Copy Cats are the most fun of all...

I have been consumed with PUMPKIN FEVER 

and now.....I gotta take a break from PUMPKINS....

When you have blogged, taken photos, worked your hinny off...

for as long as I have, going on 12 years now,

there's always older posts that you want to run again.
♥
Besides, I have a lot of new blogging friends that probably
haven't seen a lot of my posts.

Doing copy cats of other bloggers, out of magazines,

even friends, is so much fun.....and has always been a favorite of mine.

The following is a post from 2012

PAT of ON CROOKED CREEK fame did that cute basket on the left
and I just HAD to do one like it...I already had the basket...the labels AND the flowers..
just didn't have enuf STYLE about my silly self to put them all together and hang them

ON THE FRONT PORCH.

Thanks for the inspiration, PAT. :)

Pat....I am still using this basket and it reminds me of you

and your sweetness all the time...

One of my most fun copy cats, I think....

I copied

HOBBY LOBBY

on this one...

such a simple copycat but so fun..and I really enjoyed it on my dining table all thru fall.

We both had a blast working on this
COPY CAT
STORY TABLE....

my inspiration coming from
DONNA at
 FUNKY JUNK INTERIORS..

I bought 
a tiny, beat up thrifted little $5.00 table and it became one of my favorite furniture pieces...
mainly because
IT'S GOT SOUL.....

You can read more of MY STORY here...

I'm pretty sure THIS copy cat will become an heirloom for my family.
I hope so, anyway...
it has reference to my Grandpa Jackson,
his saloon in East Texas,
one star for our LONE STAR STATE of Texas,
and Mr. Sweet's mother's birth year.
I really love my STORY TABLE ....and so did Mr. Sweet.

 and then came THE SHELF....

OOO MY....I was and still am soooo proud of this 

MACKENZIE*CHILDS  $1,000.00 WALL SHELF KNOCK-OFF.

I helped making it....and painting it...a little........I really did...

but MR. SWEET gets all the credit....and he absolutely OUT-DID 

his sweet, talented self on this one.

This is the only DebbieDoo CopyCat that
 I DID FIRST ...hahhaa

She didn't see mine and copy it, tho...
no siree....
I actually did this one years and years ago.


I've used several of these wooden appliques on different pieces of furniture...

and even on a dining room door.
They are fun and just give a little pizzazzzz
to your room.

SOME of my copy cats were TOO SILLY TO EVEN POST....

 ...for instance, THIS pretty lady was in COUNTRY LIVING
and I just wanted to copy her so baaaad.
I didn't have a hat any where NEAR the quality and cuteness of THIS one...
nor did I have an awesome necklace made from GOLF TEES....
so whimsical and cute.....

BUT....

I did have a big, ole TEXAS
BLACK COWBOY HAT....

that was a TAD TOO LARGE
for my bronzy bust...

 and I had a MAGNIFICENT, silver and turquoise necklace...
sooo....
LET THE COPY CATTING BEGIN....

hahhhaaaa......what a hoot.
Too silly to post to the world but I see I kept it all,
so,
here 'tis....silly or not....
Tooo fun....

Can't remember for sure which magazine this was in but I loved it...

I REALLY had fun doing the
FRENCH TABLE...

I think I did this copy cat in 2010 but liked it enuf to add it to this post.

 Now, THIS copy cat took longer to do than any of the others, I think.
I had a blast gathering everything up to try to come up with a photo
that was close to the inspiration photo.

When I bought these two TALL brass
candlesticks, I had no idea what I wanted to do with them....

but then, POTTERY BARN
came along and "showed me the way"....

 A favorite copy cat was done several years ago...

when I saw the WELSH HUTCH, on the left, in a decorating magazine, I sweetly asked  Mr. Sweet to build a hutch to go over a vintage HARVEST table...

thus making the perfect
WELSH HUTCH
for our dining room.

Chocolate Toffee and I fully  intended to get a photo of it for you.
Well, by the time I thought to take a picture, I had just about eaten
THE WHOLE THING.

She tells me this is called
SALTINE TOFFEE
aka
CHRISTMAS CRACK.

O MY GOSH
it is so delicious, I can't find words.
I didn't get her recipe...all she said was "PINTEREST"
so I intend to do a SEARCH on Pinterest

and, THEN, BABY...
I am going to do an awesome
COPY CAT. !!
♥

This is such a simple
copy cat...

but I loved the idea of using a little bit of Fern in
 just plain FUN...:)
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I used this idea just this year, 2018

One of the fun parts of doing knockoffs or copy cats....

you come up with ideas that you might never have thought of on your own....

I think this tabletop arrangement looks better with the fern.

> I remember, when I did this table, that Mr. Sweet made the remark,
" Of all the things you are having a hissy fit over on this table,
the BISCUITS and GRAVY
look
BEST OF ALL !!
hahaaha...you silly silly man...:)

How I wish he was here right now...
I would make him biscuits and gravy so fast, it would make his head spin...😭 



NEXT....

LAST BUT SURELY NOT LEAST....

MY FAVORITE COPY CAT OF ALL TIMES....

I have to say....THIS COPY CAT picture was the MAGNIFICENT work of my daughter, STACY LEIGH....

Isn't it so funny !!!

I laugh sooo hard every single time I look at it...

I think it's the most ADORABLE thing I've ever seen.
♥ ♥ ♥

One of the cute things about it...

that's 10 year old DEEDS, holding her 15 year old sis, BRYNNA.

Waaaay  too  cute, girls.
WHAT A HOOT.......

♥ ♥ ♥

If you see something that you would like to do a copy cat of,

do it...

so much fun

and I take all the fun I can get these days.

Love to all,

bj

Peter Peter...Pumpkin Eater

Now that we are having cooler Autumn weather,

The swimmers have stopped playing and having fun in the water and

most of
 the pretty plants and flowers that were around the pool

have been moved to THE GREENHOUSE.

Wondering about plants that might could survive our winters here outdoors,
we have to do some googling on that subject...
but to fill IN BETWEEN, .......

 more PUMPKINS to the rescue.....

I think they look adorable out there, on that pretty rock mountain!

and...
when son, DAVID KEITH, had the new pool built last winter,
he also added a huge outdoor kitchen....

 after all the pretty plants and seat cushions were removed
from the Outdoor Kitchen,
it looked SO bare...
kind of like when we take all our Christmas decorations down from inside
our homes....B.A.R.E.

(that's a big tv behind those pretty wooden doors)

so, I made a small arrangement to go in the corner...
all faux and it is only covered out there by a pergola,
so those faux flowers will get wet and probably fade !

Our autumn winds get pretty frisky sometimes so I
decided not to do a tall arrangement that could catch that wind...
and just might end up in the pool....
I'm sure more pumpkins will be added for Thanksgiving...

This view right outside my front door...

...right outside my side windows...

I am blessed beyond measure....

Happiest Autumn to all...