Just as Promised!

 What an incredible day we're having. I woke up to 33 degrees but "feels like" of 21 and fully expected to be freezing but I'm not. The heat didn't even come on during the night even with those temperatures. The meteorologist explained it all with strong wind gusts, etc., etc. but, I just know for my very simple brain, it is actually beautiful out there. It's a bit chilly but, after all, it IS November and that is what one would expect.

In any case, we have a soccer game here in town tonight-and it might be a bit nippy-but, until then I'm catching up on lots of things and remembered I promised you I would be back today...so, here I am. Let's head into the living room.

Since Thanksgiving decor is few and far between these days as people rush Christmas more and more, I end up putting out all of the pilgrims and turkeys I have and then just bringing back lots of my autumn decor to fill in the gaps.

So, once again, this area gives me pause. Thankfully it is the last time I have to worry about it because the "new" shelf went up about a year ago so it has now found decor for each of those months. That being said, I didn't want to do more peat pots and kind of just forgot about anything else until it was decorating time. I was hoping I could find two similar turkeys, pilgrims or whatever but I couldn't so I started here with the wood pumpkin on the left and the tin one on the right.

And, I didn't like it but left it for a bit. As I was going through pictures, I realized it might look better with some antique gold Rub n' Buff so....

...I tried that, And it still bothered me a bit. I liked the gold better because of the gold leaf dish and gold frame on the chest below the shelf but, I didn't like the gold pumpkin next to the gold turkey-and the turkey couldn't switch sides because you would lose too much of the pumpkin on the sign. And so...

It still isn't pleasing to my very "symmetrical self" but, it is what it is. Lol

So that is the living room for this year. I'm off to have some lunch and then start to think about our soccer game tonight. It's going to be chilly but, soccer doesn't last as long as their other games so I think we will survive. Stay safe and stay tuned.