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| lamarguerite farm |
Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 10:46:01 AM
I like to try and add seasonal things to my front porch and always try to have it looking "homey". There's just something about porches to me that invokes a feeling of comfort, peacefullness and home. I would love to see pictures or hear ideas on the types of things you do to your front porch during the holidays. I know we have lots of creative people here!!
Right now I have a pumpin and a canning jar with hydrangaes, a twig wreath with a nest in it and an herb garden sign. I'm planning on adding evergreen and holly from my property during the holidays. I also have an old sap pail with a pumpkin face cut out on the steps and corn stalks tied to the rail.
Blessings,
Missy
If you have a dream, even if you don't feel qualified to accomplish it, just try your hardest.-Maggie Jensen |
| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 04 2005 : 3:39:59 PM
Kennie Lyn .. you had me giggling .. YOURS is a true farmgirl porch!!
True Friends, Frannie |
| bramble |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 10:50:05 AM
A red rocking chair, white wicker table that has a crock filled with
chaemacyparis,white pine, red nandina berries,red twig dogwood and rhododendron, a weathered bird house w/copper roof. The front door has a big wreath with tiny white lights and red christmas balls on it w/ a big deep red bow, there is an antique bluish green sleigh standing up between two windows w/wrapped "packages" at it's base and on the far steps is an old milkman's box filled with the same greens as the crock. Each window has a red ribboned wreath and there are "candles" in each window. There is a small red bench at the base of the far steps that leads to the arbor which has cedar and white pine roping..
They only thing I had to buy were (2) 75ft rolls of weatherproof dark red velvet ribbon and they were 1.99 a roll!
with a happy heart |
| westfork woman |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 10:01:49 AM
All your porches sound so cool. Mine has a woodpile, a snowshovel, a broom, the dog dish, an old table with a blanket under it for the dog, and a blue wooden box. I don't know why the box is there, someone gave it to dh and it has been there for years. It is the only really attractive thing on the porch, except for the dog. She has a dog house, and could sleep in any number of warm places, but prefers the porch.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 07:24:18 AM
Ellen .. i asked the girls at our Garden Club gathering last night if THEY were getting birds ..and they all said LOTS and listed them. Hmmmm .. i'm wondering if my birdseed needs 'changing' .. the feeders are full .. but i haven't 'refreshed' it all month. (we had some heavy rain) .. which never stopped them before .. but maybe it just got soaked and has 'spoiled'. Gonna' put that on my list for today .. i really miss their cheery chirping each morning.! And yes, isn't snow nature's most beautiful winter decoration!
True Friends, Frannie |
| Lavender Cottage |
Posted - Dec 02 2005 : 07:09:50 AM
Frannie-we have cardinals, blue jays, sparrows, blue birds, wood peckers, and crows. Lots of birds-we love watching them. I need to refill my feeders this weekend.
Well, girls nature has decorated my deck with beautiful white fluffy snow. I knew if I waited, nature would decorate for me! :) |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 7:13:50 PM
Have you ever created something with the birch bark? I just got a Country Living Christmas book that has a collection of the loveliest birch bark boxes, baskets and frames! p.s. what's your name? and where did the neat 'Floral Saucer' name come from? Frannie
True Friends, Frannie |
| FloralSaucer |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 3:14:17 PM
In the house we rented two years ago there were heaps of birch trees, that was one of the reasons I thought I would take it, as there was a view of them from the lounge. Lovely. I knew I would be able to be happy there. |
| FloralSaucer |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 3:04:22 PM
Lovely pictures, hope to see the others too, I made a mistake like that with my first photobucket picture.
I have a porch, I have cleaned it up but not sure what to put out there yet. We will be turning the lights on.
When I first saw a feathertree I was so taken by them. It was only a couple of years ago.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 2:51:56 PM
Ellen .. what birds are visiting you now? about the only kind i see in Kentucky now (at my bird-feeders) are a smattering of cardnials .. winter MUST be on it's way. i love the zillions that flock here in the spring and linger through the summer.
True Friends, Frannie |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 2:50:21 PM
Melissa .. you have a birch tree in your yard? how wonderful! i've collected the white birch on trips to new england .. made a 'basket' out of it onetime. i dearly love 'hand-did .. home-mades' too!
True Friends, Frannie |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 2:48:49 PM
well pooh girlfriends .. i discovered last night that if i 'delete' my photos from 'photobucket' .. WHAMO! they disappear into cyberspace from the forum too .. i'll take some more tomorrow and post 'em!
And kate .. thanks so much for your sweet words. it's sumpthin' i've wanted for so many years .. and now that the girls are grown and have trees of their own .. well, we just treated ourselves. and i adore the little lady who makes them .. i think she is in her 80's now .. hand-dyes all those little goosefeathers too! (a buncha' girlfriends and i ordered kits when i lived in maryland and made teeeeeeeeensy ones with onlyl 6 branches) .. and those little suckers were flying every which-a-way! we got lots of giggles that night .. but i surely cannot imagine doing a BIG tree with feathers .. NO WONDER the antique ones are priceless! xo, frannie
True Friends, Frannie |
| KJD |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 2:32:34 PM
I couldn't see Frannie's pictures either -
we put out more sunflower seeds yesterday for the birds - I spilled half the bag on the ground in the process and the squirrels are most appreciative! They're all fun to watch. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 1:34:40 PM
Hi Missy! Glad to have ya back! How bout posting some pics of your candle chandelier and porch...it sounds so pretty....so does yours sqrl! Lavender cottage, I always put some kind of bird feeders out for the birds too...it is so fun to watch them on cold snowy days crowding around the feeders! I have my dad's old sled from the 20's, nothing fancy but it is so well built we still use it! When not in use it is by the front door. I also have a metal sign from the 70's and my college days that says "Ski Kansas"...might be a little hard to do on this flat land, but I always put it out in the winter in the yard.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| sqrl |
Posted - Dec 01 2005 : 09:01:07 AM
Frannie, for some reason I could not see those pictures. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem. I was able to see the other pictures you posted. Wonder whats wrong??
