FALL FEVER

Happy Friday! It really has been a beautiful week with just the right temperatures. The leaves haven't changed yet but the sun has taken on that hazy slant that it does when the days get shorter. It is only light out until about 7:00 p.m. and that is about the time that I like to curl up with a good book or a movie. The perfect time of year.

Daughter Emily and I have lost our better halves to Football, so Sunday afternoon we took a ride to Marshall's. I had a gift card from Mother's Day to spend {yes, I know, I can be a bit spacey}. They have so many pretty things for fall and as always, the prices are great. I picked up the little duck in the above picture, just couldn't resist.
I also found this cute acorn there also and it looks good on my table. I put out some fall looking place mats, too. I haven't looked at the stuff I have packed away yet, I'm very slow in all that I do. A little at a time is good for me.
The candles are from Target as well as the little pedestals and they were only $3.99. These will work year round with different colored candles.
I was really thrilled at Marshall's when I came to the pillow aisle and saw this cute little ruffley guy that matches my new duvet so perfectly. No...I still haven't put it on my bed. The European shams are back ordered until December, but I have decided that I am going to get regular shams which are in stock. So I bought this throw pillow and a cream colored one. I hope it is not too matchy~matchy. My kids think I have gone nuts with pillows.
In honor of Marty's cloche party, I threw in a picture of a floral arrangement I made under a cloche. I'm not joining the party because I have shown this cloche before and I didn't have a post ready with anything else. It's always fun to go to the party and see all the ideas though.
I made this with a bunch of silk flowers with reindeer and Spanish moss all around. There is a little bird somewhere in there, too
Finally, I have some very big news...my son Kevin became engaged Wednesday to his girlfriend, Mary Clare!! We are all so excited. I have known for awhile that he was going to propose. He really did it the old fashioned way...secretly shopping for a ring, asking permission to marry her. He took her out to dinner Wednesday night and then to the North Avenue beach where he proposed under the moonlight. Meanwhile, family and friends waited for them at a little pub called Cork & Kerry, where we celebrated when they returned. I am so excited to have a daughter in law and we all love Mary Clare to bits. Her family is wonderful, too.

Well, this is about all I have to say for this week. I hope all of you have had cool sunshiny days and that your weekend is marvelous!! :-)