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Pumpkin Seed Packet Pillow & DIY Typography Pumpkin

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Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend, we had a very busy one! We’re in the middle of several re-organizing projects (I’m getting a new pantry!!!) plus I’m trying to get some garden projects done before it gets too cold. My husband saw the first flock of geese heading South on Sunday!! I’m hoping that doesn’t mean an early and long winter! I wanted to share with you a couple of things today. A really easy fall DIY project at the end and a cute pillow from a friend.

decorating with fall accent pillows

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First, this great pillow that I got from Kathy @ Kathy’s Cottage. Pillows are one of the easiest and most affordable ways to update your decor.  Seasonal pillows can used year after year (and since you only see them once a year you don’t get tired of them).

decorating for fall with pumpkin decor

She always has the cutest pillows available in her etsy shop Hens In Daisies. I wish I had her sewing skills! I think this one is just the perfect little fall accent pillow.

Hens In Daisies Etsy Shop Pillows

She has quite a few other ones to choose from  like these.  So hop on over and check out her etsy store.

typography pumpkin and black and gold pumpkin

I also wanted to show you 2 pumpkins I made that will actually be going in my dining room.

DIY Typography Pumpkin

This typography pumpkin is really easy to make! It’s just a white faux pumpkin (I actually spray painted it white since I didn’t have any more white ones) with some black peel and stick letters randomly placed on it. Very quick and easy to do. Apparently when I spray painted my pumpkin (that was last month), I must have used two different cans of spray paint. Some parts are shiny and some are more like I used white primer 🙂 The letters stick better to the shiny part than the matte part. I had to use a few dabs of hot glue to get them to stick to the part that wasn’t shiny. Just letting you know if you decided to spray paint a pumpkin in order to make this.

black and gold painted pumpkin

The little pumpkin is black and gold. I have a little bit of gold going on in my dining room and thought it would be fun to do some gold fall accents in there this year. One of the reasons I love faux pumpkins is that you can repaint them every year which makes them a great decorating investment! 

I have some more seasonal decorating to share with you later this week!

fall decorating ideas

Have you seen my fall mantle?

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A Cultivated Nest Fall 2013 Mantel

 

 

Comments

  3. Kathleen Grace says

    September 23, 2013 at 9:39 am

    I am so glad you like the pillow Manuela, it looks so good with all your black and white! I just saw some of those funkins on sale at Joanne fabrics, I’ll have to run over and get a few, I love what you did with yours! I love the black and gold:>)

  4. Pamela Gordon says

    September 23, 2013 at 10:01 am

    I LOVE that pumpkin pillow! It’s gorgeous. I also like your idea of painting the faux pumpkins to update your look each year. Have a great ‘fall’ day! Pamela

  6. Pamela says

    September 23, 2013 at 11:41 am

    I just LOVE your blog! You have such a fun classy style and you always have great easy to do projects and pretty pictures! That is just the cutest fall pillow. I’ll definitely go check out her store.

  13. Heidi says

    September 24, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    Love your pillows and pumpkins. I just got back to blogging again after having taken a break at Cranberry Cottage which is our little cottage in the woods. It was a wonderful start to the autumn season. But now back in the city…busy decorating and preparing for a Harvest High Tea for my quilt group. Now I am blog hopping for more inspiration. 🙂

    Hugs from Holland ~
    Heidi

  14. Debbie says

    September 24, 2013 at 6:59 pm

    I need to go visit that etsy site pronto. I have wrestled with my clunky old borrowed sewing machine for the last time (at least for a while) and need some pillows right now. I loved that one you got.

    I also love the pumpkins. I’m trying so hard to get into a decorating spirit. I don’t know what’s wrong with me that I can’t get the groove this year. I need to visit here more often to get a booster shot of creativity.

    • Manuela says

      September 25, 2013 at 9:15 pm

      Oh I go through phases like that too. If I didn’t have a blog where I had to decorate for the season I often probably wouldn’t bother. But I find that once I start I get in the mood.

      You’ve been on my mind and I hope all is well with you and your family.

  16. Ruth @ Living Well Spending Less says

    September 27, 2013 at 9:45 am

    These are SO adorable. I have been seeing pumpkins turned into such cute decor after being painted and it is really making me want to go out and buy some pumpkins and have some fun decorating them. Thank you for sharing and linking up to Thrifty Thursday.

  21. Sandy says

    October 1, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    Manuela! I love black and white together and the pillows Hens and Daisies are gorgeous! This will be the 2nd time you helped engage my shopping addiction by promoting beautiful crafter’s, sewers and sign painters on your blog. Love your painted pumpkins too! The trend this year is pumpkins in every shape, style and form. Lots of painted and burlap pumpkins. I’m not the only one who went crazy by painting all my pumpkins different shades this year. Your home and vignettes are always stunning and very colorful but black and white look so dignified and cultivated!

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