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I'm not good at this. My only fall decoration was a wreath that I discovered got transformed into part of a LOTR miniature battle ground. 
What do you put on your table? Front door? Mantel?
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I'm worse at it than you, Bridget. I don't do anything.
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Leaves. Gourds. Berries.
I got a wreath at Walmart years ago...bought stems at Michaels with the 50% off coupons that they put in the paper....I pick up pumpkins and gourds here and there over the years...a few ceramic/porcelain, some beaded styrofoam based ones, etc.
The dollar store also sells some things that are workable...
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For outside, whatever Michael's has on sale and is cute that year. It's usually trashed by the time I take it down for Advent (our front door and porch are really exposed to the elements), so I end up buying new almost every year.
For inside, pumpkin and cinnamon scented candles and a few gourds are all I add.
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you can dry (or find dried) plants.. or especially fall looking things.. like cat tails.. that you can put in a vase.. one year I found some bushes that have a dark red bark.. and were bare.. I cut some of those and put them in a vase.. yep just bare branches in a dark red color.. but then with some maroon candles in homemade spruce cone candle rings (just hot glued in a ring) and it was very pretty.
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Here were my fall decorations from last year:
Ode to Autumn
Not sure where I packed them away though... 
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Wellll, we let the leaves decorate the yard! 
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I love Fall, it is my favorite season. We decorate with pumpkins and corn stacks from the garden. We use a bale of hay and the dc pick and dry their own guords. Great topic, it makes me long for cooler days.....the humidity is really getting to me 
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Becky Parker wrote:
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I'm a fall nut! I grew up south east of Houston where there were no pretty fall colors; heck, vertually NO color changes at all (I guess going from green to brown is one color change... )--and very little temperature changes-- When I was a kid going to school, I used to lament that our outside never looked like the "teaher-y" decor that littered the hallways and classroom walls, or the beautiful changing seasons that you see in calendars. I was so excited when we were first married to actually live in a place that has sesons and have been enjoying it ever since.
I have pumpkins and gourds, yummy smelling candles (usually bought on clearence from the end of the previous fall), and clusters of Indian Corn tied with raffia, jute or some pretty fall colored ribbon. (also clearenced from previous fall season)
Also I've purchased a few inexpensive decor items from TJMaxx, Tuesday Morning and even Good Will.
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Most catalogs have their fall stuff out now! Woo hoo!
Terry's Village
and Lillian Vernon have cute stuff.
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I found a little wicker cornucopia yesterday at Ross, Pier 1 had several too, but Ross was much less expensive!  Come September I think I'll fill it with Autumnal Potpourri and set it out for our first day of school, maybe with some glittery fruit and leaves that I've seen in the stores lately.
Oh! Second thought - fill with real nuts and set out the nutcracker nearby, always popular with my dh. 
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This year I decided to buy some "seasonally appropriate" colored towels for the bathroom--see, I change decorations throughout the house every three months. Sept 1-Nov 30 is fall time...so out come my black and orange fall decor boxes (including the costumes)....I've got those flags for the front yard flag holder, wreathes, the gourds for scattering about, my pilgrim man and woman porcelain figurines, the leaves and berry garlands I have to stretch across the top of the bookshelves and the piano....and the towels are in a golden wheat color. I have a few little sparkly pumpkins for the shelves over the main bathroom toilets. I try to pick up those little $1 soaps at Michaels, the glycerin ones that they will have from time to time in the bins up front....
I've got a few other things in the boxes...but I can't remember what they are right off of the top of my head, lol.
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1. Buy the 4 for 1.00 variety small gourds from Kroger.
2. Scatter artfully around the home- like kitchen table, fireplace mantle, under couch cushion, under pillow.
3. Find moldy gourds scattered artfully around home; throw outside on compost pile/last years garden.
4. Next fall, pick the variety for free which is taking over the yard!
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Well, he wouldn't fit on the table or mantel, but how about the front porch....The kids could find some old clothes and stuff a straw man (scarecrow) full of straw and leaves and prop him up in a chair.
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I love decorating for fall. In Louisiana, fall colors don't appear naturally, so you have to buy them! we use gourds, hay bales and a scarecrow in the front yard, potted mums up the front porch, a fall wreath of the door. In the kitchen, fall leaf garland gets wrapped around the cabinets and the normal what-nots get replaced with the little pilgrims and other fall things. A huge Mason jar full of candy corn makes it way to the kitchen island and the dining room table is covered in felt leaves that we hot glued together to make a runner, hurricane lamps with orange pillar candles, etc....Most of it was accumulated at Hobby Lobby 50% sales, some of it is homemade. Each year we add some new things and do it a bit differently. LOVE IT!
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Bridget, one year, I bought two pie sized pumpkins and 7 mini pumpkins and used them on our mantle with a berry garland and a few candles about them. Everyone thought it was cute.
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Too many nifty ideas! Thanks everyone!
The weather is so muggy here, no one even wants to go outside so it's hard not to start yearning for fall.
In a few weeks we will be given both a puppy and kittens (don't ask, it's just how it worked out) so I was thinking I should plan ahead for fall stuff.
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Lisa! I'm rolling here! Too, too funny...
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we have a few little wooden signs that I put up in the garden out front or by the front door. I have a wreath that I made to hang on the front closet door. and a nice welcome sign for the outside of the front door.
we buy little pumpkins and gords to scatter around, along with acorns and leaves.
many times I let the kids decorate. we do seasonal art project/pictures that I then hang up. we make jack-o-laterns and ghost for the front livingroom window before halloween, and then pigrims and indians after.
we make fall leaves out of colored paper and string them up in the diningroom.
this yr, I am not sure what we are going to do. but with it always being the same temps etc... I want to try to make the inside of my hosue change with the 'seasons' LOL.
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