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Decorating our home for Halloween is one of my favorite ways to kick off the holidays. Since Annabelle has been having a great time exploring her artistic talents (making window clingers and other art projects are fun and meaningful ways that our family spends an afternoon or evening together), I thought we might try several fall decorating projects.

People love to tell stories around a fire… so it made sense to me to create some narrative fire pits that tell stories themselves. And what better story to begin with than the story of how mankind was given fire? Of course there are many, many versions of this story.

Mosaic Sculpture - Darling Daisy - Anne Schwegmann-Fielding Darling Daisy, Countess of Warwick. Commissioned by Gardens of Easton Lodge, Great Dunmow. Made entirely from objects unearthed from the gardens during restoration. Anne was the gardens first artist in residence and curator of the Gardens sculpture trail.

The Great Bowl O’ Fire is the handy work of artist, John T. Unger. Unger makes these beautiful steel fire pits out of recycled steel. Granted a fire pit by nature is not exactly eco-friendly but if you’re going to get one, rather than running down to home depot you can get one of these hand made

Was surprised to see so many peppers when I was watering last night. They grew so big in a couple of days! Must be the heat. So…does anyone know when peppers are ripe? Do I have to wait until they turn red? Pick ‘em green? I have Sweet Italian, Garden Salsa Mix, Caribbean Habanero, Serranos (those I know I can pick green) and something called a Jimboy.

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If you take the definition of carpets literally, it would normally point towards fabric or something soft. But in countries like Israel, there are ways to make the carpet definition broader with the use of natural wood.

These guys deserve some attention and applause for turning old motorcycles into pieces of table art. Wow, if you are Aliens fan, you might enjoy getting these Alien Tables made from recycle motorcycle parts.

Everyone knows how bouncy an inflated inner tube can be, so you can just imagine how comfortable a chair and other furniture made from these recycled inner tubes can be? This particular design has been made 5 Forty Design who have brought together the technique of design and the eco friendly demand being sought by people who are wishing to live a green life.