I've had this thing for at least 25 years and it's been borrowed for a couple of weddings and some other events as well. Now that it's autumn, this will once again go live on a closet shelf.
The replacement is this thing that's been around for almost as long. Each year it changes a bit but not so much this year. The vase was purchased 21 years ago for our first Thanksgiving in this house. The contents have mostly come from my garden but remnants of arrangements brought by relatives on Thanksgivings past are also present. Some of last year's gourds had dried nicely and were painted gold this summer for this post.
There are also some dried hydrangeas in the entry with grass seed heads.
This year, I intentionally didn't go to the Glass Eye Studio sidewalk sale as I have enough glass! The glass pumpkin collection is hanging out on the dining room table for a few weeks until it must be cleared to make space for Thanksgiving dinner.
Forgive me, Cathy, for not bringing anything new inside to enjoy this week. To see Cathy's vase this week and find links to those of others, click here.
I love your glass pumpkin display. We got out the dried gourds and other fall decor this weekend too.
ReplyDeleteIt's that time of year, isn't it? Where did the summer go?
DeleteI am somehow both comforted and amused by your silk flower arrangement. It is lovely, though, and certainly not showing it's age.
ReplyDeleteI decorated this weekend too, including arrangements of dried hydrangeas.
Glad you're comforted and amused:) I used to feel bad about bringing flowers in from the garden and watching them die so there were a few silk arrangements around.
DeleteAll those arrangements certainly earned their place in your home with so much history and tradition. Both look years younger... I will admit to a few silk arrangements myself.
ReplyDeleteYour pumpkin collection is stunning though I can't believe you declared "I have enough glass!"
Lately I've been feeling like I have enough of everything. We hit three nurseries on Saturday and saw lots of great plants and stuff but I didn't bring anything home.
DeleteIts so interesting to see how people from different continents and cultures adorn their homes. I love the arrangement with dried flowers, which get added to over the years. As charming as having a beloved old Christmas tree with decorations which have so many memories. Those glass pumpkins are quite something.
ReplyDeleteIt is fun to peek inside the homes of others and observe the differences in adornments. Just one of the many fun parts of blogging!
DeleteForgive me Cathy, for I have sinned. Silk Flowers! What!? I don't remember seeing it when I was there in August, did I somehow miss it?
ReplyDeleteI think they were sitting there in the entry when you were here but there is so much stuff to look at in the Munster's house that you might have missed it.
DeleteI missed a bouquet today as well. The rain is keeping my last few autumn flowers from blooming. But I love dried arrangements and even silk ones. I have a wall vase that has had a dried bouquet in it for at least two years. Every now and then I add something new, but I think I am the only one who notices.
ReplyDeleteI love not having to change water, cut stems, and clean up fallen petals in dried and silk arrangements.
DeleteWhile silk flowers make me shudder (I'm sorry Peter!), I do love your autumn display and your collection of glass pumpkins is magnificent. I have one - it's a start.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay to shudder at silk flowers. I think it was a habit from my Alaska days when there weren't fresh flowers to pick for many months at a time. We're lucky to have so many glass blowers in this area competing for pumpkin sales.
DeleteLovely to meet your old favourites - they are serving you well and they look splendid. I have never seen even ONE glass pumpkin before and now a whole gathering of them - I admit to glass pumpkin envy! Drooling!
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize what a big thing glass pumpkins had become until I started seeing advertisements for glass pumpkin patches. Some of these shows are almost as large as an actual pumpkin patch with glass pumpkins of all shapes, sizes, and colors.
DeleteCathy is a most forgiving hostess...and aren't you glad?
ReplyDeleterickii
I am glad that she's tolerant of my often rather strange Monday vases.
DeleteI would forgive you Peter if you had sinned, but you have not �� You manaage to delight us week after week - and your glass pumpkin collection is a wonderful thing...love them!
ReplyDeleteOh Cathy, thank you so much for hosting this wonderful meme; It brings me great joy.
DeleteI really like that autumnal collection assembled over the years. Lovely Peter.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fun dried collection.
DeleteNothing to forgive here in my way of thinking. Love the arrangements. They are such good friends to you. Still pretty after all these years.
ReplyDeleteIt's not fair that I don't look as young as I did 20 years ago but these do!
DeleteOf course she forgives you, and we do, too, although there's no need for forgiveness. Hey, it's all about creativity, in whatever form that presents itself, right? That silk arrangement is incredible!
ReplyDeleteThe Monday Vase meme is a fun reason to be creative with things from the garden.
DeleteI have to admit, I have a two vases of silk flowers sitting around the house, too. (And I call myself a gardener?) Not to mention the stained glass lamp flowers all over the place. Your arrangements are much more sophisticated than mine, I just spied a price tag on one of my roses I forgot to remove. About ten years ago.....
ReplyDeleteI don't think it matters at all that the arrangement is not new. The various ingredients from your garden over the years make it special. And those pumpkins are cute!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed that you can keep dried arrangements more than a year. Our summer humidity always does them in. Love the glass pumpkins. There is a vendor that makes and sells them at our fall festival, but I've never bought one because then I'd have to find a place to store it! ;)
ReplyDeleteWow you are so wonderful to have such elegant decorations since so many years!
ReplyDeletei absolutely LOVED the first one MOST ,the shelf the wood and flowers in vase everything is gorgeous!
each single vase speaks out loud for you love and attention my friend!