What A Long Week/Boy That Couch Looks Good

Honey, I'm home...Where's the Bourbon?
Started off the week with a mammy and a hair do in the city by the bay. 

I am loving my new camera, more and more! Went to the Camera Shop and bought a camera bag and talked to a professional about a macro lens and a telephoto lens. From what I understood is that the manual lens from the past can be used on the digital camera body. The difference being that you will have to manually focus! Going back in with the manual lenses, that I already own, to find out if I have what it takes to adapt. In the mean time I have been shooting photos that I can paint from. The kitchen window vignette will make an intriguing watercolor.

As the season winds down I walk around the shop filling the gaps where all the summer merchandise was! Gently I ease the shop into "cozy" decor. 

Tis the season for nesting. Lots of pillows and soft throws to hunker down in. 

Wish I had it in me to have a harvest dinner with my friends. As things slow down at the shop I will find the time, something to look forward too. 

I want to put this whole display in a customer's house! Her husband's study. He may not go for the folk art chickens. But maybe, they are just another layer of the whole.  

Pink Peony with red stripes greets me at the door, when I walk into the shop. Chaotic to say the least! 

Thinking about bringing home the cushy blue and white rug to put in front of my perch so at the end of the day I can sink my toes into the plushness.  

Sold a Michael Clark barn painting this week. Wish she would have bought this one to hang with the other one, somehow it feels incomplete without it's mate. 

That sofa is looking good. Can't wait to plunk down and put my feet up, a Bulleit Manhattan in my hand. Next Saturday is Steve's birthday and VIP seats at the concert of the year!! Can't wait!

Make My Day

Bored Panda

Imaginative, dancing, teacup ladies. Just charming to behold.

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Work of art, turning this settee into an object of delight.

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Catching the "cat stretch" pose.

Eye For Design

Let's add, harp, finial and a red, silk shade, to this garden stool.

Southern Living

I may have posted this bathroom before.

 It has caught my eye, yet again.

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Gift me this palette to work with, please!

Twitter

Is this proverb not the truth?

Again, another sift through the Pinterest files to see what caught my eye. Rather pretty, wouldn't you say?

TGIF

Did I Just See A Fern Walk By?

The rituals of  Autumnal Equinox! 

Bring the ferns inside before they start turning brown. 

They are a pair of "big ole' ferns"!

Changing of the seasons, love the beginning of every one and ready to move on, to the next season, every time! Mother Nature, changing up her game!

The Green Green Canopy Of Home

Back to this Morning Glory, is she ever going to bloom?

The blooms will be spectacular when she decides to show us her beautiful, blue flowers! 

Underneath her heart shape leaves is the tin man we bought at a sandwich shop on the Alabama, Florida line.  

He was hanging with some of his brothers when we unhooked him from his perch. 

This Alabama tin man inspired Steve to acquire a large collection of antique and vintage funnels!  Along, with commemorative can openers, for the mouths, beer bottle caps for eyes and buttons, and copper tubing for fingers.  And, of course, aluminum cans in five different shapes and sizes. Quite the process involved in creating a tin man personality!

The round house. It use to be cherry briner and Steve took it apart and brought it home and put it back together again on stilts! We cut down our Hydrangeas for the season, so it looks rather bare on the bank out there. 

Staking out the new shed. We need a building to store the lawnmower, leaf blower, weed whip, snow blower, chainsaws, oil and gas containers. It will be nice to corral all these tools and get them out of the garage. 

I have a pair of these ferns, on the porch. I would love to bring them in for the winter but they shed so badly that it makes a huge mess over my claw foot tub. We have" wintered over" the ferns before, one time for four years in a row! They were humongous! For a couple of years we took them to Florida and hung them up in the courtyard side of Blue Bell!

Under my green canopy in the Holler!

View Through The Lens

The fall nesting urge is upon us.
 Burnt orange has entered the room!

How many shades of rust, can I pull together, on this table?

The blue, antique English, plates pop the terracotta shades!

Even the subtle coral is included. 

Blue and white is a neutral. 

Ornaments make the best small presents!

Don't you love their eyes?
Just a slight change of expression on each doll.

Having fun working with my new camera. Will be taking the Nikon to the beach tomorrow. I will keep you posted on any decent shots! 

PS; Happy Birthday to Prince Harry! 
There's some orange for you!