Word-y Wednesday

Happy Wednesday, Everyone!

 

I know, Wednesday is almost over...

 

I can't believe it's already been a week since Halloween and my last post...

 

I actually got my Halloween decorations put away in record time this year!

 

(Says She Who Has Left Her Christmas Tree Up Until February...)

 

It helped that we got some neat orange-and-black storage bins

 at our friendly neighborhood Dollar Store, 

and Jonathan arranged everything on the dining-room table (without me even asking),

all ready to be stored away...;^)

 

I really wasn't ready ~ It had only been up for a week!

 

But, I guess it was time...All Hallow's Eve was over...

 

Nothing is really as over as a holiday, the day after...do you agree?

 

Is it all the commercialism that has been drummed into us,

 

always forging ahead toward the next "big thing"?

 

I don't know.

 

An exception, to that, however...

 

A lot of times I actually enjoy Christmas more in the days after...

 

when all the rush and anticipation is past, and you can kind of just relax and enjoy the season...

 

(Here I am rushing the season by just talking about it!)

 

Here are a few pictures I took, trying to keep with the actual season for a while,

 

despite all the Christmas advertising...

 

(Isn't the Target Dog in that commercial cute, though, barging down that little street with his Christmas gifts?)

 

I wonder if they realize that that is exactly what they're doing with Christmas, though...

 

just barreling in... ("Out of the way, Thanksgiving!")

 

"Are you ready? Get set ~ Are you ready?"

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Mr. B got this cabinet painted for me right before Halloween (it was the base of a china cabinet that used to be in my dining room) ~ I now have it and another antique sideboard to make seasonal displays on ~ also distressed white, my favorite furniture finish...I think because it doesn't show dust ~ and white cat hair ~ and you don't have to worry about imperfections...it is perfectly imperfect, on purpose! ~

I'm loving them!

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He's also painting a mirror for me to go above the sideboard, then I get to distress it (fun!)...photos to come!

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After I had sanded the edge of the cabinet above, Jonathan came through and said "Oh, Mom ~ look...you're going to have to touch this up..."

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One of the set of Turkey salt and pepper shakers from the 1950s that belonged to my Mom...


The bell jar was a birthday gift from my daughter Katie,

and I thought Tom Turkey looked handsome inside it, elevated on the little stack of vintage books...



I left my 1944 Etude magazine (in the frame), out, though, even though it is October...

I love the mandolin-player and his little pixie helpers, in the fall setting...

it doesn't look too Halloween-y, I don't think.

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I didn't want to put my spider (from artist Dave Dardis in Makanda) away, so I gave him a



grape-vine basket lair behind some leftover Halloween Indian Corn,



and squash from the garden.



He's guarding the bounty...(he's a vegan spider).

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I brought in a pumpkin from outside, too.

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Remember the urn I was painting with the Annie Sloan paint?



Here it is, all distressed to my liking...



(It was originally gold, and underneath ~ fired terra cotta ~ I hadn't realized that.



So when sanding off the white, I had little bits of earthy terra-cotta orange coming through,



as well as glimmers of gold...making it go even better with the autumn setting...)



There is the turkey hen as well, also on another little antique volume of poetry,



with a mini pumpkin (I think they are so cute!)...

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Here is my messy work space, not in the basement or upstairs room once designated "studio",



but in the living room right in the middle of everything.



(And thus it shall ever be, most likely...)



The cats like it, though ~ they can keep an eye on me as well as everything else, here.



(There is Cyrus, doing just that!)



This was an order of O'Kringles that I'd waited until the last minute to finish...

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Mixing just the right reds and greens in polymer clay



...then parcelling out the right-sized amounts,



 or my Santas might end up who-knows-how-big!

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Here they are, waiting on baking...



I was in such a rush I didn't get a photo of the finished bunch...



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And Leo, who had been in need of a bath for a week...



I had bathed Cyrus and trimmed his tummy fur last week...



Leo thought he was in the clear...:^)



He was not happy with me, propping him up in a towel wrapped like a straight-jacket...



Not one bit.



(He then had to endure about an hour of blow-drying...)



Tallulah is still due her bath!



Thank you for stopping by ~ Happy Thursday!



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