Fall is finally here...

Fall is here, but it sure doesn't feel like it.  Okay maybe a little, it's been in the 90's instead of the 100's.  I have been pulling out old plants from summer and starting some new things for fall, like pumpkins.

...this guy will not be ready for Halloween, maybe thanksgiving?

...the plants have taken over my yard...

...this big guy is fully grown and just starting to turn colors..fingers crossed he's ready soon...

...in this bed I'm starting carrots, beats, cilantro, and acorn squash..

something keeps eating the leaves on my seedlings, hense the jars...

...in this bed I'm experimenting with potatoes...

 ...I finally have peppers! I have poblanos, pasillas, and jalapenos ....

...I am also trying to grow mini white pumpkins, but something keeps eating them...

that something is white and fluffy and named Leo...

Besides gardening I have done a tiny bit of fall decorating.  I have very limited storage space and most of it is taken up by Christmas decor so Halloween and other holidays sorta get the short end of the stick.

...I reused some old flowers and this container I saved from an edible arrangement..

I knew I would use it someday...

...have you tried the pumpkin spice latte M&M's yet? so good...

...the only little pumpkins that survived Leo...

I have also brought home a few vintage treasures...

...I think Morty has his eye on that Coca-Cola tray...

...I found the sweetest little ironstone dishes...

...Rose bouquet Made in England by Johnson Bros...

...so pretty they had to come home...

...silk prints with gilded wood frame handmade in Florence, Italy...

I should have some of the dishes and the pictures up on etsy in the next week...if I can part with them...

Sprucing up my closet...

Ever since we moved into our house we have been slowly, very slowly... but surely turning it into a home we love and that reflects us.  Over the next couple months I will share with you what we have done so far.

I am going to start this house "tour" with the room I spend too much time in and is the most neglected, the master closet.  I decided it was about time I did something, anything, with my closet so I finally started working on it.

Here is what it looked like when we moved in...

Like all the other rooms in this house it was a sea of boring beige...

With this ugly florescent light...

On one side of the closet that you can't see there is a wall of shelves.  On the other wall there is nothing, which is kind of a waste.  

I want to spruce up this space with as small of a budget as possible.  My plan is to repaint, put in a new light, add shelves on the blank wall, and replace the carpet with wood that we had left over from downstairs.

So far there is a new light, which needs to be turned around so the seam is facing the other way, and the holes in the ceiling still need to be repaired...

I painted the whole closet SW 7005 Pure White...

...and I started a little project I have been wanting to do somewhere in my house.  For a couple years I have seen these gorgeous pictures of ceilings and walls covered with beautiful metallic papers.  After alot of research I learned some people apply metallic papers square by square and some use wall paper to get the look.

(picture from House Beautiful)

Well the wall paper was too expensive and would kill my budget, and the I decided against doing the ceiling because it would kill my back....so I decided to do my own smaller version.

I purchased some pretty gold paper from Paper Source and some wallpaper paste from Sherwin Williams.  

I cut the paper into various rectangles and squares...

...then carefully painted the paste onto the back.

I started placing the squares on the both ends of the shelf working my way towards the middle, over lapping them in a random pattern to give a patch work look.

I want to cover the back of every shelf on this unit and the one I want to build in the future.  So far I am LOVING the way it looks and I think my shoes look so happy in front of the gold. 

 Hopefully in the next few weeks I will get the new shelves in and the new floor down.  Fingers crossed!