Autumn Greetings Sugar Pies!! It is officially Fall at my house! Yay!! I know that y’all love this time of year as I do! There is so many delightful things to look forward to and to be thankful for!
A Few of my favorite Fall things are…
1. Sipping hot spiced cider on a blustery, apple-crisp afternoon.
2. The way my house smells when I’m baking Grandma’s Gingersnap Cookies.
3. Hayrides with my family at the pumpkin patch.
4. Feeling joyfully domestic as I cozy up my home listening to the Little Women Movie Soundtrack (an instant mood lifter!).
5. Delighting in simple things like little orange pumpkins sitting in a neat little row.
6. Tasting sliced green apples dipped in warm ‘n’ buttery caramel sauce.
7. Feeling the soothing warmth of a crackling fire.
8. Eating pumpkin pie with a dollop of fresh whipped cream.
9. Candy corn and peanuts.
10. The sweet aroma of wood smoke in the brisk evening air.
11. Watching the leaves swirl and twirl in a gust of wind as I drive along a country road.
12. Gazing in awe at a big butter-yellow harvest moon.
13. Apple picking with my family
14. The way the light turns a golden-honey color at the end of the day.
15. Warming my family’s tummies with a steaming bowl of my mom’s Chicken soup with fresh grated Parmeasan Cheese.
16. Going to hometown craft shows with a friend.
17. Wearing my Ugg boots and colorful knitted scarves.
18. Looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas!
19. Antique Road-trip adventures with my sister-in-law Linda.
20. Decorating my house for Fall!!
I so enjoy decorating for the seasons! It brings such cheerfulness into our daily lives. It revives and awakens our hearts to the glory of God’s creation and His faithfulness. Little touches of seasonal beauty placed thoughtfully throughout our home adds a sense of celebration, warmth and welcome to our loved ones. Galations 6:10 says ” Be mindful to be a blessing”, as homemakers, making our home feel cozy and delightful blesses our family! Every home needs a woman’s nurturing touch, it sends a message of love and care to all who enter it. It’s a troubled world out there and that’s all the more reason to make our homes a place of comfort and joy. Oh girls, we must never underestimate the significance of our role as a homemaker…we set the stage for our family’s sense of belonging, safety and well being.
Ever since my hubby carried me over the threshold, 31 years ago, my passion was to make our home the sweetest and happiest place to be. That is still my passion. Decorating for the seasons is a tradition in our household, it’s something that my four children always looked forward to. I have found that even when I didn’t feel like it, once I got started and began changing things around, festooning the fireplace mantle and staircase, my creative juices starting bubbling up like soda pop! It’s such a refreshing feeling to stand back and see the delightful transformation that just a few touches can make. It’s because beauty inspires!
When we make the effort to cozy up our home and fill it with an atmosphere that glows with the celebration of the season, it is a gift to our family and those who come to visit. It’s those extra little things we do, to create a feeling of warmth and whimsy, joy and goodness, that communicates a message to our family that says: you are loved and it is my pleasure to make you feel nurtured and cared for. It’s a message that hugs the hearts of those we love and it gives them a delicious affection for home. Remember we are planting seeds in everything that we do…plant happy moments and harvest a lifetime of happy memories.
For all of us, today’s experiences are tomorrow’s memories. ~Barbara Johnson
“Every change of scene becomes a delight! ” ~ Seneca
“It is the soothing predictability of traditions that make kids feel secure.” ~ Jo Ann Paris Leavell
It’s harvest time on the farm, the “frost is on the pumpkin” , the apples are ripe for pickin’, and there’s a pumpkin pie freshly baked just for you! Y’all come on in now and take a peek inside Sugar Pie Farmhouse….
Come on into my kitchen and see how I gussied up my little lamp shades by hot-gluing a strand of pom-pom fringe around the bottom edge.
“The cheerful joyous season,
The Autumn time is come.
With song and shout we welcome
The Golden Harvest Home.”
~Author Unknown
“Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.” ~Flora Thompson
Freshly Baked Pies: This is a favorite sign of mine that I love to bring out each Autumn. Pumpkin pie and Fall just go together! I attached a small white plate on the top of my two candlestick holders to support the pumpkins. Just a loop of duck tape…sticky side up…was all I needed to hold each plate on. I just wanted a temporary fix, that way I can use them another time to hold candles again.
When all the leaves are off the boughs,
And nuts and apples gathered in,
and cornstalks waiting for the cows,
And pumpkins safe in barn and bin,
Then Mother says, “My children dear,
The fields are brown, and autumn flies;
Thanksgiving Day is near,
And we must make our Thanksgiving pies!”
~Author Unknown
My chalkboard…which is actually an old twin size headboard…comes in handy all year long to declare the change of the season! This year my theme is “Harvest Home”. Everything in life is based on sowing and reaping. We will harvest what we plant. So girls, let’s be careful to only plant goodness, kindness, love, mercy, forgiveness, joy, peace, blessings, faithfulness, honor, patience, creativity, and thankfulness!
Harvest Home
Come ye thankful people come,
Raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God’s own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.
I’ve been using chalkboard markers for a couple of years now and they are so fun! The best way that I have found to wash the board clean is with Mr. Clean Magic Erasers! They work great!
Dear little pie pumpkins (from the market) sitting on a shelf, are such a simple and sweet way to add a festive holiday feeling to your country kitchen. It’s a very clean look!
A few weeks ago, I squealed like a little pink piggy at feedin’ time when I found this old sign leaning up against the front of a local antique mall. It was old and chippy, and the letters were hand cut and homemade. EEEEEK! And how cute is this name? Cedar Hill Farm! The cherry-on-top was the owner came way down on the price! Woo hoo!!
When I was dragging it in the house my hubby looked at me like Ricky Ricardo looks at Lucy! (He actually calls me Lucy…a lot…especially when I’m bringing in junkin’ treasures or getting myself into pickled predicaments.) Happily he loved the sign! I’m am so thankful for a hubby that allows me to express my decorating ideas throughout our home! He loves me.
Helpful Junkin’ tip: Before I put the sign in my car to bring home, I asked the Antique store clerk if I could use their broom to sweep off any cob webs and critters. I’m so glad I did! There were two BIG spiders, and a fuzzy caterpillar (in the loop of the “a”) plus a lot of dirt. Actually keeping a small broom in the car when you’re out junkin’ is a good idea! I also had 2 small blankets to protect the trunk of my car. Anti-bacterial handwipes for grungy hands are a must too!
Cedar Hill Farm has a new home sitting above my great room fireplace mantle. I added a few more farm-y things…
Galvanized pails…one spilling out pumpkins and the other sprouting branches. I mixed some natural branches from our woods out back with some lighted ones that I got at Target last year and this year at Kirkland Home. Adding the lighted branches was my daughter Ashley’s idea…it really brightens up the mantle with a oh-so-festive glow!
Eggs in a bucket of golden straw…
Now I’m just waiting for the weather to cool down enough to light a blazing fire!
“Thus simply as a little child, we learn a home is made from love. Warm as the golden hearthfire on the floor.” ~Anonymous
The dried corn in a vintage feed bucket was found very inexpensively at the local Feed and Farm store. When I change my decor to Christmas I’ll bring the corn cobs outside to feed the squirrels a lovely and bountiful Thanksgiving feast!
