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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Be it ever so humble

Hello there! Please let me welcome you to our little, messy home. Take a little peek at how Autumn's beauty is taking over our home, starting with our family nature table:







Remember that felted pumpkin K and I made so many years ago?







K's beeswax pumpkins



One of our wet felted acorns (tutorial here)

Our family nature table has it's own Halloween/lantern walk/Martinmas thing going on right now. My children and I do two lantern walks. Our family lantern walk around the neighborhood on Martinmas and then our school's lantern walk at a local garden. The school's lantern walk is done near Halloween.



The girls' nature table (located in their bedroom) is much simpler. I love to see how they decorate it. Let's ignore the non existent molding at the bottom of the walls. If only we knew fixing up a house was so much money/work before we bought it!





Living room seasonal pictures and the girls' bookcase with their autumn books(beautiful needle felted bird by The Singing Bird).





See, all that bees waxing eventually paid off! More garlands to come in the rest of our house.




Apple tree over the girl's table (and felted pumpkin at their doll highchair)



Autumn tree in the girls' bathroom

Lastly, the nature table at our home away from home (K's classroom at school). I had this great plan to get a picture of K's classroom nature table every time it changed this year. I have already failed at that plan as this is the first time I took pictures of it. Ov vey!








Be it ever so humble, theres no place like home!

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wow, love the leaf garland and all the beautiful prints you have!! Such an inspiration! If your display is humble ours is....well...lol. But we try!! I don't think our school does a school wide (we are in the parent child class) lantern walk, I think we'll be doing a little something on our own!
Love all the thing here, the leaves and the cat garland are so pretty,
Have you seen Armadillo Dreams works? I love specially Santa Lucía.
Your home it's so inspiring.
2 replies · active 700 weeks ago
You have so many beautiful wooden figures! I love your Martinmas scene and the waxed leaves make such a gorgeous garland. A lovely home as always. Very inspiring :)
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
Nicole, your display is absolutely gorgeous. I particularly love a lot of your framed art. Would you mind sharing where you've found such lovely pictures?
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
So much beauty you have shared here Nicole, just wonderful! :)
Beautiful!! I love all of your wooden figures, I have always wanted the night watchmen figure. What a magical wonderful nature corner!!
so beautiful and well-placed. you all are very talented and organized. we are missing out on fall. but, we will plan a lantern walk through our village!
I love all of your seasonal spaces. Beautiful!
Oh Nicole, it is so beautiful!! I love that apple tree, where did you get it??
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
So pretty! I love how you have some throughout your house :)
Your home is beautifully awash in autumn. I love it! <3
gorgeous!

We are slowly trying to make this house a home, it's only taken 2 years.
1 reply · active 701 weeks ago
Love your home, thanks for sharing. Where did you get the wood frames?
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
Did you snag those frames from Nova Naturals before the artisan retired? I'm on the hunt and I can't find them anywhere.
Anyway...really, your nature areas are gorgeous! You've inspired me to go into the bathroom and do something there!
And, yeah, I know the house blues. I was giggling already at the lack of molding before I even read your comment about it.
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
Wow Nicole, your leaf banner is beautiful! Really brings fall and all of it's beauty into the warmth of your home! Love it.
ha! I just blogged about our own nature table a few weeks ago....a starter kit, if you will, compared to yours. http://treelifecoaching.com/wordpress/?p=1153 thank you!
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
I will have to make those felted acorns with the girls. adorable.
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Darlene Lester · 701 weeks ago

Nicole, this is the first time I've commented, but I've followed your blog for quite a while. I love all the beautiful autumn pictures, and where did your get them? Where did you get those wooden frames? Thank you so much for the inspiration!
Darlene
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
So beautiful. I feel so much more at home in my home during this special season! Love the kitty banner :-) Are you making new lanterns for Martinmas this year? We have one that we were gifted from our brief visit to the Waldorf school, but I'd love to make a new one or two.
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
Lovely!
Wow, your seasonal spaces are so adorable. I love the Ostheimer animals, and the man on the horse (we call him 'Sint Maarten' in the Netherlands), but Ostheimer is so expensive, I can't afford them yet. Maybe I will ask some of the figures on my birthday.
If you are curious about my seasonal table, this is mine this year: http://yukikopesik.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/nu-da... (ignore the Dutch text, there are pictures as well) What you don't see on the pictures is that it has been expanded with leaves and more acorns and chestnuts, but it hasn't changed much since the last picture.
6 replies · active 699 weeks ago
Wow your nature table looks beautiful. Mines no where near as loaded, but as I read your post and comments about how you seem to have built it up over the years, it made me realise that its the journey thats most important. Hopefully as the seasons change our nature table will build, develop and grow. Very inspirational.
http://stella-thislife.blogspot.com/ Feel free to check out ours :)
1 reply · active 700 weeks ago
What a pleasure to look at all the beautiful spaces you have set up. Thank you so much. I'm feeling so inspired.
So beautiful and inspirational, thanks for sharing.
Wow, your house is gorgeous!!! :D

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