As I sit at my desk and write this post our State is on fire...literally. The West Coast is burning. Fires are consuming people homes, dreams and lives. We have seen the worst of people, purposefully starting and attempting to start fire...to the best of people, risking their lives and giving so much to help those in need. Outpouring of supplies and love across our County. It seems somehow symbolic of our country right now.
Senseless violence and evil seems to be encompassing our country in ways I never thought possible. Police, who put their lives on the line everyday for us, are under attack; being shamed and brutalized needlessly. It is disturbing, to say the least. People who have hardly worked a day in their lives are destroying people's businesses, who have worked tirelessly their entire adult lives to make a decent life for their children, grandchildren and the community around them. I am a small business owner who has lost everything once before. I know the crushing heartache and demoralizing defeat that goes along with seeing everything you spent your life working for, blood, sweat and tears...gone so quickly.
Ignorance among the youth reigns, as they believe every lie they are being fed by the media and their teachers in the public school systems. The youth seems to have no real, true knowledge of what communism, fascism, socialism truly is. They think somehow that it's justified to ruin innocent people's lives by beating, murdering, stealing, destroying and vandalizing in the name of justice. That will somehow bring about equality? Where is the equality of harming the innocent? What an oxymoron that is, and worse, pathologically criminal. Where is the humanity in this generation? Evil begats evil...and so it goes on. They have become the evil monsters they claim to be against.
In truth, what this world is lacking is Jesus Christ as their Savior. He is the only one who can bring peace in our hearts and comfort us during times of sorrow, fear & suffering. Not a peace that the world can give us, the world gives us a false peace, but true peace from Christ. When Jesus rules your heart and is the Lord of your life, that is what is needed. He can bring peace among neighbors by giving us the ability to love the unlovely, because He loved us when we were unlovely. To forgive the unforgivable, because He forgave the unforgivable in us. It does not mean you will never have moments of fear and worry. It does mean that you cast those anxieties on the Lord, He will carry those burdens for you. Trust in Him...it's not easy, but you must trust in Him. That does not mean He is going to spare you from trials, or work things out the way YOU want them to be. It does mean He is there with you in the fiery trials of this world. He will not forsake or abandon you.
Be loving and kind, but be brave and speak the truth in love. Remember to
pray God's will for our homes and for our nation. Pray for our youth to come to saving grace in Jesus
Christ. A changed, repentant heart is so vital to stopping the evil that is surrounding us. Love
your neighbor, and do unto others as you would have done to yourself.
Autumn is one of my favorite times of the year. The smell in the air, the beauty and splendor revealed to us by God in nature as things die. How it dies so radiantly beautiful and colorfully, only to come to life once again come Spring. It felt wrong at first decorating for fall among such sorrow and tragedy this year. Then I remembered that we must rise up and go on. We must decorate and celebrate, not as much for ourselves as for those around us, especially our children. We must keep the joy of Christ in us despite our circumstances. Tragedy and evil must not win, must not steal our hope our joy, or even our traditions.
I will be adding the outside photos once the smoke and ash clear. We just painted the outside of our home all white two weeks ago, just finished installing a new charcoal grey roof and new carriage house style garage door with black hardware We are waiting for our weather vane & new black cast iron screen door to be installed. My porch is overflowing with mums of pink, burgundy, mauves & whites. I am rinsing off my plants daily so they survive the ash. So check back soon to see the updated outside of our home.
Without further ado, here is our home this year decked out for fall.
UPDATE: Thanking God for the rain! It has rained heavily for 24 hours! I was able to clean off alot of the ash. I quickly snapped these pictures of the remodeled exterior.
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| THe new carraige style garage door with black fleur de lis hardware is my fav! |
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| Used Etsy for the G design, designed sign online, used old hosereel parts for top/bottom detail. |
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| Door topper added architectural flair |
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| Black cast iron details |
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| Fall mums are one of my fall traditions |
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| I Love decorating my porches for all the seasons |
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| I decorate with rabbits year round |
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| New carriage lights |
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| Custom made birdhouse on leg for stand |
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| I have obsessive pumpkin hoarding disorder... |
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| Fleur de lis decoupaged pumpkins by me |
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Found this little sign on Amazon...it works!
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| Rain never looked so good to me! |
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| Ash still coating the driveway. Grateful to God he spared our home. |
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| Who loves caramels??? ME! |
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| My first attempt 4 years ago at decoupage. Little did I know how addicting it is! |
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| These glass gourds are gourd-eous! ;) |
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| My hand painted pumpkins |
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| Some handmade velvet and damask pumpkins I made a few years back. |
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| More of my handmade pumpkins. |
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| The Genesis Pumpkin. Named and inspired by my first born grand daughter |
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| The little darling herself. |
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| And our darling youngest grand daughter Jessa Joy |
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| My fav thriftstore hutch |
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| The Veiled Maiden Bust. |
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| Pink Pumpkins in crown. Because every Princess needs her crown ;) |
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| Angel and pumpkin...for the win! |
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| Fall tablescapes are the my fav! |
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| Pumpkin soup anyone! Monogrammed napkins are delightful :) |
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| I get so excited to bring our my pink fall dishes :) |
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| Oh how I love pewter rub-n-buff! Breathing new life into old things again. |
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| Dollar store pumpkin redo...yes! |
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| Using blessing cards this year in place of namecards. |
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| Blessing cards...love these! |
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| love.... |
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| Truth... |
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| Absolutely... |
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| Say yes to lacey pink pumpkins...they will make you smile! |
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Told you...
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| Decoupage...it's so addicting it should be a crime! |
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| Umm yah a crime NOT to do it! |
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| Milk glass pumpkins are dreamy... |
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| This years homemade fall candle. I call them coffee cake kisses. |
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| Gigi Pink Pumpkin Patch...full of rabbits that LOVE pink pumpkins. Go figure? |
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| My thriftstore finds... |
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| I am crazy for canisters... |
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| Of course my fridge top is decorated...shocking, I know! |
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| Made this lovely sign a few seasons back. |
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| My anniversary flowers are alive after two weeks! |
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| Repainted this Williams Sonoma thriftstore turkey. |
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| My thriftstore recipe table/nook. |
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| Pretty frosted glass pumpkins in this bathroom. |
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| Redid this real deals sign. Cut it down and reframed it in pewter, of course. |
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| A touch of green in this bathroom. |
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| Tea anyone? Nina's Marie Antoinette from France is my fav! |
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More pink velvet, yes please!
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| My Studio |
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| My office...be the unicorn in the room Darling. |
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| Rabbits and feather trees in fall, of course! |
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| May the peace of the Lord fill your heart and mind. Welcome fall! |
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