Autumn/Fall on the Hutch- Decorate With Me

Hi Friends,

Today I'm trying to find a focus for the hutch. I loved orangy-yellow, rusty-red, and the browns I used on the mantel.  

Then I remembered I thrifted a quilt panel of a pair of pheasants! Perfect!

First, I gathered the quilt panel, a two tone cream/brown flat fold I thrifted this Summer.

It took me sometime to think through how I was going to display or hang this quilt panel, I dug out of a closet this faux window frame that might work. 

I decided to stretch the two tone fabric over the frame just using duck tape for a quick fix.

with needle and thread tacked down the quilt panel

staying with the same orangy-yellow, rusty-reds and darker yellow tones in this frame.

got into the Autumn/Fall tub for the fall leaf garland

I've kept the green tackle boxes, the wire basket of green apples

and the blue canning jars and vintage juice jug that I have had displayed on the top of the hutch for awhile.

For this season, I had been thinking about using more dried floral than faux.

 The garden this year is starting to prepare for cooler days and nights, so I gathered  yarrow, zinnia's, poppy pods, and sunflower, to make the floral in the Ball Jar and juice jugs

Then, added a scarecrow I made a couple of weeks ago

next, I thought a grouping of amber bottles would add the darker tone I was looking for

but the tray of amber bottles was lost in this grouping, so I added a riser. 

even with the riser the tray of bottles are lost.... so I rearranged the apples

added a small basket for now.

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Now the right side of the hutch needed something, I brought in the cute little green vase I thrifted this Spring to balance out the green of the apples, filled with dried yarrow, sunflower, poppy pods, and zinnias

However, I think this grouping is looking cluttered couldn't see all of the jars..... so, I trimmed the dried floral and rearranged the jars

I changed it again rearranged jars, added a scarecrow

I think this grouping is looking better, I felt there needed to be more so I gathered up pip berries and scattered them around with pine cones

Finally, using my collection of Children's ABC wooden block I built the word AUTUMN

I love how the hutch looks, what do you think? 

Have I inspired you to maybe incorporate dried florals or little treasures from Mother Earth this year?

Thank you for checking in on what I have been up to. I would love to hear what you think of my autumn décor focus this year,

 May God Bless You and Your Family, 

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Autumn is Here - Decorate The Mantel With Me!

 Hi Friends,

The last couple of days I have been putting away summer décor, and thinking about my October displays. 

I have pulled out the fall bins.  Kept out some of the orangey red sunflowers and pip berries and thrifted glass jugs. 

my focus is the beautiful flying geese pewter tray on the mantel this Fall.

DIY hanger idea

I've kept the willow wreaths to be hung up next to the window frame

The vintage oval picture frame I paid a $1.00 at a local vintage/thrift store.  The print I found at Graphic Fairy free sunflower prints.

sunflower print

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 I'm thinking amber bottles and a few of my dark brown crocks that I have thrifted this year.

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Changing up the fireplace mantel by adding a few of my thrifted vintage cigar boxes for a rustic Fall vibe.

the cigar box is a newly thrifted

most of the thrifted vintage cigar boxes I have been in my collection for some time

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Last Summer

 I made this primitive felt crow for my Late-Summer Décor, I perched her in the willow wreath

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I went back and added more floral to the vases 

A few pip berries poppy pods

dried sunflower and dried poppy pods

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Made it my own-Dollar Tree Scarecrow pick.

I used some fabric from a haul last month to make clothing for these cute little scarecrows added a little more stuffing and embellishment to make them my own. 

What do you think?

I kept the buffalo check garland and added a DT leaf color garland- yellow, green, red, orange

Fall memories growing up in the mid-west was the time to collect bitter-sweet, that grew on the fence line out on a country roads, our family would take a drive Saturday afternoon and pick wild bitter-sweet.

 in those days my mother also pick cattails for display. Now cattails are protected in my area.

 

Final touch is a spray for the top of the widow frame, I just use some twig and stems of red, orange, yellow-bitter sweet and use strips of cotton fabric to attach the sprig to the window frame

Let me know what you think? I'm I missing something?

Thank you so much for stopping by, I try and post every week with fun projects, thrift hauls or just enhancing my home décor for the seasons.

So.... until next time...........

May God Bless You and Your Family, I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett!