Fall Decor Stash and New Finds

Last Winter and early Spring before the move, I spent days going through all of my seasonal decor tubs and I purged so many things that I didn't use. I tried to get things a little organized and labeled, making mental notes of what was in what container. It's easy to recognize that I love Fall decorating, since  I have more Fall decor than all the other seasons hands down.

While I'm thinking about doing my beginning decorating (for any season), I try to go through the plastic tubs and see what I feel is usable. Some years I like a lot of color, other times I like a more subdued look. I have a lot more space at this house that I'm able to decorate, so I'll probably do some of both. 

So many of the Fall faux flowers and garlands I have had are looking pretty tired, so I I headed to Hobby Lobby and my favorite local floral supply last week so see what I might need to get started.  Thank goodness for HL's storewide sales because base prices are much higher this year (thanks to the tariff situation) since most of this stuff comes from China. (but I won't get started on that).

I went with a mental list of things I needed, but I did find some new items like the Fall hued Eucalyptus leaf stems. I thought these were really pretty and natural looking. I try to stay away from "plastic" in favor of silks, they look more realistic and last longer without fading out.

My vintage fishing creel has about fallen apart, so I found this online for a good price to use as decor for Fall. I don't think it would hold up well for it's original purpose, but for a door decoration etc it will work. I'm not sure where I'll use it, but at least it's in one piece.

I totally fell in love with this mini Black-Eyed Susan garland.

 I bought 2 and I'm now working it in to my Pre-Fall Mantel.

A few years ago I had white Sunflowers on the brain and located a few after searching for weeks. Now they are most places and come in lots of sizes and color variations. I have some of the larger ones from my previous hunt but I grabbed several bunches of the smaller sized sunflowers to put together a new Early Fall arrangement. I've had Paperwhites for this last year in my bigger urn because they go with every season, but mostly it was because I was too busy to put together seasonal flower arrangements. Fall really needs something new here in the Entry, so I'll be using these.

I'd thrown out so many of the old beaten up vinyl pumpkins so I needed another large one. This one is orange in this pic, but after a few coats of chalk paint in Old White with a gray wash it's more what I had in mind.

It has a dinky plastic stem, 

so I painted it and added some covered floral wire to beef it up a little.

Then I added a little faux Bittersweet with leaves.

much better...

Real Bittersweet used to be pretty easy to find around here. It was pricey, but now it seems like I can't locate it, and if I do it's ridiculously costly. Last year I invested in several mini garlands that look pretty realistic so I'm sticking with those. Besides my kitty girls have a habit of eating "berries" real or fake. Cats... sometimes they're pretty goofy.

This one still has the label on it. I bought it online last year, but I think I saw similar at HL. I love Bittersweet and it usually ends up in every Fall decor pic I take. See these little moss covered pumpkins?... I wanted to use them for Early Fall and they were obstinately hiding from me. It took 3 tries at going through ALL the tubs until I found them. During all the last minute pre-move work they had ended up in a box marked "Spring". At least I know pretty much what I have now is consolation. 

 I also found a bag of pinecones and Fall goodies. It's great for filler and base with moss.

One find I'm really excited about was this wonderful white pottery Italian-look vase

 that I just happened to spot at HL. 

You guys may vaguely remember this lovely real Italian vase that I used to have in my Dining Room several years ago. (below) My husband had bought it for me years ago for an anniversary gift. He'd found it at a up-scale design boutique and I adored it. It was hand made and the price reflected it. Well a couple of years ago, my daughter was helping me with some cleaning and the vase took a tumble shattering into a hundred small pieces.

She was distraught, but there was no putting it back together. I had the other iron urns so I just let it go and even though I searched online I couldn't find anything similar or affordable. But when I was browsing last week, this one jumped out at me and it was similar and at 50% off . 

Here's a preview of my white Sunflowers in the new pottery piece ala Hobby Lobby.

Looks pretty upscale to me.

So friends, did you get a chance to come by and link-up with our new "All About Home" Party? We'll have it starting at 6:00pm Central Monday, running through Thursday evening. So come by and join in next week! Thanks so much to all of you who joined in this week!

joining in here:

All About Home at Common Ground and Follow the Yellow Brick Home

 Celebrate Your Story at Celebrate and Decorate

Happiness is Homemade at Blue Sky at Home

Love Your Creativity at Life and Linda

Tips and Tutorials at Home Stories A to Z

Inspire Me Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Homestyle Gathering at Serving Up Southern  

Keep in Touch at Let's Add Sprinkles 

 Talk of the Town at Knick of Time

Turnabout Tuesday at My Wee Abode 

Share Your Style at French Ethereal 

 Style Showcase at Shabby Fufu  

Vintage Charm at Our Hopeful Home

 Wonderful Wednesday at LeCultivateur 

Thursday Favorite Things at Follow the Yellow Brick Home

Grace at Home at Imparting Grace

Farmhouse Friday at The Painted Hinge

*This is not a sponsored post, just sharing my fun new Fall decor finds.