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Quick and Easy, Inexpensive Décor Ideas:
- Bucket of Branches: This is a great way to add beautiful fall color to your dining room or living room, simply cut several tree branches that still have fall foliage on them (about 25”-30” high) and place them in a bucket or glass vase. It adds height and scale to a room as well as an elegant, autumn mood.
- Acorn Candle Hurricanes: This works with any clear vase, pitcher or hurricane you have, just place a fat cream pillar candle in the glass container and surround the base of the candle, about 4” up, with acorns. If the squirrels have already gotten all the acorns this works with a few brightly colored fall leaves
- Twig Hurricanes: Find delicate brown twigs in your yard, attach the twigs to the outside of a cylindrical vase or hurricane using a small amount of hot glue to temporarily hold them in place. Attach them so the thicker part of the twig is at the base and the smaller finer top of the branch goes up to the top of the cylinder. Put them sparingly around the entire cylinder then secure them by tying twine around them at the base of the cylinder and another tie about halfway up. You can use the hot glue again to secure the twine to the twigs and when the season changes just pull them off (the hot glue will come right off the glass).
- Modern Fall Table Décor: Set lots of tall glass cylinders or vases down the center of your dining table, fill some with pillar candles, fill one with persimmons, one with kumquats, one with tangerines, one with baby artichokes and one with small seckle pears. Fill the remaining ones with fall leaves, baby pinecones and tall twigs.
- Wine Crate Cheese Platter: Use an old wooden wine crate as a cheese platter and wine holder. Angle the top of the crate over the crate box, so there’s about a 7” space open down to the bottom of the box. Lay down some fall leaves on the top of the box and place the cheese on top of the leaves. In the open area inside the box below place an open bottle of wine so guests can refill their glasses as they enjoy the cheese!
- Slate Cheese/Chalk Board: The fall is the perfect time for a cheese plate and you can easily make your own by using a piece of dark charcoal slate from a home improvement store. Set leaves (paper or real) on the slate and set the different cheeses you’re serving on top of the leaves. Use chalk directly on the slate to label the different cheeses, and wipe clean when finished. Set a rubber mat or potholder under the slate to keep from scratching your table surface.
- Bobbing Apple Votives – Fill large earthenware bowls or galvanized buckets with water and float a bunch of apples to see how they balance in water (each one will float differently), mark their topsides with a dot. Place a tea light over the dot and trace around the tea light with a pen. Using a good utility knife or pairing knife, cut into the apple vertically as deep as the tea light is tall. Insert the tealight and float bunches of apples in the bowl or bucket. These are a wonderful way to greet your guests as they enter your house for the holidays!
- Bittersweet Berry Votives - Tie a couple of small twigs of bittersweet berries around clear glass votives with twine or narrow rust colored satin ribbon. This is so fast and easy and it’s little touches like this that take your table from ordinary to extraordinary.
- Silverware Ribbon Ties: This is a simple, elegant way to dress up your place settings. Group the fork, knife and spoon together and tie them together at the top of the handles with double face satin ribbon. In the tie also include an herb sprig (rosemary, thyme or sage), a fall leaf or a cluster of dried lavender. Choose the ribbon in a fall color that will coordinate with your table linens and dishes; chocolate brown, olive green, rusty orange or a deep russet red are great choices. Set the table with the dinner plates, a simple rectangular folded napkin on top of the plate and rest the ribbon tied silverware/ herbs on top of the napkin. You can add an extra touch by handwriting place cards to tuck in the bunches of herbs.
- Acorn Place card Holders- Hot glue together clusters of acorns, rest a place card in between one or two of the acorns at each place setting. It’s simple and quick and just gives that extra touch!
- Fall Cocktail Napkins: Dress up plain paper cocktail napkins by using a large leaf stamp and a gold stamp pad.
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