Fall-o-ween Blog Hop Day 6

Welcome to Day 6 of the Quilt Designer's Fall-o-ween Blog Hop.

Today's blog will be brief.

Because of yesterday's website "glitches" I am currently at the Funny Farm.

I am sharing a padded stall with this guy.
He is hogging all of the space and standing in my light.
And the Internet here at the farm is iffy.
But supposedly my new site should now be running properly.
SHOULD being the key word.
That said let me get to today's post.
Today's featured designer is the very cute Heather from Anka's Treasures



Hop on over to her blog to she what great project she has created for you.
Today's topic is Decorating.
Due to my cold, launching my website and the hop,
I have had very little time to do any fall decorating.



As soon as there is a chill in the air
I head to our local pumpkin farm
to purchase my pumpkins and gourds.


Oh how I love orange…



And even more than orange ….red orange.
I will plop a pumpkin just about anyplace


I like to let them spill out of my "cornucopia",
also know as old phonograph parts.


In my yelloware bowls.



On top of my 'artsy thing".


On top of my silver vases.

I sometime adorn the pumpkins with things like ric rac…

and acorns and wire.

I drag out the fall "stuff" and decorate the mantel.

I change out the everyday art for the "Fall" art.

I painted the jack-o-lantern on this old orange and black checkerboard.

This is one of my favorite Fall items.
Just a simple pumpkin painted on a bowl.
I never fill this bowl as I don't want to hide the art.

Now hop on along to the other designer's blog to see what fabulous decorating they have done.

Comment on all 10 blogs and be eligible for our grand prize.

GE Designs, Pieces of My Heart, Atkinson Designs, Pat Sloan, Anka's Treasures,
New Leaf Stitches, Whimsicals, Miss Rosies,
Rosebud's Cottage, Linda Lum DeBono.

When you finish your projects take a picture.
Use this link to post the pictures on Flickr for all of us to see.


Tomorrow's featured designer will be Teri from Whimsical.
The topic tomorrow will be Gatherings.

As for me, I am hoping I will be leaving the Funny Farm tomorrow and heading back home.

Have a good day and may you never end up at the Funny Farm.

From my heart,
Sandy

Fall-oween Blog Hop Day 4

Welcome to day 4 of the Quilt Designer's Fall-o-ween Blog Hop.





Our featured designer today is Kari from New Leaf Stitches.





Hop on over to her blog and see what she has to offer. I am sure it well be great.

The topic of the day is Texture.
As the days start to get cooler I feel the need to change out the decor in the house.

I change out the tomatoes for…

Gourds.

There are so many interesting pumpkins and gourds out there, all with interesting textures.

This old quilt is one of my favorite "texture" things.
This is the front...

but I prefer to use the back because it has more texture.

I pull out my darker colored quilts and my wool applique pictures.

Find the quilt pattern here.

Find the wool applique picture here.

I put woolly chair covers on my chairs and tie raffia around a pumpkin stem.

I bring out the hooked wool table mats.
Bruce made this for me.
Yes, happy to say, my husband is a hooker.



There are a few fall textures that I don't like so much.

Like the slimy, stringy innards of a pumpkin.
Bruce is helping Anthony with his Jack-o-lantern.
Bruce seems to be more into it than Anthony.

Another fall texture I do not like are cockleburs.
Some of you may not have experienced cockleburs.
Again it's a country thing.
In the fall when the men are out in the fields harvesting the crops,
they do not want to take time to come up to the house to eat supper,
so the food is taken out to the fields. My sisters and I would ride
along with mom to take the supper out to the fields.
When we arrived at the fields us girls would get out of the car
and play in the fields while the men ate their supper in the car.
(Kind of like eating at a Drive In.)
It was fun running around in the fields rustling through the corn husks.
But when you were done you had prickly cockleburs stuck allover your socks.
Oh how I hated that feeling.
But there is good in everything.
Did you know that Velcro was modeled after cockleburs?

I am experiencing another texture that I am finding as unpleasant as cockleburs in your socks
I am in the middle of the worst cold I think I have ever had.
When I swallow my throat has the texture of sandpaper.
Under my nose looks and feels like sandpaper.
When I cough I sound like a barking seal.

(Sorry, I guess that would be more of a sound thing than a texture thing.)
And I am sorry but I can find nothing good in this cold.

Hop from blog to blog to see what the other designers have to say about fall texture.
Comment on all 10 blogs and be eligible to win our grand prize.
GE Designs, Pieces of My Heart, Atkinson Designs, Pat Sloan, Anka's Treasures,
New Leaf Stitches, Whimsicals, Miss Rosies,
Rosebud's Cottage, Linda Lum DeBono.

Tomorrow's designer is Terry Atkinson of Atkinson Designs.
Tomorrow's topic will be Clothes.

Here is hoping you can go for walk and enjoy the fall day with all of its many textures.
And may you never find cockleburs in your socks.

See you tomorrow,

From my heart,
Sandy