Welcome Fall! Quick Decorating Tips!

One thing that I truly miss about Pennsylvania is the FALL!  Here in Alabama, leaves don’t start changing color until November and then they fall way too fast and are gone!  So whenever I see my friendly bloggers posting fall photos and fall projects, I really get more excited about this season.  I don’t buy  my pumpkins until Halloween because it is still so hot in October that the buggers rot before we have a chance to enjoy them.  Consequently, I am slow to decorate.  Here at The Blue Building folks don’t buy very much seasonal merchandise so over the years we have stopped buying it.  However, I have to have small displays just for the sake of being festive for each season.  And on any given day,  I use the same quick decorating tips to throw together a quick display or two!  Today the display said Welcome Fall!

Usually my displays consist of grouping items that are for sale somewhere in the store.  I group certain colors together and always make sure to have some varying height in the display.  For Valentines Day, I group pinks and purples with beige and white in varying mediums like vases, porcelain, framed prints, jewelry and candlesticks.  For Fall, I do the same with brown, orange, green and beige.  So I started by walking around my store and selecting items that I thought would look great together!

One way to spruce up any display is to use foliage or greenery, either in vases or pots.  Sometimes I use fresh plants and sometimes it stick with artificial.  But in almost every display you will find some type of plant.

I also try to throw in an unexpected item, something that would not normally go with the other items.  For this Fall display, that crazy item is my old Ford pick up that I bought from Miss Mustardseed at The Chapel Market 2104.  This year, I added the horse trailer that I purchased from Coastal Charm Interiors again at The Market on Chapel Hill 2015.  I always try to add a little piece of the unexpected…anything to make the customers stop and linger and look a little more closely.

I couldn’t resist this old chalkboard that came in on consignment.  My daughter Carly went to work and added this little fall saying that just seemed perfect!  I grabbed small easel to make this the center point of our display.  

Next I added this little concrete pedestal.  It was too darling to ignore.  I pictured it holding some pumpkins but we didn’t have any at the time so I used the gourds instead.  I topped it off with this cheese dish cover that was missing its base…perfect for a wanna be cloche!

The tall basket with the tin insert was found in one of our vendor’s spaces.  The fruit branches came in on consignment.  In the spring I will switch them out for some hydrangeas if the basket is still here!

The little glass bottle was found in another dealer’s space at The Blue Building.  I grabbed the fillers from the weeds out front!  Haha…nothing is sacred!

Finally, I came across two little pumpkins mixed in a floral display.  They belonged in the pickup to complete the display!

And Voila!  Our fall display completed from items that were just sitting around the store!

Happy Fall Y’all!

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