But before we tackle Christmas, let me ask you. What does fall look like around your house?
Our table, complete with the pumpkin made from nylons that Mitch crafted in his first grade homeschool academy.
Have you visited a pumpkin patch? Brought in some fall leaves? Scattered gourds in a basket or mini-pumpkins in a bowl?
Found the Happy Harvest sign on clearance at TJ Maxx. (I love that place!) and the basket of Indian corn and gourds is from our local farmer’s market.
Farmer’s markets are also great places to pick up fall mums that will stay looking colorful even during fall frosts. Here are some I grabbed the other day at a local one for only $8!
Tell us today what fall decorating you do around your house. You could win the following:
~ Three decorative signs to spruce up your home. They say Faith, Hope & Love.
~Some Godiva chocolate truffles in ice cream shoppe flavors.
~A signed copy of my book A Life That Says Welcome: Simple Ways to Open Your Heart & Home to Others. It has tons of tips for decorating on a shoe-string budget and using items in fall to make your home cozy.
So tell us….what is fall like at your place?
I printed off a free printable I found on a blog that was subway art. It is a brown background with fall words such as pumkin, cinnamon, scarecrows, giving thanks (you get the picture) in white and orange. I put in in a simple black frame I already had, set it up on my bar with a fake, sparkly pumking, gourd, and fall leaf candy dish that I got from the dollar store! I also replaced my regular center piece on my kitchen table with a small pot of mums. Not much, but it does the trick for under $20!:)
I love fall! I love the foods, the smells, and the decorating! We also try very hard to stay on budget, so decorating is on a minimal spend. We put mums in the front yard (2 gallon pots purchased for $3 at the grocery store and GORGEOUS!), get pumpkins from a local farmer, and we grow our own mini pumpkins. I have a tote of fall decorations, which I try to add to each year at the post-season sales. I like to change what’s on our mantle depending on the season/holiday. Love your ideas and would love to see more – always looking for ideas that make your house welcoming without busting the budget!
Inside I don’t have too many decorations… I love the idea of decorating, but I don’t really know where to start. Little scarecrows, gourds, hand made crafts- that’s pretty much the extent. I really need help in that department! Ha ha ha
Somewhere along the line, most of the rest of the world got the Decorating Chip implanted into their brains, and I seem to have missed that step on the Road to Womanhood. I don’t decorate, beyond a couple vases of artificial flowers that I change with the seasons. I wish I were creative enough to come up with more.
I collect glass/crystal candleholders but usually in just singles that have had their match broken so they are all from second hand stores. I just decorated all of them with leaves, pumpkins and gourds from Joann fabrics along with orange candles in a variety of sizes. (I also decorate them with vintage Christmas balls for Christmas.) Outside my front door I have three small mums in different colors, a small bale of hay, pumpkins and an antique rake which I also picked up very inexpensively at a second hand store.
Lots of leaves, gourds, and pumpkins. I always have to have an apple or cinnamon candles burning too. Fall is a beautiful season and I love the colors and smells. I also love your book A Life that says Welcome. I have checked it out numerous times from the library for encouragement and ideas. It has been a blessing. I also love your ideas for fall in your book Homespun Memories from the Heart too. I had to buy a copy of this I love it so. I am getting ready to do some of the harvest things with the kids…the donuts are a autumn favorite too! Blessings.
I love the colors of fall! I string Fall leaves on the mirror above my mantel and set out the cutest pilgrims and indians my son made in Kindergarten (he is 17 now). There is always a bowl full of dry roasted peanuts and candy corn that has to be refilled often or moved away from my husband’s favorite chair. Pumpkin spice candles and cinnamon scented pinecones. I love fall even if it is still 80 degrees in Texas
How do you keep the leaves “fresh”?
This is the first year I have really decorated for harvest. I have an autumn leaf garland swagged across my mantle with a pumpkin reading “Give thanks with a grateful heart”. I have pumpkin spice in my scentsy pot, a colorful leaf table runner, door hangers with pumpkins…..etc etc. I love Christmas but Fall is my absolute favorite season:)
Thank you for your ministry
I put fall leaves on the mantel and scatter pumpkin candles and pumpkins around the house. I’d love to read your book!
I haven’t thought of fall decor; between a very tight budget, grad school, a toddler, and third trimester pregnancy, there isn’t a lot of opportunity to decorate.
