It's feeling a little bit more like fall...so when the calendar flipped over to October, I felt like putting out some fall decor....
Here's how things are looking this fall season....
Starting with The Front Porch...
The Living Room.....
The Kitchen and Dining Room
After decorating and taking the photos, I found a few more decor items stashed away, so I added them in and tweaked a few things (above is the tweaked photo)...
Outside the French Doors and onto The Covered Back Porch....
I made the wreath and flower arrangements from items I already had in my storage building (from mostly thrifted things)
And lastly, The Tiny Sitting Room
This year I mostly left what was already on the shelf from summer...just changing out a couple of things and adding in a couple of touches of fall with the feathers, pheasant and pumpkin...
I tweaked the bottom shelf, by taking out the mini terra cotta garden pots that were underneath the glass cloche, and I replaced it with my handmade birds nest, I found underneath my tv cabinet, (I had hidden it from my self to keep it safe, lol!), the nest had robin blue clay bird eggs in it from spring decorating, and I just left the nest empty for the fall season....I see now that the glass cloche needs dusting...I think I probably need to go dust all the shelves too...
I kept things a little more simple this year in my fall decor, mostly because we have been busy sorting and cleaning out a lot of the things in our storage totes over the last several weeks. During the clean out, I've realized that I have way too much seasonal stuff to choose from, and too much stuff in general, and when thinking about decorating...I've found that decision fatigue is real, especially real when there is too much to choose from, lol! I was happy that we could clean out things, and have a yard sale this past Saturday. We didn't do as well with the yard sale as we'd hoped for, but I'm thankful for the things that we cleared out, and for the progress we did make. I'm still cleaning out things, the Christmas storage totes are next. I'll lower the prices for the next yard sales that we have in the coming months. I'm so glad the weather is cooling down in our area and will be great for a yard sale. We'll donate some things to the local charity thrift shops at some point as well. It has felt so great getting rid of the things that I don't think I'll use anymore.
On a side note, for my outside flower arrangements I used flowers I had in my storage bins that I'd been saving, (for what I have no idea!) There's no use saving them...I'm using them and enjoying them outside on our porches this season, and then I'll be tossing them out when the season is over. In the past, I've washed and kept them, but I think it's safe to say, these are getting dry rotted from keeping them too long, and I have plenty of artificial flowers to use in the storage bins, for in the future. I think I've had a hard time tossing things out, because I'm such an old soul. I'm in my 50's, but you'd think I grew up during the great depression era, if you could see the way I save and recycle things, and the way I have a tendency to hold onto worn out things for way too long. lol!
Well that's it for now, I hope my post inspired you in some small way!
Until next time...enjoy this fall season...
Stay creative and have a beautiful day!