Barn shutters, a farmstand scale, a bucket of corn and a pumpkin-topped milking stool greet my homefolks, and friends who come a-callin’, with a big Ol’ farm-style “Howdy!”
This weathered milking stool was a sweet find right here in Branson, Missouri! It’s sturdy and heavy and looks like it was well used milking Ol’ Daisy the cow!
Harvest Home, harvest home!
We’ve plowed, we’ve sowed,
We’ve reaped, we’ve mowed
And brought safe home, every load.
~Old Harvest Song
This “Old Kentucky Home” scale was just $12.oo at a flea market in Springfield, MO. It’s mounted on a worn board and was probably used at a farm stand where it would need more support when weighing those heavy baskets of fresh picked peaches and apples for Grandma’s preserves and pies! (That sounds like a good story to me!) That reminds me…do y’all ever look at a darling rosy-cheeked-snow-haired-grandma and think She looks like an Emma Pearl and I bet she makes the best peach cobbler EV-AH! Or am I the only one that does that? Lol!
I like to mix fresh pumpkins with pretend ones, it’s easier on the budget ( the faux ones I only buy once, where as the fresh I have to buy every year). Mixing the two makes them all look fresh picked.
Pumpkins in the cornfield,
Fodder in the shock,
An ear of yellow-golden grain, Hangs on every stock
Blackbirds flying here and there, The yellow corn they spy,
But I’m not thinking of the corn, I’m thinking pumpkin pie!
~Adelaide Blanton
My living room fireplace mantel during the day….
And at night! Adding white twinkly lights always makes a room feel festive.
Pretty leaves are falling down,
Green, orange, yellow brown.
Here comes one colored red,
It landed on my head!
~Author Unknown
I tucked vintage sheet music (cost $2.50) inside my hurricane lanterns and filled the base with straw, mini pumpkins and dried pomegranates. The graphics on the front cover is darling, the colors are fall-ish and the title is way too cute! “Way Down in Arkansaw” (note the funny spelling on Arkansas!) The words to the song are just as adorable! (Side Note: I live just 20 minutes from Arkansas…it’s gorgeous there!)
Way down in Arkansaw
Way down south where I was born
Amid the cotton and the golden corn
There’s the place I long to be
In the land of hospitality
Where the jaybirds sweetly sing in the winter
Just the same as spring
Guess I’ll grab a southbound train
And go back to my old home again
Way down in Arkansaw
You’ll find the turkey in the straw
And the rooster crowing at the break of day
On an old oak stump amid the new-mown hay
First met my great grandma
And there they settled down together
Because they loved each other
Way down in Arkansaw
This one is “Little Brown Home On The Hill”
Little Brown Home on the Hill
There’s a little brown home that is built on a hill
A dear little home like a nest
Where the great elm trees sway
and the turtle doves play
and it faces the gold of the West
Oh little brown home that is built on the hill
Oh little brown home like a nest
at the close of each day
then my heart wings it’s way
to you for healing and rest.
To the eyes of the world
it looks crowded and small
but it’s only that they cannot see
In its tender lights glow
all the joy that I know,
and it’s more than a palace to me.
When the frosty north winds begin to howl it will be time to curl up with a mug of hot cocoa and good book! In this little cozy nook…an armoire turned book shelf… I created a mini library.
Books for browsing stacked high…glowing lamplight…a vintage clock sitting close by with a soft and soothing tick-tock sound.
A few of my favorites:
A yummy candle brings instant cozyness!
Well gals, the very best thing we can decorate our homes with is our cheery Farm-girl smile (with or without red lipstick!) Let’s honor our family by taking care of our home, keeping the “Home Fires Burning”, and looking for ways to be a blessing with a loving, joyful attitude! Being joyful is a choice. When we make our mind up to think positive and count our blessings the feelings will follow! A thankful heart is a happy heart! (I’ve never seen a grumpy thankful person!) Set the stage for happy results by turning on endearing music, put on a cute apron, simmer cinnamon, cloves and orange peels in a pan of water or light a scented candle to get the house smelling delicious, fill the cookie jar, clear the clutter and make room for your own unique and nuturing womanly touch to brighten every corner of your dear sweet home.
May the good Lord bless you and keep you real good!
You are in my prayers and you are loved!
Warm hugs from my Ozark home to yours,
Affectionately,
Aunt Ruthie
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I loved every bit of this! I loved what you said about… every home needs a woman’s touch…and it does. A man would live in a cave if women weren’t around to make thins lovely! It takes two though to make it all the very best it can be.
All your decorations are so beautiful but I loved what you said at the end about a touch here and a touch there, thats what makes a home and sometimes the simple way is best. Thanks for sharing your home and thoughts…come say i :D
I loved your autumn home tour!! I always look forward to this time of year. I had to laugh when I saw your mantel with colorful autumn leaves as the mantel in our living room looks so similar. I love to decorate for the seasons and seem to bring a little something home each year to freshen things up and keep it fun and interesting. Your new sign is too cute. It looks perfect in your home. Wishing you and your family a wonderful fun filled fall. Blessings, Gretchen
My Oh My… I love your decorating… as I was reading along , your sideboard that you welcomes friends and family is the same as the one I purchased and refinished.. this sideboard was made by NorthAmerican Bent Co. Owensound, Ont. 1946….
If you get a chance drop by and see how I decoated mine.
You have opened your Harvest Home to the rest of us Sugar Pie Sistas and NOW it is officially AuTuMn!!! Thank you for the wonderful post (as always!) and the inspiration. Can’t wait to get my home all gussied up for fall. Hugs!
Just beautiful……..
Your home is so lovely, but more than that I loved the attitude you encouraged. We are the makers of our home, and those things done with loving hands make all the difference!
Oh my, you’ve really inspired me now. Your home, and fall decorations are gorgeous!! I’m going to get the house dusted and get busy on my fall decorating. This is my favorite season!
And thank you for the lovely reminder that keeping a nice, cozy home is a way of showing our love for our family. Bless you!
Oh Aunt Ruthie, I just love sayin’ that cause it makes me think of my Dear Aunt Mary. She was a real gem! I love your passion statement and I’m adopting it as mine too, if it’s OK with you. Making your home the sweetest and happiest place to be! I have always strived to make my home a peaceful and cozy place for folks to come. I guess I’m successful cause I hear it over and over from friends. Happy should be in the mix too don’t you think?
I love your hutch looking into the pantry and if I ever build a home I’m including it in my plan cause every time I see yours it makes me Smile! Is there a story of how that idea came about?
~ ~Ahrisha~ ~
Oh, I felt like I was in for a real treat with all the lovely photos of your home. It really is decorated so nicely for fall..In the last coule of years I’ve just really thought about putting more effort into decorating my apartment. I”m still single, but I want to start now because I always want my home to be a place of beauty :) :) :) I’ve been very lucky/blessed to find some great items at yard sales. My best find was a nice tall cherry/mahogony colored quilt stand. It’s gorgeous and was very inexpensive. Now I have a place to put my quilts :) :) :) I’m working on making Victorian knitted lace edgings for my bookcase. Once that’s finished, then I’ll think about the next project :) :) :) Thanks for inviting us on a little tour…I had great fun looking at all the lovely photos…the vintage signs were really sweet :) :) :) Have a lovely week. Love and hugs from Oregon, Heather :)
Oh my, I want to come visit! I’m definitely showing my husband this post as soon as I’m done commenting. We currently live in a small apartment on a limited budget, so my decorating is slim. But, we often make plans for “someday” – someday we’ll have a home and I’ll slowly acquire and make decorations that will give it that special touch. You’ve given me so many ideas! – http://www.delightfulcountrycookin.com
I always look forwards to your wonderful posts! I can relate to bringing “junk” into the house and awaiting my husbands response! You new sign is adorable and looks great on the mantle.
