Fall 2021

It has been a busy Fall so far. In October I started volunteering at the Chicago Children’s Museum again and I also participated in an Instagram #stitchtober challenge so decorating and blogging about it took a back seat. In September I put the leaf pillow I made from a panel Catherine had made on the bench and I filled the vase from Jen that usually sits on the yellow bookcase with an arrangement of feathers. I added the mushroom carving we bought this year at the Lakeview Art Fair.

At the beginning of October I decorated the Halloween trees and put them in the dining room windows as I have been doing and I arranged the Fall and Halloween things on the shelves much as I did last year. I got a real wooden pumpkin at Home Goods so I donated my fake one and some of my other pumpkins.

I had been purchasing small items all year for Day of the Dead offrenda ornaments. I supplemented the purchased items with downloaded images including a stack of John Irving books for Julie, a stack of Sherlock Holmes books for Mummy, a Julia Child cookbook for Catherine, and some Frank Sinatra records for Daddy. Then I assembled a Day of the Dead wreath and hung it between the dining room and living room windows.

For my Halloween treats I used two images I downloaded from Ella Claire Inspired and paired them with bloody bones I found at Target. I wrote B-B-B-Bad on the back. When I gave them to people they usually exclaimed “To the Bone!”

In the beginning of November while most of the Instagram influencers were putting up their Christmas decorations, we hung our Fall branches using the ones we purchased last year again.

No need to hurry Winter!