A DIY Nature Fall Candle

I had this large round vase, candle holder thingy, I'm being technical lol.  I wanted to give it some texture and dress it up to go with my other Fall decor.  Hopefully to go on my new to me sofa table I am in the middle of making.  A DIY coming soon on that, if it turns out hmmm.  As you can tell it's giving me troubles :(
My supplies:

                                                   

Along with a bag of treasures like acorns, 

pinecones and leaves my grandchildren 

gathered for me on their treasure hunt yesterday.

A quick DIY and I like it.  I know it's simple
 but that is what I am liking this season.

Fall outside

Here is some of my outside Fall decor.  I have to get some white pumpkins and cinderella pumpkins yet.  I will be on the search much to my husband's dismay. He really doesn't see the need to decorate for Fall outside he is more into the Christmas decorating but he tolerates it for me. :)


Touches of Fall on the porch:

                                                         

Some old lanterns I had I painted gray and added decor.

My Summer flowers still hanging on with all this warm weather we are still having.

Another lantern

My sunflowers are doing great this year, even getting planted extremely late and not much attention.

  Hope you enjoyed the pics.  Have a great  weekend!

It has been too long

Hello, I know I have been mia for quite a while.  This last year and a half has been quite a journey for us.  My husband has been sick with a bad heart for several years, Dilated Cardiomyopathy,   This last fall he became real sick and not able to do anything including sleep or eat.  We ended up in the hospital and on his way to a scan he crashed so they rushed him into surgery and he received an LVAD, which is an artificial heart and then was put on the transplant list for a new heart.  He was in the hospital through the holidays because his kidneys had taken a hit and because of insurance reasons he couldn't come home on dialysis.  God was so good to us, he repaired his kidneys to the surprise of the doctors, he came home on January 5th of this year.

He slowly worked on getting healthy again to help his body prepare for a new heart.  On May 5th we got the call!!  We had been praying for God to bring the right heart for him.. Also praying for the family that was losing a family member.  The surgery was 14 hours long, and when the surgeon came out at 4:00am and had such a discouraged look on his face I knew in my heart what had happened.  His new heart was not working, see we had experienced the same thing with our daughter when she was 15.  But God had started hers and she has grown into a beautiful young woman who is married and has two little girls now.  I knew God could do it again.  His heart started beating 5 days later, the longest five days of my life.  After many many complications, another emergency surgery on his intestines, waking up completely paralyzed, he came home miraculously on July 2nd with a walker.  He is now able to do most of what he used to do.  He still has a ways to go, but OH GOD WAS SO GOOD TO US!!  I tell you all of this to give Him the glory for all he has done.  I am so thankful for His love and mercy and grace.  Because it was grace that carried us through.

In saying all of this I hope you can understand the nostalgia I have for decorating for the seasons especially Fall and Christmas.  I didn't get to experience it last year and God has given us  a renewed excitement for it this year.

Here is a couple of photos of some vignettes around my home.


                       My faux fireplace mantle:

Dollar store pumpkins I painted white.

                                              A cute chalkboard pumpkin from Michaels,

                                                                         
                                                                                     

My Try at a Pumpkin Chandeleir

Ok I tried my hand at making A pumpkin chandy,  I painted some regular dollar store pumpkins that were way too orangey for me.  

I put a leaf garland around the chandy.  I wanted to show off the pumpkins a little more.  I then put a sunflower down inside the middle.

I like it, but I  think I am going to add a little bluish green color to the pumpkins.  What do you think?  More color or not?

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I have decided to jump into my fall decorating.  It is still so hot and humid outside I haven't done a lot out there.  

  But inside I have been decorating quite a bit, at least that is what my husband thinks, not really though I have kept it tamed down more this year than in past years.  At least for now :)  

Here is my mantle this year:

I love these flickering candles that are battery operated.  I bought this one as it is at Hobby Lobby.  I thought next time i'll make my own designs with glue on a plane candle and put the glitter over it.  

I used cream colored mums and some cream colored paper lantern flowers in with the reds and browns this year.

I put my glass acorns on the mantle this year.  I found these in the Christmas section of HL a few years ago.

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