Loving This Time of Year!

I know from reading every one's blogs that we are all up to the same thing~~crafting and decorating for Autumn! I thought if I started even earlier this year that I would be well ahead of myself but when your mind is working faster than there are hours in the day, you still fall behind! I hope my mind is always overflowing with ideas! 99% of my Halloween stuff is up as is all my Autumn stuff too. I have to start working on items for my Halloween party. That's the next projects up for me. I have some new ones this year which I will be sharing in future posts. I hope you do like the photos I've posted today. The "ladies" aka as the three witches occupy my foyer to greet everyone who enters. My favorite movie is Hocus Pocus so I was happy to find a sign last year that read Hocus Pocus Three Witches! These three ladies are among my favorites of all my Halloween stuff and the foyer is the perfect spot for them. If you see the photo of my wooden witch, I got her for free when we up to the flea market in Stormville. Her hat had snapped off. All I had to do was use some wood glue, and she was perfect! Not bad considering her price was $35! FREE to me! :)

The little witch I got at a garage sale in a box of Halloween stuff last year. She is just like the Christmas elfs only she's a witch. I think she's so cool and I treasure her cause I had never seen one like her before. I put out some of my decorative wooden plates and then out came another item I treasure and that is my Warren Kimble "Pumpkin Dreams" plates and mugs. LOVE them so much; I get a happy feeling just looking at them. I always wanted the flag of "Pumpkin Dreams" but could never find it. Another photo is also in my foyer of my table and mirror. More to come of my decorations. I'm constantly tweeking and fixing.

We enjoyed some time at Hicks Nurseries a couple of Sundays ago. I have shown you this terrific place in past posts such as the Hicks Flower Show and at Christmas. We enjoy visiting so much and once again they had fun things for the kids to do with the wooden cut outs and incredible crafts and displays. They host a children's Halloween walk through diorama every year that is tradition for us. I just love visiting Hicks. There was a Thanksgiving tin sign I loved but didn't end up picking up. It was a little too expensive but I loved the image of the little girl. My husband with his "date"! Isn't she a little skinny??? And checkout the rooster and owl---I loved them as a decoration and when I went up to read the tag, I discovered they were decorative fans! Very nice!

Back to reality, we had our five trees taken down as I had mentioned last post. My son and my brother-in-law split all of it! My backyard (view from eating area kitchen window) shows my wood supply. I think I'm good for wood this Winter, what do you think? :) We would make Charles Ingalls proud. I love seeing it out my kitchen window. I just realized that the photo of it didn't come out so clear so I will post a photo of it next time. Believe me when I tell you that the wood pile is as long as a school bus. I am in such a nesting mood. I've already freshened up all our quilts and afghans for the Fall and Winter too. Seeing that firewood reminds me of woman who lives in St James (nearby) and she specializes and teaches hearth cooking. All that firewood makes me want to cook over my fireplace....I won't but I think it's so interesting. She was anolder woman and she has been cpotlighted in many country magazines in the past. She would also demonstrate at restored villages. She cooked this way in her home as well. Oh well, just made me remember her looking at my wood pile. What an art to cook over a fireplace, right?

For the anniversary of 9/11, I had mentioned that Commack High School had decorated the entire corner and block for the month of September with American flags. Here is a section of that . I can't tell you how beautiful it is to drive past and see our flags waving elegantly in the breeze. One of those flags has my Girl Scout Daisy troop tag on it. We purchased it as a troop with the money benefiting the families of the victims and some of it for the Commack Scholarship fund. I wish they would keep the flags up all year. It's such a glorious sight. This is very close to my house so I see it often. They come down tomorrow. :( I'm sad for that but October is my favorite month so I'm looking forward to so many nice things coming up in the next couple of weeks. We have a tentative date with my husband's sister and husband, a trip upstate for apple picking and pumpkin picking with family, a haunted house in St James to visit, and a Halloween party! I've also been enjoying my club at church. It's a Ladies Club/Bible Study. We are covering the book of Daniel and it's eye opening to say the least! If you are familiar with Beth Moore, you will know what a riveting speaker she is. Her videos and her study have made us laugh and learn. We are all living in a "Babylon" in this world today ( so to speak) , and I think us blog ladies are smart enough to realize that and we run the other way!

Well, I'm gonna go now. I have some packages to ready for the mail early next week and I want to get them set! Plus, I have a new batch of scented pine cones to get going. I am making it with the pine cones from the trees that we had taken down in the yard! I hope they come out good!