AUTUMN is here and the temperatures are cooling off in Kansas. I'm NOT ready for it. Brrrrrr and it's blanket time.
SEASONAL DECORATING MADE EASY with a Harvest Pick.
ECONOMICAL.
QUICK TOUCHES.
Place on the Tea Table in the Parlour along with a few miniature ceramic pumpkins that all came from a THRIFT SHOPPE. A quick glance at the splashes of Harvest Colors makes me smile. DECORATING doesn't have to cost huge amounts of money.
Home is made a Haven when you decide to make the difference with how you view your home and how you operate your lifestyle from within the four walls of your personal space called HOME.
Decorating with THRIFT items is practiced here. Over the years I have decorated my HOME with high dollar items and I've decorated my HOME with second and third hand items that I got for a song!
Looking back at it all.......I wish I had been thriftier with HOME PURCHASES earlier in my marriage. Even before I got married. I was a BRAND SNOB that was brought down a few notches out of necessity. Pride cometh before a FALL. We were without money in the lean years and as the years passed I wanted better quality stuff. So I bought both new and gently used. The GARAGE SALES started to catch my eye and I had three children at the time......I got hit with the THRIFT BUG. Went to a few AUCTIONS, ESTATE SALES and learned to STRETCH what little money I had.
I'm THANKFUL that my attitude changed and I enjoy the BARGAINS more than ever.
After a Holiday...like the day after...items are usually 50% (or more) OFF the regular price. So you'll more than likely see me SHOPPING for Holiday items the Day after. Seasonal Napkins keep well in a plastic tub through out the year and the older I get the faster the year ZOOMS by. A year later OUT come the Holiday/Seasonal Napkins. Out come the decorating things to enhance a room in our living space.
A small decorative pumpkin in the China Cabinet tells ya it's AUTUMN.
A glass Vase with Autumn Flowers was bought at my FAVORITE THRIFT SHOPPE for only a few dollars.
Pricing the artificial sunflowers at HOBBY LOBBY with great prices, but they couldn't beat my 65 cent bouquet of flowers from the THRIFT SHOPPE.
Bargains can be found! Even in today's Economy.
These days I'm extra busy tending to a 4 year old Granddaughter. I have little time or energy to go all out decorating for various seasons....so it's just best for my BUDGET and ENERGY LEVEL to keep it simple.
A few artificial leaves from Dollar Tree left shades of the season sprinkled on a tray.
God bless you as you go about looking for BARGAINS.
They're still out there!
~Deanna~
Most Days I can be found at my blog sipping coffee and talking about everything from thrift buys, nutritious quick meals, Family, God, decorating, remodeling, refurbishing, healthy thoughts, whatever. Seldom about Current Events. There seems to be so much of that elsewhere. Hope you'll stop by and say HOWDY. I live in a 126 year old FIXER UPPER two story Native Limestone House in a small community nestled in the Kansas Flint Hills on the Prairie. I'm a Peri-menopausal Thyroid Cancer SURVIVOR with a constitution made of steel. I'm a STAY-at-HOME Christian Granny that's glad to be alive and thankful I have more time on planet earth to live with my Husband and love my Family. Stay tuned...there's more to come.
