Fall Decorating

I love Fall decorating, especially decorating the fireplace for the Fall season. Why wait until the traditional Christmas season? Fall is the best time to decorate with nature inspired materials. Bring the colors and aroma of Fall indoors

This is the time of the year when the temperatures are cooling down. Cozying up to a fire in the fireplace with the aroma of Fall in the air is good for the soul.

Fall is a fun season with it's own traditions of apple cider, bonfires, and all the leaves changing colors. Combine that with Halloween's ghost and goblins and that makes Fall the best season of the year.

It's easier to plan one decorating strategy by combining Halloween and autumn. After Halloween is over, remove the scary things and keep the autumn decorations through Thanksgiving.

Mix a few Halloween decorations along with your Fall decorations. When the Halloween decorations are removed make sure they won't be missed.

In the picture shown, the candles on the fireplace mantel will remain but the witches will be removed after Halloween. They will be replaced with a large glass cylinder and small glass vases filled with colored leaves. The use of natures materials is not only easy on the pocket but you can't beat the vibrant colors and textures it has to offer.

The vases of leaves are a great way to display Fall's colors. It's a very easy and simple way to bring the outdoors inside. This is an idea that takes little effort with big results. When they dry out just replace them with new leaves. Another option, buy pressed leaves from naturespressed.com or press your own leaves.

You probably pressed leaves with wax paper when you were a kid. If not, it's easy to do. Put a leave or leaves between two pieces of wax paper. Place a cloth over the wax paper and iron. The heat from the iron will seal the wax paper together. The wax paper will preserve the leaves and make the colors even more vibrant.

As you can see in this picture the wreath is the centerpiece of the fireplace mantel. It's a 32" diameter artificial pine wreath covered with corn husk. No glue needed, just a pair of scissors and corn husk. You can purchase corn husk at some grocery stores, fresh produce markets or plant nurseries.

To make the wreath cut the husk in about 8" strips. Fold in half and attach to the wreath by wrapping the wired pine around it. Peel the thicker pieces of corn husk in strips after attaching to the wreath. Continue all around the wreath until it is covered. The wreath looks better in person. It's huge, very full and the browns and gold tones of the corn husk really looks amazing.

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