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DIY Paper Bag Pumpkins and Fall Home Tour

October 10, 2020 by Dagmar Bleasdale 33 Comments

You can make DIY brown paper bag pumpkins in minutes — making them couldn’t be easier! I added them to my fall decor this year. Here is the whole tour.

Welcome to the Blue Cottage Fall Home Tour

I finally took pictures of our porch a few days ago!

I’ll show you how I decorate my home on a budget this year for fall — and how I created a few easy fabric and paper bag pumpkins anyone can make in minutes.

I wanted to post my fall home tour much earlier, but I needed to finish a certain project first: can you tell what I’ve done?

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Easy Vintage Thanksgiving Table Setting With Transferware

September 20, 2020 by Dagmar Bleasdale 21 Comments

This vintage Thanksgiving table setting with transferware was a pleasure to put together. I hope it inspires you to use items you already own for beautiful Thanksgiving decor.

Vintage Thanksgiving Table Setting

If you know me, you know I’ll find a way to decorate the whole home with vintage treasures. The same applies to Thanksgiving table settings.

This year I incorporated many of my vintage items that I collect.

And I wanted to figure out a nice Thanksgiving table setting that wouldn’t cost much.

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9 Cute and Affordable Fall Pillows

September 3, 2020 by Dagmar Bleasdale 4 Comments

Buying a new throw pillow is such an easy way to update your seasonal decor — here are my favorite 9 fall pillows you will love as well!

Cute Fall Pillows: Orange Velvet and Pumpkin Pillow

As you know, I decorate our Blue Cottage mostly with inexpensive decor I find at Target or Kohl’s, or thrift stores and tag sales.

I redecorate for every season and especially love fall — it’s my favorite season for sure here in the beautiful Hudson Valley, NY.

I love showing you my latest thrifty finds, and I have a few: inexpensive fall pillows!

In the last few weeks, I’ve been keeping my eye out for fall decor in anticipation of my Fall Home Tour, which is ready for you to check out.

Now, pillows I wouldn’t buy at tag sales or the thrift store — those I always buy new. But I know where to find them for little money.

This year, I found orange velvet pillows at Primark – for just $7 each.

I bought two — you can see them in this picture on our sofa.

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Toxic Hand Sanitizers – Warning About Poisoning in Children

August 19, 2020 by Dagmar Bleasdale 12 Comments

Hand sanitizers can be very harmful, especially for children. Toxic hand sanitizers are an urgent issue because their use has skyrocketed since the start of the new virus.

Their correct use is even more important now that children are going back to school, where they will be exposed to hand sanitizer like never before. Plus many hand sanitizers have been recalled for being very harmful to children’s health.