News you might use: It’s the first day of Fall.
Our furnace is roaring.
I’m sporting flannel PJ bottoms, thick socks, a thermal top + a sweatshirt.
Meaning: I need to consume chili, anything pumpkin flavored
+ caramel apples by the dozens.
Plus I’ve got the nesting instinct like crazy
+ have been giddily adding an Autumnal vibe to our interiors.
Yesterday I blogged about our dining room re-do:
https://redbirdv.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/our-dining-room-gets-its-fall-on/
Today, it’s all about our living room,
which opens to the dining room through this graceful arch:
Nobody loves this time of year more than I do . . .
. . . so, of course, I have a huge Rubbermaid tub o’ Fall + Halloween stuff,
somewhere down in our basement, a.k.a. ‘cellar hide-a-way’.
That just seems like a lot of work, though,
dragging all that up here + then putting it away later.
Plus, I can’t find it.
YESH, a huge, honking Rubbermaid storage container — LOST.
Think about that for a minute + try to envision such jam-packed squalor!
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Okay, now — quickly! — let’s think about something else, like pumpkins!
Much better!
So I’m just adding the feel of Fall,
using stuff I already have + maybe a spare pumpkin or two.
Luckily for me, all my reds + Beeswaxes (a.k.a. gold) work like magic.
I recently spent a happy a.m.,
rounding up all the yellow ware from my vast collection
+ distributing it throughout our living room.
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Meanwhile, I think there’s something about the patina of beat-up wood
that calls out: ‘FALL!’
We bought this table + used it for dining in the 80’s . . .
. . . after which its legs were chopped off,
making it the perfect, rustic coffee table.
That awesome wooden paddle is new to me —
I got it for a steal ($10!) at FourSided in Chicago this summer!
And raise your hand if you love striped Dash + Albert rugs as much as I do!
I bought this one, in the coveted ‘Kay colors’ of navy + Beeswax,
way back in 2007 in Savannah (I love you!) Georgia:
That wooden box had been organizing my sewing supplies,
but I like it better out here, holding our remotes + ‘what-have-you’.
I mentioned previously that I thought my massive amount of red stuff
is a natural for this Autumnal atmosphere I’m craving.
Let’s have a look-see at some of it, shall we? What do you think?
I wrote about this typewriter table re-do way back in February,
when I first started blogging!
https://redbirdv.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/typewriter-table-project/
G.O. repurposed an old wooden surveyor’s tripod into that cool floor lamp.
Don’t you love that red striped lampshade from Pottery Barn, too?
Some times it’s just FUN, being me!
I love a house where you can walk in + TELL by the ‘stuff’ who lives there!
Speaking of which . . .

. . . one side of this vintage sign says ‘St. Louis’
+ the other reads ‘Rockford’
(Illinois) near where I used to live!
Which brings us to these — the ultimate in Cardinals memorabilia.
Frankly, I don’t really care if they’re ‘wrong’!
And if that’s not enough good times,
when one is me, one really has a lot of fun
with my + my beau’s initials, like here:

Typography. Vintage style. The color red.
All check check check!
When I saw these coasters
in the Sundance catalog,
I ordered an OK immediately!
Get it?
‘Ole’ or ‘O’ — G.O.’s nickname + K for Kay!?
Sadly, G.O. doesn’t really grasp the concept, or won’t,
but that’s okay — I have enough fun with it for the 2 of us!

I nearly swooned when I spied this vintage fruit crate
with the OK in the ‘Kay colors’ of red + navy!
Oopsie — on the glare at the window,
but please do notice those awesome Pottery Barn sconces I scored on eBay.
They were a splurge, I love them, + they’ll go with us to our new house!
So will this, my beloved vintage postal sorter:
As with my dining room art ledges of yesterday’s post,
these cubbies are jammed with my beloved stuff.
Note, please, all the yellow ware bowls that were previously in our kitchen.
I think I’m going to edit everything just a tad,
after which I’ll snap yet more photos + blog about it all.
Stay tuned!