Martha, I love your china!!

We have never decorated for Halloween, but we don't have children so I guess that plays into it. I don't know why, but I've never really been into Halloween. Anyhoo! We decorate for fall, outside only. Pumpkins, gourds (some dried/preserved), cornstalks, pinecones, etc. A vintage copper boiler (big copper pot) stays on our front porch as a planter. It's contents change with the seasons. Right now it has the pumpkins, gourds, pinecones, a grapevine pumpkin, some tall willow things and a few long feathers added in. There's a fall pillow in one of the chairs out front and a plaid throw on another one. Cornstalks on a lamp-post with a large pumpkin near the post. Today I need to get out there and pot the pansies I bought last week. No fall decorations inside. Pillows changed out, throws added, etc. as a nod to the season, but no actual decorations. Fall flag flying, and KSWL, I do believe there is a scarecrow on my flag! LOL

I do usually make one concession to Halloween, actually two. I have a clay pot that is actually made to look like a paper bag with a jack-o-lantern face. I put him (with a candle) out on the porch on Halloween night, if we are here and expecting trick-or-treaters. I also change out my flag to a halloween one for the day, or even a few days.

My decorating are the leaves that fall in my woods and the pumpkins I grew. That is enough for me. I do have some glass pumpkin paperweights somewhere!

Sue

I love seeing these photos and what other people like to do.

I do enjoy Fall decorating, although I try to keep it fairly simple. It's pretty warm here so most of my pumpkins are still inside. Some varieties will last a long time. The pumpkins in both these photos lasted for two Falls. The little silver guy will last a lot longer. :-)

I like making these swags for the lamp post each year.

And a ghost outside the front door.

The day after Labor Day starts the Autumn decorating for me... a deep cleaning of the living room along with some shelving setup, and then transforming it into a huge Halloween village. Halloween is my favorite holiday, so I celebrate it from Sept though into Nov, with the holiday of sunset on Oct 30 till the true cusp date on Nov 7 with sunrise on Nov 8 finishing the holiday being extra fun.

Every year is different. This year on the big display I have an amusement haunt- pumpkin patch, corn maze, boneyard, graveyard maze, and midway full of spooky eats and rides. Down below is the rough side of town with chop shops, biker bars, brothel, creepy warf house and lighthouse forge. Didn't put out Alcatraz this year since I didn't feel like making a water feature, that might get put in the winter.

There's also Grimms bandshell, the quiet neighborhood, Main Street, pumpkin houses and monsters, and the autumn farm this year. And The Dogpark of course.

Sometime in November I switch some of the most Halloween stuff out for other- old world village, the cider mills and cheese factory. Then sometime in December the background fabrics and foliage and such get completely switched out to make a winter village that goes from late Dec till early Feb. Santa and Christmas stuff don't get added in till Dec 23, and get taken back out first week of Jan.

I roll the village year round, though the spring and summer villages aren't as big and done up like the fall season is. And you gotta look, but Halloween is there too- a couple marching band people in the 4th parade are actually skeletons or zombies, the nice gardening couple at the farm is actually a pun- a vintage pair of Scarry goats.

I got a huge front yard that kind of isn't worth decorating- down by the road where it gets seen might also cause accidents/police reports and promote prop theft. And knowing me, would get way too much $$$ too easily. With the village, I get to decorate a whole town and stay inside and don't disturb the neighborhood with it, lol.

I also decorate my food different too. A typical meatloaf might become a severed foot, tomato and olive "eyeballs" might peek from a pasta salad- or black pasta mixed with beets becomes a "guts for dinner" night :) Squashes get halved and filled with grains and root veggies that are colorful and tasty.

I decorate me too- the yellows, reds, oranges, earthy greens and browns in clothes, spooky shirts and socks.. My hair full of spiders, skeletons, bones, witch hats, and natural tones of feather sprays and clips. Little wreaths of fall leaves to enclose buns, sprays of vintage glass leaves twined into ponytail holders, hairpins with jack-o-lanters, skulls, black cats, acorns, owls.. hair ribbons and beaded ropes to twine into braids and such.

