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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Linens & Things

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We had noticed this "jar" sitting near a trash pile, and my husband decided to see what it was. It was full of dirt, and covered in grime. After soaking it a while, it looked much better. The shape and color is very nice. At first I thought it might be a globe for a lamp or some type of candle holder. The bottom has an opening, and no markings. Do you know what it might be? This is how I'm using it. It's made of thick bubbled glass. Any guesses?? Know what this was in its former life? It makes a wonderful vase for faux flowers! It's a vintage fly /wasp trap!! Once yucky, now pretty!!! Joining: Wow Us Wednesday Home and Garden Thursday Share Your Cup Thursday Thursday Favorite Things Feathered Nest Friday Be Inspired Frugal Friday @ Shabby Nest Home Sweet Home @ The Charm of Home Thrifty Things Friday @ The Thrifty Groove Junk Party @ Funky Junk Interiors

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Yesterday I awoke in the mood to do some "deep" cleaning. First on my list was to dust inside the china cabinet in the dining room. Can you believe how much dust can get into a closed cabinet. Really, how does that happen? My cabinet has glass shelves and they were hazy with dust. This is a rather tedious job because I not only have china inside, I have all kinds of little "pretties" stored there too. It's one of the first things you see upon entry into our home, so I really should do this more often. I want show you the before, sufficeth to say, it had been a while since I had tackled this chore. Here are some photos showing the "after". Here is a collection of vases and crystal pitchers . These were all gifts except the smallest one in the front and the one to the right of it. China and a consignment shop cake plate. The china was formerly my MILs. More china . This little fairy lives here with her 2 sisters. They can all be seen

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