Farmhouse Halloween

I decorated my dining room for Halloween.  The room has an allover farmhouse feel so that, with a subtle Halloween twist is how I decorated it.

It has a black and white color scheme with the green apple color for an accent.  I got the green apple color from these napkins.  I love the mod pattern.
 

 The book page leaves are so versatile.  I can find a lot of uses for them as a placecard, on a stark tree branch, or on a wreath.

 

 An old rake makes a great hanger for my wreath.

The centerpiece is just a milk glass pedestal bowl full of green apples.  Making things simple and easy this year but, I still have a fantasy table yet to come....you know how I like Halloween! 

Sherry

I will join:

Tweak It Tuesday at Cozy Little House

Cottage Style Link Party  at Lavender Garden Cottage

Sunday's Best Party  at My 1929 Charmer

Mod Mix Monday  at Mod Vintage Life

Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper

Sunny Simple Sundays  at Sunny Simple Life

Share Your Cup Thursday  at Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson

My Monday Muse at Carter's Cottage

Fall Around the House at The Inspired Room

Magic on the Mantel

Witchy flew home and put her broom, lantern, and hat on the mantel. 

The cat is always jumping up on the mantel to see what Witchy brought home.

Witchy has been working on that one spell.  She still can't get it right.

By Halloween she will have mastered the spell and all will be....

...magic.

BELDECOR

Source: Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

I have been pinning Beldecor's  beautiful images and didn't even realize it.  I am most enamored with the fantastic eye that has created these.

Source: Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

Source: Maison Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

Source: Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

Source: Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

Source: Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

Source: Beldecor via Sherry on Pinterest

I have devoted a whole board to Beldecor.  The beauty in nature and everyday objects reflected by the seasons is just the look I love.  

 I will join:

Natasha at 5 Minutes Just for Me for her Pinning and Singing party

The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday

Pumpkin Party

I am so happy to join Beth at her site Food As Art  for a Pumpkin Party.  Please click on the link and see all the other great pumpkins in blogland.

I went to a local pumpkin patch with my kindergartener.  I have never been to a pumpkin patch and always wanted to go.  I bet you didn't know that one of the top producing states of pumpkins is Illinois.  90-95% of all processed pumpkin is produced in Illinois. 

Here is a sampling of some of the pumpkins on our front porch this year.  After carving several pumpkins, I let my youngest get out a marker and he had fun decorating the last of the pumpkins.

The star of my Sleepy Hollow decorations was this guy.  I have carved this pumpkin for years.  I got the idea to do his eyes like this from the makeup Gene Simmons wears.  He was a bass player with the rock band KISS.

I have never experimented  with pumpkins in so many ways as I did this year.  I was trying to get more creative and do new things.  This is a sneak peak of this week's floating pumpkin.

I gilded my pumpkins to give them some glimmer and then put  some in a topiary. 

My standard pumpkin pie even got the Halloween treatment.

Some of my favorite new finds in blogland were a burlap pumpkin and a posh pumpkin.  I didn't have all the materials to make both, but combining what I had on hand, I created a posh burlap pumpkin. LOL

And, here it is almost Halloween and I have removed almost all of the Halloween decor.  We are getting into a thankful somber time for November.

In this centerpiece I have some baby boo and jack-be-little pumpkins that I have gilded and glittered for November to extend their life.

 Thanks for joining me as I re-caped my new adventures with pumpkins for 2010.  I never knew how much pumpkin love there was out there till I got to reading some of your blogs.  It was such a fun October. I have been filling my idea files up for next year!

Sherry