Dearest Aunt Ruthie,
Your fall home tour was so worth waiting for! Just loved every little special touch you did through out your home. You are so right when you say that beauty inspires and you have just inspired me. You are such a blessing! I am off to get a cup of hot cider and reread your wonderful post. Have a great week!
Lots of love,
Donna
Hey there sweet lady! Your posts are so inspirational. Even being a
homemaker for twelve years, I truly learn so much from you! May the Lord bless you for your faithfulness. Hugs!
Love the sheet music in the hurricane lamp! Actually, I love everything you do at your house. Enjoy the season, Aunt Ruthie!
I soooo look forward to your new posts. I’m a huge Fall-lover, so your latest post was really enjoyable!
I have a question – some time ago you posted the website for the company who made the hanging light in your pantry. I’m ready to buy . . . and I’ve lost the website. Could you please look it up and send it to me???
Much appreciation from a big fan!
Barb
scott.logan1728@comcast.net
:) Take care
I Just found your website about a month ago and I love, love, love it! I like to relax by reading older posts and become inspired both to “nest” and grow spiritually. I have decided to adopt you. You are the aunt I always wished I had, so now I tell folks that my Aunt Ruthie said thus and such. :) Seriously though, I appreciate the time and effort you lovingly put into each post. I admire that you are true to yourself.
Once again your ahead of me! (remember how we always joked about who got the Christmas Tree up first?) Yesterday, you could feel the crisp chilled air…. the oak leaves are beginning to change into the brilliant fall colors …. and as I sat at the CU game looking over incredible Rockie Mt’s …. I thought “tomorrow, I’m decorating the house for Fall…” BUT, I got up this morning and watched the temperature rise to 100! . Hard to get in the mood when it’s so HOT.
Now I look at your bog and see – You got it done. Of course, I think the next few months have always been your very very favorite time of the year. ahh the holidays!
Once again, You’ve inspired me . This year I’m going to do something different with the autumn garlands, grape twig pumpkins…
Yes, Our Home is a Reflection of our Heart.
Thanks for the inspiration. Ciao – Love your blog
Thank you from the bottom of my heart….Fall is now perfect after seeing all your lovely touches from your home. It was so honest and kind of you to say “do what you can and want” and your ideas inspire all. Love all your simple touches to your gorgeous settings. Pretty pretty pretty!! And so that brings me to a request….Watermelons and Fireflys was fabulous…so how about a Fall one? Please please please!!
Your flea market finds/antique bargains are making me squeal!! You have a unique eye for beauty and turning something simple into a masterpiece!
Can I come for a slumber party!!?? :0)
i just loved every bit of this. what an inspiration. i haven’t been feeling the mood for fall decorating (when usually i can’t wait to start!), and now after reading this i want to start right now. haha! every word you said is so true..and just the encouragement i needed…from doing my part as a homemaker by celebrating my home and making it joyful, to continuing the traditions i know my children will look forward to. and you are so right, even though i haven’t felt up to it, once i start i know i will become so giddy and excited to see the house transform. your house looks gorgeous and i have gathered such great ideas. oh, and your new sign is to die for! ;) thanks again for such a great post! happy fall!
Beautiful,BEAUTIFUL post!
Beautiful home, beautiful words, beautiful LOVE for God! :)
Happy Fall Ruthann!
Okay, all your wonderful decorations have forced me to do it. I’m getting out my fall boxes and going pumpkin crazy. I love to decorate for fall too, but the 97 degree heat has made me leary of putting my stuff out. I was only brave enough to add the wreath so far, today I go all out. I’ll just pretend I’m next door in Branson and not sweatin’ down here in Georgia. I’ll make an apple crisp and you can come over when it’s done for a visit. Thanks for the reminder that it actually is fall (somewhere).
Your home looks absolutely gorgeous Ruthann! It does every year and I so look forward to each season with you.
About your PS…. I think that you do a remarkable job of using simple items and making them look elegant. Not everyone can have a home like yours, but anyone can use your pictures as inspiration to bring warmth into their homes. It’s what you do with what you have that inspires and I am always inspired when I visit, be it your words or your pictures.
Thank you!
xo,
rue
What a great post. I loved everything about it…the stories, the memories and the pictures!!
Oh how I love fall, it is my favorite season and your home looks absolutely lovely all decorated for fall.
I love your decorating style! Especially your mantles. Our fireplace has two mantles and sometimes I’m stumped as to how to decorate them. You always have cute ideas! I have one question though. How do you keep your pumpkins from getting squishy and leaky?
Thanks for all the great ideas!
As always, I leave inspired and encouraged to really delve deep into enjoying keeping my home and making it cozy. I LOVE this time of year… I’ve been sad because our home is still on the market and haven’t felt much like decorating for the upcoming holidays. Never thought I’d ever feel that way! I’ll try to remember that it’s not what I do, but how I treat those around me that creates the feeling of “home.” (But Sell, house! Sell! LOL)
Blessings,
Sasha
Hi Ruthie
Such a sweet and loving site to gaze upon, I love the way you make your home precious and cozy. It lifts my spirit and refreshes my soul. I am so thankful for you. I wish we lived close by. I would love to go junkin with you and yes, have a piece of pie!! Love to you! Happy Fall. Kathy
Thank you so much for this. I needed to hear it today. I really did. You are a blessing to so many.
I just have to tell you what a joy it was to read Aunt Ruthie’s Home Tour. I must admit that when I am in my sewing room and need a pick me up I put the Little Women movie in and just go back to that wonderful family. Every time I am near Concord Mass, I go to visit the Alcott home and feel like I belonged there many years ago. Orchard House is one of my favorite places to imagine. Thanks for letting me know there is a soundtrack, I will be buying it today. Also, being from Akron Ohio I am going to the Country Living Fair in Columbus Ohio which is so much fun.
Have a wonderful fall and thanks for insights and memories.
I want to be you when I grow up!!!! You are my hero:) You give me such insperation. Thanks. I am a Foster Mom and I want to make my home so cozy, but It’s always cluttered. I am trying to let go of emotion hording, but it’s so difficult. I am doing better, but I MUST get better at making my home pleasant and loveable. How do I ever get there? I struggle with this all of the time…….
Thanks
Jeanne
dear ruthie,
each of your posts is like receiving a beautiful
book in the mail! i am thrilled with each one.
thank you.
blessings,
lea
Your home is beautiful, and I love all of your ideas for decorating our homes for Fall. Thanks for your inspiring, uplifting words & gorgeous pictures to help us prepare for Fall! : ) I’ve gotten a few things out but still have a long way to go. The 90 degree days here aren’t helping me get in the mood for cooler weather! lol
Aimee @ Justkiddingaroundatlanta
I look forward to each and every new blog entry you make. I have always been like you, in that I love to be a homemaker and feel this is truely where God wanted me to be :) You are such an inspiration!
