A Pretty Fall Table Runner

Our lake home is located in Seminole County, Georgia. It's county seat is a small town, consisting of old store buildings, mostly empty, but a few small shops exist. While we were riding through town I noticed a "new" store, Front Porch Marketplace! It's a consignment shop with 29 vendor booths, all offering unique items, mostly hand made items. I found this lovely table runner, priced at $8. It's really, really long, so I folded it to fit the table.

These bright colors, called for some yellow and orange flowers for the table, so I dug through my stash here and took care of that!

It's so long, I tried it on top of the hutch, to see if I like it there.

I might leave it there for a while. These are some of my MIL's cookbooks, her picture, her bowls....the other items are thrifting finds.

After moving the runner to the hutch, I placed this tray (thrift-find) on the table to anchor the other items.

By the time we come back down to the lake house, Fall will probably be in full swing, so I'll at least have a hint of fall décor already. I'm loving using the yellows.

While we were here, we installed a dishwasher, and a new faucet in the kitchen.

We bought the Moen faucet with one lever, and the pull down sprayer. Love it!!

We only had room for a small dishwasher, 18", but that works for us. We bought a Kenmore, and I'm enjoying it so much!!

We still have to put the molding around the dishwasher, but will do that tomorrow.

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