Happy Halloween...

from our family to yours...

Happy Halloween Eve...

Holy Cats!!!

Lucy Sue to the Rescue...

I just spoke to my (Halloween obsessed) little Brother... he's been so busy he hasn't even started to carve his great pumpkin for this year's festivities...

guess we know what that means...

That Was Then...

Just in the Nick of Time...

Halloween decorations are all up... whew!!

just fibbing...

my Halloween decor remains more like...

just wanted to give my little Brother a competitive scare...

(refer to last October's archives for his story)

Jack O the Electric Lantern...

Christmas is up for weeks (months) in this house...

all other Holidays are lucky to have a week in the limelight...

just now getting to Halloween...

the first decoration actually... hopefully not the last...

A Mix of Old and New...

I just started Fall housecleaning... using some methods passed down through generations... along with some newer techniques...

case in point... cleaning my overflow collection of pots, platters and pitchers... which normally reside on top of my cupboards until called into duty during a bout of entertaining...
has just recently become quick and quite painless... once it dawned on me to photograph them in their original habitat...
before removing, cleaning and then spending the bulk of the time trying to pull their original positions from memory...

Working 9 to 5...

Today was busy...a Monday disguised as a Tuesday...

Sharing the Bounty...

It was a gorgeous Autumn day...

perfect for a quick trip to the country to visit my Sister...

who sent me home with a pumpkin for the porch...

a pumpkin just to perch...
...and a blue egg??

Can You Read This?

...no? Me either... it's a soup recipe... I think... from a Swedish blog I linked to enmammasdag ...through another Swedish blog I love chezlarsson ...who had a picture of a bowl of delicious-looking soup she made from a recipe of a blogger friend... where I ended up to get the recipe myself... which I did... ...I think.

Don't Go All Leopard on Me...

Apparently, in design, your large pieces of furniture should be solid...neutral... your introduction of pattern is through your accessories... pillows, throws... you get the idea... and although I'm not quite as large as a sofa... yet... I've been applying this principle to dressing... Today was an all black day... livened up with some favorite metallic bits...