Fall Centerpiece

Its officially the first day of October.  1. How on earth did that happen?? and 2. I am so ready for fall and cooler weather, but it just hasn’t reached Texas yet… maybe this weekend?  But I decided it was time to get rid of my seashell centerpiece, which you can see in this post about my dining room. Normally I like to decorate in fall with pumpkins and gourds as table decor, but I haven’t seen many around yet, so I’ll probably add those in at a later date.  But for my table this year I had an idea that I wanted to build a box for the center of the table to hold candles and fall decor.  Tomorrow I’ll share how I built that and stained it (the whole project took less than an hour excluding drying time!).  But today is all about how pretty it looks!!–UPDATE: Go here if you want the tutorial on how to build one for yourself!

The table runner is about 3 or 4 years old from Crate and Barrel, but I love the mix of fall colors in it.

Being from Kansas, nothing reminds me more of fall than cut wheat.  If you have never had the privilege of watching a field of wheat in early summer before it is harvested, you should.  It looks almost like ocean waves (hence the KU tradition of ‘waving the wheat’).  Mom bought me this gold stalk of wheat a few years ago and I love bringing a little bit of Kansas into my table.

The pumpkin in the picture below is actually a candle which I can’t bring myself to burn because it is TOO PRETTY! Do you guys have that problem? I have about 3 or 4 candles that I’ve had for a long time and never burned because I like the way they look as they are!

The little iron pumpkins are actually name card holders from Pier 1 that I’ve had for a few years.  I’m pretty sure I’ve never used them as namecard holders, but I love the way they look scattered on the table with some pine cones!

PS… please ignore the the glass rings on the top of this table… it badly needs a refinishing job, but until I get to that, I just have to live with it!