210 vintage-inspired posts, 5000 wonderful comments, and two years later, Poetic Home celebrates its second birthday today!

I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU for making the last two years inspirational — and for sharing your days with me on Poetic Home.  To have an opportunity to share with you ideas and treasures that inspire me, as well as experience what inspires you, has been very wonderful.  I truly enjoy your company, as well as all of the friendships that have blossomed from our shared appreciation of vintage treasures.  Cheers to another two years of inspiration!

(Photo: Taken in 1926 of Ruth the elephant and her 150-pound birthday cake by Bettmann/CORBIS)

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Taking advantage of heirloom pumpkins this year, I created a simple pumpkin “rainbow” for our fireplace mantle to celebrate fall and Thanksgiving.  Aren’t all the colors of the pumpkin rainbow splendid?

Small hang tags stamped with fall messages accent some of the pumpkin stems, wishing all a happy fall!

May you have a wonderful autumn weekend filled with bounty and delight!

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Although it’s been five years since I left the hallowed hallways of Berkeley, the fall always reminds me of the promise of new knowledge.  For the fall issue of UPPERCASE magazine (which you can still enjoy through a subscription), I was inspired by the quintessential symbol of  timeless wisdom: library card catalogs.  Of course, in the spirit of Poetic Home, my article is filled with ideas on how to repurpose these wonderful biblio-antiquities.

Here is a closer look at the current rendition of my most recent library card catalog cabinet find.  It’s a cabinet of vintage curiosities for now, but I’m in the process of repurposing it for the baby’s nursery.

Does the fall remind you of back-to-school nostalgia too? It may be time for me to take a trip to the library this afternoon….

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“Ah!” our fairy godmother exclaimed.  “How could I forget the magic slippers?”

However, we would not see any of that glass slipper nonsense.  Our fairy godmother, who has been fashionable through the centuries, knew that only stilettos would suit a modern goddaughter.  And being an intelligent godmother, she fashioned from the House of Nature a pair of slippers – with cute ankle ties, nonetheless – that would not fall of any respectable lady’s feet.  Indeed, not walking barefoot was more important than leaving behind a “clue” about the transformed princess.  After all, with the population boom the fairy godmother has seen in the last century, it would be impossible for a modern prince to find his princess with just one shoe.  “That’s what Facebook is for,” she thought to herself.

And so our lovely fairy godmother waits in her fall fairytale, ready to come to the aid of any goddaughter looking for a modern “happily ever after!”

And on that note, I wish you a happy, happy Halloween friends!

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