common ground : Late October Lookback on the Farm Table

I wanted to have a little fun this week with one of my vintage birdcages and a sassy little blackbird that I've had for a few years. He didn't fare very well during the move, as his cute little paper hat became unattached. I did the easy thing and used some transparent tape to get it back on. Don't look too close. He's almost good as new.

I really love having my farmtable (farm table?) out in the Garden Room because it's so easy to see, yet we don't use it much. It's a large flat surface just begging to have decor "vignetted" all over it. I've been using my old ice cream bucket since mid-Summer when I noticed that it was looking a little "chewed" while out on the back porch. Yes, we have a few of those little squirrel and chipmunk friends who tend to be teething.... all over my vintage wooden goodies. (shelves, signs, birdhouses, with lots of nuts stashed around)

Back to my friend in the birdcage. so cute with his little orange ruffled collar.

hmmm. I need to work on the tape fix.

Here is the little guy a couple of years ago hanging out in another vintage birdcage.

You can see that post HERE.

You can tell by the pumpkins on the table that I try out different elements

before I decide. Then I'll tweak it more a bit later.

I don't know if I've ever shown this old metal tray before. It looks like some old grocery store transit tray. Like maybe to move around bread or packaged goods. Love the orange color. It's holding a couple of my wool pumpkins that I don't bring out until the weather gets cooler. I like to use them for Thanksgiving, since wool pumpkins are a little odd at 90 degrees.

My lighted pumpkin is in my PB urn.

It looks super cute when the lights are low in the Garden Room.

I've had to bring a few of my outside ferns and small plants inside,

so it's looking a little "greenhouse-y"

This is a pic from last week's tabletop vignette. I have 2 of this size PB lanterns and I wanted to try filling one with gourds and pumpkins. I was using the lantern early this month before I put together the birdcage.

I think you all know how much I love Fall and look forward to it all year. I wait all year for the crisp air, brilliant blue skies, and kaleidoscope of Fall foliage. So many of us have fond memories of "Trick or Treating" when we were kids. Even though we might not "celebrate" Halloween, we still enjoy the fun and nostalgia of vintage ephemera, Jack-O-Lanterns, costumes, and decorations from our young years.

So, I'm going to share a few fun things for this time of year that remind me of the past.

I like to keep things changed up for seasons and holidays here, and since the entry console is the first thing you see, it got a few vintage pieces.

These cute die cut owls are from the 50's or 60's and could be found at the old 5 and 10 Stores like Ben Franklin and Woolworth's.

A few weeks ago when out at my favorite Vintage Market, one of the booths had old birdcages filled with vintage accessories. I decided it would be fun to put something together like that using what I had on hand.

I used a few of the same elements for mine, but the door on my round birdcage is really small and the floor is wired to the cage itself. A bigger pumpkin would have been so perfect, but I was limited to what I could get inside.

I first took some pics in the Kitchen when I was finished, since at that point I wasn't sure where it would end up. I have a small white pumpkin candle sitting on a tree branch wedge, an old song book, and glittered acorns that are joining little Miss Blackbird inside.

It needed a little elevation here in the Entry, so the bird cage is sitting on my mom's milk glass cake pedestal that I had been using for one of my cloches. I've just borrowed it for a bit.