Painted Pumpkins and Fall Decor

I love seasonal decorating, but when it stays so hot through September here, it's hard to motivate me to get out all of my fall and Halloween goodies! But my little ones love the Halloween stuff in particular so they usually ask me where all the pumpkins are after they have seen all of our more productive neighbor's decor up;)
This year I wanted some more pumpkins and gourds but I wanted to have a more neutral display with them.  I went up to the dollar store and gathered about five small ones and brought them home and got to work!

I used everything I had on hand- some Annie Sloan Chalk paint in French Linen, Duck Egg, and Pure White and some dark wax.  This was a pretty easy project- just painted them some different colors and then put a very small amount of dark wax on them and to add some more pretty I just put a little rub and buff on the stems!

After they were all dry I sprayed them with an acrylic sealer that gave them a little shine and voila! I love them- simple- but festive....

I may as well tell you that I also got antsy for the ten minutes of dry time and decided to paint a couple of picture frames that were a bit blah to me... basically because they were holding still... I love quick little make-overs!

I also threw together a simple fall table setting- but because this is our do homework, eat at, sleep on, paint on, saw on, kind of table- it can't be much! But I saw this throw rug at Ikea for next to nothing and loved the colors and texture it brought it- and why would I put it on the floor? Rugs on floors are for amateurs! ;) and a simple wheat arrangement with some corks I had, made a pretty easy center piece.

And here are some more pretties- for now my pumpkins are in a cloche- and you can see a sneak peak of the hutch- I will be ready to show y'all that this next week!

Happy Fall Y'all!

B
xoxo

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