Dear Auntie,
Wish you’d share some of those great Sunday Dinners from your book 52 Sunday Dinners! Ooohhhhh this would be fantastic!
Beautiful decorating sure does add alot of character to our homes. Working on it around here. Slowly inching along.
You are an encourager! Praise the LORD.
God bless you and may you have a sweet life,
d
If anyone can make you feel like Autumn its you Ruthie. Your home screams it, and it looks so cozy and warm. Thanks for giving me that wonderful feeling to carry with me through out this day. Hugs Paulette
Now I am in the mood to decorate for Fall! I look forward to seeing your Autumn decor each year and I am always so delighted with your ideas. I absolutely love that old sign you found! Hubby is getting my decorations down this evening. Thank you for ushering in the season, and for reminding me how valuable the efforts are to our families.
XO,
Dena
wow your home is beautiful, I know I have said this before but i would really like to meet you, the next time you go to the culinary school at silver dollar city let me know i would love to meet a fellow blogger I am all moved in at branson west I am 8 miles from Silver dollar city…you have such a great talent for decorating!!!
Pamela
Fall is my favorite time of year to decorate and make my home cozy. I can’t wait for the weather to cool down here in Tennessee (today it’s supposed to be 94!). In spite of the heat, my home is all Autumn-cozy! Bless you in this season of thanksgiving! Victoria Lynn
Beautiful! I just love your blog… have been reading it for years!! I just posted a feature post of you/your blog on my blog! Thanks for all your sweet home goodness!!
Kendra
I love coming here to visit. Your posts are so inspiring, and your home is so warm and inviting! It looks gorgeous with all your fall touches.
I love decorating for the holidays, too. Fall is my favorite time of year. Last week, I added a touch of cozy to my home here and there for fall: http://frugalfineliving.blogspot.com/2010/09/fall-nesting-tour.html.
Jane
Simply AWESOME!!! I keep dreaming of the day I can put more stuff out!!!!I have a daycare so its all kid orientated but I so love yours!!!!Thank you for sharing it with us all!!
What a lovely post! Inspiring too!! It’s such a happy moment when my email pops up with a new post from Aunt Ruthie!!!
My birthday is on the first day of autumn and as a treat to myself, that’s the day I set aside to decorate my house for fall. But with the rainy, blustery weather it’s hard to wait!!!!! But wait I will!!! I’ll be cleaning my house from top to bottom today in anticipation and come Wednesday I’ll get myself a pumpking spice latte and get the decoratin’ started!!!!
We’ve been painting the outside of our house all week and the inside has been sorely neglected!!!
I LOVE the sign that you got!!! You must have been giddy!!! Beautiful, just like you!!
Have a great day!
Oh my, I feel all warm and cozy now! I can just see the inviting and crackling fire in the fireplace, glowing on the overstuffed chair with a cup of hot apple cider steaming away on the little table, the Bible laying open, just calling out to me saying, “Come make yourself at home, take a load off your soul. Refresh yourself in the Lord.”
Thank you for the refreshment Aunt Ruthie!
Your blog always makes my heart smile!!! :) You’ve inspired me to dig out my festive fall things and make our home fall festive! Hugs!
Lovely…. simply lovely. I love coming to your page.
My friends thought I was crazy when I put a Ball jar filled with candy corn and peanuts on my desk. They’d never heard of it and thought it would be yucky…. lol… I couldn’t keep the jar filled! Thank you for sharing your beautiful home, family and self with all of us. Blessings!
Ruthie
I am always so delighted when I see a new post from you!
You have inspirted me once again to do a little more fall decorating…I absolutely love all your decor from season to season
I am so blessed to have found your blog! Wishing you and yours a wonderful autumn.
Ruthann, your home is so warm, cozy and inviting! You “make a house a home where love dwells”! Your truly bless your family and friends who enter. Thank you for always sharing your inspiration and love for family! It rubs off on all of us! Wishing you a wOnDeRfUl Fall season!
Love and hugs,
Maryjane
xoxo
Once again, I’ve enjoyed my visit at the Sugar Pie Farmhouse! I was admiring your lovely decorating skills and then began to throw a little “pity party” because I don’t many decorative pieces that I used to own – and then BAM – you provided God’s word – and gently reminded us – even our child’s colored picture of a fall leaf – proudly posted on our fridge – does warm our home and family. I certainly desire a warm and loving home. Even without so many “things” that I used to think I “had” to have – I have the best cozy, warm feeling in my home – because it is a home filled with the love of God! Thanks for sharing your talent and your faith! You’re the best Aunt Ruthie!
Thank you for so generously giving of your time to share your Autumn home with us! You can just feel the love in your home coming through the pictures! God has given you such a special gift, not only for decorating and making your home a cozy and welcoming place for your family and friends, but also in the way that you share it. I hope you are putting this all in a book!
We need lots of inspirations for decorating for Fall here in Florida, where it’s still in the 90’s. I actually sprinkle fall leaves, that I buy, all over my wrap-around porch (which in itself is a novelty here).
Loved your idea with the hurricanes. I have been putting family beach pictures in the back of my hurricanes on top of a few inches of white sand, then placing a few shells in front of the picture. I will definitely use your fall idea!
Will you help me to decorate my mansion in heaven? I want it to look just like your home!
I, too, feel refreshed and inspired. Thank you, Aunt Ruthie, for sharing your home and your heart with us!
Dear Ruthie, I have told you this before in a comment……but I am going to say it again. You are such a BLESSING to me!!! I LOVE all of your post. I look so forward to each one. Your love for the Lord is so evident, and I truly appreciate you sharing it here on the MOST WONDERFUL BLOG ever. TO GOD BE THE GLORY! What a beautiful tool you are for your Maker. After seeing this post……I think you need to write another book. AuTuMn BlEsSiNgS……would be a wonderful title! Any title really……as long is it comes from you! Again, thank you for your inspiration……I pray you do this forever. What a ministry…..I truly believe that. God Bless your DEAR heart.
Abundant Blessings to you and your family,
Angela
Aunt Ruthie! Your autumn decorating post is always my favorite! :) I haven’t had it in me to decorate yet because this North Carolina September has been especially hot. It’s still 90 degrees! This post may have been the inspiration I needed. Monday is my biggest cleaning day as we have our Bible study group over on Monday nights. So tomorrow I will have a clean slate to start on my decorating!
Thank you!
Krista
Sweet! As always, I’m so inspired and encouraged to celebrate the seasons and make a warm, happy haven for my family!
Thank you for sharing!
Hugs,
Amy O.
You just made my day… but it always does when I read your posts! I get really homesick for Missouri during the warm October here in So Cal, so I’m ready to whip out the fall decorations and make my home cozy too!
Love,
Candace
P.S. You’re featured in my blog post wednesday!
http://www.Candace-edwards.blogspot.com
Your home is just Gorgeous!!! It is so warm and cozy. I LOVE fall and am sooo excited that it is finally here. Every year I look forward to taking my kids to the pumpkin patch and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays!
Ruthie, I am looking forward to some great music on here to listen too, I love your choices.
Ruthann,
Your family home is always so inspiring. A delight for every sense indeed! But it wouldn’t mean anything without your sweet and caring ways and gracious hospitality. Your loving heart comes through in everything you do. Every time I enter your door I feel hugged.
