Taking A Big Fall

We’re getting close to my favorite time of year. Being that we live in Southwest Florida we’re forced to create largely artificial autumnal ambience. Here are just a few of the many signs of fall around our place:

The dining room table stays like this until we dismantle it and reset it for Thanksgiving dinner. My Mom sewed the table runner for me a couple of years ago. The rest of these items I've just accumulated here and there over the past few years. I particularly like the little gourd name card holders.

Crafty I'm not. These napkin rings are one of my few projects, actually. When I bought them they were summery green, but I sprayed them brown and then used red, orange and yellow craft paint to autumn them up.

This is the top of a tea cart that sits just inside the front door. There's no mistaking what time of year it is from the second you walk in.

This is a close-up of the napkins atop the tea cart. Some friends gave us these acrylic napkin holders a couple of years ago and I love them. I just switch the napkins out all year long depending on the season/event.

Six of these pumpkin tea light holders adorn the coffee table.

These found a home on the pass-through between the kitchen and dining room. Those are artificial CVS pharmacy leaves in the base of each candle, btw. Before moving south all those years ago I swore I'd never have fake autumn foliage in my house. My, how times have changed.

Three of these votive holders are on the console beneath the TV.