Falling for Fall

Happy DIY day. Fall is in the air around our parts of Texas. I am catching glimpses of its glory in the cool crisp mornings. Since we were all blessed with a three day weekend, I decided to get out my fall decorations. One of my favorite places to decorate for fall is in the dining room. The long table almost begs for a little bit of fall.

Here is what it looks like now:

My arrangement was bought in Canton, the large candle holders and candles are from Hobby Lobby, and the cheetah table runner is simply unfinished material...how easy is that?

To get the Fall look, I started with an untwisted grapevine wreath:



I wove it around my candlesticks (all of my decorations are 4 years old...which is a pretty good bargain when you can re-use them year after year-they all were bought w/ 40% off coupons at Hobby Lobby)

Then my daughters and I added a pre-made swag that has leaves, and berries, and fruit:

Next, we added 2 strands of fall leaves and then we tucked in little pumpkins:

I also added some of those raffia pumpkins. They were a bit too orange so I added a little burnt umber paint to antique them a little bit:

I may add some more candles in the crystal candlesticks some day:

And ta-da:

It's all ready for fall!