Thanks for making my world sweeter.
Love, Linda
Oh, I’m so excited! I’ve been just chomping at the bit to see your fall decorations this year. This too, is my most favorite time of the year and it just goes on and on until after Christmas. Your home is absolutely goooorgeous as always. I can just smell the apple pie baking in the oven. Your post always make me feel all warm and cozy inside. I hope you have a wonderful autumn with your family picking apples and gathering pumpkins. Such a wonderful season for precious memory making.
And by the way, seeing the way you pour your heart and soul into making your home so special for your family and all the friends that gather there really pulled me up out of the funk a couple of years ago. I wasn’t discouraged and overwhelmed by the way your bless your home, but encouraged. I had just had twins + homeschooling the other two and well, to say the least, I was a bit overwhelmed with life! Not to mention I’m married to one of those “poor preachers” and money just doesn’t grow on trees you know. But, you inspired me to pull up my “big girl boots” and put my best foot forward into making my home warm and cozy once again in spite of all my daily responsibilities. I really am encouraged and inspired even during the daily grind when I am surrounded by “pretty.” Thanks so much. Your post are always such an encouragement. Have I told you lately I want to grow up to be just like you?!!! Thanks for blessing my heart.
Fall is my favorite! After a loooong hot summer ( NJ had an unusually hot summer and the discomfort was intensified by my being pregnant w/ # 6 at age 40 !) I am so very ready for cool crisp air, pumpkins, and all the glorious autumn colors that decorate God’s earth. Thanks for the tips. My autumn decorations are up except for the real pumpkins. We will take a “field trip” (my gang is home-schooled) to a pumpkin patch in a couple of weeks.(Hay ride and all – woo-hoo!) I find that if I purchase real pumkpins too early, they all may not last. I like to wait until October when it’s a little cooler. I want them to last until Thanksgiving. Then after that, of course – it’s time to decorate for “the BIG day”! I think i feel the way you do. I go nutty for decorating for fall and Christmas (not so much at other times). You are right, though ;a lot of times, simplicity is best. Comfy and cozy is the goal. Thank you for your Christ-centered posts. Keep sharing God’s blessings. Thanks for your inspiration to us home-makers. Hugs.
Fall is my absolute favorite time of year and your Fall decor is the absolute perfect celebration of everything I look forward to with this season! I love that Cedar Hill Farm sign (glad you got the spiders out! haha)…it looks perfect over the mantel.
I do the same exact thing when I see a cute Granny! I always imagine her to be a blue ribbon winner at the county fair for her famous Buttermilk Pecan Pie (conveniently one of my favorites, haha). :)
And I LOVE your old “Arkansaw” sheet music! My husband was born and raised in Arkansas…and he would definitely appreciate that! It is always a treat to go visit his family at Thanksgiving… Fall time in Arkansas really is just gorgeous with all of it’s crisp smells, cool air and beautiful colors!
Happy Harvest!
Melissa
This is so nice. I love your sign, you have everything looking so pretty, I enjoy your blog .so much. Keep up the good work. God Bless, and have a wonderful day, Kay
Thank you for sharing your beautiful autumn home with us. Your excitement is contagious! I really look forward to your seasonal posts. They get me excited to seasonally do my spiffing up here. I am very thankful to be the keeper of my home and family. I love to make it cozy and inviting for family and all who enter in. Happy Fall to you and your family.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful autumn home with us. We are not experiencing fall yet in Florida, but I look forward to crisp mornings…hopefully we won’t have to wait until January. You have given me some excellent ideas when I finally get around to decorating for fall. Blessings to you and your family!
What a wonderful post – full of inspiration and warmth. You inspire me to be a better homemaker. I will work on a more grateful heart…I think the world looks a lot better when you are seeing things that way. God Bless! Hugs, Ann
Dear R.A.,
Thank you for sharing your Fall home with us.
I especially appreciate your prayers.
Thank you for every single post you write! You are gifted to encourage and inspire. I ALWAYS look forward to a new post from you.
Blessings,
Gina in RI
Just beautiful!!! I love all the touches of white pumpkins. I know I can’t get enough of them. Your new sign is really neat. The tips about the chalkboard cleaner and the ones that you used to go junkin’ are great. I’ve been trying to find the galvanized buckets because I like your idea for last Fall so much but had no luck. I may try my local farm store or antique mall.
Enjoy the season!
Carey
Ruthie, you never fail to please with your bright sunny posts! I could so have fun with you out junkin and doing projects. I also enjoy your encouraging and loving words that you add into your posts celebrating our Lord. Great job.
Debbie
When I saw your bucket of eggs and straw, I could smell them. That used to be my job back home when I was young. Thanks for the memories.
Looks just lovely (as always!) you’ve got talent!! Thanks for the tour and the tips!
I enjoy every visit to your farmhouse and quoted you on my blog a few weeks ago!
Cheers!
~heidi
Oh Aunt Ruthie, it is all SO beautiful and welcoming! I love every single touch. The new sign is PERFECT!!!! I love all of your mantles and am a little JEALOUS that you have so many to decorate:):):) I have MY home decorated for Fall also and I, too, go a little overboard for all the holidays too:) I LOVE decorating my front porch too. I had never heard of mixing candy corn and peanuts but it sounds WONDERFUL and I am going to try it tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!! I always SO look forward to your posts. Your family is truly blessed to have you and your wonderful spirit. God bless you and yours, Pinky
Hi Aunt Ruthie,
I just wanted to tell you how much I LOVE your blog! It has been such an inspiration to me that I actually started my own! I love your inspiration to allow women like myself be proud of being a wife, mother and a homemaker. Thanks soooo much for all you do!
P.S. Love all the Fall decorations in your house! Wish I could come and visit!
I just LOVE your Autumn decorating! Your home is beautiful anyway with all the photos but the autumn decorations make it look so homey and cozy. I’m going to refer back to this post as I ready my home for the season. Thanks for sharing your home with us!
Ruthie…I have been looking forward to seeing your home this year decorated for fall…so saying I was delighted when I got my e-mail is an understatement…I love all that you do with your home and all that your home is and stands for..I too decorate for every holiday and am now on the second generation with my grandson..and loving every minute of it…I love your blog and am inspired everytime I come to see what’s up in your world…Keep it coming…
Although it is the opposite season here in Australia I still enjoyed seeing your Autumn home – it was a visual delight and I appreciate your gentle reminder about a touch here and a touch there. The only time I go overboard is at Christmas, it is my absolute passion and I make all my own garlands, crackers etc. I also run Christmas decorating seminars and in the past have opened up my home during the Christmas season. There were a few women who were overwhelmed and this is the same advice I shared – a touch here and there, just decorate one corner or one table, you don’t need to decorate every room or mantel.
My husband appreciates that the garlands etc, only come out for one season of the year. I would love to decorate for Autumn too but know it would be too much for my husband. I wonder if you could sometime share on how to decorate with our husbands in mind, especially for those of us who have husbands who don’t appreciate ‘country clutter’ as my husband calls it. He often says to me’ Ann you are so English you want to have pictures on every wall and clutter on every surface’ (I really am English!) As much as I love flowers, fruit and china I have become far more selective with my finishing touches and I do try to set out some more masculine pieces such as telescopes and compasses next to photo frames and place coordinating candles around them. This approach is winning him over as it tells him I appreciate his taste too.
