Tropical Delight Flower & Decor

First a Tropical Delight flower.

This was a challenge.

I had trouble on round 7 (dark sage leaves) and 8 (autumn red buds) but after frogging many times I figured out I crocheted the leaves wrong.  Once I got them right round 8 fell into place.

I have round 9 still to do (in dark sage).

This flower is just so beautiful.

And once you understand it it isn't difficult to crochet.

Of course I'm crocheting it in Christmas colors.

I also love it with blue yarn too.

This out of print pattern can be found (here) along with fantastic photo tutorial by Laurel Craft (here). 

My Ravelry project page with my details is (here).

Now onto the our decor. 

I'm having fun working our designer, Susan, on our window treatments.

She was assigned to us by our builder while we were having our home built.

She's been wonderful to work with and has become a dear friend.

Susan helped me with selecting our custom drapes and fabric shades for our bedroom windows.

This fabric shade is in our lower level bedroom.

This is an egress window that allows firefighters to get in and home owners out in case of a fire.

I had all the window treatments lined with black out fabric.

This is the fabric I chose for our Master Bedroom triple window.

And here is how it looks with the sheers.

A nice dark room in the morning.

I selected two sheer panels for our Great Room triple window.

I love the vine design on it.

And here is how the sheer panels look in the Great Room.  

We had motorized cellular shades installed on most of the windows in our home.

Boy are they nice.

We also put drapes and sheers in another bedroom.

Photos for that room will come later.

Now I have to think how I want the remaining windows done.

I'm thinking of maybe white fabric with a touch of red panels in the dinette/hearth room and white fabric with a touch of blue panels in the dining room.

Not sure what to put in Hubby's Den. 

My Hubby's brother, his wife and their son emptied out our last storage unit and moved all our boxes and stuff into our home last night. 

It was such a big help to us.

So, we still have some boxes to unpack…more knick knacks, vases and my collections.

But I can take my time.

There is no hurry. 

Thanks for visiting.

I will be taking a little break from blogging but I will be back.  

  

Poppies in the Field

This is a close up of the canvas art work I purchased at Target recently.

You can kind of see how it is textured with oil paints on the canvas.

Well, yesterday I got out the leveler and Command Strips and hung the two pieces over our new fabric headboard in our Master Bedroom.

I centered the two pieces right above the middle section of our headboard and marked the center lines and level lines with chalk.

I used two Command Strips…one on each upper corner.

These canvases are not heavy.

I let the Command Strips set for over an hour and then popped the pieces in place.

We still need to purchase new bedside tables for our Master Bedroom since we took apart our old 1980s Oak bed frame unit with the two towers, light bridge and low headboard with mirrors.

I would love to find some Danish ones and I know where there is a Danish store in PA but not here in Ohio.  

I love the pop of red with the touches of yellow.

We love our new fabric King size headboard and frame and Beauty Rest mattress that we purchased from Macy's.

It's so comfortable and when we need to sit up more in bed this headboard really gives us nice support.

Although we love the king size mattress…my goodness it is heavy!

On the plus side it is so heavy it doesn't move around at all but on the negative side I can't even lift it up to put the sheets and blanket on.  Luckily I can slide the sheets and blanket on or we would be in trouble.  

I'm so happy I saw these at Target!

I have custom drapes and fabric shades ordered for our Master Bedroom and Bath, one of our Jack & Jill Bedrooms and fabric shades for our lower level bedroom too.

This is only the second time we have had custom drapes.

If you remember, we had the blue toile drapes, valances (here) and curtains (here) in our Master Bedroom and Bath in our previous PA home.

I'm going with different fabrics in our OH home.

This time we decided to line all window treatments with dark out fabric so we will always have a nice dark room to sleep in regardless of the time of day.  

It's a beautiful day here (finally after a strange day yesterday with dark clouds and rain off and on all day) and I'm sitting out on our screened in porch.

It's so nice sitting here listening to the birds and drinking my morning coffee before I start the day's activities and errands.  

I haven't seen any deer this morning but we have a doe with her two little ones that come through our wooded area behind our home quite often. 

Have a wonderful day and thanks for visiting me! 

Happy Easter

Hello!

This is my first posting from our new home in Ohio. 

We finally got connected to Internet and WiFi yesterday.

It's gray, dark and overcast here in Ohio this Easter morning.  

I slept better last night and woke up this morning sort of concerned I only had one Easter decoration out in our new home. 

Hearth Room Fireplace

Now I should be easier on myself since we just moved in about two weeks ago and many of our boxes are not unpacked yet. 

Great Room Fireplace Mantel

Then as I was lying there in bed this morning I remembered we put the Christmas bins and other holiday bins in our lower level storage closet.  

Easy to get to. 

New Kitchen!

I jumped out of bed and went downstairs, opened the Easter bin and carried up in my arms as much of my Easter decorations as I could. 

Bunnies placed in the front windows.