I did buy a “Give us our daily bread” bread basket from Family Christian stores on sale last Fall but we keep our bread in that all year around :) They have a few things on sale (small pumpkins with scripture etc) so if the budget allows and God says yes, I may buy a couple of things and put them around our bread basket on our dining table.
Amy~I love the idea of Fall leaves; I may do a few of those around the table too!
I have my Fall wreath outside our front door and that is about it….been too hot here in TX, it promises to get cooler by next Tuesday, so maybe I will get in the mood….hopefully win a copy of yor book. thank you for the opportunity.
I loved to get a bale of hay and put pumpkins and mums around it!! I have a stuffed scarecrow I set out!!!! Love to plant pansies–my favorite!!!! Thanks and blessings, Barb
No different than it did this Spring or Summer! I need help!
The centerpiece of my dining table is an antique dough bowl that belonged to my mother in law’s grandmother. An extra large candle is placed in the center with pumpkins, wooden balls, wooden acorns and cinnamon sticks are tucked around the candle. The dough bowl is placed on top of a fall table runner. I have a wooden wine box that is filled with autumn flowers and berries sitting in my kitchen window and whimsical pumpkins scattered around the kitchen area. A colorful fall leaf wreath is on the front door and my candle warmer has the smell of baked cookies.
I decorate with lots of autumn leaves in all sorts of medias. I have a collection of ceramic leaf bowls that are scattered around with munchies or candles in them. My salt and pepper sets are acorns on leaves and pumpkins. I love fall and Thanksgiving!
I have fallen in love with my glue gun this season. With fun ideas like the brown paper bag wreath, the children and I have been having lots of fun. We cannot wait to go to our church pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins, in which in child gets to paint (much easier than craving for them). I love this time of year, it screams blanket and a good book! Love your blog Karen!
After the summertime fun it is nice to unwind with the season of fall. Out come the decorations of pumpkins, leaves, homemade craft projects from the kids, scarecrows, and decorating a harvest tree. The tree consist of candy corn garland, homemade ornaments from items we found outside (leaves, acorns, twigs) and ornaments that say what we are grateful for. It is a time of Thanksgiving :)
-Colleen G.
I don’t have anything. I always seem to be too busy with the kids to decorate unless it is Christmas, then we make a point of it. I do have a fall floral centerpiece, somewhere…
I really don’t do much Fall decorating but we do put some Halloween decorations on the door.
Ahhh . . . I thank God for cool and moist mornings!! I’m in love with Fall!! I make a Fall tablescape in the picture window of our kitchen of acorns (from our trees) and other nic-nacs I’ve collected that are acorn/leaf/pumpkin shaped Our front door is draped with my favorite Fall lighted garland–the lights race around in yellow/orange/red. Plantings from the seeds of my roasted Kabocha are ready to transplant to our amended flower beds to grow and grow all the way around our house from the front to the back. I even pin my beloved Autumn leaves hankie to my shirt with an acorn pin the minute it starts to turn cold in North Texas and I run around saying “It’s Fall Ya’ll!!!!”
A sparkly little pumpkin sitting with the pics of my kids and grandkids……..a Fall leaves wreath in the window……..a Fall leaves garland with mini pumpkins and gourds on the dining room table…….a metal art Fall “Blessings” sign hanging by the front door……and the best decoration of all is the picture of a pumpkin my 3 year old grandson painted for me!!
The woods surround my house…. and I love the beauty of each season God gives us! So, I look for natural beauty from the outside to bring inside! The fall wildflowers in bloom, acorns and nuts, fallen leaves in an array of blazing colors. If I had more time I’d make even more beautiful things with them! I also love to put out a mailbox “topper” with sparkly ribbon and the fall colored silk flowers!
Does not raking leaves in the yard count as decoration? If so—I win!
Ha ha ha… We made scarecrows out of our “non-piles”.
A pile of pumpkins and 2 Raggedy small scarecrows on the front porch, A conglomeration of autumn scented and colored candles and Indian corn on the fireplace, mums and zinnias from our yard in green glass vases.
I decorate my house with beautiful leaf garlands around the banisters, a table in my front window with a girl scarecrow sitting on a hay bale with a basket full of miniature pumpkins and gourds and all surrounded with leaves and a grape vine pumpkin that has lights inside that shine in the window during the evening, a fall wreath on my front door and other places throughout the house, a fall tablecloth on my kitchen table, and stick-on leaves on my front window in various colours – these leaves were from a fundraiser my older two children had when they were in grade school, so I keep putting them up in the window even after 15 years! I love this time of year!!!
