Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Fall Days



It is a beautiful sunny FALL Sunday here in southeastern Pennsylvania. 

Our trees are just starting to change. 


My flowers are still blooming.  

Although I heard we will have freezing temperatures here by next week. 

I've been in my sewing room adding strips of fabric trim to my Thanksgiving Turkey embroidery design.  


I like this combination of green trim, orange trim and a lovely fall leaves pattern trim.  


Monday we are taking our travel van to the RV dealership to have the refrigerator fixed.  

The refrigerator works off either electricity, gas (propane) or 12 volts (battery).  

The gas mode isn't working right.  

It's about a two hour drive north of us to the RV Dealership and we will have to leave the RV there.
  

The good news is we tried out our insect fabric screens that I made for two windows on our travel van while at the York Train Meet last week and they worked great.  


We had fun at the York Train Meet - we camped out over night right next to the main exhibit halls.

When we were tired from looking at the exhibits we took breaks in our travel van.  


Both my Hubby and my brothers had Lionel model "O" trains growing up. 

 In fact, my Hubby stills has his.  

We're in the process of finally putting together a sturdy, well built model train table in our unfinished area of our basement.  

Our make-shift wobbly ping pong table that Hubby used for many years is gone {{finally!}}.  


This train table is made from a kit.  

Hubby put up the painted background blue screen and more ceiling lights.  

The next step is buying the wood for the top. 

Someday we will have a lovely model train setup. 


Isn't this a cute miniature vintage Borden's milk truck we bought at the train meet.   

It brings back lots of childhood memories of home milk deliveries. 


We hope to have our van's refrigerator fixed before our trip to Walt Disney World this Fall. 

Have a lovely Sunday and thanks for visiting my little world! 

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Fall Leaves at Teacup Lane

Lots of Fall leaves in our yard!

The sun is not shining here today but I couldn't resist taking some photos of our front yard filled with fall eaves.

Yummy pumpkin pie!

Today I baked a pumpkin pie using Libby's Can Pumpkin Mix (Libby's recipe here) and Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crust.  I just realized I forgot to flute the pie edges...where was my mind!  We like our pumpkin pie with lots of spices...so I added more cinnamon then the recipe calls for.      

I figured out the calories per slice too so we can try to stay within our daily calorie ranges.  Well, that took two tries...the first time the calories seemed rather low until I realized I forgot to add in the calories for the pie crust.  Then when I showed my calculations to my Hubby he thought the amount for the pie crust seemed high...and it was...by mistake I added the calories for two pie crusts instead of one.  LOL!  

We ran over to Target today to purchase our Christmas cards and pick up some other items.  My plan is to devote the Thanksgiving weekend for preparing our Christmas cards so they are ready to be mailed by the 1st of December.  I'm thinking up a new Christmas decoration for our front door and can't wait until I can show it to you... (hint...think Snowman!

Our home the day before Thanksgiving!

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Mosaic Monday - Mountain Green Maple

Teacup Lane's Mountain Green Maple


Our little Mountain Green Maple is in it's glory now with Fall colors!  

She is just beautiful!

Tips of red

Stunning reds

Greens changing to red

Reds and golds

What a little beauty!

Please join Mary at The Little Red House (here) for more Mosaic Monday!


Have a gorgeous Monday!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

More Autumn Decorations At Our Home

Mr. Pumpkin says "HI"!

Come on in...I want to show off my family room Autumn decorations.

Oh gosh...my silver candle stick needs polishing!

Don't you just love the warm colors of Autumn?


Silk fall leaves in shades of oranges, yellows and greens gently falling...
The colors of Autumn surrounding a pretty vintage teacup and teapot....


The beautiful scenery picture belonged to my in-laws


Our Autumn  Mandel

The fall leaves are made out of silk fabric.  Believe it or not I bought them at our local grocery store for less than $5.  They came wrapped in ribbon in a clear plastic box.  I just placed them around all my regular objects and added some small pumpkins and gourds.  I even stuck the leaves on the bricks.  I like the way they look like they are falling from trees in the picture.

As we get closer to Thanksgiving I have some cute vintage candles I will add to the vignette.

Please join me for:
Gina at The Shabby Chic Cottage for Transformation Thursdays

Cindy at My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday


Artie at Color Outside the Lines for Vignette Fridays
Courtney at French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday
Wendy at The Shabby Nest for Frugal Friday
Donna at Funky Junk Interiors for Saturday Nite Special
Stephanie Lynn at Under the Table and Dreaming for the Sunday Showcase Party
Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday
Linda at Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesday



Hope you enjoyed another Autumn tour at Teacup Lane!  Nothing fancy here.  

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Linvilla Orchards - Pumpkinland

Linvilla Orchards - Pumpkinland

PUMPKINLAND

Sunday was bright, sunny, warm and just perfect to visit a local orchard, Linvilla, with friends.  Even though we have lived here for almost eleven years it was our first visit to this very popular fall attraction. 

Linvilla Orchards is one of the last working farms in the Delaware Valley, encompassing more than 300 arces of land devoted to farming, entertainment, education and recreation.  This sprawling family farm includes apple orchards, Pumpkinland, a farm market, animals to visit with and a playground.

The animal area is complete with white-tailed deer, emus, peacocks, goats, sheep and chickens - lots of chickens!  There are hayrides through the orchards, train rides and pony rides to enjoy.  Kids of all ages love the face painting.  There are even straw bales and cornfield mazes to walk through.  It was fun watching the small kids shooting apples at scarecrows in the field with giant slingshots.   


Big pumpkins

Larger than life figures!
A HUGE scarecrow!


Little pumpkins
A scarecrow lass

Isn't that a beautiful BLUE sky!  

We topped the fun day off with dinner at the Olive Garden.  

Thanks for visiting Pumpkinland with me!





Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Fall View from Our Screened Porch




We love our screened-in porch and deck.  We had our old wooden deck (put on by the previous owners of our home) replaced with a large screened in porch and side deck.  One of these days I will show the "before" pictures.  This picture was taken last year when our Red Maple was changing colors.  We love to sit out here and enjoy the view.





Some more views from last year this one looking out at our River Birch and Leland Cypresses.  





Here's the deck portion - that's a Serviceberry tree at the corner of the deck.  The birds love it for the tasty berries.





And here is the Serviceberry in its Fall colors.  Hope you enjoyed the tour of our screened porch and deck!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Fall Color & Thank You!




I want to thank all of you that have visited!  I am so excited to have visitors and such nice compliments this soon after starting my blog.  I am overwhelmed how quickly and warmly you all welcomed me!  


My hubby has spent the better part of the day helping me with my blog.  Somethings I set myself without any problems but others I was lost and didn't have a clue.  For example, somehow I set my own blog as a Follower on my blog. If anyone out there knows how and where I can delete me as a follower of my own blog I would appreciate any help you can give me.  So far I haven't been able to figure it out.  Update:  Thanks for the tips I have corrected this problem.


This is a picture taken last Fall of our Mountain Green Sugar Maple tree in our back yard.  Aren't the leave colors just beautiful.  We missed the turning of the leaves this year because we were on an RV trip to Florida.


I plan in the future to share my small collections with you - thimbles, miniature china and tea cups.   And for those of you who crochet - you will have to sit through my WIPs (i.e., "work in progress").  My favorite time of the year is coming - CHRISTMAS!  I love to decorate!


Thanks again for making my day and thanks for all the birthday wishes!