Fall Reminiscing

Hello my sweet friends.

I want to share some of my past fall decor along with the beginnings of this years fall decor.

I will start with fall from the last

 Junk Chic Cottage Homes.

Fall 2013 My first year in Blogland.

Mixing my summer flowers still hanging on from summer with fall.  This was Fall from the Lake House in 2013.

Sweet potato vines still going strong all the way to our first frost in 2013.

My front door  2013.

In 2014 we were still in out Lake Zurich home.

2014 Pumpkin decor. Hmmmm what happened to that sweet silverware lamp???!!!! Now seeing this past picture has me thinking what the heck happened to that lamp.  I loved that lamp!  I must have given it away with all the moves. :(

Mantel 2014 Fall.

Some of the pretty neutral pumpkins in my decor 2014.

2015 Our Front Fall Porch.  We just put the Lake Zurich home up for Sale.

2015

2015

2015 I loved those little white boots.  I just found them the other day while looking for something else in my storage area. I will have to think of something cute to do with them for this year.

Terry's little fire truck we had in the front yard 2015.  It is now living in my daughter's front yard.  When we downsized to the town home we had to give away a lot of the yard stuff.  Just happy it has a good home in my daughter's front yard.  Her hubby is a firefighter too.

2016 centerpiece living room.

2016

2016 Centerpiece

2016 white chippy chair and pumpkins.

2016 my gifted witch mouse from Judy @ Country Gold Cottage.  Love this little guy.

Some of my decor in 2017.  You can see the little witch mouse on the bench with my pumpkins and of course Cooper resting in his favorite spot in this house.  He loved that spot and laying in the sun all day.  Oh I miss you so much Coop. ;(

2017 Front Door Harvest Angel

My Harvest Angel put up last year 2017 right when we moved into the new cottage home.  As you can see she gained more flowers last year.

Some of my whites and neutrals 2017

My sweet angel with her white pumpkins 2017.

Very neutral Harvest Blessing 2017.

2017 White sweater pumpkins.

Beginnings of fall for 2018.  Lots of gray and neutrals in my cottage home.

This sweet angel witch was gifted to me by a beautiful southern angel artist.  

You will be learning more about who gifted this sweet angel witch to me and some other exciting news to share relating to this sweet artist in my next post. 

So stay tuned.

Terry and I will be married 37 years this coming Wednesday September 12th.  He and I are escaping life for a few days to celebrate together.

  Hopefully when I return after the weekend I will have more to show you on the vintage door decor and about the Murphy Bed he is making for our guest room.

Have a beautiful week.
Hugs,
Kris

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Fall Decor? New Kitchen Faucet. Sneak Peek at Entry Way Mirror.

Hello and Happy New Week.

With having the holiday on Monday I am all messed up with my days.

I know a lot of you are getting into fall already and starting to do some fall decor in your homes.

I am still looking at lots of summer going in my garden.  Our weather here in the midwest is still hot and humid and lots of rain. 

This is my flower box under the window. 
The greens have really taken flight in there.

They are the only things liking this hot and humid weather along with hard downfalls of rain.

Even my little Cherub on the birdbath looks mad about all the rain!

The good news is that my hydrangea's I planted this summer are blooming for a second time.  They can do that late summer.  

They are coming in less blue this time around.  More purple and light blue.  Probably less blue this time with the soil ph changing towards the end of summer.

You almost cannot see my chippy white chair on the porch.

I have to say,  if you want a maintenance free flowering plant,  Knock Out Roses are a great choice. 
I dead head these daily and almost overnight I will come out and more blooms have opened in their place.
Knock out roses grow almost anywhere you put them as long as they get some sun. 

They were  tiny twigs when I planted them and now late summer they have tripled in size.   

I will be adding more of these next summer.

Gotta love verbena.  It is like a weed.  It will sustain in almost any climate.  It can take heat, humidity and rain.

Verbena loves summer!

Usually by the end of August my hanging petunia's are just about done. 

With all the rain we have had it did them in early. 
I lost the other one in the opposite arbor but this one is still hanging on. 

These were so full and were touching the ground about a month ago.  Now this is all that is left and the poor thing is really stringy and the roots are pretty much done.

It is still hard for me to think about Fall. 

  I cannot see pumpkins and corn stalks just yet.  Summer is still in bloom at my home.

I did however put out a few pumpkins and sunflowers on my island.

I am sure this will change up as Fall approaches.  Just a little touch of fall for now.

I have always wanted a bridge farmhouse faucet.   I got one on sale this past weekend.

It is hard to see with how the sun filters in but it has the traditional white hot and cold stamped on the handles.

I am pretty happy with this sweet faucet.  I found it on clearance at Home Depot for under $60. 

I changed up my french window a little bit.  Added the birdhouse over it.

Here is a sneak peak at the new Entry Way Mirror made out of the old door and architectural pieces I had. 

 Now the hard part starts I have to figure out how to put decor on it.  