Lol, Jinx! I’m anti-scarecrow from way back. Love the pumpkins and inside displays, esp that big grass or whatever it is made of pumpkin!

Thanks, Kswl! That one is grapevine (lighted). I’m hoping to get some of more of those for inside. :)

Oh what a beautiful table, Martha

I'm not really a seasonal decorator. Mostly I just wanted to comment on what a charming and gorgeous tea setting you have! Would you mind sharing the name of your china pattern? I'm smitten!

Autumn....love the Fall...and decorations...thanks to all of you who posted pictures.

I have so many Halloween and Fall decorations. I used to love it, I could put away the Halloween and leave the Fall until Christmas. Now I just don’t care. I hope I am in the mood for Christmas.

I didn't think I would either terilyn, but all it took was putting a plain grapevine wreath on the orchard gate one day and I was back at it. Altho not doing quite as much this year.

I have to take down my autumn decorations on Halloween because thug families bring their kids here for trick or treat. I hate that. But they're rude and really scary. I wish them well, but I don't participate. Frustrates me to no end since it's my favorite season, and it used to be a fun block party where I lived before. Very different. Same city, different suburb.

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@beesneeds

I want to see photos.

I decorate the inside of my house instead of the outside because you can't really see the outside of my house from the street and because we don't get trick or treaters. We live in a huge neighborhood that has a big block party in one area instead of trick or treating throughout the neighborhood. I'm currently decorating the living room and library. Since I'm hoping to have Thanksgiving outside this year, I'm not decorating the dining room like I normally do.

Tcufrog, I live on a private road with three other houses. No kids on the road and no trick or treaters. I still decorate. It brings my guests and I joy.

What is a "thug family?"

At home, this year I put 3 tiny punkins on my front steps. Its too dark for a pic now. And I change out things like my kitchen towels and little things like that to reflect fall. I got some Charlie Brown great pumpkin sheets for the bed(got a Christmas set too). I won't have trick or treaters all the way out here so no point in decorations for that purpose. I pour all my effort into my halloween display at work and then I am OVER IT anyway. Fall is my favorite season and I love to see people decorate for it.

I am also curious. What is a thug family.

I decorate for nothing. my little plastic Christmas tree (maybe 10" high) stays up (on a shelf) all year long. If I put it away I'd never find it again.

I haven't bought any pumpkins yet, which is odd for me. I buy lots of different varieties and sizes and turn my front garden into a pumpkin patch. I put lots of potted mums outside, and a simple grapevine wreath tied with a burgundy ribbon. Inside, there are some bowls of seasonal candy, autumnal flowers, and more pumpkins. For Halloween itself, I add luminarias outside and lots of party decor, like streamers, ravens, etc. There will be no gathering this year, so no day of party decor I suppose, though that might be too depressing, so I might revisit that.

Zalco, maybe just one pumpkin?

ETA: maybe one really BIG pumpkin.

Yes, I think one great pumpkin might do the trick. 😊 Thank you schoolhouse.

We have a lot of squirrels running around. Each year I worry about some little stinker doing this, but so far they've left my pumpkins alone.

I only have a little Halloween decor, and I should put it out today. A doormat, a two foot tall tree in black, with lights, a lizard skeleton, and I wish I could find the Broomstick Parking sign.

It's the Great Pumpkin Charley Brown!!

I have a collection of glass pumpkins that sits on top of a cabinet upstairs most of the year, but I bring them down to the foyer for fall.

That’s the extent of my indoor fall decorating except that I tend to bring home pine cones, pieces of interesting bark, etc., that make their way into bowls or baskets around the house.

We have a good sized front porch and I have several skeletons that are waiting to go there. The porch floor is currently being refinished so the skeletons are waiting to be unleashed until that’s done. I do have baskets with mums and cabbage out front.

I just did this at the base of a tree in my front yard. We live near a school and a park so I feel an obligation to do some fun stuff.

