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Decorating, Garden, Halloween, Jack-o'-lantern, Mother Nature, Nature, Porch
I love Fall. Aside from the fact that my birthday falls on Halloween (cake, presents, AND candy), I have a pretty cool front porch that looks like it could have been a movie set for a great Hitchcock flick, and I really couldn’t go another year and not take advantage of it.
I really wanted to give a nod this season to a more natural style of décor with an earthy feel, and needed something quick and easy. So I bypassed the glitter pumpkins in the stores and went straight to the backyard. Gathering up fallen branches, I stuck them into the holes of a milk crate I’d turned upside down. I weighted the whole thing down with a few bricks, wrapped it in burlap, added a few black crows from the craft store, and voila! Instant creepy tree for the front porch.
After seeing the witches’ brooms in the stores, I knew I had all I needed in the yard to make my own. So again I made the trip around gathering dead weeds for the bristles, and an old tree branch for the broom handle. A piece of bailing twine from my garden, and I had a broom in about 10 minutes.
What I love best about using the gifts from Mother Nature is that I killed 2 birds with one stone this weekend. I cleaned up the yard and used the bounty to decorate. And when it’s time for clean-up everything goes right into the compost pile. Even better.
For inside decorating, I collected all my treasures that spoke to me of Fall. My consignment store pumpkin, my pewter bowl & tray, an old croched doilie and a silhouette of yours truly circa 1975. Gathered together they make a homey statement, and a few carefully placed plastic spider rings and leaves from our old ash tree gives a touch of unexpected Halloween fun.
A set of vintage darts looked great on the mantle entwined with eucalyptus, and a vintage sewing machine manual adds that worn look to a Fall vignette.
The key to remember: it’s about colors and textures, not necessarily the subject matter when it comes to Fall decorating.
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Your darn right, your porch is scenic as heck. Could you get a shot of the entire porch from afar when its all done being decorated? I already did decorating this year, spent 5 hours killing spiders in my enclosed porch and then decorating.
-Tony Salmeron