Autumn Inside Outside

Autumn is a time of year when we begin to turn our gaze indoors when we start to think of gathering around the hearth, warm blankets, hearty meals, candles and sweaters.

We are not entirely ready to stay inside, though, and there is still a lot to see and do outside.

For so many it is a new beginning, a new year.  It is the start of the school year.

I am usually sad to see the end of summer, however this year I have welcomed the cooler temperatures of fall.

A visit to a local roadside vegetable stand is always a must for me.

This is Linton's Farm Market

I look forward to the harvest and the glorious colours of autumn.









Back inside it is time to pull out the plaid and tartan wool throws and have some fun decorating with faux and real pumpkins.






The blankets are fun to use outside too.

Ontario nectarines have been very sweet and delicious this year.




We have harvested a few pumpkins from our patch.

These are just some of the white and green ones.  There are still lots more to pick.




A small vignette in an old galvanised homemade toolbox found in the old shed at the farm.
The plates from front to back are a glass pumpkin plate from Bowrings, Baldero Pinheiro Grape pattern (I have just the one plate), and Spice Road Ginger from Pier 1 Imports.






Warty pumpkins at Linton's

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Set the Table - Fall Luncheon

I so enjoy these Harvest Pumpkin salad plates that I picked up earlier this year on clearance.

I have listed sources at the end of the post.

I thought they were discontinuing this pattern, but they are still available this year, but not on clearance.

Each plate in the set is different so that each place setting on the table is unique.

The Cambria luncheon plates pair nicely with the salads.

I have also used matching Jacquard placemats and napkins in a similar green as the Cambria plates.

The centrepiece is very simple.

I cut branches from my Canadian Red Maple just starting to show tinges of red on the leaves.

I also cut branches from the Rose of Sharon.

The branches were laid out on the table.  Three faux pumpkins were placed on top of the branches.

It doesn't get any easier than that.

Some of the Rose of Sharon is still blooming so that there are little bits of pink or white here and there.

I love the Rose of Sharon, but find that I have to remove all the spent blooms at the end of the season.  The seeds go everywhere and would populate the entire yard with little Rose of Sharon shrubs.

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Source List

Cambria Salad Plates in Celadon HERE

Harvest Pumpkin Salad Plates HERE

Jacobean Jacquard Placemats HERE

Matching Napkins HERE

Pewter Napkins Rings - part of my collection

Silver flatware - several different patterns for mix and match

Faux pumpkins - painted dollar store pumpkins

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Set the Table - Skulls, Scavengers, & Spooky Things

Halloween will soon be here.

Come in and join us for a Halloween feast.

Don't mind the guests.  Some of them are quite dead.

Do you see what I mean?

This fellow keeps his head under a jar.

Crows and rats and spiders.

All are welcome at our table.

         

                   

 I hope you have a spooky Halloween.

Some Table Elements

Skull Salada Plates - The Victorian English Pottery 

Dinner Plates - Ciroa, Losange

Goblets - Home Sense

Skulls, Crows & Rats - Special guests.

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Fall Vignettes

Autumn is a season of beautiful colours and textures.  Putting together a few vignettes, both inside and outside, is never easier.

I use whatever natural material I can find which includes the following:

Leaves of any colour 

Pumpkins,  squash, and gourds

Sticks, branches, and plants  

Bittersweet is a particular favourite and we have started growing it.

Tree bark including birch bark if I can find it on the ground. 

For fillers: Pine cones, Spruce cones, Acorns and Chestnuts.  We have black walnut trees and harvest the walnuts for fillers.

We use feathers and deer sheds for a bit of pizazz, and interesting rocks and stones. 

It is okay to mix faux and natural elements.

A few pumpkins, both faux and real, placed on a tray with some fall berries and leaves is all it takes.

The faux pumpkins have been painted and dried pumpkin stems have been added.  The stems give the pumpkins a more realistic look.

For a front entryway fill a dough bowl with squash and pumpkins.  Add some bittersweet in a vase or jug alongside a couple of lanterns

A few Fall-themed pillows and a warm throw or two makes a house feel cosy.

Pile squash and pumpkins next to a rocker.

Add some cut branches to an existing plant.

The wool throw is from Scotland and it is in the Maple Leaf Tartan.
The orange and white pumpkin in the foreground is called 'One too Many'.

Sometimes a vignette is totally un-contrived.  The squash, gourds, and pumpkins are straight from the garden, mud and all, and simply piled up.

A pot of geraniums was right next to the pumpkins and provided some nice contrast.

Use a tray to corral a stack of plates, autumn-themed jug, placemats, napkins, and an old crockery jug.
The painting in the background is a fall scene.

a plant, faux pumpkins, a berry pick, and pheasant feathers.

I will supply a list of resources at the end of the post.  
The pheasant feathers arrived a little dishevelled.  By the look of them, it appears that there may have been a bit of a curfuffle when the time came for the little fellow to give up his feathers.

Don't forget the mantel.  

Here we used a collection of blue and white pottery dressed for fall with some branches and cloth pumpkins.

That's me taking the picture.

I had nothing to do with this last picture.  It was just there and I captured it.

Sources

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Pillow cover with blue pumpkin and bittersweet HERE

Pillow cover with three pumpkins, blue and white HERE

Large orange pumpkin pillow cover HERE

Gold velvet cushion cover. HERE

Dark orange plates are from Pottery Barn.  I believe this colour is no longer available, though.

Pheasant feathers HERE  

Blue and White Pottery has been collected over a few years.  Some has come from Bombay Company and the decorative Carpet Balls are from Pier 1 Imports HERE

The tutorial for Velvet Pumpkins is HERE

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