Fall Frenzy

A personal record, I'd say. Last year I made my fall wreath and posted about my love for fall a whole 10 days earlier. I can't believe I held out this long. While I am certainly in a frenzy to get fall started, I am also a little depressed.

My office is a mess. Ever since we pulled the carpets out of the formals and family room, a ton of items have been thrown into my office/craft room as a temporary home. In addition, I still have furniture (bookcases and a chair) in my hallway. I am hoping the builder hurries up and gets their concrete people to finish my floors so that Marcos and I can then REALLY finish my floors. I don't feel like I can do any inside decorating, as it will all be lost in the chaos and concrete dust.

Of course, that doesn't stop me from starting on the outside of the house. I made my fall wreath yesterday... I wanted to use apples in my theme. I found these cute small crafting apples from 32* North (on Etsy). They were $4.95 for six.

Besides the wreath, I cleaned up the front porch a little. I had to trim (or completely pull out) some of our greenery. It was creeping over to our neighbor's side and it was a mess. Marcos and Alex cut the grass and did an overall yard clean-up. My rocks look muddy because it has been raining like crazy around here, and this area floods. :(

We've had such bad dust storms, that I was glad to finally take a broom to the porch and to also clean the windows. They were nasty!

I know what you are thinking... it's still too green and blue to look like fall, but I am trying... =)

Here's a close-up of the newly decorated seating area.

1] New pillows from WalMart - $12 each (can reuse them for Christmas)
2] New glass top table from WalMart - $15 (got rid of the seventies one I found at Goodwill several months back)
3] Fall flowers - 2 bunches $5 and $2 in a wooden vase I already owned
4] Cheap kitchen rug $5 (it's perfect... if it gets ruined, it only cost five bucks, no biggie - but it DOES add a pop of color)
5] New-ish chairs we had to purchase when the HOA decided to hate on our teal Adirondack chairs - $19 each from Home Depot

For less than $100 - I was able to spruce up, add color, and decorate for the Fall. As I start to clean out my office, I may find more fun fall things to use - you know, as we actually get CLOSER to fall?!

All this will be up through September, because once October 1 hits, it will be Halloween Central around here.