I like to put some hay, a scarecrow, pumpkin, and mums in my front yard. I have some fall themed decorations I use in the house but really need to do soemthing with my mantle!
I mainly decorate with the Fall Harvest theme…..but I do put out my collection of pictures taken of the kids in their costumes each year. It’s fun to look back at all those cute memories.
We use mums outside…with a string of pumpkin lights!
I don’t decorate so much inside, but outside my husband and I had planted numerous maple trees that show beautifully with their fall leaves of orange, yellow and red. Over the years they have grown and are now fairly big trees. My sister in law brought me a mum, so that adorns my front porch this year.
Inside, I enjoy fragrance, so I have scented candles burning. I also bake, so I have the scent of pumpkins bars wafting throughout my house today.
I have never been a seasonal decorator, but I would love to learn more. Now that I have the time, it could be a pleasant task to undertake.
Happy Fall!! Your home looks so inviting!
Fall weather makes me want to cook and have people over. That means that in the fall I tend to update the decor in my dining room — or help it recover. This time around I’ve replaced a trunk in front of our large window with a scroll work plant stand and arranged crystal candle holders and oil lamps on the buffet.
–SueBE
We planted pumpkin seeds for the first time and the kids are so excited watching them grow. Can’t wait to decorate the porch with them as soon as they are ready to harvest. I also love decorating with gourds and fall scented candles in the house. Outside on our porch we have a grapevine wreath wrapped with orange lights, fall leaf wreath and a hay bale with scarecrows sitting upon it. Just love the fall!!!! Thank you, Karen, for all of your wonderful ideas!!
I love fall & everything that goes with it. I have indian corn & different squash & wheat arranged in a bowl. I will also scatter pumpkins around the house. This weekend I will go and pick out some mums to go on my front porch. Thank you for the giveaway & your great ideas.
I just do a little simple fall decorating. Dining room table has a table runner quilted by my husbands grandma w/a tin pumpkin & leaf candles on it, Homeschool table w/a little brown tree & fake leaves. Entertainment center has a fall scented candle w/a pumpkin topper that says “Give Thanks” and leaves, Front window sill has small scarecrows & gourds and the window has leaves & scarecrow faces that my kids decorated, Front Porch has a little hanging scarecrow and pumpkins from our trip to the pumkin patch.
When I lived far from my midwestern roots, I bought colorful garlands of fall leaves to decorate my home. Even though I am back in my home state, I still love to decorate for fall. I love to add pumpkins and gourds, both real and life-like, little scarecrows in my potted plants and autumn wreaths. I add Halloween decorations later in October, then remove them for Thanksgiving and leave the fall decorations up until I start Christmas decorating.
It’s so fun to decorate and add some new temporary color to the home. It’s so funny you posted this today, ’cause that’s what I am doing today – decorating with my fall leaves and some Halloween decorations.
I would love to win the prizes. The signs are sweet, the chocolates heavenly, and I would LOVE a copy of your book. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’ve been inspired by my Pinterest browsing to try new things with my autumn decorations: a heart full of pumpkins, a mantle display of candles and mini-pumpkins, grape vines, and leaves, and small touches of fall all around my downstairs.
{Loving Untangling Christmas.}
Love fall – the colors, the smells, the beautiful weather!!! I don’t decorate a whole lot but I am enjoying my mums by the front porch and changed my little garden flag to pumpkins. I bought some new fall scented candles from my favorite candle store and my house smells so yummy! Always love to see your seasonal decorations Karen!
Pumpkins on the porch, Fall welcome wreath on the door, fall silk flower arrangement on china cabinet, and spice smelling candel in the kitchen. Love Fall! (and tons of leaves all over the yard!)
We carve pumpkins as a family, take pictures of each kid with theirs, and keep them on our porch til they are too rotten to enjoy!
My husband has been at grad school the past two years, so our decorations are simple and economical, but I love them as much as if they were worthy of a BH&G photo. :) I love to buy a bag of mini pumkins to sprinkle around the house and one particularly large one to be a centerpiece.. To that we add a growing collection of leaves that my little ones find on our walks, and scatter the,m around the pumpkins. I have an fragrance warmer that spreads the smell of apple cinnamon throughout the house and I love to turn on Josh Groban’s song “Thankful” to complete the cozy feeling.