This witch is always around for Halloween. This is an older photo but she looks exactly the same each year with the green apples, curly willow branches, etc.

Martha, your simple table vignette is dreamy.

I don't decorate for fall. The closest I come is that this year, we have sunflowers in the garden just starting to bloom.

Fall table all set for our annual after pumpkin patch dinner. Ham, scalloped potatoes, Brussels sprouts, fall apple salad, cookies, cupcakes and ice cream.

It’s hard getting in the spirit when temps are In the 90s.

I don’t decorate much for Halloween but I do like to dress up the entryway for the fall.

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@maddielee

I agree. We have a high of 99F today.

I don't decorate for fall, I only have some Pumpkin place mates and a table runner with some fake pumpkins. Some Fall flowers/foliage in my bathroom and next to my husband's urn. Oh and so window clings and something hanging on my door.

We're not even through our usual extended summer, so no notions of fall around here.

Pretty Martha!

I use a few pumpkins and mums outside.

I have a oval footed copper container with delft (?) handles I like to fill with white pumpkins that sits on my hutch

I have some dried hydrangeas in a pitcher in LR.

An old green glass marble from my childhood and a handful of acorns are in a vintage alabaster birdbath that sits on a tray near my stove. Side story, I have a large acorn I found when I was probably two or three years old at a house we used to live in. That green marble and acorn are two small things I kept all these years. I know which acorn it is and enjoy looking at them both. (Hoping that doesn’t sound hoarderish. I’m not!)

In the foyer a textured basket holds moss, grapevine, and preserved boxwood balls with a few antler sheds tucked in. Blue and white ginger jars flanking at the sides

My house plants are put in brass and willow planters.

I also have a metal leaf tray my mom made years ago and a small brass squirrel in my hutch. Brass sculptural birds on an end table and a brass turtle magnifying glass in the ottoman tray/basket.

I have a fall colored mosaic candleholder a friend bought me that’s holding an air plant in my one bathroom. The glass is tall and skinny instead of squares or crushed pieces.

Oh, and I have a variety of game bird feathers displayed in a glass bell jar dome on my nightstand.

It truly sounds like there’s more than there is!

Everyone's decorations are so pretty. I have a few pumpkins I set out but I'm a little slow this year. Love the glass pumpkins! I should have bought the beautiful one I saw this weekend.

I enjoy seeing everyone’s fall decorations. Shee, your “treasures” sounds so pretty. Would love a peek😜.

I’m not a great decorator but last summer I tried to lighten up my dining table with some blue and white. I put together a simple white pitcher with some blue and white hydrangeas and birds on a tray and a new table runner. For the fall season, I wanted to keep my blue and white so I built on that with a few inexpensive pieces. Love the blue nuts I found at Home Goods! Don’t judge my cheesy, skimpy white curtains...I “settled” for cheap white from Target until I find what I like.

I put together another arrangement on my old sewing machine table in the dining room. The striped table runner is usually on the dining table in spring and summer. Ignore the clutter...definitely not staged:).

Of course, always do a little bit of seasonal change on my grapevine tree on the porch.

Can’t forget my mums!

A friend shared and I had the best time with her gifts!!

I was feeling blah also about fall decorating and had almost decided to just donate my faux pumpkins when, on a whim, decided to paint them.

pics please.

Saw this Halloween decor on Facebook:

I don't know if pumpkins were expensive this year or not. We went to the pumpkin farm and got ours. They were 45 cents a pound. I noticed our local grocery was $6 for a pumpkin.

I got an enormous one at Aldi for $1.99

@User, I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading about and seeing pictures of the costumes you made for your daughter and granddaughters.

Finally unleashed my bony friends.

I did my final fall decorating inside Monday when I brought the houseplants back inside!

Your decorations all look so nice! I don't have that gene, but I sure do admire it in others.

Sueb, that's cute. My pilates teacher recently bought a small skeleton and loves, loves to show us which areas of our bodies we're working at the moment.