Vintage Inspiration #109 Fall Fun and Decor

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Vintage Inspiration!

It's no secret that I love to decorate seasonally. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter each have their specific elements that I try to incorporate in my home decor. I love to take a vintage theme, then add in the colors and textures of whatever the current season might be. Here are just a few of the great Fall themed links from last week.

Kelly at The Lillypad Cottage created this amazing and HUGE chalkboard complete with her fabulous October chalkboard art. Kelly is a new blogger and you'll want to go meet her and visit her wonderful home, decorated for Fall.

When I saw these adorable Pumpkins with Attitude from Betsy at My Salvaged Treasures, I immediately fell in love with these little guys. They reminded me of the Hardware Pumpkins we've seen in the past, but these are a whole other level of sophistication. You'll want to see how she made them.

Laura from Decor to Adore gets her Fall on in

Creating a Fall Inspired Front Porch for Under $10 

LOVE that chair!!

Alaina from Arbor House Lane asks us, Do We "Boo"?, in her wonderful home at Halloween. This girl knows how to decorate spooky and creepy with great vintage style!

And using this wonderful set of Johnson Brother's China,
 Betty reminisces about  Autumn Tea Time at My Cozy Corner

Hope you'll join in today with any of your Fall posts and vintage inspired ideas. Please have a link within your post to be featured. And while you're partying today, check out these other parties for more Fall Fun.

OK, let's start this party!

On the Deck

More Outdoor Fall Stuff,

this time on the deck.

Here's the view from my kitchen window, out to the back deck. I like to keep a seasonal vignette out here and change it up every year, and I wanted to do something totally different this Fall. I usually use a small barnwood wheelbarrow, but this year I grabbed a little black French wagon and added the old bushel basket and a watering can as a backdrop.

We had a limb come down from one of the maples in front early in the summer, so I nabbed it before it could be cut into smaller pieces. Hubbs knows not to argue, just save the thing in the garage and don't ask questions....

Of course I had a plan!

Why not just hang a Fall sign for pumpkins from it?

Up until last week I still had a few straggling hummies, so the feeder has been out. If you want to read about those amazing little birds and their migration south, then it will give you a new sense of wonder about how God is so evident in nature.

 Hard to get a picturesque shot from here, but an old ice cream maker bucket and a white washed apple basket are holding a few more mums, along with a few of my old watering cans.

Love the rusty patina on that old bucket.

Now, the deck would not be complete without a hidden camera shot of one of my little stinkers. This little fellow and a smaller one have been sneaking around here messing with the pumpkins and eating those "preserved" leaves that you find at Michael's and Hobby Lobby. I cannot imagine that they taste good, and could even be dangerous, but they have a fascination with them. Each day there are fewer of them in the basket...yuck.

no chewing on the pumpkins, please...

Hope you're having a great week. 

Fall is finally here, 

and I'm loving it!

(naughty squirrels and all)

joining in for

Transformation Thursday at the Shabby Creek Cottage

TTT at Stone Gable 

French Country Cottage

The Charm of Home

At the Picket Fence

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xoxo,

Have you ordered yours...?

I don't want to step on anyone else's toes, but just wanted to tell you that just a week or so ago I ordered Marian's (aka "Miss Mustard Seed") new book from Nelson Thomas Inspired You, on her blog's pre-order link.  And what a surprise when it showed up in my mailbox today! I've just thumbed through it and it looks wonderful. I can't wait to settle down to read it. For a link to the site Just click here. You'll also enjoy a video about the book in her own words.

Dreams DO come true.