If you have small kids you’ll know where that title came from. I’ve been hearing Zee sing, “It feels like I’m falling for fall” for days now. We watch way too much Nick Jr. around here.
Despite the fact that I felt pretty terrible most of the weekend, I did get around to cleaning my house and I didn’t stop there. I told Garan several weeks ago that I have virtually no fall decorations and she inspired me to be creative. I normally wouldn’t need somebody to tell me that, but this pregnancy is really sapping my creative juices! I’m not generally a fan of Halloween decorations because I want whatever I do to last through Thanksgiving and I didn’t want anything that looked too crafty or homespun. I went to Hobby Lobby and bought a grapevine wreath and like every other blogger in America I bought a buggy full of fall picks to jam into it. I used the leftovers to accent what few things I had and then pulled a few other things out of thin air.
I still need to work on my porch and front stairs, but I’m pretty happy with how the living area turned out. Here are our favorite fall vignettes…
This is the centerpiece on my dining room table. I used burlap, mums, a large pumpkin, some decorative gourds, gold beads and pine cones. I also used a lamp, vase and cross that I already had. YES, the hurricane on that lamp needs to be washed. I’m adding it to my to do list.
I didn’t do too much to my buffet, just added a mum in a concrete planter, a stack of orange books and some fall colored accessories. I threw in some October issues of magazines in my stacks to add the right colors.
This is a pine box on a wrought iron stand next to the armchair in our living room. My mom gave me the jack-o-lantern for Ella’s first Halloween and I added a few twigs of color, pine cones and acorns to my Southern Living Barley Twist Pedestal.
This is what we call the “kiddie” table in the living room, but in reality I eat here as much as Ella does. I made a new tablecloth out of brown and white giraffe print over the weekend because my mom accidentally shrunk the muslin one. I created a much smaller vignette here with a small pumpkin, pine cones, burlap, orange m&ms and a small orange frame. The leaf in the frame is silk, but you can’t even tell!
And finally the wreath that started it all. I bought an oval instead of a round one because our front door is skinny. I had planned to hang it outside, but after hanging it here to make it I couldn’t bear to relocate it! It looks so good with our orange walls and matchstick blinds. I’ll have to work some other magic outside.
I forgot to take a picture of my favorite fall decoration. I’ll be sure to share it tomorrow!