There are tons of ideas I would love to use, but my budget never allows! The times of year when I have extra just don’t mesh with fall decorating… So, a few harvest scented candles have to do! On the bright side, my home is decorated with a lot of autumn colors anyway!
Fall decorating has been put on the back burner for right now, (bummed) but more important family issues have to be dealt with at this time. But I do plan on decorating for Christmas!!! PLanning ahead!!!!
Hi Karen! I put a fall wreath on my door and I have a pumpkin on the front porch.
I don’t have any mums yet but I did buy some pansies yesterday to replace my petunias that have died.
I would love to win this prize!
Blessings,
Janet W.
I keep it simple: A couple of pumpkins on the porch and a wreath on the door.
I bring out the fall candle scents…
I have a dispaly in my front yard with bails of hay, pumpkins & scarecrows, as well as yellow mums planted, a pumpkin on my front steps & pumpkin lanterns. Inside I have pumpkin decor in kitchen, living room and den. A table runner with sunflowers, pansies and pumpkins, and fall scented candles throughout the house.
I usually decorate my mantle and dining room table with fall items such as a ceramic pumpkins, orange, tan and red candles and other fall decorations we have. I decorate my front porch with pumpkins, indian corn and mums.
My son (3 yrs) and I made a wreath to put on the door. Sunday after church we are going to the pumpkin patch to get some pumpkins!
I just spent a whopping $3 on discounted pieces to spruce up my Fall wreath. Looks great, and kept me from parting with $85 for one I had seen at a local florist. :) I added two 50cent fall picks to a glass candle holder, which looks like I bought it at an interior design store. I printed a monogram template of my last initial, & painted it on a real pumpkin. Then I painted a fun design on another pumpkin (with polkadots) to please the kids. I have a few inexpensive fall things for the mantle, my pumpkin spice candle, and a garland ring to go around the base of a large candle globe. It’s just the little touches that come together to signal the season. BUT–my yard needs help!!! I really need color. My flagpole is broken, I have no flowering plants, no scare crows, etc. I need help, and don’t really know how to make it work, while my neighbors’ yards look fantastic. Hmm….
I love Fall! I have a fall wreath, mums, haystacks, and cornstalks at the entrance of our home, and a pumpkin spice candle that burns whenever I’m home. We just moved to a new home a few months ago, and I can’t find my Fall decorations box in the storage room!!! So inside decor doesn’t look too much like Fall yet!!! I do have a small bowl of candy corn in the kitchen :) The kids gobble it up quickly, so I’m on the 3rd bag so far!! Getting our pumpkins and gourds this weekend at our local Apple Festival :)
I have a fall tablecloth., a large wooden sign with pumpkins painted on it, and lots of Fall scented Yankee Candles.
A beautiful pumpkin and mums on the front steps. I need to get a fall garland for the mantle.
Such a lovely season for decorating. My daughters birthday is Halloween, so we have loved for years to decorate for this season!
I love decorating for fall but since we are getting ready to move into a new home – I haven’t decorated yet – hoping to do so the 1st week of November – I love fall decorations through out the house!
Fall is my favorite time of year! I have a small scarecrow which sits on a little bale of hay in the corner of my dining room. I also place pumpkins (both real and fake) all around the house. I use fake leaves to decorate the fireplace mantel in my living room as well as the hutch in my dining room. I have a cute little tealight holder with fall leaves which matches the light in my kitchen. And the icing on the cake this year was finding a handpainted leaf at a fall festival from a local artist!
We went to the pumpkin patch last weekend, and I have some Indian corm and small pumpkins to use on the kitchen table. Here in Southern Calif it is still warm and I can’t find any gorgeous fall leaves to use. Love fall !!
As much as I love to decorate my home- i love to ‘leaf’ this Season decorating up to the kids with their leaf prints and pinecone turkeys and handprint pilgrims etc. decorated pumpkins done with their little hands- It not only makes it their home too- but it just feels more like home <3 love this time of year!!