It will have to be easy breezy pieces of decor. 
  Maybe a light wreath on the mirror or I have an old cast iron mail box with flower in it for the lower part of the door.   Hmmm...... I will have to play with it for awhile and then when I get it decorated I will show you how it turns out.     

I am not happy with the door plate or key lock with the white paint.  I may have to take the paint off of those and see how the brass looks under the paint.

Stay tuned to see this pretty entry way piece with some decor on it!
Have a lovely rest of the week.
xoxo
Kris

Found Treasure In The Rough

Happy Labor Day to all of you.

It has been nice having the extra day this weekend.

Terry and I went to Michigan for two days of this holiday weekend.  We headed to the Mercantile Market that The Found Cottage Shop puts on in Holland Michigan.  It was a fun adventure for a few days.  

The Market had lots of chippy goodness.

I fell hard in love for this harvest table.  I have always wanted a vintage harvest table.  This one was for sale but no room in my small cottage for a harvest table :(.  It was a fabulous piece!

Deconstructed furniture.  Oh my!

Globes anyone?!!!

Lots of cute farmhouse finds.

I saw so many sweet mantels.  Don't you love that checked pumpkin garland.  I might have to make one of those.

Pumpkins galore!

Beautiful Frame

Of course had to stop in at The Found Cottage shop too.  Lots of scrumptious things there.

In my last post I told all of you how I wanted this beautiful salvage framed mirror from one of my fave shops.   It was way out of my budget at $1200 so Terry said he would make me something similar out of salvage pieces we already had.  Gosh I love that man and his tools!

We had this old door and thought we could build off of this to make a great architectural entry mirror.

Then at the Market while we were perusing the different vendors my eyes were drawn to this chippy vintage door.  Yep! I thought to myself this is the piece that is going to make that entry way mirror a beauty.

So home it came with us.  With a little fixing on this door and the adding of salvage pieces to it,   this is turning into a nice entry way mirror.

I hope to show you the results of this in my next post.  Just doing some little adjustments.

Wishing all of you a wonderful holiday.
Be safe and enjoy.
Hugs,
Kris 

Just A Few Things

Hi Everyone.  Wishing all of you a most wonderful holiday weekend.

Just wanted to post about a few things.

First some fun things.

I had my two grand girls the other day and we went to Home Goods and they had some of the costumes for Halloween in the store.  My littlest granddaughter Charlotte wanted to be a unicorn so we tried on the unicorn costume.

Gotta love a unicorn with a pacifier lol!

Abby my other granddaughter was trying to take a picture of Charlotte in the costume with her cell phone.

Charlotte just turned 2 this summer and she is at that fun stage that she loves to dress up in things.  Mimi had to get this costume for her for Halloween.  Just had too it was too cute on her!

Ok on to a new project sneak peek that Terry and I are working on.

It all started when I was in Whimsy a cute store I frequent in Morris.  Traci is the owner and always has the cutest clothes and decor accessories along with some really beautiful vintage pieces of furniture and decor.

I walked in to the store to see this..........

Yep!!! my heart skipped a beat when I saw this long architectural mirror behind this rack of clothes.  Ohhhhh I was swooning.  The salvage pieces that were built around this floor length mirror were gorgeous.

I was smitten!  I asked one of the girls in the shop that day if the mirror was for sale.
She said yes and climbed behind the clothing rack to find the price.

She came back and told me it was $1200 dollars. 
Talk about the wind being taken out of my sails!!!
Way out of my budget.

Sorry this is the only picture I have of this piece.  The bottom part of the mirror is pretty plain compared to the top.

So I had to walk away from this beautiful piece that made my heart skip a beat.  I know you all know what I am talking about!!!! That piece that you see and just immediately fall in love with it.

I went home and could not get that piece out of my mind.  I loved it so much.

 I showed the picture to Terry and he said if you love it that much we can make it work in the budget so go ahead and get it.  Very sweet of him but we are still playing catch up from him being out of work for two years.

I said I just cannot justify in my mind paying that much for this mirror even with loving it so much.
It just was not meant to be mine. :(

Terry then said to me I bet I could make you something similar to that and you can design it anyway you want!

Gosh I love this man and his tools and his willingness to want to take on projects like this.

I had this old vintage door with a patina mirror already in it.  Hmmmm...  I thought maybe we could make this work and build off of it.

So that is what we are doing.  I have an old porch post and a beautiful chippy header piece that is going to get incorporated into this new project.  

We are on our way to Michigan tomorrow for a few days.  The Found Cottage one of my favorite shops is hosting a big outdoor market with over 90 vendors.  So we are taking a drive up tomorrow for the market.  It will be a mini trip and stay in Michigan.  The ride is about 2.5 hours so not too bad of a drive for only staying two days.

We have some family commitments this holiday weekend on Sunday and Monday so we will have to return for those parties.

Wishing all of you a safe and happy holiday weekend.

Hope Terry and I can finish up my budget friendly version of an architectural full length mirror to show you soon.

Stay tuned!!!

Hugs,

Kris