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Grateful Gatherings In The Kitchen

November 8, 2017

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Grateful Gatherings Simple Thanksgiving Decor

Hello and welcome to the Grateful Gatherings blog hop! I am truly grateful for the opportunity to host this hop and to be inspired by 13 other talented bloggers who will be sharing their late fall and Thanksgiving decor over the next three days! If you are coming over from A Delightsome Life and Common Ground, welcome! If you missed Kathy and Debra’s amazing decor, simply follow the links at the end of this post. You will be glad you did!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! Of course I am Christmas crazy too, but I think Thanksgiving is just so beautiful! It encompasses the last of Autumn’s splendor and the excitement of the holidays ahead, which makes it perfect in my opinion! Today I will be sharing some “Grateful Gatherings” of late fall and Thanksgiving decor in the kitchen, the heart of the home!

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Junkin' Finds

Fantastic Fall Find: Vintage Chalkware Native American Statue

November 7, 2017

Amber Lyon Ferguson

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Stunning Vintage Native American Indian Chalkware Statue Vintage

Happy November…my favorite month! Today I am sharing one of my fantastic fall finds—a vintage Native American Indian chalkware statue! I will also be sharing a few other Native American items I use in my Thanksgiving decor and my sentiments on including references to Native Americans in Thanksgiving celebrations.

I was out junkin’ early last November and I spotted “the hunter” crouching down in the corner of a local thrift store. For a fleeting moment I thought he was sort of cool, but maybe a bit too kitschy…so I just kept on looking around and then went on to the next thrift shop. Well, you know how it goes with us vintage junkers! I got home and started thinking about how awesome the statute would be as a Thanksgiving decoration, and I just could not wait to go back the next morning to buy it! I am so glad I did. Now I think he is just amazing!

Last Thanksgiving I styled him beside the staircase on the floor next to my Thanksgiving tree to create a vignette of a daily hunt in the forest. I also put him on the banister for some pictures.

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Linky Party

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Link Party 2017 Top 3 Most Viewed Posts!

November 2, 2017

Amber Lyon Ferguson

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Happy November everyone! Last night we wrapped up the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Link Party 2017 and a spooktacular time was had by all!

Here are the top three most viewed posts of the party!

Ann at Corner of Plaid and Paisley was Mixing Up Some Halloween Fun and everyone just loved her designs!

Kristin at White Arrows Home decorated her cozy log cabin with lots of family oriented Halloween decor which I am sure her family loved just as much as all of you did too!

With as busy as we all are these days, everyone loves ideas on how to simplify! Sheila at My Kentucky Living shared her simple Halloween kitchen decor and her post was the top viewed of the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Link party this year!

Congratulations to these wonderful bloggers and to all of you who were featured this month! In case you missed the other party features you can find them here:

10/27 Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Featured Posts

10/19 Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Featured Posts

10/13 Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Featured Posts

10/17 Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Featured Posts

Thank you to everyone who shared for this fabulous party! Your hosts have all just finished up the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Blog Hop and now we are busy packing away our Halloween decor and getting our homes ready for the upcoming holidays. If you missed our Halloween blog hop posts you can find them below along with 3 other talented bloggers who joined us!

Friday October, 27th

Welch House 1900 (via Follow The Yellow Brick Home)

Hallstrom Home

Reinvented Collection

Saturday October, 28th

Follow The Yellow Brick Home

Hip And Humble Style

Belle Bleu Interiors

Peonies and Orange Blossoms

See you next year at the Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Link Party!

Amber

Hauntingly Beautiful Decor Halloween Linky Party

Hauntingly Beautiful Vignettes: Halloween Decorating Ideas Using Vintage Treasures

October 31, 2017

Amber Lyon Ferguson

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Hello everyone! Are you enjoying the Hauntingly Beautiful Blog Hop so far? I am certainly loving all the different ways my talented friends have incorporated magical Halloween decor in their homes. When you are finished reading this post you can treat yourself to even more Halloween eye candy by visiting all the other blogs on the hop too. They are all truly inspiring!

In September I shared a full home tour for early fall and I am working on a late fall home tour for November, so instead of sharing my whole home today I am going to be highlighting some of the ways I use vintage treasures to create hauntingly beautiful vignettes. I woke up early this morning eager to start taking photos, but right away I noticed something very, very strange…

The sun was shining! After a week of dreary gray skies, it was quite a paranormal day! I snapped a picture of the anomaly of sunshine streaming down the stairs. The effect was perfect for a Halloween post, wouldn’t you agree?

A few weeks ago we started working on our bedroom makeover and since we are going with a more traditional and masculine theme, I decided to move my shabby antique dresser down to the living room by the staircase. It was the perfect piece for a hard to decorate spot that I really hadn’t been satisfied with since we moved in three years ago. I have styled the top with old clocks, vintage frames, brass candlesticks and a few other little trinkets for my every day decor, so it was really easy to create a hauntingly beautiful vignette by simply adding a few Halloween-y touches.

Amber

I love making every day beautiful in our 1926 American Foursquare home! I truly enjoy sharing my creative ideas with others and I hope you will be inspired here. I am a music teacher and licensed KY Realtor with a passion for old homes, decorating, collecting antiques, gardening, traveling and holistic living. I enjoying designing cozy spaces with vintage style on a budget, and I love thrifting for unique objects to use in my cottage-style decor and garden. Look for my "Style Tips" in posts on decorating, home improvement, DIY and craft tutorials, gardening, holidays and entertaining. If you are searching for inspiration, just "Follow The Yellow Brick Home!"