~IS IT BETTER TO BE EARLY THAN NEVER?~

  It takes me DAY'S to decorate and it seems  as soon as it's done...it's time to take it all down.  That's why Halloween goes up early for me.
And besides...
Joyce @ October Farm said it was just fine to do it early!  Thanks Joyce.  She inspired my mantel.  :)
 

For the past week I've been trying to catch up on housework and get my Autumn decorating back on track before it's to late..and to day I made a huge dent.  Finally.

It's good to be home!

Our fireplace mantel is an really an old coral post.  I found it on a ranch that belonged to a friend.  It was burned by a forest fire and had to be cut from the barbed wire.  We hauled in home in my truck and cut off both ends to the length we wanted and began to sand. 

I love the results and it came with me when I moved back home.  

It's all decked out for Halloween and I am not changing it ANYMORE.  :)

 

 

I've had this hutch for at least 37 years now. 

 

 

Nearly everything on this hutch was gifts from one of my daughters.  Brambly Hedge dishes and books. The pumpkin tea set. 

 

 

The book ends I've had so long I cannot remember when I got them.  They aren't a set.  I bought the cats at two different times and just ended up using them as bookends. 

Oops!  I forgot to tie my black and white checked ribbon on my cloche. 

Coffee table decor is not my strong point.  Nope, not at all!   The skull?  I don't know...

We were at Target..and suddenly it was in my basket.  ???  Sheesh!  Maybe I should change that.

 

 

 

 I got lazier as the day passed...can you tell?

 

 

Living room.  This room isn't really the easiest to decorate for Fall. 

 

I admit to trying black at the windows..but...it sort of spooked me.  I'm living in a haunted house you know.  You didn't know that?  Let me tell you about it some day.  It's been a real adventure.   Honest!

 

I am so please to have gotten a post done...finally!

 

Love to all,

Mona