thirty feet tall or more at the front of his yard where it hid his potato patch and mom's lavender garden from the street view. [curb appeal!] 

Outside the cottage, I'm noting this year that the mums are very outstanding and pretty. There mahogany ones are on our deck, 

And these perfectly pumpkin orange mums are at my front/ back? door with a small classic pumpkin.

Hope your week has been great, enjoy the weekend!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach...

harvest moon  or hunters moon last night. [to me the hunters moon has to be in November]

Geese, trying to form their V.

First red leaf.

This is for Kel, the 15 cent thread. The object in it was an old time-y wire needle threader. I use the spool as a keeper, because the wind blows the old aluminum threader away. The spool must have come from my dad's sewing tin.