I love mums so I try to hang them and put out some pumpkins never realy thought about the inside of the hous but now I think I will. There were some neat Ideas I like the reef hanging in front of the fire place
Had my hubby gather me cornstalks from our field and he tied them to our front porch pillars. He also tied them on each side of our garden arbor and out front by the driveway near a big old cast iron boiling pot. I then accent with indian corn, pumpkins & gourds.
Inside I have faux pumpkins/gourds that I decorate with year after year on our mantle.
this weekend we are going camping and I hope to gather acorns and pinecones for now and also to use in Christmas decorating.
I finally got to decorate inside yesterday! A cornucopia filled with gourds, pinecones, fall leaves, and a mini-pumpkin; complete with scarecrow. Fall leaves around the light-fixture above the table; fall candlesticks, a crate of fall leaves with another mini-pumpkin, and paper pumpkins hanging in the kitchen. I have scarecrows outside and a beautiful Fall welcome sign. I’m hoping to add some mums and pumpkins outside.
I prefer pumpkins (NOT jack-o-lanterns), scented candles and leaves. I have a small scarecrow that stands on a table or in a corner, but that’s about it. I haven’t done much for fall because by the time I get the fall decorations out, I feel like it’s already time to think about pulling out the Christmas decorations!
Being in south Florida it is hard to get into the fall spirit but I love the season. I have some small fake pumpkins that I put in a vase on the dining room table. I hang some laminated fall leaves from up north, around mirrors and windows. Maybe I will implement some of the neat ideas that I’ve read in others comments. Thanks for sharing!
I love fall and my mom was an amazing decorator, but sadly I missed out on inheriting that gene. Seeing your beautiful pictures makes me long for a beautiful, well decorated home in honor of her. Yet the only decorating I have done is moving the kids scooters and toys back to the shed and hiding my half dead summer blooms in the backyard! Thank you for the lovely inspiration, I remember hearing you speak at Hearts at Home before your book even came out. I loved you then and now!
Fall is a great time to decorate inside and out. Outside, I have pumpkins, mums and cornstalks. Some of my pumpkins are wooden and some are real. I had wooden pumpkins made for our family that the kids got to paint the faces onto. These are stuck into the ground with a rod each year. Inside, I have fall garlands just about any place that I will later hang greenery for Christmas. I have a crock full of pinecones from all over the U.S., I stuff a few fall leaves in with the pinecones and it looks so cute at the foot of the piano. Plus this fall I quilted 2 wallhangings that have an adorable candy corn character on it to hang on my wall in the kitchen. Would love the giveaway
Dear Karen,
via email–
In response to your email today, I use mums to decorate the front of our home. Our daughter gave me a couple of white pumpkins which did not show up as well as I had hoped they would. Do you have any suggestions? I have also decorated the inside of our home with many decorations. In the kitchen and dinning area I made window treatments from fall place mats. Fall is a favorite season of mine and I enjoy the beautiful rich colors.
Emily
I love decorating for Fall…because you can put it out in September and can leave it up until you decorate for Christmas!!! I have pumpkins of many shapes, colors and sizes throughout the house and stuffed scarecrows on my stairs and front porch. I also “decorate with scents” using my Scentsy Warmer and such wonderful aromas as: Pumpkin Marshmellow, Pumpkin Roll, and Autumn Stroll.
We have some scare crows out front and some ceramic pumpkins in the house… would love to get some fall leaves to spread around too! I do have a fall quilt that needs to go up too =)
I love bringing in my fall decorations that have been in storage for almost a year! The candles start burning and the hot chocolate and cider packets get put out on the counter by the coffee pot. This year I want to make a ” Thankful Tree “. It’s been on my heart and mind to do this with our two teenage girls. I am not really that crafty, but I want to look this weekend at making something that can sit on the table .( something branchy looking where we can hang pretty little cards tied with pretty ribbon. We will write on the little cards the things for which we are thankful)!
I have some special decorations for fall that I get out every year. One is a lovely covered candle dish that I inherited from my mother-in-law ~ it’s a beautiful orange color when there’s a candle lit inside! I also have a little wreath that I decorate every year with some fabric leaves, etc. My daughter & I used to decorate it together, but she’s married & off to college far away, so I decorate it with nostalgia now!
I bought a placemat in fall colors on clearance at Kohls for $1. 30. I put small pumpkins on it out of our garden. I put fall leaves in a farmhouse basket in the living room along with decorative pumpkins. Some of the pumpkins have pilgrims on it so I just turn them to the wall until November. I burn apple pie candles and the house smells great. I try to keep a bowl of apples and small pumpkin shaped dishes of candy out, but with 6 grandkids, it’s hard to keep them full!!
