It's October!

Hello!  It's October!  First though, the 2013 Room for Color winners are in!  Um, once again, not it, but also once again, I didn't participate to win (although it would be nice).  Go take a look at the winning rooms.

Back to October...

The decorations are slowly going up.  I have a paper pumpkin assembly line in my living room and I have a theme.  This year I'm doing pumpkin patches, but probably a haunted pumpkin patch for the house and a cutesy patch for the faux office.

2013 Halloween wreath

I used scavenged materials from Octobers past to make a wreath.  I also painted the face of the pumpkins with glow paint, but I have no idea if it's actually working.  I like it.  I bought two wire wreath frames from the thrift store a while ago so I might make another one or just wait and do a general Fall wreath.

All Hallows Mess

Here you can see a variety of projects piled together.  A sewing pile on the dress form, a witch hat waiting to be hung, and the first 3 pumpkins in my faux pumpkin patch.  Right now I am very much into DIY decorative lawn stakes.  They make a big impact and as long as there are boxes to recycle and acrylic paints, I can make them.  I just glue sticks to the back and pop them in the ground.

Lawn stakes from Amazon.

Above are the decorations that I ordered.  They're a little smaller than I expected, but they're nice.

Mums

Don't forget the mums!  I ran out of nice planters to put them in, so here's a festive grocery bag.  It's rustic right?  the colors work.  I put a drip tray in the bottom so I'm not ruining the bag.  I was content with my thrifty solution.

Pumpkin Pouf

Over the summer, I bought a 20lb box of Poly-Fil.  If you aren't familiar with this product, that's A LOT of Poly-Fil (more than I realized).  So I've been making poufs and cushions.  Of course all of the outdoor poufs are in my summer colors and patterns.  I wanted to keep them on the porch because we use them a lot, but I wanted to include them in my fall decorating.  The Great Pumpkin Pouf cover is the solution.  I'm also going to try to make some black cat floor cushions, but those aren't done yet.  Pumpkin pouf is a giant fabric pumpkin, but I didn't have to stuff it because I slid my outdoor pouf inside, tied it with twine, and then wrapped the excess fabric in green to make a stem.  You follow the basic instructions for fabric pumpkins, but you use a piece of fabric large enough to cover your pouf.  Then you skip a few of the sewing steps; I rubber banded the bottom closure instead of sewing and I just wrapped twine around the pouf to make the pumpkin segments (for the fabric pumpkin you would sew through the center of the form, but that just isn't going to work for something this big).

xoxo, 

pumpkin patch

b

Brewing

Scoby

 We brewed kombucha for the first time.  It should be done with it's second fermentation tonight.  I'm curious to find out if it worked.  The kombucha we received along with this scoby was of superior quality.  Flavoring seems like a big experiment though.  When I made tea for our batch, one of the bags broke and quite a bit of loose tea stuck to the underside of the scoby.  I kept the baby from our batch, but threw out the mother.

Have you seen Starry Lights?

I put up different lights this year.  Starry Lights are on sale at Restoration Hardware, but I got these on Amazon (for less) and I love them.  I've used glass globe lights from Target for the past two years and I like them, but they're sometimes hard to hang.  This year, I can't find them, but it's okay.  Two strands of these puts off enough light and they were super easy to hang.  They're light weight and on a thin wire so they easily bend into place.

chugging along,

xoxo,

b

I forgot.

I forgot to do my thing; my unannounced Friday thing.  I forgot to instantly gratify (the three of?) you with "Instagramification"... oops.  I'll do it now.

I added some little art in the kitchen and found a spot for the mixer.

Kale chips because our CSA share is full of kale and I wanted to try something different.

It looks like a little book with a rainbow/cloud machine.

Welcome back summer porch and good morning kitties.

The hat arrived and I like it.  I thought it was a fedora, but the brim is wider.

It's coming!  I wish we were as cute as our cartoon counterparts.

The quick update:

I got the hair into the garden and I actually touched it.  Ick.

I made wheat and herb baguettes.

I met with our friend/officiant/organizer (he's a one-stop shop) and day of event wedding concerns came up.  I have found solutions and future tragedy has been averted.  WOOT!

Had I remembered to do this Friday, it would have been garden pics'.  We'll do those too, but later... there's so much to share.

Kisses,

BeeeeeeeeMerry