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Monday, October 23, 2017

Softer Side of Fall


H created this unique entry piece  that sits on the porch right by the front door.    He married a dresser bottom to some kind of top that I'm not sure what it was in it's previous life.....anyway.....I really do like it.
  I wanted to put together a fall vignette on it this morning and after about an hour of fighting the stiff breeze,   I gave in.....kind of!     I decided to include all the leaves blowing around me in my vignette.


I used a vintage buggy that a dear friend gave me to be the base for my fall vignette......


I decorated above it......on it.....and around it.


I made a nest on my buggy with a small pink can can.     I put silk flowers in the nest and topped it off with a baby boo pumpkin!     After all,   I gotta have a baby in the buggy.....lol!


Then I started filling in under the buggy.......


I filled in behind the buggy with fall flowers,  foliage,  and baby boo pumpkins.....


Now to fill in around the front of the buggy.....


I placed the buggy's sun shade in this part of the vignette.......


I filled it with flowers and a baby boo pumpkin.......


Then I changed my mind and took out the pumpkins and replaced it with a nest.


In the photo on the left,   you can see the sun shade a little better without all that fall decor in it!


I can't leave the area below the buggy undecorated ......can I!


I filled the drawers with some of the leaves that were blowing around and placed a rose bouquet in each drawer.   


I have a vintage scale next to the entry piece that put a tall rusty can on so I would  have a place to set my jack o'lantern 
 

My jack o'lantern is made from an old gas can.    I put a string of battery operated fairy lights in his mouth to give him a "bright smile"  to welcome our trick or treater's.


I love to sit out here on the porch  and have coffee in the morning.   
  

The temp here in Eastern New Mexico in the early morning is about 50 degree's,  so I keep a blanket handy.     
 

Happy Fall Ya'll!







10 comments:

  1. I love that vintage buggy. such an adorable way to use it, too.

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  2. I am so drawn to that vintage scale. I suppose because it makes me think of the nostalgia of old time medicine.

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  3. Wow. I love how you decorate. You make me wish that my church pews on my front porch were smaller so I'd have room for a dresser! Love that you incorporated the blowing leaves.
    :) gwing

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  4. This is so beautiful & wonderfully decorated. Love it <3 Thanks for sharing with us.

    Khadija
    https://creativekhadija.com/

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  5. The vintage buggy is fantastic!
    Hugs Alessandra

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  6. Penny,
    Love the vintage buggy!!! so cute and the Jack O Lantern made out of a old can is priceless!! You know that I have always envied the size of your porch!!
    Hugs,
    Deb

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  7. I love how you embraced the leaves blowing around and used them in your vignette. It retains the fall colors and mixes so beautifully with the soft colors you used.

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  8. That's a very pretty vignette Penny! It embraces shabby chic which I love and marries it with farmhouse decor. Love the pumpkins & jack o'lantern! Wow, to have a friend that gives you a baby buggy like that!

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  9. That buggy is wonderful! Thanks for sharing your pretty mantel!

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  10. I truly LOVE your style--it's awesome. Pinned it--thanks for linking up!

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