I decorate my front porch and kitchen island as well as pots of mums and pumpkins on my deck. It’s my favorite season!
I have lots of orange and brown around my house. My mantle has a cornucopia filled with fall leaves, a wooden wick candle, and a pumpkin oil warmer. I have several types of pumpkins on my sofa table: white ceramic, bronze candle holder and a green pumpkin candle. I often include graphics from the Graphics Fairy blog in frames. Of course, there are fall table clothes and pumpkins on the front porch and lots of fall baking.
FALL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TIMES OF THE YEAR! I LOVE THE COLORS , THE SMELLS NOT TO MENTION THE YUMMY GOODIES WE MAKE ONLY DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR. WE BUY SECOND HAND OR CLEARANCE & DECORATIONS ARE NO EXCEPTION, WE ARE VERY FRUGAL! MY HUSBAND & I RECENTLY OPENED A RESALE SHOP CALLED “THE TREASURE TROVE,” SO I TAKE ITEMS THAT COME IN & WORK WITH THEM. BELIEVE ME I’VE NEVER BEEN SO CREATIVE IN ALL MY LIFE. HOWEVER, I NEED SOME FRESH IDEAS!
At our home I change the wreath on the door to a fall one and have a cornucopia for the dining room table. We do have a garden and raised pumpkins this year. Our grandchildren loved picking out their pumpkin from grandpa and grandma’s patch.
We have decorated with pumpkins, leaves and spiced candles. We are going to the pumpkin patch on Sunday. I love fall, and the cooler cuddly weather.
I love fall! I hang a fall wreath on my front door, and I welcome visitors by decorating my front steps with some pumpkins, and few mums in my favorite fall colors, yellow, and rust. I decorate the dining room table with pretty, little pumpkins of assorted shades of orange, that are set around a cornucopia that is filled with sprays of fall leaves.. Across my living room mantel, I have a fall leaf swag, which has some small, fake, pumpkins in it. In my den above the fireplace, is a grapevine wreath that I wrapped a fall leaf garland around. To give the entire house a warm, fall, atmosphere, I have a candle warmer, and I burn either cinnamon, pumpkin spice or apple scented candles each day.
I love fall decor!! I even got my pumpkins and mums set out together on the front porch this year! I love the rich colors of fall and the crisp cooler air. Definitely my favorite time of year!
Fall looks like pretty fall photos in our dinning room for the season.
We create a “Thankful Tree” to hang on our family room wall (brown butcher paper, draw a tree, trace and cut out our handprints for the leaves. Each one in our family writes something or someone they are thankful for on the hands.) I also use wreaths, pumpkins and garlands of leaves that I’ve picked up at after season sales to create the wonderful feel of Fall inside our home.
Loving fall decorations. Still want to get the fall mesh and a Cinderella pumpkin to go on my front porch and steps with the pumpkins already there. Have one of the fall plants with the variegated leaves that I placed below and in front of the fern but on a smaller stand. At the entrance of the stirs up to the porch landing added yellow mums on either side mixed in with what is already there. Keep your mums deadheaded so they will continue to bloom and at the end of season plant them and they will come back. I didn’t get mine done last year and they came back in their pot in the spring. On my mantel have the fall garland and bought a couple of fall looking vases (2 dif. Sizes) at a discount store and added some sticks with small pumpkins attached that I got marked down at Kroger’s. They are in water. Ran off on the computer pictures of my grandchildren in a pumpkin patch and framed. Candy corn on the entry way table in an outdoor bird feeder statuary, that of course came from a discount place many moons ago! Never used outside. The candy product or deco in it changes with the season. Empty now with the corn stowed away so I won’t eat it!! Nuff said!! On my piano in the living room a white ceremic pumpkin made and given to me by a lady in my church in 1983. She has been gone a long time but it is the gift that keeps on giving year after year. On the mantle in my den is also two cream colored battery operated candles, because I am afraid I will not remember to blow real ones out. Also gotten at a discount store. Have containers with small pumpkins gotten through the years. Also in the LR just laid a magazine with pumpkins in it angled on the couch. My Nortike China (Oaklane-has a leaf that is turning!) that I got when I married over 48 years ago is in my china cabinet. Picked up acorns in my back yard with my 3 yr old granddaughter. Placed in a small glass container with a fall scented candle pressed into the middle also on entryway table. Don,t plan to burn it!! Place your decorations in a clear container to store from year to year and add to them at the end of the season when they go on sale.
