Gyspy Appeal OverAlls~

Be seen in OOAK Gyspy Denim Rags~~~ ..recycled denim overalls layed with vintage trims. skirt has gold woven treads ,lined in a soft cotton slip , size 8/10 ..would look great with boots.just in time for those Fall Festivals...$75.00 pay pal teashopechest@aol.com or contact me (teashopechest@aol.com)

Recycled Denim overalls, with vintage shabby trim~ side view

side view with one of my Vintage Rag Totes

Back view..

Breakfast Loaf Featured in Gooseberry's ~ The Christmas Table~

This breakfast loaf is perfect for those cool days of Autumn~ Filled with creamy eggs, ham and cheese,

add a slice of tomato, hash browns,just a good old sit down breakfast with family~ Recipe can be found in my Kitchen Breakfast loaf recipe here

This recipe can also be found in ~Gooseberry's The Christmas Table Cookbook~ I was so thrilled that my Breakfast Loaf was featured in their cook book~

I wish ~Autumn~ could stay Forever~

Beautiful Autumn Morning, LaMarr and I watched the deer feeding by the creek, we added a salt block by the creek so we could watch them from the back porch. The feed store was filled with mums, pumpkins and Indian corn, little chicks under warm lights, cute yellow balls of fluff. Getting ready for Autumn, adding scarecrows, here and there,

My little crows added to the back porch, Welcome..

These little crows makes me smile~Oh Beautiful Autumn I love you~

Another year is passing, thoughts of my sister today~ the sight of a simple June bug~ Memories flashed through my mind. A day long ago when we were 8 and 12 years old. Walking down a dirt road, picking blackberries, the June bugs all shiny backs eating as many blackberries as we were, My brother would tie string on the legs and hold them like a kite. My sister and I would beg him to stop..the June Bugs would fly till a leg would break off. We would smack him and cry. He would laugh and say we were "Just Girls". My sister an Brother are both gone now. I pray they are chasing June Bugs In Heaven~ Yes, another season is passing~

I know the laughter and the pain
Of times that will not come again.
-- Sara Teasdale

Memories are sometimes all we have left of someone we hold dear~
My sister and I spent many days,in the woods by grandpas house, I remember that old swing like it was yesterday.

Made of an old barn board,the rope frayed with age, where our feet had pushed off-the ground was rubbed and deeply grooved.
We would fly through the air laughter and screams of joy filled the woods, once Mary pushed me so far..I fell from the swing mid air..I hit the hard packed dirt with a thud,my heart felt like it had stopped.
Breathless I lay their it seemed forever, all the time Mary was crying ..saying "I killed my sissy"..

Finally I opened my eyes, she jumped back saying,"Thats not funny" I'll telling mama~
We never told mama then~
Years later we sat on mama's front porch,,and told mama~~
After school we would all meet there,play hide and seek~

The woods were our playground, homemade swing-and all~

In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything remembered is dear, touching and precious. The past
is safe, though we didn't know it at the time.
Remembering my "sissy Mary~ September.2.1943-January,19.2012

~Forever in my Heart~~

Nights of storm, days of mist, sad days when the sun shone in vain; old griefs and griefs not yet begun. -- Edward Thomas

Autumn Wildflowers~

Beautiful Autumn..dew drenched, sun dappled early mornings .. their is a freshness in autumn~
I love to ride my golf cart early in the mornings, when the world is just awakening, quietness,I sit and watch as the critters/birds forage for food.
Their is a saying .~The Autumn of your Life~~
I feel I am living the autumn of my life, the children all grown settled in their lives, LaMarr and I at ease after all the years struggling to make ends meet~ A good marriage,to my soul mate~
As the autumn of our life begins.I want to live each day to the fullest,enjoy the little things that surround us daily. Nature, family,home,and my cats,are my life's joy~

I took my little crow for a ride..smiling..

The animals have gotten used to me being in their world, this morning the wildflowers in the pasture was bursting with autumn colors.

the wildflowers make such pretty wreaths..

Nature is good for the soul....

Porch Gatherings~

A simple pot of colored peppers. Autumn a time for new beginnings..the most beautiful season ..as I am walking I find small treasures, to add to my porches,

Abandoned bird nests,I gather and snuggle near a bird house sitting on the porch, next year the nests will be added to baskets sitting on the porch, will be recycled by the birds into new homes. watching from the window, the birds gather the twigs for new homes in the Spring.. such a wonderful site to see.

A Autumn wreath.dried gourds,orange pumpkins added to a porch swing to welcome visitors. Old mason jars line with autumn leaves,add your favorite autumn scented candle.Just what you need for those cool evening on the porch. found on Pinterest~ smile ~

~Happy Fall Ya'LL~

Autumn is Whispering~

Autumn is peeking in the door. I have often thought that Autumn as a season of "new Beginings"~ The mountain and hollows are so beautiful in the fall. and seems to welcome the cool weather after the heat from Summer. The mornings are dew drenched,the leaves gently falling, the walnuts are turning a dark brown under the trees, the squirrels gathering the harvest for the coming Winter, a change to the hollow is happening all around.

Shadows behind the ferns appear in Autumn, the fonds turn a rich green, they love the cool morning, All around the changes are taking place, when I feel the season begin to change, I feel the need to soak up every moment that I can, before the cold season begins. Longer walks, opening windows to feel the freshness from outside, and tending to the gardens, gathering seeds for next years bounty. The days of Autumn are whispering...I enjoy every waking moment of this beautiful season.
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Raining,the smoke on the mountain enclosing the house like spun cotton. A day to spend in my sewing room, in quiet solitude. Going through hatboxes and the ":Memories" hit me, my sons baby shoes,how many years had those little treasures been in that box? I am so glad I thought at the time to put them back in the original box

I can still hear him running through the house and the little bells as he ran. He loved those shoes. Time I gave him a Keepsake from the past, He is old enough now.

Sigh~
On one of my shopping trips I found a trim I just love, I am a button addict, the trim was expensive,but oh so nice, you really have to consider the work into this trim to see why it cost so much

The buttons just POP..in color and the trim has a vintage touch. wish I had purchased more. but that is another day smile~

I found these pretty tattered rose trims, if you have tried to create tattered roses you know it's not easy.or to me its not~

Rose pastel and cream tattered roses.one good thing about this trim it can be cut at each roseette.

Now Binding is another pretty trim I like, all shabby scrunched..another expensive trim "IF" you buy it already tea stained and scrunched..all shabby chic'd out.

Lucked up on 100 yard rolls of binding at a decent price, $$'s in savings.. just roll out what you need..to scrunch add to warm water for a bit, then scrunch with your hands, let dry all scrunched up.Perfect shabby binding trims, Scanned some Vintage cards.. to use as lace.ribbon cards..these are so pretty in a hat box sitting in your sewing room.

I have to have some "trinkets" sitting around my sewing/craft room..gives me inspiration to create.

A woman needs her "private" place. Mine is my sewing room, Today it is raining,the smoke on the mountains, is reminding me Autumn is on the way~ I walk out on my porch and sigh~ another year is passing,..

another Season is on the way~