Thanksgiving deserves its own mantel, don’t you think? Halloween gets plenty of mantel focus, and Christmas certainly inspires and dazzles with mantel ideas. But in November, the crazy month transitioning from Halloween to Christmas, sometimes Thanksgiving gets a teensy bit overlooked. So let’s give Thanksgiving a mantel it deserves. I found the this…
Autumn Decorating
A Festive Fall on the Front Porch
A Festive Fall on the Front Porch came about when I was taking down the front yard Halloween decorations. Since I am hosting Thanksgiving, I wanted something on the front porch to greet my guests as they arrived. I already had the wreath up, but I was looking for a way to display my “Harvest…
A Simple Fall Vignette – 5 Ways
It’s a foggy Saturday morning in late October. Thick clouds and haze surround the neighborhood; I can barely see the hill half-a-mile away from us. It’s fall all right, it’s my favorite time of the year, and I can’t seem to get enough. I can’t seem to get enough of pumpkins and leaves, pine cones…
A Fun Halloween Mantel
Bats and crows! Ghosts and skulls! Welcome to a Fun Halloween Mantel! For me, Halloween is a fun holiday. My favorite part of Halloween is the trick-or-treaters. And to make sure they feel welcome to ring our doorbell, we hang ghosts from a tree in the yard, have jack-0-lanterns lit up, string purple and orange…
Fall in the Kitchen 2018
Welcome to Fall in the Kitchen 2018! Our kitchen has light yellow walls (Benjamin Moore “Hay Stack”), and the same molding and floor board color as the rest of the house, which is Sherwin Williams “Arizona White”. These colors are flexible and easy to work with all year round, but especially in the fall with…