Thursday Favorite Things! Autumn Changes with a Twist

 Hosted by Amber, of   The Yellow Brick Road..  Amber  joined a team of  bloggers who all share in the  meme, Thursday Favorite Things.  and it is a super fun meme because  anything that you might be into   goes.  Well,  it is September!!!!  YAYAYA!  and  of course, for me, that means fall is  on the way, if not already here. I can actually feel a bit of autumn in the air so  then the sunflower and pumpkins came out!

This is  my first real  season where I am decorating   my blue  rooms.  I love them,   but  it is  different from my  more    rustic  stucco   walls.  So  I  have yet to  get into  the  blue attitude,    but I am sure it will come  with the passage of time!So for the  table topper  I used this   table runner I made  to celebrated  apple in the sunroom when   we used the sunroom for  a secondary dining room. That  dining set  has been donated and it is more of a sitting room now so the runner I think is just right  now because of its light blue   background.

I love my seasonal  tree which is so much fun to decorate through the year. And the light is perfect to  have on on the evening as we pass through here  on our way  to bed each night!

This  vignette  is a bit odd I will admit,  but I  just had to use my new  table runner I purchased at the  Glamis Castle   gift shop.  I loved the colors  light blue with a  hint of  autumn colors in the flowers.  I folded it to fit on the hutch top. That arrangement is  a bit odd, as well.  

I was definitely in the mood to purchase fresh flowers when I did my marketing this week,  but everything looked    a bit  stale,  except for these  crazy decorative cabbage stalks.  I  loved the purple and pink  of the  centers even though you can't really see them now. They looked  strange in any  vase I used to  I thought what else can I add to these stalks.  I had some dried hydrangea in another  vase   so I  pulled a few blooms and "Whallah, "  I liked that..  but still not dramatic enough!  ha! So I added some teal  feathers.  AHAHAH  I  laugh every time I see it,  but I think,  well it is crazy enough to  be thought,  at least, interesting!    It  has to go  soon anyway because  the bloom is    turning a bit golden,  but hey,  golden is  autumnal, as well!  Maybe it will  actually redeem itself!!!

Now I have really gotten into

 the idea of gallery walls,  my problem is  many of our rooms    have  very limited   wall space. But  I really wanted a wall to commemorate our trip to Scotland and I already had a painting of sheep with we had seen.  But we, also, saw other  wildlife that needed to be     incorporated.  So at the Loch Lomond Games we bought  a lovely  print of some Highland cows,  and  then I ordered online  a  great  print which    completed the  actual wildlife we saw with our eyes!

You can see our space was limited  but  since it was only 3 paintings  I am thrilled with the finished  product.  We found the stag on Fine Art America.  We   were  thrilled with the quality!We have two more gallery walls in our home.. We  are still working on this one in our  new den.

It doesn't look quite right  .. the two large ones in center of our daughter and her family are supposed to anchor the rest  but the family one I can see now,, (Couldnt last night) needs to  be reset!  BAH!.The apple  art,  also,    but these photos tell a story about our family!I haven't fiddled with it today,  but some of them may just need to be  wriggled a bit!  hehehehe! We have a few more to add, as well!

           

  We are super excited about our  freshly painted bookcases..  unfortunately this  project is about 3/4 done,   but this last fourth  will take a bit of time  so I  couldn't wait to share  what we have so far!!!

Lastly,  this is our now completed gallery wall in the kitchen.  Our last addition is the  Aunties Biscuits and Cake   sign we purchased at the 'going out of business' sale of our favorite  restaurant earlier this summer.   We are thrilled to have this  momento to  commemorate  the best place in our fair city!