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com www.sisterhood.sqrlbee.com
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| Kate |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 4:56:48 PM
Frannie~
What an amazing tree!! How beautiful! It truly is a work of art!! Thanks for the great pictures!
Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it.....unless they are spelling mistakes. |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 4:36:50 PM
gonna' try again to post pictures of my feather tree .. it's night-time and a dozen 'Garden Club' friends just left from our fun 'holiday pot luck dinner party' ... but thought i'd try to get a nighttime photo .. i think it turned out kinda' dark .. if it doesn't show up well .. i'll try again tomorrow.
and a close-up of the feathers:
and that's the olde wooden playpen (without a bottom) that i'm using for the 'fence' around the tree .. put another 'silky' puff quilt around the base ... and it needs 'prizes' wrapped up under there too!
True Friends, Frannie |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 4:22:06 PM
everyone's porch decorating sounds so great .. tonight i added a 'pinebough' and checked ribbon to the sled .. and put out a great little 'apple green' wood bin .. will fill it full of greenery .. or stand a cut tree in it. i keep adding and adding and adding ...
True Friends, Frannie |
| sqrl |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 12:48:47 PM
Well I have the teeniest porch ever if you even call it that. But that didn't stop me from decorating. I always have a wreath of some sort on the door. During the summer the weath was made a of still wet ( so it's still bendable) twiggs and branches I found washed up on the beach. And now I have a twig wreath made from the fallen braches of the Birch in the front yard. The wreath is hanging from a red and white gingum ribbon. And than I have two wooden grey mice (a little boy and the other a girl) that me Dad made me for Christmas last year. They stand about a foot or so tall. My favorite things are handmade.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com www.sisterhood.sqrlbee.com
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| Lavender Cottage |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 12:24:52 PM
It is so fun to read how everyone is decorating. I especially love seeing the photos. I don't have a porch, but I have a deck which still has some lingering summer things on it. Gotta get them put away. I did hang my bell shaped bird feeders-so the birds are happy! |
| lamarguerite farm |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 11:23:10 AM
It feels good to be back!! My computer has been out of commission for a few weeks! ugh!!
My porch is in transition as well. I cut evergreen boughs on Sunday and lined my railing around my porch. I will add white lights this weekend. I also picked some wild holly and tucked it and some evergreen in a twig wreath I have hanging and also stuck some in my candle chandelier. It all looked so nice until my husband piled all the christmas boxes out there. I hope to get it finished up on Sunday. I was pleased to see this thread still going and love hearing about all of your porches.
Blessings,
Missy
If you have a dream, even if you don't feel qualified to accomplish it, just try your hardest.-Maggie Jensen |
| Julia |
Posted - Nov 30 2005 : 11:14:39 AM
Leaves,pine needles and two watering cans. I need to sweep. Soon the porch railing will be cover with garlands for Chrismas. Yeah!!
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 11:55:00 AM
The twig chairs and tables are so pretty..love them!!!
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette |
| blueroses |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 11:38:22 AM
Frannie,
Your pics are great! I agree with you. Sometimes simple does cost if it's something we really want and a craftsman or woman put time and love into it. Nothing wrong with that at all! We can still donate to worthy causes and donate of our time. It doesn't mean we can't buy some treasured item and pass it down to our loved ones.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
| Meg |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 10:52:57 AM
Frannie- I had always thought I might name my little boy Lucas and then I fell madly in love with my Lucas and I just don't know if it would work for me to name my son my husband's name. But I love it too! And thank you for the congrats! We sure are excited. 
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
megan@maryjanesfarm.org |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 29 2005 : 09:55:26 AM
oh meg .. i MUST tell you that LUCAS is my very most favorite name .. i was so surprized when our darling daughter, (Wednesday) chose LUCAS as her first (and so far, only) son's name. (he's 4 years old .. be still my heart!) Never had a Lucas in the family .. So we were all surprized when he was born and they announced his name. She said she was at an airport one day and heard a sweet little girl's voice calling to an equally adorable little brother: "Lucas, come here Lucas" .. and she just fell in love with the sound of the name.
Congratulations on your very first home together .. make warm, wonderful memroies. Take lots of photos and 'journal your life' together there .. I promise you .. someday you will be soooo happy you did! I am soooo computer illiterate .. but i went to the photobucket.com site some of the girls suggested .. and even i figured it out!!! can hardly wait to see your photos .. and snow .. you have snow already! lovely! lovely! i can hardly wait for ours to come dancing down from the kentucky sky.
True Friends, Frannie |
