I’m busy painting my barn so I thought I’d share a few photos of my front porch which I decorated with fall in mind.
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Normally I don’t do much. During the summer I have ferns in my urns and those will stay green well into the end of October (November we start decorating for Christmas). So I usually just keep my ferns and add a wreath, a mum or two and a pumpkin and call it a done!
But people (at least my neighbors) seem so glum this year that I thought I’d do the front up a bit to celebrate the season and hopefully cheer people up as they drive by. My neighbors always tell us how much they enjoy our Christmas decorations and look forward to them so I thought I’d spread some cheer a little early 🙂
I didn’t buy much. I had everything except the mums and corn stalks. Which btw, I had kept mine from the corn I grew this summer with plans on using them for fall decorating but the ones that are sold at Home Depot etc. are twice the size of mine! I had some good ears of corn but my stalks are half the size of these!
I have lots of faux pumpkins (which I buy at the end of the season). Of course, even with all the pumpkins that I do have, I didn’t have the right sizes to do a topiary of three pumpkins, so I just went with what I had.
This monogrammed pumpkin is one I made many years ago and use every year.
How to monogram a pumpkin
All you do is print out whatever letter you want in the font that you like. The size I used for this was 300 (in WordPad you delete the font size that’s in the box and type in 300 then hit enter). Use some tracing paper and trace the letter you printed out, transferring the image and then fill it in with a paint pen, a sharpie or some paint. If you’re ambitious you can even spell out a word instead of an initial!
I’m so excited that fall is officially here, aren’t you! Do you decorate your front door area for fall?
It looks very stately. I like the urn esp. Beautiful as always.
Your house looks so nice all decorated.
Nice of you to decorate for the people that live near you.
Most adorable and so festive 🙂 Love the monogrammed pumpkin. I bought my first faux pumpkin this year as I’m sure it will be the first of many. Happy Autumn!!
Love your decorations for fall. It does add some cheer – hope your neighbors’ hearts are lightened by the sight of your celebration. Your wreath is gorgeous. I hope to redo my fall wreath this year. Better get busy!
~Adrienne~
Very nice front porch. So elegant! I really like the monogram on the pumpkin. have to try that:)
Love your fall decor at your front door!
Beautiful and festive! I love the look of the odd colored pumpkins. I wonder if they taste the same as the orange ones? Our local grocery had some grayish blue pumpkins for sale …I don’t remember their official name, something Blue. But they sure were unique. They might look especially ‘ghostly’ carved as a jack-o-lantern since they were so pale in color.
Beautiful home and beautiful fall decoration your from porch look very nice
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Blessing
Isora
I just love your home -it looks so pretty . I just love coming to your blog I always leave feeling warm and fuzzy 🙂
I love that gorgeous wreath, everything looks so festive!
I have my faux white pumpkins that I got two years ago at Michaels, Manuela. I just need to get a black urn for them to sit in and that will be my front door area decor. I’m hoping to make my first visit to Hobby Lobby to look for that! Plus I might get one pot of mums for a little two seat table we have near the door. Just to add a little something for this year.
So pretty! I am a little behind on getting mine out, but hope to have everyone feeling all fallish here soon! The colors of autumn are definitely my favorite!
Hope your week is off to a good start!
Jennifer
I am excited about fall being here too. Today is the first day that actually feels like fall. It’s cool with a few rain drops. I would love to stay home and decorate ~ but I am working. So, I will just enjoy your lovely fall entry until I have time to decorate my own. Great job ~ love it!
Hugs,
Susan and Bentley
It looks beautiful Manuela. It would surely bring a smile to my face. I am done with my fall decorations except the front porch which I hope to get to this weekend. I didn’t know Home Depot sold corn stocks, I’ll have to go take a look. Happy Fall, Patty
I think you are so special to try to perk up the neighbors. It DOES seem like a lot of glumness around here too.
I do decorate my door and porch. It’s nothing blog worthy LOL. I just put a wreath and change out some pillows on the furniture. I used to do mums, but not in the past few years.
Love your deco! Oh, how I miss fall…
What a nice thought — to perk up the neighbors! Everywhere seems sad right now, doesn’t it?? You have inspired me to go home and perk up my porch!
I love love love the red barn! So cheerful!
It looks gorgeous! I love it. I often do my pumpkins like that – stacked on urns but I stole my urns for the back yard this year and stuffed them full of succulents. I’ll have to rethink. LOVE the corn stalks.