Fall Decorating

The week of the 4th-7th I was kinda sick, so I decided to put out some Fall/Halloween decorations, originally I was going to wait and post about it when we got our pumpkins too, but I decided pumpkins would be there very own post.  It's been a while since I trudged up to the overstuffed attic to haul out decorations for any holiday except Christmas. WOW! That attic is a MESS!!!! I also decided that I would tackle a {small} but long overdo project, I would paint my birdcage! My BFF Shelli got it for me, and I loved it, but I needed to paint it.  Took me a bit to decide what color and then I finally went with glossy white, that might sound boring but this way I can move it to any room in the house and use it for any decorating I might want! LOVE LOVE LOVE this bird cage, funny thing is I'm not a fan of birds~well birds in cages, living inside houses anyway. I don't mind the cute birds flitting around my yard. I think hummingbirds are pretty cool. And I love big birds, birds of prey... Crows, Ravens, Owls, Eagles, Hawks, that kind of thing. Oh and for some strange reason I really dig Herons, I have no idea why, but I've always been fascinated with them. But my cage is empty, for now.

And here is a look at a couple of the holiday things I put out, this isn't everything, there are other odds and ends scattered around the house, these are just my favorites.

Have had these 2 little brass pumpkins forever!

{Think they are Partylite}

 The crow was way too big to fit into the bird cage. And since around this house, we are big fans of crows/ravens, I am considering leaving him and the cage up year round.  The creepy tree was one of my moms Halloween decorations and was always one of my kids favorites

{my mom LOVED Halloween~it was her birthday}

 These guys Maddy and I picked up at Target last week. Thought it was cool how they were exactly the same colors as our dining room~meant to be! The little vase, I'm repurposing from Maddy's graduation open house. 

 Crappy pic!

Table Center piece. 

These flowers and vase also repurposed from the open house. Hey, they are orange and black, have skulls, seemed like a good use for them!! The big twine pumpkins Maddy and I found at Target last week also.  The tree I got at a very cool store in Cadillac called "Fea by Freya" The table cloth has funky dragons, griffins, and crows on it{can't tell in pic~it's also repurposed from Tallon and then Maddy's open house,LOL!!} I have since added some real mini pumpkins and gourds to the center piece... In the background you can almost see the fun little pumpkins and cauldron lined up in the window sill. Like I said crappy picture...

 

 AH HA!!!! I just found another pic/a better pic of the center piece!

 Another crow/raven

 These picture frames have been hanging on the kitchen wall empty since June. I filled them with cool holiday paper {from my scrapbook paper collection}. I went with one crow for Tallon and one owl for Maddy. At first I thought I might change out the paper for each holiday, but right now I'm kinda liking them, so I might just leave them. Or change out for each holiday and then put these back in between holidays.  That would be VERY ambitious for me though...

 Old {empty} bottle of wine, put a new label on... wish I had more empty bottles, but I'm not really a fan of wine, but I bought a bottle this past weekend becuz it was called Witches Brew, and had a cool label.  I am going to try to add to the collection before next year, I like these!!

Strange how I love wine bottles and I love wine glasses{ I have a small collection of different wine glasses}, but I can't stand the taste of wine. If I use my glasses, I drink cranberry juice in them, how funny is that!!!!! Yes, I am a dork!
OH and here's a funny side note, Tallon came home from work, after the decorations were up and asked "What are you like 60 years old now, decorating for Halloween???"  ~laughed and went off, on his merry way, to his bed room {to do whatever it is he does up there} What a little jerk!! What the heck does that even mean????
So there you go. It wasn't a lot of decorating but fun still. I will post more pics this after this weekend, we are getting pumpkins.  I LOVE pumpkins!! I LOVE carving pumpkins! Maybe I will buy some cider too!