Thanksgiving Recap

One last post before the Christmas posts begin....Here is my Thanksgiving table. I cooked this year for my family. I tried to use as much of my Pyrex and vintage glassware as possible. This year I went with white milk glass, clear glass and some Pyrex - mostly Snowflake, Butterprint and blue tones to match my dishes.

I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving this year.

Please stop back tomorrow - Dec. 1st - for an Advent craft project to kick off the Christmas season.

KayteeJane

Fall Pyrex

I decided to change out a shelf in my kitchen to display all of my Pyrex that had fall colors. I like how it looks grouped together. Pyrex just makes me happy when I look at it!

Happy Fall!

KayteeJane

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Polka Dot Pumpkin

This weekend our family carved pumpkins. Because "Sandy" is headed into Pennsylvania tonight we decided it would be best if we did our pumpkins a few days early. Trick or Treat has already been postponed from Wednesday to Saturday in our town as everyone anticipates the worst.

As you can see in this picture my husband is in on the act too. One of the things that I love about this man is that he is creative and he can build things. So, instead of using a knife or pumpkin carving tools for his pumpkin - he brought out a drill and Sawzall to do the job!

(Meanwhile my oldest daughter decided to wear her Batgirl costume - that she just purchased at Goodwill earlier in the day - to carve pumpkins.) Gotta love my family.

This actually is a much easier way to carve a pumpkin in my opinion. I've always struggled cutting them with a household knife - or with the little saws that come in those pumpkin carving kits.

"Curly" pumpkin guts are made from the drill. These would be cool to use some how. I could see a fake hand coming up from a bowl of these.

A Sawzall was used to cut a hole in the bottom for a candle. This particular pumpkin was so hard that only a power tool would do the job.

Here is the finished result. A Polka Dot Pumpkin! I love it!

Hope your Halloween is a fun one. May you stay safe from Sandy's path.

KayteeJane

Happy Birthday to Me

Last week was my birthday. I received this great book in the mail from a fellow Pyrex-lover. (Thanks Frannie!)

What a great gift! I can't wait to pour over the pictures of the different patterns. Here is just a sampling.

I do have some Pyrex on display in my kitchen for Fall - The Polka Dot bowl that my husband bought me for Valentine's day one year and the baker that I bought recently look so nice next to my leaves tray.

The orange mugs were also a birthday gift from my daughter Hannah. They are Anchor Hocking Fire King. Love their bright orange color. We saw these at a flea market a while back. I picked them up and then didn't buy them. She went back on her own and bought them for me. Isn't that sweet?

I love birthdays. It is so fun when your loved ones really "get you" and pick you very thoughtful gifts.

Have a great day!
Katie

More Autumn Decorations

As usual my pottery collection plays a big part in my holiday decorations (mostly because I would have to find a place to store it all if I didn't display it along with the seasonal stuff :). A corner-cupboard in my dining room displays some yellow pottery. I kept my yellow pottery out because I think it compliments the fall colors.

These pottery squirrels come out every autumn. The pink & gray ones are McCoy. I love these. I found the pink one at a church rummage sale for 10 cents. Actually my super hubby spotted it. Can you believe that luck? - 10 cents! The gray squirrel was bought at a yard sale. I paid a little more for it but I'm glad I did. Our town is known for it's gray squirrels every where. I love to put him out on display every fall. The salt & pepper shakers also came from a yard sale somewhere. A candy tin for Bowers Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle is in the back. I didn't even think about the connection between nuts and squirrels when I put that there...only later did I get it.

I like to add vintage paper ephemera to my displays too. I added some vintage game cards here and a moth ball tin - think Silence of the Lambs!

This Anchor Hocking milk glass apple always comes out in the fall as well along with some plastic apple coasters.

This awesome vintage Brach's Candy advertisement was given to me by my friend Cindy last year. She put it in a gold frame. I am displaying it on my Life Savers rack - also in my dining room.

And there is more to show - which I hope to do within the next few days. Thanks for looking!

KayteeJane

Spider Webs

I finally got my Halloween/Fall decorations out. I saw this cool idea on Pinterest using a crocheted doily as a spider web. Since I have many crocheted doilys that I don't use  - but can't seem to part with - I thought this would be great. I added some fake spider web and plastic spider rings.

 

I put another doily at the top of my corner cabinet.

 

 

I also did this over a mirror on my mantle.

 

I really like how this looks!

More Halloween in the next few posts.

KayteeJane

More Autumn Displays

As promised here are some more Autumn displays showing around the house.

This is an old calendar dishtowel from 1971. I bought it because I was born in October of that year. Wouldn't this make a great birthday gift for someone - a vintage towel from their birthyear?

I don't use it as a dishtowel but instead just hang it out on display as part of my seasonal decorations.

I decided to move all of my yellow pottery to one area. The squirrel pottery is added each Autumn and then gets put away for the rest of the year.

I changed out my bright colored Pyrex on the kitchen shelves to show the ones that have autumn colors.

A Chrysanthemum glass takes center stage.

Outside my little garden cart displays pumpkins & gourds.

Isn't this a cute idea? Find a triangular shaped piece of wood and paint it to look like candy corn. This was made for me by my friend Meghan.

These were painted at a farm where we bought our pumpkins this year. The artist drew the faces with Sharpie marker and then filled in with paint. Cute!

Have a great day!

KayteeJane