Nesting for Fall

Its a wonderful Monday. I hope everyone had a good weekend. Grab a cup of your favorite drink and let's talk about pumpkin time! LOL.

Well, fall is fast approaching us in our little town. While the word nesting is often associated with women as they prepare for the birth of a child it can come upon us at other times too.

I think the fall season is one of the best potential nesting times because so many things begin from school to football. Then on to boots, jeans, campfires and pretty leaves. The beautiful colors of fall are what ignite my nesting instinct.

So last week I went to the attic, pulled out all the storage boxes and began preparing something to welcome fall into our home. With that being said I decided this year to do little vignettes around the house. Nothing to big or too hard just little hints of color here and there.

Of course, you have to start at the beginning by hanging the big pumpkin with our monogram on the front door then adding a couple of little pots of mums with two real pumpkins to set the stage. Then on to the entry cabinet with a pumpkin, some berry bushes and leaves.

The dining room got the fall word picture, a couple of leaves and a bright little pumpkin on the top of a tea cup. As you move into the kitchen we have the "big Bertha" lighted pumpkin that thrifty honey got carried away with a few years ago. It has some iridescent material under it with part of a berry wreath. Nothing major in this but a touch here and a touch there makes it fun to look at as the days move on.

Now the mantel. For many years I have used candy corn in a big hurricane candle holder but this year I decided to just use pumpkins and the little candy corn banner I made. Now over in the reading corner I put some flowers, a pumpkin with a few leaves to give it that warm and cozy feel.

So you can see there was not a lot of really big stuff spread all over kingdom come. This just shows you it doesn't have to be a big production to decorate your home to welcome fall in. By the way this was my most thrifty fall staging ever because it was all stuff from years past that simply got an up-do.

Why not spend a few minutes using your old stuff but mix and match it differently? That's the best decoration of all!!!

Be Blessed and Stay on your Thrifty Toes!!!