I usually put out pumpkins,gourds,a hay bale with beautiful mums around. My daughter got married in the fall & we still use all the decorations that we bought for her reception around the house. I ALWAYS keep a pumpkin,cinnamon or apple candle burning to help the home with the smell of fall!! Fall is my favorite time of year, i guess that is one of the many reasons why Thanksgiving means so much to me also! Thank you for the chance! :)
I love fall! Over the years, I’ve collected enough to fill two totes to overflowing. My favorite decorations are also useful. I have several leaf-shaped plates and bowls that will be pretty and functional rught up through Thanksgiving.
I have a few decorations around. Some cute pumpkins around the house and other fall miscelleany (sp?). I haven’t made it to get some mums for my front porch. Need to make that a priority this weekend!
I love to put up my fall Dickens Village houses…complete with pumpkin wagon, fruit stand, and fall trees. The kids and I love to wake up in the morning and have only the little house lights on while we begin our day. So peaceful. All of the houes go on top of our piano in the living room and we enjoy it until after Thanksgiving…when the fall houses/people/trees are replaced with my winter houses/people/trees. It’s also a great time of year to start using the fall scented candles.
Normally by now it would be decorative pumpkins and fall-themed table linens, a fall wreath on the front door, and pumpkin candles throughout. The decorations are buried in the attic due to some redecorating projects. Really need to enlist the help of my terrific hubby to get things out of the attic and placed around the house this weekend. Otherwise, it’ll be time to put the Christmas stuff out!
I love this season of the year. This year our decorations came out from the attic and my sweet six year old insisted and placing them about the house. We have several small clay pumpkins etc. and he placed them in some interesting locations :) I left them where he put them as he was so proud of what he did to help decorate. I also enjoy burning fall scented candles. Blessings to you in each day and every season!
I posted on facebook the other day about decorating! Here it is, cut and pasted (Megan is six and Katie Rae is ten): Overheard yesterday: Megan: “When are we going to decorate for Halloween?” Katie Rae: “What’s the point? Nobody sees our house anyway?” Megan: “Well, I like to see it.” Katie Rae: “I do, too!” Megan: “So when do you think we’ll decorate?” Katie Rae: “Here’s how it works….Mom will tell Dad it’s time for US to decorate, b/c she doesn’t want to do it all herself. Dad will say, ‘yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ll get around to it.’ Then he will get the box out of the garage the day before Halloween. Mom will say, ‘There’s no reason to do this now.’ Then Dad will say, ‘Of course there is.’ He’ll put up the decorations, and then Mom will want them taken down the day after Halloween. Dad will say he just put them up. He’ll finally take them down when the Christmas stuff comes out.” (My ten year old hit the nail on the head – she is a great observer of human interaction!)
I actually don’t usually decorate that much for fall. Not because I don’t want to, but because I am not really sure what to do. Thanks for the ideas, the giveaway, and this post! :)
Visited Pumpkinland with grandkids~what fun they had picking out a pumpkin. Then a centerpiece of mums on table. Love the time of year, just don’t do much decorating until Christmas.
I use a lot of “kid made” decorations. I have three little ones, but even so, we usually only do one “fall art project” near Thanksgiving. This year, they are taking an art class, so we may have more to hang soon! Other than that, not much really…we are “on a shoestring,” and I don’t know much about decorating on one, so I definitely need some inspiration in that area! I do have a flower arrangement with fall colors as my centerpiece…that is the only thing I pull out each year when the calendar says, “First Day of Fall.” :) My sister-in-law made the centerpiece for me!
We are pretty simple –I have pumpkins up, a few scarecrows and a ceramic jack-o-lantern that doesn’t match anything, but is special b/c my gramma made it so it goes up each year.
I don’t have a lot of surfaces to decorate–the house layout isn’t conducive for that–I used that as an opportunity to get rid of a lot of decorations and need to go through my 2 fall boxes again and get ride of decorations I have not used.
