Pumpkin Love

I haven't bought any pumpkins yet this year but I'm thinking that will change this weekend!  My porch feels naked without them.  Dawn across the street is winning the pumpkin war with several on hers making it so festive!!

My dirty little secret though is that I really don't like to carve pumpkins.  Bob is great about doing it with the kids and gets very detailed and creative.  I on the other hand will use anything handy to keep me from having to scrape pumpkin guts but still get fun pumpkins this time of year.  So today I thought about last years favorite pumpkins and wanted to share.....

This one was the menu at our Halloween Chili Party.  A Sharpie marker and no dirty hands :)

The same pumpkin then got a coat of spray paint and a message of "Give Thanks"  The little one next to it was beautiful in gold.

T for Turner or T for Thanksgiving either way it's fun.

The Polka dot was my favorite!  Add one more to the top of a terra cotta pot and it's a Fall vignette (fancy talk for a grouping).

Okay I changed my mind...this one Abby did is my FAVORITE!!!!  In addition to being adorable she has a heart for Jesus that brings tears to my eyes.  Her faith shines brighter than the glow of this pumpkin!

I've stolen borrowed some ideas from blogland for some very cool pumpkins this year and I'll be sharing sometime soon.  What are your favorite ways to dress up a pumpkin?

Touches of Fall

Decorating for Fall is one of my favorite things.  Maybe because I enjoy the season so much or it makes me feel like our home is getting cozy for the coming cold weather and many more hours spent inside.  Whatever the reason I enjoy it.  I try not to go overboard and just add little touches here and there...

Something for the table top.  Fillers for some jars on the mantle in the kitchen/dining area but almost everything includes pine cones.  I'm such a sucker for the little elements from nature being brought indoors.

The mantle in the living room usually gets the biggest makeover because it's fun and easy to change up.  This year I added the bronze frames, wreath over the tin square, amazing blue glass jars (recently bought at Joanie's!) and of course oversized pine cones!

I did get one other new Fall arrangement this year.....

It's my favorite too!  Bob and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary yesterday and I couldn't be more blessed.  He's an amazing husband and showed up with this floral arrangement.  He took the time to pick all my favorite Fall colors and flowers :)

There are a few other touches of Fall here and there throughout the house but not many.  Other than adding some pumpkins to the front porch with a few other little goodies I'm done decorating. 

I am ready to focus on other fun aspects of Fall.....pumpkin patches with the kids, pumpkin spice lattes, sitting around the fire pit on chilly evenings with Bob and making LOTS of pumpkin muffins. 





Two Crafties (Is that a made up word?)

Fall hit hard this weekend at Havenhurst Haven!  I pulled out the Fall décor, cleared mantles then refilled them with anything orange and put out countless pinecones.  All the Fall frenzy also included two quick and crafty projects I wanted to share.

Last weekend while at Joanie’s Junk in Morganville, KS, I picked up a burlap potato sack that had great red type on the front that read Sweetwater.  The red lettering on it reminded me of a Pepsi crate I had recently found at a garage sale so I decided they needed to be together in our front entry.  For only $5.00 I brought the sack home!  Joanie’s is AMAZING and very soon I plan to do a whole post about all the goodies in our home from there but until then if you want more info about how to find Joanie’s let me know…I can hook you up!!  Anyway back to the sack, I bought a king size pillow, stuffed it in a neutral pillowcase then the whole thing went in the burlap sack.  I simply stitched up the open end then hand-stitched across the top and bottom to make it fit just a little snugger.

About 10 years ago I made my one and only true Pottery Barn purchase.  We were in Kansas City with friends when I spotted these purple glass candlesticks.  At the time we had just bought new furniture, in purple, and I thought they were perfect plus the only thing I could afford in the store!

You can see from the layers of dust they have been sitting on a shelf for quite some time.  Still pretty but don’t fit our décor as much anymore.  I bought some sisal rope for just a few dollars.

With a glue gun in hand I wrapped the rope around the base of the candlesticks.  Best part is that Aidan decided to craft along with me….his project involved paper, lots of glue and googly eyes.

Here’s the finished projects put in their place for Fall.

Are you decorating for Fall yet?  Now all I need is a pumpkin muffin for the full Fall experience!