Autumn Dining Room

A few weeks ago I had a burst of energy after work.
Some white pumpkins on Pinterest proved to be too irresistible.
I saw some adorable pumpkins pinned from Time Washed in which antique brooches were used to decorate around the base of the stem.

 I made a slew of fabric pumpkins two years ago but I gave them all away in a fit of cleaning this past summer. They were too big anyway. In no time I had a couple of diminutive pumpkins just right for some vintage pins.

This one is tucked in an old iron stone bowl with two black/brown velvet pumpkins.

The color on these velvet beauties is so dark brown that it reads black in my gray dining room.
 I've been smitten with black and white since this summer so this was fine by me.

Bill and I were at the grocery store one night about a month ago. The floral department had some green branches with little orange berries on the end. They are called Hypericum berries. I had hoped they would dry, and they did, but instead of orange, the berries turned black.

I was okay with that also.

The rest of the room is very simple. 
The black painted Christmas cottages from Dollar Tree last year are back in the china hutch.

The secretary got just one white, lacy pumpkin tucked behind the doors

and a painting on top.

It was all inspired by a pumpkin and a pin.

Thanks for stopping in.
Katie


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It's Fall Y'all!

It's fall!

Once I got over the fact that it was time to put the pool away, I could embrace that fall is here.

I sat on the couch each evening this week trying to get some inspiration for my mantel.  
It is the centerpiece and focal point, after all, so it has to be right.
After a couple of tries, this mantel is the winner.

Bill got me the roses a few weeks ago. They were fading fast so I hung them upside down to dry. I gathered up the oldest and crustiest books in the house and two white pumpkins from Tom Thumb. The frame is from a painting that was hanging in the mancave. 

We don't crate the dog when we are at work so she sits on the sofa all day, except when she is sitting in the window barking at the demon squirrel.

The sofa has the weirdest affinity for her dog hair. It will not come off with the vacuum or a brush. I have to sit and use sheet after sheet of a lint roller. I couldn't take it anymore so I made a slipcover during Dancing with the Stars the other night.
 I may end up slipcovering the whole sofa. I don't know.

The terrarium got a white pumpkin instead of the bird that was in there. So simple.

The desk and shelf on the opposite wall got a few touches as well. 
  

The candelabra is from the thrift store and the tureen from an antique store years ago. 

Just a teacher FYI...

Seasons are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence or they are being used in a title -  Fall Festival 2104.

Months of the year and days of the week are capitalized but not seasons.
 Holidays are capitalized.

It makes no sense to me why seasons are not capitalized but it is true. 
That's the English language for you.

I'm wild about the dining room centerpiece. 
The deep, deep brown or black velveteen pumpkins came from Tom Thumb. 
I made the white drop cloth pumpkin with the pin. 
Yikes! It's cute.

I've got more to finish in there and I'll show it off when it's done.
I'm also working on some cuteness in the powder room.
Happy Sunday.
Katie   
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