Fall frame redo

Framing Fall

It may be 101 F. outside today, but it's a crisp cool fall inside!  I'm willing the cooler weather to be here just by adding new fall decorations.  I have kept the cutest framed collection from Pinterest in my mind for a couple of weeks and finally finished my version yesterday. 

I pulled some old frames out of a garage storage box and picked up some different alpha letters at Hobby Lobby (on 1/2 price no less!).  This is what resulted:

Cute, right?  Inside the frames from left to right is a kitchen towel, fall leaves, craft paper, and an antique doily.  I spray painted the 3 D letters with Rust-Oleum  hammered brown and attached them  to the glass using a picture hanging putty.  Seriously, this was so easy- I'd say level 1 or 2 if you are spray paint challenged... 

What you need:
frames
letters
spray paint
something to go inside the frames
scissors
mirror hanging putty (comes in rolls either in the mirror section or hardware section at Walmart)

Spray paint the frames and letters a unifying color, fill the frames with fall colored items, attach the letters to the glass on front.  Done.


I put them up right away, but decided the mirror frame is too dark. 
Have spray...will fix.

The camera caught the light from the windows in the mirror,

but you get the picture...pun intended

My inspiration came from A Diamond in the Stuff.  Visit her site for more cute "stuff".

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Fall Tablescape

For the last touch to the kitchen redo I wanted a very simple tablescape for every day use that I can quickly remove.  That table gets a lot of use!  Some fresh apples in a tall pitcher on my grandmothers wash board (turned tray), crafty Doily Pumpkin, a few fall leaves and some kind of hanger thing my hubs had all placed on an appliqued kitchen towel my mom made.  Do you use your kitchen table for multiple purposes?

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Fall decorating

I've got the fall bug, for sure.  We finished the kitchen update several days ago and I knew the deep cleaning would be done today.  Last night my dreams were full of fall decorating ideas and I could hardly wait for day light to get started.

I've packed away a good bit of the items we've collected over the years and put another sizable group of things aside for a garage sale.  As I started with the staging today I decided to challenge myself to use only things rediscovered as I was packing.  

I began in the center section on the 9 foot shelf across the top of the sink.  I decided the strongest color statement would go there.  I used some mismatched wine glasses from a  Christmas decoration project several years ago to hoiste up some candles that I attached fall leaves to using raffia.  They were too light against the Antique White paint so after several options failed to meet my expectations I went to the game closet and pulled out a checker board.  Some Halloween pumpkins turned backward for fall finished off the center section.

To the left is a large wooden bowl hubs carved for me many years ago (I just love the wood projects he makes by hand!), an old oil can and a black sprayed frame filled with raffia and a fall leaf. Easy peasie...

To the right is a replica garden gate, Apple cake plate and another treasured wooden bowl hubs made.  :)

Over the fridge is my sewing basket dressed up with some turkey feathers  and two laterns from hubs collection.