Fall Decorating Ideas: a house log

I got all leaf-glad to add a bit of that fall/Thanksgiving vibe to the dining area. It was free and it took about ten minutes total. Here is the dining table with some fairly branches from the cherry tree out front:

And I popped a few smaller branches from the same tree into my floating cb2 hanging vases.

Sure, they are looking a little limp, but after adding some water to the vases, they perked right up. And since they are free I am ok with them lasting simply a week or so if that is what mother nature so ordains.

Oh and I thought a $2 bag of mixed nuts looked kinda Thanksgiving-ish (saw something similar in an old Pottery Barn catalog of yore) so I grabbed the bag and dumped them into two clear glass vases for more of that seasonal vibe. And I brought in an apple we already had in our fruit bowl- simply for more of that fairly fall color.

The strong thing is that those apples & mixed nuts can look Christmas-y too, plus they are edible. Talk about multitasking only-takes-a-minute decor.

Oh and our etched “Thanks” jar is turning out to be a fairly lively project. We have not skipped a day of recording something that we are thankful for yet (one of us typically reminds the other) and we cannot wait til the end of the month when we can read them all (I have no idea what John’s writing but he snickers from time to time, so I am thinking it’ll be funny to at last read his in a few weeks).

Any fall or Thanksgiving decorating going on at your house? Remember those lively trace-your-hand-and-make-it-a-turkey projects back in kindergarten? I in short lived for that when I was a kid.