Done!

Today is Fri-YAY and I am done with the decorating, putting away and photographing my latest swap out. There is now late summer decor in my house and that means sunflowers and citrus. When I do this, I can also bring in all of the Mediterranean "feel" things that I have like my urns, olive jars, etc. And, of course, we all know that that also means I am so happy because I am one step closer to autumn! Lol

This swap did take me a full four days but that is probably a lot because I tried to do a bit of yard work each day as well and the heat out there did me in. I still have so much weeding yet to do but hopefully now that the inside is done I can make haste on the outside.

Let's just start with the porch because then I have a few other things to share before we really get into the tour. It took two trips to the nursery before I could find two different kinds of "yellow" flowers. The urn off of the porch is really pretty when the blooms are there but I just realized in this picture that they weren't there today. Lol

The urns on the porch have buttercups. These plants were smaller so I mixed one in with some leftover white pentas.

I like the little sign that I made and added to the burlap door hanger last year.

So that is it for the porch. I was still looking for things to do to keep me busy and inside these days and I happened upon this image.

Since I had a stack of new canvases nearby, I decided a simple decoupage project was called for. I printed the image on "best color" but even then it came out really light-and my inks are full-so I grabbed my colored pencils and had fun using them the darken my image a bit. Now I think I am set to go.....

......except I didn't. Lol I went on to something else and then I was off to run errands. I don't know if I am just so old that I have everything or at least have seen everything or if there are just not that many new things coming down the pike but, even though I loved walking up and down the aisles FULL of autumn goodies and smelling the autumn fragrances at HL, I really didn't fall head over heels with anything. That doesn't mean I didn't grab a few things but not as much as usual.

I found the sunflower pillow that was in their "spring" area so 50% off-that was a no-brainer since I don't have many pillows for this theme. I also grabbed that small amber vase for now. It matches two larger ones that I bought a few years ago. The small sunflowers and the other yellow flowers will help me fill in where needed now and then all of the orange flowers, pinecone and acorn and pip berry sprigs will come into play in the next swap. I also grabbed two of the autumn leaf candle rings-I can always use them somewhere. And then I grabbed that autumn church picture for the living room under the shelf. I was actually hoping to find one similar but with some pumpkins but all of the "pumpkin" pictures were just too "cutesy" or word signs and, for some reason, I want this area to be more "artsy". The colors and size are perfect so we shall see. If I happen upon something I like better before then, this will go somewhere else.

It looks like I have lots to add but, not really so I will be on the lookout for some new ideas. Here's where I stand right now. And, since this is all next to me in my office just waiting, I am in a much better frame of mind when I am in here. It's amazing what you can talk yourself into even though you know better. Lol

Off to do a few things before calling it a day...and a week! I'm going to try to finish the Mason jar picture tomorrow and you'll be the first to know. Happy Fri-YAY! Stay safe and stay tuned.