I had fun going around our new home and setting up the decorations.  

It seems silly putting up the decorations on Easter when it will be over so soon now.  

But I may just leave them up this week to enjoy.

Well, at least the bunnies can stay out for Spring.  

Our flat screen TVs were hung the other day.

There is a long punch list of items still to be finish in our new home.

Gutters were installed two days ago.

The screened in porch and deck aren't finished yet either.

And we have to wait until the weather warms up to have the driveway and sidewalk poured.

Now our yard is all mud…thick horrible clay.

A different view for us out of our screened in porch slider.

We are having Easter dinner at my brother-in-law's house.  

And instead of having to drive 450 miles like we had to in the past now we have less than 10 miles to drive to his house. 

We love having our family close to us.  

That is our Easter blessing!

I hope you have a Blessed and Happy Easter! 

Valentine Decor

Is there a "sweeter" holiday than Valentine's Day?

I don't have much to put out but I love all the Red and White!

I placed my Love & Heart Beanie Babies on our family room fireplace mantel.

Along with the three hearts I crocheted. 

I hung my L.O.V.E banner I made over the kitchen sink.

My string of little red heart lights have been up since last year.  

Hubby put in under the counter lights for me several years ago.  

But I think the red heart lights adds an extra special look and I love them because they're red.

I put out my red heart night light too.

                                         Do you decorate for Valentine's Day?

Decorating for Halloween

It got down into the 30s here last night so I guess Fall is here at Teacup Lane.  

Our trees haven't changed to those beautiful fall colors yet but some trees are starting to drop their leaves.

The central heat has been on for the last few days here and I'm turning on my side of our bed's heated mattress pad at night now. 

Mr. Pumpkin Head and Ms. Bones are here to greet our Trick or Treaters.

A co-worker of mine painted this cute black cat for me many years ago.

Doesn't everyone have a Halloween Witch Doll?

Our family room all done up for Fall and Halloween.

This was the only place big enough to hang this large greeting!

We have a few Fall and Halloween decorations.   

Most of our decorations are for Christmas.

Mr. Scarecrow likes to hang around Teacup Lane!

I love these fabric leaves I found - they look so cute on our fireplace mantel.

Our pumpkin candle has a spider crawling on it!

My orange, yellow and cream colored potholder is perfect for setting out at Halloween.

I had to hang our Fall Leaves wreath on our new Pella front door!

We put a string of orange lights outside on each side of the front door.   

Hopefully I can take a photo at dusk with the lights and Mr. Pumpkin Head lit up to show you soon.

Yesterday we had to go to the dentist for the second time this week!  Both of us had to have a filling repaired.  Our appointments were right before lunch and we had to wait for the numbness to lessen before we could eat lunch.  We are glad that is over and we don't have to go back for six months. 

Thanks for dropping by to see our home all decorated for Halloween. 

Red & Black

I'm in the process of sorting through all our bed linens, blankets and pillows. 

 Which means digging through two bedroom closets upstairs and finding stuff I had stored away forgotten about.

I've wanted to do something with the wall above our sofa in the living room without spending money.

Yeah...sometimes I'm fugal cheap...

I found three needlepoint rugs in storage while digging in our closets. These are vintage old...ones I made back in the 1980s probably before you were born when needlepoint was all the rage.

This flowered one jumps out at me for several reasons - it has the pop of red in it I want to add to my rooms and it ties nicely with my touches of black I have in the room already.

And it didn't cost me a cent!!

Remember I'm retired and on a budget.

Plus so far I haven't seen anything else I like to hang on this wall.  

Red and black...

{{ I ❤ it }}

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Christmas Trees at Teacup Lane

Family Room

Our Christmas trees are all decorated here at Teacup Lane.  

All our gifts are wrapped except for the ones being shipped (love shopping on-line).

If you remember in the past two years we gave our large Christmas tree to one of our nieces and bought some cheap slim trees at Target.  The large tree was getting too heavy for us to drag up out of our basement.  

Our old large tree had red berry lights with white lights which we just loved.  This year we found red and white berry LED lights at Target so we bought two strands each for our Christmas tree in the family room.

Mantel in Family Room

The mantel is still a work in progress here in this photo but it shows the two new stuffed snowmen I bought at our local Christmas craft fair this year. 

Family Room

I've been experimenting with our Canon cameras ~ trying to learn the features to take better decent photos in low light.  

Living Room

We put colored lights on our Christmas tree in our living room.  

I love colored lights because it brings back memories of my childhood Christmas trees.  

Family Room

Our fire is all aglow in our fireplace and nicely shows off our mantel all finished with red and white candy cane lights and white garland trim.  

Next to the windows is a snowman tree topper that I placed in some fake greenery.  

All the way to the right is a vintage lighted Santa figure.

This weekend I will be busy baking our Christmas cookies.

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you enjoyed viewing our Christmas trees.