With All Hallows’ Eve approaching, I’m at the table with some spine-chilling Cloche Encounters~ All Hallows’ Eve sounds scarier to me than Halloween~ in contrast this is not the Jolly Halloween table of last week. . . No sweet treats or candy skewers are offered up in my vases as on my Halloween Treats table~ instead they…
My Potting Shed is nearly finished~ and Dressed for Fall! My early spring issue of Country Gardens Magazine was the inspiration for the exterior~ You can see how she’s grown here. A blend of old & new~ salvaged metal panels cover the porch roof and are married with new green steel~ Landscaping is on my…
Vintage-inspired pails are filled with assorted Treats~ To make your Halloween Jolly, with their Spooky Sweets! Ravens have flown in, landing on pumpkins at the table, Conjure raven snacks up here, inspired from a Halloween label! Lanterns dress in scrapbook paper, in time for Halloween~ With haunting double images, how-tos here can be seen. Tinsel-woven placemats, add…
I’m scaring up a Spooky Incarnation for my lanterns for Halloween~ courtesy of scrapbook paper from K&Company from Michaels~ I saw this lantern at HomeGoods recently~ its creepy image kept haunting me, but I couldn’t justify buying a lantern for the ghosts & goblins who would come calling~ Scrapbook paper pads at Michaels were 40%…
I conjured up some Brains of Cawing Ravens~ aka, White Chocolate Popcorn Crunch More of a Spell or procedure rather than recipe, best of all~ No Cauldron Required! Here are the ingredients you will need~ Start with Brains of Cawing Ravens ~ aka Popcorn White Chocolate Almond Bark (Arsenic-laced of course :) or White Chocolate Baking Chips~…
It’s Harvest Time for more than 113 wineries and 400 commercial grape growers in North Carolina. Harvest festivals with serenades, grape stomps, and harvest-to-barrel celebrations are abundant with October’s arrival. With that in mind, I pulled out my grandmother’s Harvest Time by Johnson Brothers~ to enjoy with some wine we purchased during our tasting visits to some NC wineries during September, for…
Scare up some berry hand pies for Halloween, quick and easy to make with refrigerated piecrust, berry filling and edible candy eyes! With October’s arrival, it’s time to eat, drink and be scary, so I decided to scare up some hand pies in anticipation of Halloween! This post contains affiliate links. For more information see…
We were fortunate to enjoy a little fall color in the way of sunrises & sunsets~ courtesy of Mother Nature and her paint brush at The Outer Banks with friends last weekend. We took a 7 am ferry over to Cape Lookout for a day of fishing and to see the lighthouse and were treated…
My Potting Shed is a work in progress~ with just a couple of big details left to finish and lots of small details to keep me busy as I continue to transplant and prune :) You can see how she’s grown here. After dressing my windows with a roll of landscape burlap from Lowe’s, I…
BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE, Governor of the State of North Carolina, hereby proclaims September 2012, as “NORTH CAROLINA WINE APPRECIATION MONTH” and commends its observance to all citizens. As commended, we took a trip a couple of weekends ago to observe :) and visit a few wineries~ You can enjoy Bottled Sunshine from our visit to Raffaldini…