Welcome friends! Fall has finally arrived and that means it’s time to enjoy all the beauty and fun of this glorious season! Today I am so excited to be hosting the Embracing Fall Home Tours and to be joining 25 amazing bloggers as we share how we are embracing fall in our homes. You can find links to all of the beautiful fall home tours at the end of this post.

 

 

 

I am starting off the tour with a few pictures from last year’s fall front porch since I haven’t done very much outdoor decorating for fall. We have been having 90 degree temperatures for nearly six weeks with no rain!

The heat has made it hard to get in a fall mood or to get anything done outside on the porch and in the garden. I absolutely loved my cozy fall front porch last year however, so I plan to decorate it in a similar way this year.

 

The pumpkin varieties I choose might be different based on availability, but I will definitely be using the same pillows and overall color scheme this year.

 

 

Sitting on the front porch with a hot cup of hot apple cider while taking in all of the beautiful fall foliage in the forest across the street is one of my favorite ways to embrace fall.

 

 

 

Embracing Fall with Vivid Fall Colors

Even though I am a little behind on my outdoor fall decor, I have still found ways to enjoy some of the pleasures of fall inside our home. I am happy to welcome you inside where it’s nice and cool to see how I am embracing fall so far this year.

In September I shared my Early Fall Living Room Refresh where I welcomed the season by adding bright fall colors through a few new textiles, colorful pumpkins, and beautiful mums mixed in with my favorite green accents and everyday decor. Our beautiful  8′ x 10′ natural jute rug from Soft Surroundings.  Looks just as perfect for fall as it did in the summer. It’s mazing how the right rug can pull a room together like magic! 

 

I had planned to change the living room decor when October arrived by switching out some of the bright colors with the warmer hues of mid-late fall and bringing out some heavier textiles, but with the temperatures remaining in the 90’s for weeks on end I just couldn’t get motivated to do it. I know many of you have been dealing with the same situation! 

 

 

Everything I used for early fall still seems to work fine for October, so I am going to enjoy the current look for a bit longer. I will definitely be making some changes for November and Thanksgiving, but for now I am still loving my bright fall colors.  

 

 

Velvet pumpkins are my favorite indoor fall decorative accessory. I really have to use will power to resist buying one in every color anytime I go shopping!

 

 

 

Fun finds such as my little three-legged-rescued-squirrel, antique books and deer antlers will be used in rotating vignettes throughout the season. I am still loving my “Hello Fall” embroidered pillow too. It still works for October, especially since it will seem like fall has just arrived when cooler fall temperatures are finally here to stay!

 

If we do get cool temperatures this week, my French market bag and plaid blanket scarf is ready to grab and go for some fun fall junkin’ and pumpkin hunting adventures!

 

Embracing Fall with Mums

I just love mums! For my early fall home tour I used some beautiful salmon/pink colored mums on the styled tray in the living room. After the tour I moved them outside where they opened up to reveal beautiful and surprising yellow centers.

 

In late August I purchased my first mums of the season with the expectation that cooler weather was just around the corner. I tucked them in my French Market basket to share for the Transitioning from Summer to Fall Blog Hop, then planted them in pots outside after the hop. This weekend I picked up some white mums to put in the basket which you will see later in this post.

 

 

White mums are probably my favorites right now. I think they look so pretty in my vintage Bluegrass Kentucky lard bucket, a fun $1 yard sale find from early fall.

 

Embracing Fall With Rustic and Natural Treasures

One cannot imagine fall without pumpkins, the absolute quintessential natural fall treasures! I love pumpkins in all colors, shapes and sizes, but white pumpkins are perfect for rustic and elegant fall decorating.

 

This year I used bumpy, lumpy, perfectly imperfect white Cinderella pumpkins and white mini “baby boos” for my Neutral and Rustic Fall Tablescape.

 

For this tablescape I filled my DIY French Farmhouse Gray Washed basket with wheat, pheasant feathers and handmade paper feathers (Country Living Fair finds).

 

Little squirrel followed the acorn trail into the dining room and found a happy spot in the French basket tray centerpiece along with some other favorite farmhouse treasures.

 

 

 

Burlap pumpkins, antlers, and birch log candles are some of my other favorite rustic fall accents. Lighting candles makes everything seem so fallish and cozy!

 

 

 

Last week I started adding pops of color to my neutral and rustic fall dining room after I scored some dried bittersweet vine at a local vintage shop. I created a French Vintage Fall Vignette with Bittersweet on the vintage chest in the dining room that I plan to keep throughout the rest of the season.

 

Embracing fall is about letting go of summer and accepting the gifts that nature brings throughout autumn. Enjoying the beauty of dried hydrangeas and dried roses are examples of this principle.

