I looked outside this morning and realized that fall is morphing into winter. It was 28° here in Indiana and probably 18° up in northern Michigan.
To think I finally got around to fall decorating just yesterday – it was quickly tackled since I work best under the gun.
My mother made spur of the moment plans to visit us for Thanksgiving and my husband informed me that he was bringing a colleague over for dinner last night. So, I:
- quickly put a wreath together and hung it on the front door
- waded through my holiday decorations in the attic and came up with mantle decor
- arranged five small pumpkins on the front porch
- filled a bowl with gourds from Sam’s Club (stored for the last three weeks on the counter in my laundry room)
- sprayed Bath and Body Works “Cinnamon Clove Buds” throughout the house
This decorating experience accounted for about 20 minutes of my life yesterday. It’s a good thing it was short and sweet, considering I will need to change my motif in about 3 weeks . . . It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
“The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance–all strewn with crumpled playbills.” – Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Tags: autumn, celebrations, time management
Simply gorgeous Kathy! I could never create something that beautiful in that short a time. Your dear hubby certainly has a gem of a wife!
Andrea, You are too kind. Thank you. Oh, but you could make this wreath – easily. I just purchased a $3.99 grapevine wreath from Hobby Lobby and half-price leaf and fruit picks. I, then, simply tucked the foilage and fruit into the grapevine wreath. I did not even use a glue gun because I like to replace the fall look with appropriate Christmas decorations on the wreath after Thanksgiving.
LOVE it.. Love those colors!
The wreath is beautiful! Sounds like you pulled it all together really nice, smell and all
I can’t believe you are that cold already…..burrrr
Your decorations are beautiful! I can’t believe you did it all so quickly. I putter around and change and re-change. ;0)
Thank you for stopping by my blog – I will have to come back and visit you more – your photos are gorgeous.
Gorgeous wreath! And you’re humble, too. I think it takes a lot of talent to put together a beautiful wreath like that even if you do have nice, easy supplies!