As we move closer to Halloween, creepy things start popping up around the house. This morning I have noticed these spider webs in the garden. They must be from a very strange spider switching to orange crochet web style to fit into my Halloween decorations.
Here´s a tip for you that always works. If my hubby complains about way too much „stuff“ lying around in our living room, I always buy new cupboards, have him fix them on the wall and store the „stuff“ in them to make room for more „stuff“. It´s the circle of cuteness. You would not think of it, but I got most of those cupboards in the pictures from TK Maxx.
Last Sunday, we ended the outside teatime season with a bang. I did some seasonal baking and an irresistible autumn decoration. One of our favorite cakes was the choc & caramel cheesecake with chocolate sauce on top! I also offered a warming autumn fruit crumbler with an almond cookie topping, yummieh!, and a delicious ginger cake with fudgy frosting – it really was the perfect september outside retreat!
Luckily I had a visit from my dear friend Rosey Sugar from Japan. She helped me with everything. If you have don´t know her and have not seen her cookie decorations. Please go to her website right now. She is an artist.
This is the season of harvest and gorgeous shades of brown, rust, copper and green. I tried to brighten up the tables with some seasonal finds. You can easily transform an teatime table into „woodland wonderful“ with all those coloured leafs, lampion flowers, rose hips, wooden candle holders, pumpkins and so on.
All the vintage plates and cutlery just made tea-time truly glorious and the granny extra proud! Great to look at was the pretty table runner, the cheeky knitted tea cosy and the tiered cake stands. It was a beautiful sunday with lovely people around – a feast for the senses.
Since visitors for the first PopUp-Tearoom at my house this fall will mainly celebrating a birthday I had to come up with the appropriate placemat for the table decoration. I went through a lot of stationary material for inspiration. I am far from perfect of drawing something from scratch (especially living things) but with a little inspiration I am quiet good in modifying it for my own purpose. So after a rough overview sketch, I made a hand drawing and did the coloring in the computer afterwards. Whilst doing this, I got more and more comfortable with fall colors and I think I have finally accepted that summer moved on.
After 1 week holiday around England’s coast staying at Lyme Regis, the Duesseldorf airport welcomes us with heavy rain! This is really what makes you feel bad. And since I had my most beloved Cream Tea every day, I felt that I can’t do any baking today. Too many calories to count for…that’s why it was clear that I need to start a craft project. With the help of my friendly hot glue gun and an old sweater out of the winter cupboard I got started: A new dress for the lampshade.
Well, well, I finished it and want to share the result with you. But with only the grey sweater, I felt that it needed something else, that’s why I added the crochet and the pompom border at bottom and top. But still it looked kind of none finished, that’s why I added a rich pompom in the middle and attached a heart out of buttons in matching colors. Now that’s what I call a pretty enriched lampshade after all, right?
And the heart of buttons turned out so nice, that I am thinking about doing some X-Mas ornaments with this technique. Could be in red color then? Or green maybe? We will see!