BEAUTIFUL!!!! My favorite time of year just got a good boost!!!
What a blessing!!! Your home is gorgeous, and I especially like how you tied in the spiritual aspects of being a blessing in homemaking! Enjoyed your decorations- thanks for sharing!
Boy oh boy! Looks fabulous :) I did my home as well.. i need to take some pics… I love fall so much! We ended up naming our youngest baby girl Autumn….thanks for sharing your home with us all ♥
I have been checking for a new post from you and I’m thrilled to see this new one. :).
I love your decorations and home… as always. I do miss seeing the RED in the kitchen, when you changed to WHITE. I still love RED and plan to keep using it. Isn’t it great that we have choices and can do our homes the way we want. Keep up the inspiration for all of us!
Betty in Oklahoma
Wonderful, festive decorations! Thank you for sharing! I’ve been meaning to get started on my own and needed a little inspiration. Thanks again! :-)
where oh where did you get the pumpkin pie sign??????? i adore it!
I loved your latest blog and all your fall decorations. I had just decorated my home for fall today then I checked my email and noticed your new blog! Thanks for all the great ideas! I may add a few more things now. I loved the idea of using the little pumpkins in a row or even by themselves and mixing them with artificial ones. I hope you have a great fall. I’ll be looking forward to the next blog! Keep the ideas coming.
Debbie
I so enjoy your blog, thank you for sharing such wholesome goodness! I have family in your area and the fall is absolutely breath taking in Branson. You have a lovely home and and I always enjoy reading your darling messages:)
Aunt Ruthie, I just love what you’ve done with all your “whites”! Your house looks great and so inviting. You have a very warm decorating touch. I’ve been in Minneaplolis at the Creative Connection event and I knew when I returned home, there would be a new and wonderful autumn post from the farm. You always raise the bar for blogsites!
Blessings,Becky
Hi Ruthie, I’m sad to see summer end but you’re very inspiring. I like how you use the white pumpkins….I use them too. They look so serene compared to the orange ones. Looking forward to coziness and holiday fun. Thanks for the boost.
Evelyn
It is still 95 degrees here and pumpkins and fall leaves seem out-of-place, I am headed to your neck-of-the-woods…..Branson for a few days…..could it possibly be 10 degrees cooler when we get there?
;-) Loved your fall decorations!
Hey Ruthie, I was so excited to see a new post from you. I know it takes alot of hard work to post the kind of info you post , the thoughtfulness you put into each post… well, its hard work im sure, but I am truly thankful you take the time to do this. I believe its a ministry to many women. I didnt get to read this one as soon as I wanted to because I was so rushed I wanted to wait until everyone was tucked in bed sound asleep so I could have the time to read every word and enjoy the tour of your home. I think that women have been made feel like they are not worth much if they choose to be a stay home mom or if they want to be domestic. I appreciate you spreading the word that its an honorable thing to be a stay home mom and house wife. Home values have gone out the door and I believe that some people are wanting to take them back and have a home not just a house.Boy Ive rambled…sorry, I just feel inspired after I read your blog. God Bless You Ruthie. :)
So very lovely and inspiring–it’s easy to see how much you care for your family and your home. I love how you filled the hurricanes–I may try to do something similar. I enjoyed reading the sheet music lyrics to “Way Down in Arkansaw,” as “Arkansaw” is where I went to college and met my husband!
two questions for you-
1. where did you purchase your cute little lamps that are everywhere?
2. what is the name of the paint color on your walls? (the beige color)
i love your blog. :)
I just love looking at the pictures of your beautifully decorated home. So warm and inviting :)
Aunt Ruthie,
You have inspired me to decorate for autumn even though most of our things are in storage. Our interim home is beautiful, and it is perfectly suited for fall decor…and the company we get to keep here is great too!
Everytime I read what you put on your blog I am blessed!!! It is sooo true that we reap what we sow…..sometimes I don’t think we realize,especially when we are young, that one day all the stupid things we did and the bad decisions we made,will most likely be repeated by our own children….thats why it is sooo important to sew good things into our lives and the lives of others,by not just doing the right things,but also saying good,positive things about ourselves,our situations,and doing the same for our children and family….speaking good,positive things over our children is so important!
The power of life and death are in the tongue,and they who indulge in it,shall eat the fruit of it,for life or death. Proverbs18:21
Hey, I have even taken the home to the shop. My husband and I own a business, Momz Garage, and he allows me to put the woman’s touch, though small on his “man’s shop”…knowing I love clean and tidy, but also the 20-60’s memorabilia is everywhere, too.
He leaves me the house to decorate, a big one too…and I love the homey feeling of antiques and nature, just as you do. Although I do not have a farmhouse look in this house, the next one definitely, since it will be a farm/ranch house with a working ranch surrounding it.
I love your pumpkin theme…even the candlesticks. I know all of those 50s posters and I love the antiques…I have a scale, lots of bottles, many of the old tubs, and containers. You have given me some inspiration. Oh, and the 1800/early 1900 furniture…was given to me by my grandparents, just like what you have painted white (I have in walnut). I love the old cupboards and farmhouse feel…makes me remember my gramma and grampa in Garden Valley, ID, oh those many years ago. Sniff :)
Oh! I’ve been waiting on this post! I just love to see how you decorate for the seasons. Quick question for you, where did you find the faux candied apples on your baking center? I think they are so charming :-) Your home is beautiful! thanks for sharing!
Your home is beautiful! Thank you for sharing, I always leave your blog with a cheerful heart and smile. :)
Blessings to you and your family and Happy Fall!
Here’s my fall list!
http://taralynn819.blogspot.com/2010/09/oh-great-pumpkin-where-are-you.html
Thanks so much for showing us your decorations! They sure have motivated me (along with your words of encouragement) to get busy with mine. Love your blog!
love your autumn home..:)..great decor and I love that headboard/chalkboard.:) thanks for sharing your home with us.;)
Love Love Love!! What a joy your blog is today!!
Hugs Granny Trace
Aunt Ruthie! So glad I received your blog. And your home is beautiful and warm. And your thoughts are just how I was raised in rural Kentucky. I had to let you know that I live about 10 miles from the actual Cedar Hill Farm. They are getting in full swing with their pumpkin patch and hayrides. Families ride wagons out to the fields to pick out their pumpkins and get all their fall decorations. It has a little cafe and gift shop with jams and breads and the like. It also is a wonderful place to take family photos. Oh! by the way it is in North Mississippi. Thanks! for sharing autumn with all of us.
Hey Ruthie! I have tried several times to register for the forums. But I never hear back from y’all! I would love to be a part of the sister community!
Your home looks just gorgeous! I really miss that beautiful fall weather back home and reading your blog always makes me feel better! I even featured you in my weekly post today! I hope you’ll stop by! Thanks Aunt Ruthie!
Love,
Candace
Ruthann, that is the prettiest fall decorating I have ever seen.
Love it, as always!
