Fall Is In the Air

I rarely decorate for fall in September, but the month began with cool days and I decided to go crazy with fall decor.

Faux flowers in the bag on the Dutch door got a fall treatment by simply adding a pumpkin.

I had fun going out of my comfort zone with my color palette.

First came navy and white pillows made in the summer, I added in orange and white check pillows made from napkins and then I found the colorful throw.

All it took was orange candles and a little embellishment on Mr. Goose to give the dining room a fall feel.

The colors of the fall mantel work quite well with this painting of a boat washed up on our beach.

 I am loving decorating this part of the living room since I painted the fireplace white.

I painted a new sign to hide the tv - it will be painted over for each season to fit with the decor.

 The painting of an old Mercedes Benz in the jungle fits right in with the fall colors.

 I asked Steve to change the painting on this wall too - sunflowers worked better than houseboats.

 I needed to paint a few pumpkins to get just the right colors

and added faux foliage to embellish each vignette.

My favorite vignette so far is my old typewriter -

I cut up a paper bag, tore the edges and added stickers left over from stenciling the new sign hiding the television.

I know I went a bit crazy with the pumpkins, but I don't care -

and this different color palette makes me smile.

Soft Whites For Fall

Looking at this picture, I imagine you are questioning the title of Soft Whites for Fall,

but why don't you come in and see for yourself.

With so much color happening outside, simplicity reigns throughout the house.

The step back cupboard provides a nice background for the little bit of color in the entry.

You might question all the white, but fall in my neck of the woods is less about oranges and reds or falling leaves

 than it is about wide expanses of blues and greens.

An old bench on the porch,

and old stool in the entry provide a pop of blue.

In the dining room, yellow paired with the blue and white spruce up the plate racks, but the yellow flowers are just too much.

So, I swapped them for baby boos.

I did have to resort to faux greenery otherwise I would be changing the greenery daily.

Keeping with the neutral theme, I made a few pumpkins out of drop cloth that ended up in the hallway.

Now, I need to hit publish on this post, finish the mantel

and head to the pumpkin patch so I can fill the shopping cart with pumpkins.

Because like the front porch, the back yard is all about color.

New Season . . . New Colors

Spending 4 days sitting on a trial as a juror left me little time to take pictures this past week, but I created a collage for the Instagram hashtag - #mysummer2016.

As I scrolled through my IG gallery looking for photos, I noticed that blues, aquas and whites filled my sumner.

But as fall slowly awakens in southern California, I am seeing new colors around the house.

Baby pumpkins in white and orange on my little green table are a departure from my usual palette.

While I was on jury duty, our painter was working his magic on our walls - my green pie safe looks crisp and clear against a white background.

Bouquets of colorful flowers are my usual centerpiece in the dining room, but pumpkins in a green box are a nice seasonal change.

Even the garden is sporting flowers in fall colors

and those fall flowers look lovely in vignettes.

Steve changed the painting over the mantel so I am trying out different ideas on the mantel that will compliment the colors of the sky and ocean.

The colors in the living room are softer - especially with the cute pillow I won on an Instagram giveaway from Bianca of  With Lavender and Grace.

The house is decked out in whites and pastels this season,

but you can see from the bench on our porch and the accents in the entryway

that my seasonal colors are all across the spectrum.

What are your seasonal colors this year?

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Adding Fall Slowly

I'm slowly adding Fall decor - a little each day.

I stole some of the plants from the front of the house

and replaced them with little pumpkins.

My original plan was to use mostly Halloween decorations, but after Lulu ate the BOO banner, I rethought my plans.

I moved a few things around in the entry.

The only money I spent on decor was for about 2 dozen little pumpkins.

With few bookshelves in our little cottage, I do a lot of stacking books for vignettes.

I chose "Book of Days" and when I flipped it open,

I found several pages with the perfect poems for the season.

The dining room didn't get much in the way of fall decor -

the brightly colored Rudbekia plant on the table has been on the table for awhile

and will stay until the plant begs me to plant it.

I brought my scale out of the kitchen

and used a linen napkin instead of a pot for a rose bush.

I  ended up using only a few fall items to decorate

focusing instead on fall colors

flowers

and pumpkins.

Tomorrow I'll finish the living room as I continue to add fall little by little.

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