We decorate with pumpkins and candles inside and pumpkins and mums outside. My husband ‘surprises’ me every year with the mums. I even had mums in my wedding bouquet. I really like them and I love this time of year.
I usually place some mums and pumpkins around, but I am sad to say this year I haven’t did anything.
Fall at our place is wonderful! We have a small acreage (just moved out here last fall!) and LOVE all the colors and crispness. I love to bake, so the house is usually filled with the wonderful, warm smell of something in the oven :-) We also have a fireplace, so we have the warmth and smell of a fire, which we are enjoying immensely! I don’t have all the “non-essentials” unpacked yet, so not much for decorations up yet, but we’ll get there :-) Happy fall, everyone!
A beautiful arrangement of mini-mums, small gourds and some fall decorated bird houses on my table. We have so much to be thankful for………including the beautiful sunset tonight and big harvest moon! I love that God decorates for us!
A pumpkin by the door, a bowl of fresh fruit on the table. – pretty and good to snack on.
Hi Karen,
I love the country look so outside I have two mums and two pumpkins on either side of my front porch pillars. I have a large flag to the side of my butterfly bush which says “Harvest Blessings.” The American flag is always hanging on one of my front porch pillars as long as it is not raining. By the side door a small garden flag with a scarecrow picture. By the front door a 3ft scarecrow welcoming guests and on the other sire a 2ft wooden gate with welcome on it and fall/country decorations. My porch table has a wrought iron pumpkin with an orange and yellow berries ring in it.
Inside there are various faux pumpkins, baskets, butterscotch candle, scarecrows, etc. etc.
I LOVE the fall season! We don’t do as much decorating for fall as we do for Christmas, but we put tissue paper leaves on the front door and windows in fall colors (I got the idea from here: http://www.frugalfamilyfunblog.com/2011/09/autumn-window-collage.html) We love the way the light shines in on the colors, and my toddler can practice learning his colors!
We love pumpkins (unadorned) and mums on the porch, too. And violas in containers on the steps.
Thanks for this kind opportunity!
I’m off to the nursery today to buy mums for the porch! I have a glass hurricane that I fill with small gourds and mini-pumpkins. Next week we’ll head to the pumpkin patch. Scented candles, of course!
I have a leaf garland around my front door. Ceramic pumpkins on my mantle, a dish of leaves, pinecones & acorns, candles, and some wheat tied with bows. I wish Fall lasted longer than 3 months!
I always get mums and out them in pots on my front porch and on the back patio also. I have a Fall door wreath I put up and a Fall Flag with Labradors on it. In the house I have Artificial Fall leaves and a few scarecrows that are cute for the kids. I always like to decorate for the seasons and holidays.
I decorate with sunflowers, gourds and pumpkins.
I love decorating with the ‘colors’ of fall. Burnt oranges, burgandy, mustard yellow, plum, etc… My favorite time of the year!
I really really enjoy decorating for fall. I start in Sept and leave it all out till the day after Thanksgiving. I use alot of scarecrows, pumpkins and colored leaves. I decorate my dining room, kitchen, and living room. I do the front entrance with a pretty fall wreath on the door and mums at the walk.
Have a happy fall ya’ll !
I have a fall wreath on the door, and I am burning a spiced pumpkin candle ever day to fill my home with a wonderful scent! I also put out all of my favorite kid crafts that they have made over the years. It makes us all laugh!
Silk flowers in vases, variety of pumpkins, gourds and Indian corn some real and some not. Also a fall wreath on a couple doors.
What a beautiful season God created with fall…I begin decorating for fall Labor Day weekend and it stays up until the weekend after Thanksgiving in which I decorate for Christmas. I have rod iron pumpkins on my porch with mums, a basket of fall flowers on my door, mums in my flower beds, pansy’s in pots on the deck and by my garage. Inside there is everything from candles, pumpkins (real and fake) to stand up scarecrows…I go all out. Our family does not celebrate Halloween therefore all is fall in our house. May each of you have a blessed and abundant fall season!
Blessings and Smiles,
Robin :)
Right now mine is pretty bleak, but I did buy some pumpkins this past weekend and plan to get a couple of mums. :)
I honestly don’t do a lot of fall decorating. I put the corn stalks out and set up some pumpkins. I would like to do more though.
I like to decorate my porch with pumpkins, and I put a basket on my coffee table with colorful cloth leaves to bring some of the outdoor beauty in.