 

I love combining rustic fall touches with French vintage treasures. I am working on a few more French vintage fall vignettes in my music room that I will be sharing next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was so disappointed that I didn’t have time to make the 45 minute drive to my favorite pumpkin farm to find a variety of heirloom pumpkins in time for this tour, but I did pick up a few traditional orange carving pumpkins at the grocery store. I think this orange pumpkin on a pedestal looks so pretty next to my pretty French basket with white mums. Timeless and classic fall!

 

 

It’s been a few years since I have decorated with simple orange pumpkins indoors and I am surprised at how much I am enjoying them. After all, these are the pumpkins of childhood autumns past, long before heirloom pumpkins became popular.

 

 

It just wouldn’t be fall in our home without plaid! I quickly added fall color to my church pew with some new-sew plaid pillow covers that I made using plaid placemats.

 

 

By “no sew” I am referring to safety pinning the placemats to the pillow inserts. As I always say, “sometimes ya gotta fake it til ya make it!”  I figured I might want to use the placemats in a tablescape sometime, so I decided not to sew or glue them.

 

On Friday our family took a little fall break day trip to Lexington, KY for some shopping and dinner. I lucked into another large bundle of bittersweet at an adorable primitives shop for only $10! I filled my French basket with the bittersweet and hung it from the door of my corner china cabinet. Love it!

 

 

 

Here is a peek at a new fall harvest fruits themed tablescape that I just started working on for mid-fall. The focal point of my centerpiece is a beautiful olive green glass demijohn surrounded by Bosc pears and honeycrisp apples.

 

The harvest fruits provide eye candy and healthy fall snacking too! I am also using some adorable dried “pumpinos” on the table.

 

I may not have found any more lumpy heirloom pumpkins yet to stack outdoors on my garden urns, but these pumpinos look adorable stacked in my favorite mini-French urns! I enjoy embracing all things fall, both large and small.

 

I found this amazing green demijohn at TJ Maxx for only $12.00, which I thought was quite a bargain. As much as I love green I couldn’t pass it up. I filled it with faux fall flowers, orange ranunculus, olive branch stems and pheasant feathers.

 

 

Sparkling apple cider or pear cider served chilled is a wonderful alternative to hot apple cider when the temperature is still 90 degrees in October! I do have some organic pumpkin spice apple cider ready to be put in the crock pot to enjoy on the crisp fall evenings that will surely be here soon.

 

Since the cider and fruits won’t last long, I have been playing around with some other fall and French treasures in the centerpiece. The little pumpinos look so pretty in a vintage bowl with an orange, blue, and green design around the rim ( .50 estate sale find).  I still have some tweaking to do but I will share more of this tablescape in an upcoming post.

 

 

I have been complaining a lot about how hot it has been, but I do have to say that I am enjoying all of the beautiful sunshine! It won’t be long until long, gray winter days are here to stay so I am embracing all the fall sunshine while it lasts. By the way, this is my first photo with my new wide angle lens! It is going to take a lot of getting used to but I think I am going to have some fun with it.

 

Embracing Fall In The Kitchen

While I was working on this post I put my Fresh and Fragrant Fall Simmer on the stove. It was impossible not to be in a fall mood with the wonderful aroma wafting from the kitchen.

 

The simmer also made me a little hungry for a fall treat, like the delicious Easy as 1-2-3 Gluten and Dairy Free Pumpkin Spice Pan Bars I enjoyed a couple of weeks ago.  I think I shall embrace fall by making more of these bars this week!

 

So far this fall I have only added a few fall farmhouse touches to the kitchen and I am loving the simplicity. The vintage turkeys will begin trotting into the kitchen during the first week of November however, bringing a few more vintage fall decorations with them.

 

The fall kitchen decor couldn’t get much simpler than upcycling a cold brew coffee brown glass bottle that I found hiding in the back of the fridge and filling it with some stems that were breaking off my mums. Isn’t the little velvet pumpkin just the cutest?

 

This simmer smells sooo amazing and it really puts me in a fall mood! Using fresh herbs harvested from my garden for fall meals and in simmers is another way I embrace fall.

 

I am happy to report that my beloved rosemary hasn’t been phased by all the unseasonably hot weather we have been having. That means I will have plenty to use for Thanksgiving and Christmas cooking! Now that the weather is cooling down I will be working outside in the garden a bit more, so I hope to share a fall garden post sometime next week. If you love herbs, fall plants and gardening be sure to stop back by for another visit! You can also subscribe by email to receive a weekly newsletter to keep you up to date with all my latest posts.

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing how I have been embracing fall so far this season! Now it’s time to move on to all of the other amazing fall tours today. Next up is Marty at A Stroll Thru Life. I always love her chic and sophisticated traditional decorating ideas! Don’t forget to visit all of the other tours via the links at the end of this post.

Thanks for visiting and have a very Happy fall!

Amber

 

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