Book Page Wreath

Taking inspiration from Robin's Happy at Home blog HERE ,

I started with Mod Podge and covered my wreath form with book pages.

I purchased a 4" x 6 3/4" paperback from a dollar store.  

Removed the cover and tore the pages in half.

Then started gluing.... 

I crumpled each half page to give it more texture before positioning it over

the end of a sharpee marker.  (I found a pencil to be to small to work with.) 

Added a dab of glue and stuck it onto the wreath form.

Loving how it turned out!!

Happy Fall Y'All

Caramel Pumpkin Pie Ala Mode Parfait

It's that time of year again...

It's aaaall about the Pumpkin !

I'm addicted to this simple
and easy to assemble ice cream dessert.

 3 Basic Ingredients.  

Just layer in a glass,

as much or as little of each as you desire.

               1- Ice Cream--vanilla or whatever you feel 

                                      would go with pumpkin.

                                      Tonight it's Caramel Pecan.

           2-Caramel or Salted Caramel--ice cream topping

                                  or the kind in the tub for dipping apples.

           3-Canned Pumpkin--just spoon in right from the can

                                  I use the plain pumpkin 

                                             because I like to control the amount

                                 of spice by sprinkling on my own

                                 powdered Pumpkin Pie Spice.

                                But you could use the pie filling kind, it

                               would just have more spices already added.

Can you see that pumpkin pie spice sprinkled in there? mmmm!

The finishing touch?   a Pizzelle

Those pretty, thin, lacy Italian cookies  

cooked on a pizzelle iron.  

Tastes like a waffle cone and 

is the perfect compliment to our sundae.

I buy them boxed.

I've never tried making them myself

but I imagine they are amazing fresh and warm

straight off the iron.

I found a recipe at  cookdiary.net

Enjoy!

Betty

Sharing at    Share Your Cup Thursday

Happy Fall Y'All

Mmm, Fall, 

my most Favorite time of year!!!

Love the crisp mornings 

and the cooler daytime temps.

Time to add some of those 

 rich golden harvest colors to my

home decor.

click any photo to enlarge

I can't wait for the leaves

 to turn colors.

I love to hear the rustle and 

crunch when I walk in the fallen leaves.

And I love how they smell;

so earthy and fresh.

 

Have you visited an apple or pumpkin farm yet???

I'm looking forward to taking a trip there
in the next upcoming weekends.

I've yet to get my usual pumpkins,
corn stalks and big straw bale to
decorate the entry and front yard.
Then I'll get my scarecrows out of storage
and string up some orange lights.

Oooo, apple cider donuts!
and who knew Casey's has the absolute
best pumpkin donuts with cream cheese icing!

Next weekend is the annual
Autumn on Parade in Oregon Illinois. 
I'll be there shopping the 200 or so crafters' booths
and of course Sunday is Parade Day.
We always look forward to the Jesse White
Tumblers and the South Shore Drill Team performers.

But we have to get there before the
Oregon Methodist Church Ladies run out of their
famous Apple Fritters, YUM!

After strolling through hundreds of
crafters' booths on a sunny but cool fall day ..
Sitting back along the parade route, amidst the sights, sounds and smells...food vendors with their kettle corn, pizza, nachos,
brats, tacos, pork chop sandwiches and more...

 the parade going by... marching bands, shouts and cheers, sirens...

Munchin' on Piping hot fritters rolled in powdered sugar
all sticky and gooey and finger lickin' good,

...Oh, ya!!!!  I'll be there!


BettyJean

My DR Thanksgiving Tablescape and Thanksgiving Tree

Thank you so much for coming to visit today.
Won't you please come in...

Let's sit at the table and have tea.

The table runner and placemats
give the room such warmth with the
rich colors of Autumn.

My Thanksgiving Tablescape is

still a work in progress.

After searching for quite some time 

I was able to purchase a

turkey tureen last year just before Thanksgiving

complete with ladle

and I LOVE him!

I'd been wanting one with lots of color

without the expense of a Fitz &Floyd.

I am very pleased with my Jay's Imports finds.

You see, I already had a pair of S&P

of the same mold so I was

ecstatic to find the tureen.

This year just by happenstance

 I found the gravy boat. (sorry no picture)

My collection is coming together nicely.

For many years I've scooped up

the old Morton turkey planters

whenever I saw one thinking I'd

accumulate enough to have one for each place setting

just to hold a napkin or nut cup or something.

I have a set of 4 MarutaWare

cups and saucers.

So my search is on for dinnerplates

to complete the place settings.

 I'm on the lookout for pretty floral

brown transfer ware dinner plates
which prove to be a bit difficult to find.

Since I already had several Blue Willow dinner plates

I placed them under the cup and saucer.

I like how it

brings out the blue clouds

in the MarutaWare pattern.

A compliment and a contrast to allot of brown.

I also have a blue Thanksgiving themed

Johnson Bros. plate

so I added it to the center of the table

on a plate stand.

The scene includes a horse drawn wagon,

 a turkey and
 a border design of oak leaves and acorns.

My wooden pedestal bowl
is full to overflowing with 
pumpkins, gourds,
berries and fall-colored leaves
 on top of grapevines.

I was able to purchase a 6ft lighted

 Christmas tree for $5.00 at a Walgreens
after Christmas sale

which they'd used for display purposes.

I made this my Dining Room Thanksgiving Tree.

It's placed beside the grandfather clock

next to our open stairway.

I've trimmed it with giant pinecones, pumpkins,

acorns, silk sunflowers & chrysanthemums,
fall leaves, wheat, and used a 

bittersweet vine & rust-colored burlap bow 
as a tree topper.
Then wrapped a length of natural burlap 
around the bottom for a tree skirt.

A Very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to All,

Warm Hugs,

BettyJean

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Fall Decorated Tree

Here's a quick post 

to show my office tree

decorated for fall.

"Minimalistic "

 with just a wide (5 inch?) burlap ribbon.

and several  (6?) garlands of silk leaves

each one measuring 5 foot in length.

 With a few sparcely placed

scarecrow ornaments I picked up

at a dollar store.

And to top it all off

a loopy bow made from a

leaf-patterned wired ribbon.

I looove the simplicity of it,

and how the colors of the natural burlap 

and the leaves 

in shades of orange & red

stand out against the white tree!

Happy Fall Y' All !