I have just recently been introduced to your website by an old friend. I really thoroughly enjoy reading your blogs and especially seeing photo’s of the ways in which you decorate your home. I am an interior designer and tho my home is decorated lovely, I have forgotten what fun it is to put seasonal things around. I do for Christmas but you put me into the Autumn mood and I bought some pumpkins and gourds and am doing things with more zest and the way I used to.. When I was much younger, I truly did all the charming things you do and it has made me realize that I need to keep doing that as it brings such cheer to me and the people around me. Most of all, I love your spirit and kindness. Thank you for being there to keep us on track with things we did years ago and reminding us that it is such a charming thing to do. Also thank you for being you!
Just looking at all of your beautiful decor and creativity lightens my heart and makes me smile! Thank you for inviting us into your home each season, to share in the joy of the Holidays!! God bless! <
Thanks for your posts! They are so fun to read and inspire me to be a better mother and wife. You’re amazing, I hope you know that!
Thank you for your posts!! I love to see your decorating ideas and they inspire me to make my little home a happier home!! :)
I looooove your decorating! I just started on the outside. I love seeing cornstalks, pumpkins and mums when I drive down to our home. Just kinda says come on in! Any knitters here Ruthie, I have a little sweet giveaway going on :-)
Thank you so much for putting such effort and care into each of your posts. I always look forward to them and enjoy all your words of encouragement and faith. I LOVE all your decorating ideas and the way you make everyone who reads along feel welcome and right at home! :)
Hey Ruthie, Never overwhelming; only inspirational. Loved loved loved your encouragement and reminder of the privilege and honour it is to be a home maker. spring has sprung in Australia and the weather glorious I have to say, but always fabulous to read of your seasonal changes. Ann from Australia, if you get to read this, i hear you loud and clear sister, regarding the country clutter not always appreciated! :)
Blessings,
Glenda
OMG, I am so in love with your beautiful home! Your decorating ideas are fantastic. Soon, I hope to have a place to have my junky and beautiful decor displayed as well…..thank you for sharing with us!!
GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!
i just come back to your site repeatedly just to look at your wonderful decorating! your kitchen is my dream!
SOOOO beautiful!!! your posts ALWAYS inspire me…i started harvest decorating about a week ago..but now your post just makes me want to take it to new limits! thank you..i just adore your blog!
Beautiful as always and just the encouragement I need to finish my decorating. Hugs and blessings to you…..=)
Ruthie, I just wanted to let you know, I bought candy corn and peanuts and LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I am looking for a cute glass pumpkin jar to put the mix in! Thanks for the suggestion!!!! XO, Pinky
Ruthie ~ what lovely photos of your Autumn Nest; beautifully cozy!! I especially embraced the end of your posting Ruthie which stated how a simple hand scrawled crayon materpiece brings in the magical Season of Fall’s Harvest Blessings ……. how encouraging of you to see that your gift of decorating might very well overwhelm the timid of heart, but, to grace a wee corner of a kitchen with simplicity most certainly turns any house into a haven of rest….Change of Season Style!!
You are gifted not only in decor, but, also in the written word Ruthie….you’re a lovely “encourager” for certain!
God Bless,
Barbra.
Your house is perfect for Fall and your words are so uplifting as usual. I love the Cedar Hill Farm sign, you were so lucky to find it. I wish our weather here in Florida would start cooling off so I could open up our windows and feel the fresh breeze. We are still reaching the upper 90’s, so I look so forward to Fall and all it brings! Thanks for sharing pics of your lovely home! Tammy
Oh wow! You and the first cool front of the season have put me in the mood for decorating!!!! And your ideas just blow me away!
I thank my good fortune for having landed on your site (while looking for transferware bowls I spotted in the October 2003 issue of Bon Appetit!)! The virtual walk through your autumn wonderland is such a delight, I shall have to return here, over and over again.
A wonderful Indian Summer and Fall Season to you,
Merisi
I just LOVE it all Ruthann!
:)
Love, love, love your Autumn decorating style!!! Everything looks wonderful!!!
Inspired! Thank you!
What a wonderful and warm post to get the creative juices flowing! Love the poetry and photos! A lovely place to visit; thank you.
Blessings,
Sandi
LOVE IT! we live in a half log home (which we have big plans for!), and this is in so many ways just what i wish i could do to my house! love your creativity!! it looks sooooo cute and cozy!
I love it all! Everything is so unique and original. I wish that I was more like that myself, but I am working on it (Playing on it?)
Have a lovely, lovely Fall!
You mentioned in a previous post that your plaid wool curtains are actually blankets – where on earth did you find them?!
I love your blog it is one of my favorites. I would like to give you the Lovely Blog Award please contact me . I will be posting about it soon. You can go to my blog to copy and past the blog award for your blog. Im working on the post now. Keep up the great work.
I really do love your lighted branches. My wife bought some recently, and they add a simple elegance to the living room. Plus, they’re lights, and sometimes having just a bit more light in a room goes a long way. My wife found our branch lights at a great online store called WorldToHome.com.
Un petit bonjour de France !
Juste un petit mot pour vous féliciter :
C’est toujours un réel plaisir de regarder votre blog ! il est merveilleux….
Merci pour tous ces “moments de vie” si chers à notre coeur.
Votre blog a un côté nostalique des années 50 et de l’Amérique profonde… c’est fabuleux !
Les photos sont magnifiques et font rêver !
Bonne continuation
ps : I’m not very fluent in english language, so, I hope you ‘ll understand me….
Just love your fall tour…thankyou.
Would you be kind enough to share as to where you track down your vintage photos of family, gals, etc. I’d love to frame a few in my rooms -without the Sugar Pie Farmhouse on it.
Blessings
Hi. I have enjoyed your blog for awhile now. You are a great inspiration. I especially enjoy the pictures of your home. We are considering building a house and I was wondering if you would share your house plan name or where I might purchase it? I love your pantry! We have 6 children and are going to Africa soon to pick up 3 babies that we have adopted. I would like a bigger kitchen and a nice place to put all the additional food I’ll be buying!
And yes, you live in a beautiful area. My daughter attends Evangel University in Springfield so we get down your way quite often.
Thanks for the great blog and words of encouragement!
Blessings
I keep coming back: can’t ever get tired of seeing your beautiful home!
Love your home, and your spirit!!! We live in Missouri also (north of springfield). I feel like we are kindred spirits. I feel the same way you do about my home but do not have the talent you do at putting it all together, nevertheless you have inspired me!!! I love your cupboard that is in front of your pantry and the beadboard in your pantry too!!!
I just wanted to let you know I am so glad you are still doing this blog. I found you 3 or 4years ago while doing a Google search for aprons (I’ve always just loved them, they make my hart go pitter patter) and decided to put you in my favorites. I didn’t know to much about blogs but loved how you had old fashion values and loved how you decorated for fall and the holidays. Periodically I stop by to see what you have been up to. Well last January my husband and I, had a chance to buy a home with 2 acres here in Las Vegas, and all I could think about was, finally I can get horses again and also have my big garden that I’ve always wanted and an orchard of fruit trees and nut trees. I remembered your blogs and visualized myself canning fruit in the kitchen and taking it down to the basement. IT EVEN HAS A BASEMENT (and that’s unheard of here in Vegas). We just fell in love with the place. Well we got it in April and have been busy unpacking cleaning and getting organized. We’ve planted 50+ trees around the perimeter back in spring, and just purchased 14 fruit trees just to get us started with the orchard, and 100+ bushes for around the house. After seeing your blog today I can’t wait to go down in the basement and get my Halloween bins and start blessing my family with wonderful decorations. I’ve been organizing and cleaning so much that I hadn’t taken the time to decorate for fall/Halloween. Also we have a 4yr old and a 21month old, so to get anything accomplished is a miracle. But I wouldn’t change it for nothing. I love my babies and husband so much. I am so blessed to be able to stay home with them. I just wanted to thank you so much for inspiring me. A couple weeks ago it started to cool off for us so I can’t wait to use one of my fireplaces. O yah, I forgot to tell you, the house even has 2 REAL fireplaces. One looks like it should be up in your neck of the woods. Can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait!!!
