15 Delightful Fall Arrangements

At the Country Living Fair Atlanta 2017 there were so

many delightful Fall arrangements everywhere. I snapped 

pictures of my favorites to use them for inspiration in 

decorating my own home, porch and yard. Would you 

like to see them too and get ideas for your Fall decor?

In no particular order, here is #1...

This was one of larger arrangements. It took several
pictures to get it all in. It was on the back side of a 
large fireplace. They cleverly used firewood in the
composition of mums, roses, pansies and small bushes. 
Burlap and straw were used to hide the pots.

All of the mums, plants, pumpkins used in the arrangements were
 going to be sold at the end of the fair.

#2
The designers used corn stalks to add height in taller 
areas in conjunction with mums in elevated wire urns.
Burlap was used to cover pots in the urns.

This grouping is visible in the back of the previous photo.

The gray shelf held two more clever but easy arrangements.

#3
This one had one of the few cut stems that I saw.
Most of the fall arrangement elements were still in pots 
but magnolia will hold up well even without water for days.

#4
Indian corn, small pumpkin, ornamental kale and burlap
make this an easy but attractive arrangement to duplicate.

#5
This vendor's wooden bread bowl arrangement has
 a nice combination of Fall elements.

#6
Tall potted grasses were used near some of the speaker tents.
This vintage-looking tub had purple loropetalum, a green
euonymus plant, a mum and fountain grass. 
This type arrangement would look good on a porch.

#7
This is a similar outdoorsy arrangement with two tall
elements, two mums and a pumpkin in a tub. I like the
way they used straw to hide the pots in the containers.


#8
This tub arrangement has more varied heights with two
mums, a cypress bush and fountain grass. 
All of these could be planted in your yard after Fall. 

#9
This basket arrangement of Indian corn, a mum, a 
pumpkin and two loropetalum nestled in burlap is a good DIY.

#10
This was a tall basket that probably most of us don't have 
the space for but the elements of a mum, ornamental cabbage
and kale, green euonymus, sapphire cypress and fountain
grass could be duplicated in a shorter container. 

#11
This was quite a large arrangement with mums, pumpkins,
oranamental cabbage and kale.

#12
These next three Fall arrangements make good use of 
straw bales for height and volume.

#13

#14

I'll finish with my #15 "arrangement". I have never
seen before...at first I could not figure how it was done.

This was the largest installation of the corn stalks, hay bales
and mums I saw but there were smaller versions too.

The hay bales made convenient places to sit down. 

The following comments and pictures are just a continuation of #15.
This version (I think meant to soften the look of the porta
potties) gave insight into how the stalks were standing up.

A wooden pallet is up on its side. The corn stalks are probably
wired on to the pallet. Hay bales are on either side of the pallet
holding it up. The mums add color. There may be more to
it than that but it would be worth a try. It is unique.

Here is another size...

I'm not sure the corn came with the stalks or if they were wired on later. 

You may have porches, fences, etc. where you could try 
corn stalks on structure you already have.

Here are corn stalks attached to a fence. 

Well we still have three weeks until Thanksgiving to use 
some of these ideas in our Fall decorating!

Here are other posts with pictures from the fair...
25 Idea-Filled Vignettes
2 BIG Pumpkin Presentations
4 Farmhouse Trends at Country Living Fair
17 Eye-Catching Items at the CL Fair
Bringing Farmhouse Style to a Cookie Cutter House
Decorate and DIY with Vintage Salvage

I'm sharing this post over at these blog parties...
Share Your Style @ The Vintage Nest and others
Home and Garden Thursday @ A Delightsome Life
Grace at Home @ Imparting Grace
Feathered Nest Friday @ Country French Cottage
Handmade Hangout @ From Gardners to Bergers
Flaunt It Friday @ Chic On A Shoestring
Amaze Me Monday @ Dwellings

Christmas 2014 Open House Tour

Thank you, Sherry, of the "No Minimalist Here" blog for

 inviting me to join in with other bloggers for a

 Christmas Open House Blog Hop! 

We'll start the tour of my home (well, for this post it is the outside

decorations and the dining room...too many pictures for one post)

in the front yard.

Unsightly spot lights and cords are a necessary evil to light up the front of the house
 at night during Christmas-time.

Last year I made all new decorations for the outside going with

a festive red and bright green color scheme with a candy theme. 

I didn't get all of it back down from the attic this year but 

enough to make the yard and front of the house "merry and bright".

If you want to see a tutorial on how to make the candy decor,

click on the link Make Giant Candy Decorations. 

