It all started with a tummy ache!

I wasn't feeling 100% this morning so I was being lazy and sitting on the window seat reading blogs and getting inspired.

This little table is one of my views from my perch on the window seat and on a whim I decided it needed a change.

A quick swap from the MacKenzie-Childs tea kettle holding flowers to some favorite plates

and adding books to the lower shelf and I was done - or so I thought!

I needed to find a place for the tea kettle and that meant changing these shelves

and instantly the dining room was in chaos.

 Once I started putting things on the shelves, 

 I noticed I had a theme going -

clocks were popping up all over

and I had a sudden urge to set out all of my clocks.

As soon as this wall was completed,

I attacked the shelf over the dining room windows.

In this photo from a few weeks ago, you can just catch a small glimpse of what the shelf looked like early this morning.

Now, instead of pitchers, the remainder of my clock collection is in the dining room.

The clocks looked silly spread out so I added old bottles to fill in the space.

The soup tureen came down from the shelf and now sits on the table.

The reorganizing continued into the entry because I had to find a place for all of the pitchers.

I don't keep the cabinet doors open, 

but I like having the cupboard neat and tidy.

It all started with a tummy ache

and the inspiration to simply change one little vignette in the dining room.

The next thing I knew, the entire dining room was revamped.

The tummy ache is gone and that's a good thing because I just don't have time tomorrow to change another room.

Time for a change ...

I've been thinking about changing vignettes around the house 

because so many bloggers are talking about fall and pictures on Instagram reflect the season's colors.

We don't really have a fall season,

 but last night as I fell asleep, ideas for a new mantel design floated through my head - instead of counting sheep!

I had no firm idea of how I would decorate the mantel when I got up this morning, 

but I took everything nautical off the mantel and dumped it on the guest room bed.

When I stopped to take a picture for my blog post, I noticed all the clocks on the ladder and suddenly I knew what I wanted to do.

Every clock came off the ladder and I found a few more in my garden house.

I had a lot of fun creating this mantel.

Clocks were moved from side to side of the mantel

and moved from back to front and back again until I felt like I had it right.

I always like using words in my vignettes and a Tim Holtz metal piece "live in the moment" seemed to fit with the "TIME" theme.

The St. Etienne Chocolate piece looks like a clock, but it is actually an old CD with a cut out of a clock glued to it - found on the blog Tongue and Cheek a couple of year's ago.

According to the poem, the mouse is supposed to "run up the clock", but this mouse is just hiding among the clocks.

I received a book of alphabetized quotes from Sugarboo Designs the other day and I was sure there would be one for time.

This message really made me think about how I spend my hours each day.

The last touch was to tuck dried tree branches into the clock displays.

The mantel was all I accomplished today so tonight as I fall asleep,

 I'll be dreaming of ways to decorate the ladder now that the clocks are gone.

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