When do you decorate for fall?

[chilli]

I always decorate for fall in September. Pumpkins, dried corn cobs, leaves, etc
For this year I also sew a quilt with fall colours - I hope it will get ready until
September/October

Chilli

 

[rachelw713]

I usually start with my fall wreath and a few mums as soon as the pretty ones are out in early September, then I add everything else around the end of September. Have to work around the football schedule.

This year, DH has a new job, DD is starting kindergarten, and I am also a first year teacher, working on my Master's! Lots to do, and lots of new changes. DH promises he will help out, but it may all be a Labor Day weekend project!

Still can't wait! :hat:

 

[AuntJamelle]

I'm growing pumpkins for the first time this year!

:grin:

I've got 9 plants going and they are looking pretty good!

I'm hoping to have a TON of pumpkins to decorate with!

I also bought 5 mum plants yesterday and potted them up and fertilized them - they are just little guys right now....

I can't wait!

 

[aggy]

I decorate the weekend Fall begins. I use faux pumpkins and gourds, fall garland, orange lights and I like to display fall floral arrangements. I also like the smell of scented candles all over. Another thing I like to do is simmer a small pot of sliced oranges and apples, and seasonings like ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon in some water.

When the days start getting shorter I put my electric candles in the windows and set them on timers. I set them to go on about 1/2 hour before I arrive home from work. I love to see the glow of the lights as I pull up to my apartment. I've noticed in recent years that a lot of my neighbors are starting to do the same thing.

I also change out the bed and bath linens (especially the bath) with fall tones. I pull out my faux mink throw and lay across the foot of my bed. I change out the candles in my wall sconces and dining table to burgundy, amber and olive green colors. I cover my dining room chairs (which are white) with burgundy velour chair covers. I even put lower wattage bulbs in some of my lamps and add shades to the chandalier in the dining room.

This year I want to change the curtains at my patio door/windows. The problem is the width of the patio is 14 feet and the really nice curtains that I've seen are very expensive.

 

[ChristmasCheerSpredr]

I was wondering when I could put out fall stuff. Today it is only going up to 73- two days ago it was 90 degrees outside. I think I will wait until the kids are back to school. They go back the day after Labor Day. So perhaps the second or third full week of school.

This year I am substitute teaching so I am not sure how much I will be working. September is usually slow from what I was told. So I should be able to get it worked on.

 

[Pam Spaur]

I bought a few things last week that I put on the entertainment center. I still have more to go, but will wait until sometime in September. I'm so ready for fall. At a rummage sale on Saturday, I got two sitting scarecrows for $1! I was a happy camper. Now, if I can just get my Christmas shopping done, I'll be an ecstatic camper!! :rotflol: :hat:

:bigsnow:

 

[Noelsmommy]

Labor day weekend I will put out my halloween department 56 villiage. I always put them out first (as with the Christmas one) because being so expensive I can't see only having them out one month (thats my exuse to everyone around me anyway that thinks I am a bit crazy with holidays!)

The rest I will do the end of September.

Can't wait for next weekend so I can start a little fall decor!

Kelly :jack:

 

[wantabe]

I will wait for October 1st--anything earlier and my DH will think I am certifiable--he thinks I am boarder line already!

 

[hollybow]

Actually... I already started.. it really feels like fall here in the Netherlands... so I painted a wall in a warm orange colour and got my leaf-tea-lightholders out of the closet.. and I added some cosy pillows in brown and orange...very comfy...

 

[aggy]

Sounds very cozy hollybow. I can't wait til it feels like that her. Although was very chilly last night and still quite cool this morning. Unfortunately it won't last very long.

 

[hollybow]

Sounds very cozy hollybow.

just come over for a cup of cocoa and homemade cookies... :flower:

 

[aggy]

Oh I'm there! ;-)

 

[Cathymac]

Our neighbors went down to our farm in the river bottoms and brought my boys a treat back...two ORANGE pumpkins!! They are sitting on my front porch right now!

I have a long list of chores for the front porch for HGP, then I'll decorate after it's cleared off and freshly painted! I am going to start on it all next Monday...first day of HGP for me (I only do bare minimums on Sundays...)

 

[aggy]

I saw your plump pumpkins on your blog Cathymac.

 

[dancingelf]

For outdoor decorations, I use red, white and blue/Patriotic decorations for Summer, beginning mid May. I used to wait until after Labor Day to get the Fall stuff out; now I wait a few more days, leaving the Patriotic things up until after September 11. My indoor Fall decorations come out just after that.

 

[pjadams49417]

Labor Day or sooner. I'm redoing the front porch this year. For a while I had cut back, just putting 2-3 mums and a couple pumpkins on the porch but this year I'm feeling extravagant! I think there'll be a rustic container of wild grasses, lots of pumpkins/gourds, and as many mums as I can afford. Can't wait to bring out my scarecrows!

I want to try these this year.
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Labor Day weekend is always our local nursery sale so I'll get small bushes to keep potted on the porch through winter.

 

[Cathymac]

Love the pumpkin toparies...I'm planning on doing a couple of those myself for the front steps or maybe beside the front door...love the three colors of stacked pumpkins, as well...I could do that...

 

[momtomaddie]

I just started to decorate a little last evening. I would usually wait longer but I couldn't wait anymore! We do a lot of auctions and we came accross a few of those cheap benches you find at walmart. The black metal ends with the wood boards that go accross, anyways, I put it together yesterday. It was in trash bins when we found it. I re-painted the black metal ends and did the boards in a barn red. Looks really cute against my plain, old, black and white house! DH is not impressed, but I dont care! I love it!