Fix Ups, Projects & Finding the Right Place!

Hurray! Woke up to another COOL Fall-like morning! Those artificial leaves I affix to all my windows for Fall will be coming out sooner than expected! I don't think I can wait till Labor Day! I've already started taking out some of the boxes. Wow that just makes me smile seeing all my stuff. I actually think my Fall stuff is up the longest than all the seasons.  I start late August and take it down the day after Thanksgiving...and that's good cause we can enjoy our decorations and fixin's for a substantial period of time. With the amount of stuff we all have accumulated between Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving it would be a shame to only view it and enjoy it for two weeks :(   Not me...the leaves are coming out, and probably a few other things too. I am working on another Halloween birdhouse--I did this one a couple months back. I picked up some great little items and decorations from AC Moore to do another. If anyone does these little houses, look for the sparkle felt like material that has an adhesive back. I cut shingles for mine out of it! And it sparkles so pretty.

Last night Caitlin had some of her little girlfriends over for a backyard Summer party. We wanted to do something fun and in my mind it would also make transition back to school September 9th a little easier when the girls all see each other! Although she has played with a number of friends over the Summer months, there are some she hasn't seen since school ended so it's party time! I wanted to keep it simple so we had music and a fire pit where the girls made jiffy pop and smores. We had lots of great desserts and they had a blast. Our decorations included streamers of purple tulle throughout the trees and the tree house and we had a dance floor of balloons! We chose blue and green (her two favorite colors) so we had blew up 100 balloons and put them in the backyard under the horsechestnut tree and the girls had a super fun time dancing through them and playing with them! Here they are as we were blowing them up in the family room! Just picture three times as much! It was an inexpensive way to have a big bang!** Note to self: don't pack balloon pump away with Halloween party decorations.**    :)

While at Walmart picking up my supplies, I saw these:

I was excited. I mean just the packaging was exciting to me! It looks like I purchased it at the 5 & Dime in in 1956 so I was thrilled! But what's inside was so cool and the graphics were perfect! SO I also got this one:

It is hard to see (sorry) but it is a country one "Life on the Farm". They are transfers to iron on for pillows, towels, blankets made by "Aunt Martha" .  Love you Aunt Martha, whoever you are! When I go back I want to get the ones they have that have the days of the week and a vintage kitty doing all the "chores"  like "Wash Day" etc. These were only .97!!!!! I rarely find things like this. It just made my day! And to find sunbonnet girls on top of it! Woo Hoo!!! I am going to embroider it or even do those tube paints; did you ever see when a table cloth is done with the special paint...My Mom used to make them. I don't know if people do those anymore...You go over the lines with a special paint....

Anyway...my new dollhouse has found a home in the corner of the parlor . She will stay there but I need to get a better table. It is a HEAVY dollhouse and I don't want her to fall! Please let me say it again  "HOW CAN SOMEONE PUT THIS OUT ON THE CURB FOR TRASH??????" Thanks, I feel better now.  I am  in the process of planning the rooms and stealing incredibly great dollhouse ideas from Kim K.  :)   check out her blog in my sidebar.  

My estate sale bunny girl with her crisp white apron has made herself quite comfortable on my redone cherry chair! Her apron pattern matches nicely too! She was made for it! 

And lastly I cleaned up the little school desk and touched it up with black paint. It joins the dollhouse in the parlor. See! It's back to school for Raggedy Anne & Andy too! They are reading from the Mary Engelbreit book "Autumn" with the their sleeping ceramic cat I found a while back from Walgreens nearby. Like I ALWAYS SAY "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUFF YOU FIND IN DRUGSTORES!!!" 

I hope your Thursday is full of fun!