Fall happenings!

What's been happening??!!! It's FALL! Oh yeah, my favorite time of the year. The weather here has not always cooperated with the 'idea' of fall..matter of fact it was 92 just a few days ago. (that surely doesn't sound like fall weather to me!) Our nights are getting much much cooler, the rains have started (which is a southern fall/winter norm) and the days are on a gradual down slide in heat.
Fall is garlic planting time so we loaded a garden box full of garlic the other day.
I sat at the table last night and planted many many herbs for indoor growing this winter.
We've got one last batch of pears to put up this week.. I will probably put this last batch in the freezer. I'm glad the pears are almost done..sure is a lot of work!

Hubby has already prepared the garden for next years bounty. All the weeds are gone, boxes are ready to plant again. Now, we'll have to cover it all in newspaper and hay to keep the weeds from creeping back in. We will be expanding our garden next year, tilling up a new area to fill with garden goodies.
OH YES..something new! I ordered more chicks for our little farm. We've got 15 more coming this week, they are being shipped today so we should have them tomorrow! WOOHOO!! Come spring, we'll have twice as many layers! (we even bought a roo or two).

Christmas is looming closer and closer. I've got lots of things to get busy making, so my sewing machine is going to be humming along in these upcoming weeks!

Fall, it's always a busy time isn't it?? But then again, so is spring and summer.

See ya next time......down on the farm!

Sage

All PEARED out

All well, the day has come finally..it's a rainy day and I don't even have a good book to curl up to!! The day of 'boredom'. Yep, we all have them and this one is mine. I'm not sure what to do next.

(besides mopping up the mud after the dogs go out to do their business!)

See the boychild is sleeping in the guest room, so I can't go into the craft room and work, it'll be too loud I'm afraid (and since he has to drive 16 hours tonight, I certainly don't' want to wake him). It's raining so can't work outside. Could watch an old movie on TV, good day for it I suppose or could curl up to a good book, but alas I don't believe I have any on my shelf that I haven't already read! Does this mean it's computer game time??


So tell me ..what have YOU been up to?

I did decorate the house a wee bit for the fall season. I need more fall decorations for sure.
In the past week we've put up 17 pints of pears, 6 quarts of pears, 4 pints of pear sauce and one quart of pear juice. Ya know what?? I"m about 'peared' out! Sad thing is, there are tons more on the tree and one batch 'ripening' in the bedroom as I type. They'll be ready next week. I think I'll let the animals have the ones left on the tree.

I guess it's time to peruse my bookshelf again and see if there's something hiding that maybe I could read ..or read again.
Don't ya just hate these type of days?

See ya next time......down on the farm!

Sage

Wedding Day Table decorations

With the daughters wedding just around the corner, I was trying to come up with ideas to decorate a few tables. I need some centerpieces. While perusing the shelves in the thrift store a week before the wedding, I happened upon these little gems. There were 4 of them, but I only needed three.

At .25 cents a piece, I couldn't resist, especially knowing this wedding was being held outside and should any breeze show itself, candles would not stay lit. These proved the perfect solution.

I rummaged through my craft room and came out with these objects. Silver beads, a string of tiny fake pearls, some white mini silk roses and very very pale yellow (almost antique white) ribbon and finally some thin white satin ribbon. I had the makings of something good here, I was sure of it!

Remembering that 'good design' leaves things in odd numbers, I decided just what to do. I measured the ribbon to reach around the 'waisted' ends of each 'chimney'. Turned it under and hot glued it in place. I strung the thin white ribbon onto the needle and added a silver bead and a small knot at each end. (two of these) Then, I cut a piece of fake pearls the same length as the ribbons giving me 'three' pieces, an odd number. Each one was hot glued to the center of each waisted top, making sure the bottoms of my 'dangles' fell just below the largest part of the belly of the chimney.

I cut the stem from the silk rose, close enough to give me a fairly flat back and hot glued these over the dangles to cover up where they were glued. Added the candle and WOWSA..looky looky!

Here's all three standing in a row like little soldiers.

Don't think JUST 'wedding' when you look at these, change the colors and think fall, or Halloween or Christmas, heck, with the right colors you could even think Easter! Give the thrift store a try as a jumping board for decorations. You may discover something that everyone will LOVE!

Here is one of the treasures on the cake table at the wedding. It was perfect. The other two were on the dinning table.

Give creative crafting a try, you just might like it!

Total cost for these little gems, about 2$ each including the candle! Can't beat that for wedding table decorations!

See ya next time...

Sage, the Hedgewife