Do you decorate for Thanksgiving? I think a lot of folks skip from Halloween to Holiday. Not me. I believe in giving Thanksgiving its proper due. Continue Reading
add a little Thanksgiving Decor
The case of the missing Halloween Bats.
Put on your Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys hats and think. If you were a bat, where oh where would you hide? Not a real bat (and not my mother, the BAT), but a bag of felt bats. This is the case of the missing Halloween bats.
I made these bats several years ago, and since then, they’ve been my favorite Halloween porch decoration. Pictured above is our Dallas porch, which for the record, I miss Munger Place most at Halloween…
Last October, we were just settling into our new home in Arkansas, so I chalked up the missing bats to overall moving chaos. This October, I’ve declared them LOST. Yesterday I looked everywhere(!) for them. In every drawer, every odd place, every plastic storage bucket in the garage. Everywhere except the exact somewhere I should have looked.
Please tell me this happens to you.Continue Reading
Fall Foraged Decor
I like to decorate with natural elements. Plants growing in the fields or along the ditch bank. Flowers from my garden. Pumpkins and gourds and apples from the farmer’s market.
Take a look at a few of my fall foraged decorating ideas. Yes, I use the term foraged loosely (creative writing, y’all). Foraged from the closet or flea markets or while on neighborhood walks with Lucy and Annabelle.
Use rusty old toys, wheelbarrows, farm implements, whatever, to display fall’s bounty inside or outside. In the picture above, my sister’s original Tonka Truck moves gourds around in the backyard. Yes, I still play in the dirt.
