To celebrate to first cool front of the season coming through on Sunday (joy!), I cooked the first gumbo of the fall (double joy!) and autumn decorating began in earnest. We started by getting out the box of old favorites and crafting up the first of what will most likely be many new additions. My two youngest artists dove right into painting some of the lovely wooden acorns and leaves that I had ordered way back in July, while Amelia and I had so much fun needle felting an assortment of autumnal acorns. (Ideas from here and here.)
We are doing more use-what-we-have decorating this year. I gleaned the above acorns (a little green yet) from beneath my parents' water oak (the storms knocked down bucket fulls of these and pecans) and then found some large sycamore leaves to clip, with small clothespins, to a string above the living room windows. We inter-spaced the brown leaves with some silk colored ones from an old garland that we have been cutting leaves off of for the last four years or so.
Ah, the windows were open all day today... so wonderful! I should have gotten a better shot of our makeshift garland, but I am lousy at taking photos by windows.
This is Amelia's little arrangement in the girls' room. I love how she has done her little autumn gnome. I think I will take some time this evening to surf around and sneak a peek at the fall decorating of other bloggers. If you have any suggestions of good ones to visit or a link to your own autumn ideas, leave a note so I can pop over and see!