Last year's deco mesh garland did not make it out of the attic

but I did make some deco mesh and ribbon toppers for the lights.

They are really easy.  Using 21" deco mesh, cut several pieces

10" wide (your pieces will be 10" x 21").  Roll the pieces into

tubes. Pinch the tubes/rolls in the middle and secure them with 

a pipe cleaner. Then make a bow using wired ribbon. 

 Add some other decorative elements if you want to. 

Secure the mesh rolls onto the lantern with the pipe cleaner.

Tie the bow on next.  Add other decorative elements if desired.

I actually ended up using two sets of the deco mesh spiral bundles to make the topper full. 

Because I already had wreaths for each of the six windows 

across the front of the house, I made a burlap door hanging of

a Christmas tree for the front door.

I love making burlap door hangings because it allows you to

choose any object you want, any size you want, any color

you want to paint it. They take a little time, mainly for the 

paint to dry, but they are not hard to do.  Here is a tutorial:

DIY Painted Burlap Christmas Tree Door Hanging .

Each of the windows has a deco mesh wreath.

These are also easy to make and give you a lot of bang for 
your buck.  Here's how they are made: Make A Christmas Wreath.

 Most of the lollipops by the mailbox are made differently 

than the ones by the front door. Although both types use the

 canned spray foam, most of the lollipops by the mailbox 

get their color from paint rather than from wrapping paper. 

All of them are covered with cellophane to mimick a candy

wrapper and to protect them from the weather. 

Here is the mailbox as the sun is setting and the lights are turned

on. The mailbox itself got a new "do" this year. If you want to

 see the tutorial for it, here it is: Deco Mesh Mailbox Topper.

Here is the front of the house at night...

So come on in the front door now.  This are is just an open area

that is a combo foyer and dining room.  When we moved into this

house ten years ago, we sheetrocked over an opening in the wall

behind the buffet.  This gave us a longer wall to put this large

piece of furniture on AND kept folks from seeing directly into 

the kitchen from the front door. 

I enjoy changing out the artwork in this frame seasonally. 

This angel was a very last-minute Christmas decoration a 

couple of years ago and I still love her. Here is her story...

Angels Watching Over Me.

On top of the buffet are candles and bottles brush trees in 

pottery from Hobby Lobby. 

The two candle holders were a splurge for me. I bought them from

a decorator that came to help me with furniture arrangement and

accessorizing. Usually my shopping style is 40-50% off coupons.

The candles in the pottery are LED lights that won't burn the 

bottle brush trees. They also have a great feature of coming on

at the same time everyday for about four hours. Especially in the

winter it is nice to come home in the dark and candles are

"burning in the window" to welcome you home. 

The "snow" in the pottery is actually epsom salt. To keep from 

using so much epsom salt, a piece of cardboard was cut to fit the pottery and placed  on top of several upside-down glasses down

 inside the pottery.  Then the salt was added on top of the board. 

Looking to your right, you will see the dining room table.

Even though we almost never have snow on Christmas in Alabama,

I have been brainwashed by songs, etc. to think that Christmas

is better with snow. The miniature houses and little bottle brush

trees sit on serving plates covered in epsom salt to mimick snow.

The little houses are $1 each from Wal-Mart and Dollar Tree

that have been spray-painted white. Here's how they were made

and used in 2012 ...DIY Mini-Winter Wonderland.

This year I used more ornaments, less bottle brush trees and

less plates in the vignette. 

Glass Cake Stand

Serving Stand with Handle (in middle)

Silver Cake Stand

I lucked up on little cardboard houses WITH trees that have a

little light inside that you can switch off and on. 

Did you know that it is very easy and inexpensive to bleach 

bottle brush trees? Here's how: Bleached Bottle Brush Trees.

If you don't want to bleach your own trees you can find small

ones in stores already done. Hobby Lobby has some in the 

doll house section. These with balls already on them came

from World Market...

...in the scrapbook section of Jo Ann's I found these...

The chalk-painted hutch also in the dining room usually has 

more bottle brush trees displayed but this year it got a

 pared-down look with older silver trees from the attic. 

In the background of the picture below, you can see into the

living room.  If you would like to see the living room and the 
fireplace mantle decorated click on  Open House Tour Part Two.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Be sure and go visit the other blogs that are in the "hop" today!

21 Rosemary Lane reveals her beautiful living room...

A Stroll Thru Life shares Part One of her home tour...

All About Vignettes shares her "other" mantle in her sunroom...