Thanks again,
Little house wife here in Las Vegas
Dear Aunt Ruthie! This blog is fabulous. Your home is so warm and inviting and I know how much your children must have loved growing up in that wonderful environment. Bless your heart! When I first found the blog last week I thought I had bookmarked it, or maybe the dog at the bookmark, because I had to go hunting for you last night. There was a link to get into your pantry that is full of awesomeness, but I can’t seem to find it now. Would be so kind to repost that link or send it to me personally? I know many women are in awe of that pantry of yours! Blessings…
Ruth,
Thank you so much for this post. After thirty years of marriage I am now the single mom of two teenagers. Money is very tight, but seeing these pictures yesterday inspired me to decorate for fall. Thanks to your inspiration, I was able to bring some things out and make our home look festive. My thirteen-year-old daughter came home from school and remarked, “Mommy, I really like how you decorated the house for fall. I noticed!” Her comment made it very worth it! As the Lord heals my heart, I’m trying to be grateful for my blessings. One of those blessings is your sweet spirit. Thank you!
Love your website. I’m from New England, have lived in Colorado for 26 years. I miss the fall colors, smells etc.
Where do you get your fabulous necklaces?
I’m so glad I found your blog! You are such an encouragement and I really love your positive outlook on life. Thank you and I look forward to seeing more from Aunt Ruthie.
My goodness – my computer died, I lost all my favorites — but when we hooked up the new one, the first thing I did was check out your website – it was certainly worth the wait! We are retired military, stuck out on the east coast. We are one of the “lucky” ones with a house on the market….waiting…waiting..waitng.. to sell it and move back home to the midwest. Every time I see your blog, I feel a little bit better and a little bit less homesick! We spent our honeymoon at Branson, and took the children there just a few years ago. Thanks for the pictures and bringing back such wonderful memories. God bless you and for bringing such dignity and grace to homemaking.
Aunt Ruthie, I sure enjoyed seeing Silver Dollar City again. I am a transplanted California girl (here since 1965) but I luv-v-v- the midwest. Friendly, simple times and beautiful change of the seasons. But CA is my home and I love it, too, especially my hometown!! My hubby and I really enjoyed S.D.C. about 20 years ago and would love to go back. Thanks for the great photos and my trip back in time. I love your blog and so does my “baby” girl, Mindi, whom you met in your last trip to CA. God bless!!
You are such an talented person! I love the way you inspire my heart with a desire to be blessing to my family!!
Hi Aunt Ruthie!
As always, I am so encouraged and inspired by spending time reading your posts! :)
I saw a free printable that made me think of you the other day…
Have you seen the ‘keep calm and carry on’ prints before?
Well, I saw one that said, “keep calm and bake pies”! ;)
find it here:
http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-10-27T01%3A40%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=2
blessings to you and yours!
~h
Always enjoy stopping by to see what you’re up to! Ciao
I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this posting. I have always loved the homey, old tyme feel of a simpler time. Your pictures are magnificent and you must have a degree in web design. I love the music, pictures, sentiment….wellllll………everything. You go girl! Hugs & Mush, Gommy
I love the way you decorate your home. It is a real treat to see your ideas for fall. Whis I could find some of the things you did but live in a city now and no treasures to be found. Is there any way you might offer things to buy for the holidays for the rest of us. Living in Bakersfield, Ca.
All I can say is “WOW”….so creative….
this definitely gets me in the mood…since I started working full time 1 1/2 years ago I’ve neglected my decorating for the seasons….your post reminds me of how important it is for my children.
I have 4 days off next week and guess what I am gonna do? Decorate for Fall!
Thanks for the reminder to make my home a sanctuary.
Natalie
I enjoyed your web-site very much. I loved what you said at the end about not meaning to overwhelm…it was very thoughtful. My visit here did exactly what I think your aim is…it warmed my heart and inspired me to want to make my home “hug” all who enter.
Plan a visit to Springfield very soon. Which flea market is a good one?
Love your fall decorating….simply stunning))) Posting one of your photos on my blog with link back to you….the bucket with the lighted branches….The Cedar Hill Farm sign…..just love it all)))
I just LOVE this it is so wonderful to look at and read through. Thank you <3
Are you an interior decorator? Normally, I do not like country kitchens, but you could convert me. Your vignettes are wonderful, and they just make me want to come for a cup of coffee.
I want to learn how to do vignettes, but they never come together in a way that is warm and inviting. Thanks for the inspiration.
long hot summer ,just enjoyed your site so much i have been renovating
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Hi. Ive just found your lovely house for Autumn and I hope I can find one for winter. Its so nice. We , here in Scotland dont do so much for Autumn but im going to make an extra special effort now. Thankyou.
Your words are beautiful and inspring, and speak right to my heart, and I know to the hearts of many good ole home grown country girls like myself. You have a great gift! Thank you for sharing it with me!
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Hi! Love your house!! I was wondering if you made your “Freshly Baked Pies” sign yourself or if it was purchased somewhere?
You clearly put as much passion into decorating your home as you do blogging about it. I enjoyed your post immensely. Thank you for sharing your talents with us!
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Wow, what a fabulous post! I absolutely loved it and can’t wait to share this. Thanks, Ruthie and Happy Fall!
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Hey Aunt Ruthie!
I’m working on a blog post of inspiring fall decorating ideas, and I’d love to include your Autumn Home Tour in my post. Would you like to be included in my round-up? I’d use one image from your post and have a clear text link leading back to your post. It may also be used in a pinnable graphic.
Let me know when you get a chance – thanks so much!
I was so blessed reading all of your postive outlooks on this beautiful season! I love the joy that I sense and What a great reminder of being the blessing our family needs in our own homes. Blessings to you!
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كجزء من حزمة نقل الأثاث الكاملة من شركة سماء المملكة لخدمات النقل الاحترافية ، تقدم مجموعة ركن نجد خدمات تعبئة وتغليف اثاث احترافية.
مستويات خدمة التعبئة
التعبئة الكاملة: نعتني بتغليف وتعبئة أثاث منزلك بالكامل.
تعبئة العناصر الهشة: نعتني بتغليف وتعبئة الأشياء القابلة للكسر ، مثل الصين والأطباق والمرايا.
التعبئة الذاتية للأثاث: يقوم العميل بتعبئة وتغليف أثاثه بنفسه، مع التزام الشركة بتوفير مستلزمات التعبئة.
يمكننا تخصيص خيار التعبئة الذي يناسب احتياجاتك على أفضل وجه سواء كنت تريد منا القيام بكل أو بعض تغليف وتعبئة أثاثك، أو كنت تفضل القيام بهذا العمل بنفسك.
Come decorate my kitchen please? haha :) Darling decorating.