Autumn - Must.... Fight.... Hibernation

Autumn is beautiful, but it makes me feel lazy and bored with everything. It's like an appetizer that looks good, but tastes just so-so, before a dreadful main dish: winter. I'm already feeling the effect of low light and short days. But I'm determined to not let it get to me, so on the weekend I decided to do my door wreath.

I bought this twig wreath at the Salvation Army years ago. It makes for a great base for new seasonal styles. This time, I used leaves from my magnolia tree, flowers from my hydrangeas bush and faux fruits I already had in my stash of decorating stuff. The natural elements should weather nicely, taking on gold and copper hues and slowly exposing the twigs behind.

Wishing us all a mild and dry autumn.

Victorian Front Entrance Doors - Completed

Here we are, the doors are done and I don't think visitors will be expecting Vincent Price to answer when they ring.

Fresh and clean.

They coordinate nicely with the windows and shutters.

And they show up a little better through the glass doors than the darker version.

Victorian Front Entrance Doors - Part II

The other door has been stripped, sanded and painted, just like the first one. I thought that it would be nice to reproduce the scroll pattern from the window on to the bottom square frame.

So I traced it, transfered it on to my computer and retraced it in Illustrator so it's straight and precise.

I then printed out, cut it with a blade knife to get a template. This template was used on each door in the four corners of the square frame.

I filled in the lines with the garnet red paint using a #4 and #0 paint brush.