I know I said I'd be back yesterday with a real post but I'm pretty backed up right now with work & trying to figure out the childcare situation, so I need a little break.  We toured a couple of daycare/ preschools  yesterday and I'm feeling pretty good about 1 so we'll see how it goes.  For now I'll just leave you with an image I got from one of my favorite reads, Head Over Heels.    It's perfect for the beginning of Fall and I cannot get over that velvet.  So sumptuous & beautifully aged!!  (I'm not sure I've actually used "sumptuous" in a sentence before but could think of no other word!)

And some news/ details about the new store:  The Loudon Design Center plans to open a new trade-only showroom in historic Leesburg, Virginia and I'll have an office at the showroom.  On the weekends, the store will open to the public as Pure Style and we will offer a line of furniture and fabrics I'm currently designing, along with one-of-a-kind pieces and trade-only fabrics & furnishings.    The owner, Elise Seidita, is finishing up negotiations and if all goes as planned, we will open for business in October.  (keep your fingers crossed!!) 

The showroom will need to be totally redone and I'll definitely take you along in the process of designing the new space.  I am so excited to start this new venture!!  As you probably remember, I love shopping at the Old Lucketts Store & On a Whim Antiques (both in nearby Lucketts, VA) and other shops in Leeseburg, so I'm so excited to be nearby and become a part of the growing design community there. 

xoxo,

lauren

Radiadores de aluminio diseño original

Calefacción

Diseño singular para radiadores de calefacción.
En calefacción radiante los ingleses tienen mucha experiencia y a lo técnico para el desarrollo de mejores radiadores de aluminio se suma el diseño original. estos son dos ejemplos de radiadores con el aspecto de cerco y puerta de cerco de jardín. El gato en la foto le agrega a la imagen un elemento vivo ya que los cercos de este tipo están directamente relacionados con la tierra y lo orgánico vivo.

Por ampliar información sobre calefacción siga el vínculo, hay una lista de posteos relevantes que podrá revisar.

Radiador de calefacción diseño original

Seguramente usted encuentra este producto simpático. Para otro diseñadores resultará una idea inspiradora.
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Radiadores de aluminio diseño original

Calefacción

Diseño singular para radiadores de calefacción.
En calefacción radiante los ingleses tienen mucha experiencia y a lo técnico para el desarrollo de mejores radiadores de aluminio se suma el diseño original. estos son dos ejemplos de radiadores con el aspecto de cerco y puerta de cerco de jardín. El gato en la foto le agrega a la imagen un elemento vivo ya que los cercos de este tipo están directamente relacionados con la tierra y lo orgánico vivo.

Por ampliar información sobre calefacción siga el vínculo, hay una lista de posteos relevantes que podrá revisar.

Radiador de calefacción diseño original

Seguramente usted encuentra este producto simpático. Para otro diseñadores resultará una idea inspiradora.
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My heart is full

I truly cannot thank you enough for your incredible comments and emails over the weekend and today. I’m humbled and so grateful for of your prayers and thoughts. Each and every comment made my weekend.

The past few days have been filled with so much sadness, but SO MUCH joy and love as well. Our friends and family have gathered around us with real and virtual hugs – YOU included. It always amazes me how I can feel so much love at such a sad time – but that’s what it’s all about isn’t it? Celebrating how someone lived and realizing what we have to live for.

I don’t how else to express my gratitude but to just say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts. I mean that – each and every one of you are a blessing to us.

Tonight, I leave you with one of the bouquets that the staff at hubby’s school sent:

Beautiful right? But do you see the extra special additions? Garlic, avocado, chilies and peppers – some of my father-in-laws favorite ingredients! Absolutely unique and stunning. He brought so much joy to those he cooked for. PERFECT. :)

Thanks again so much. This weekend has inspired me many ways – I’ll show you one way tomorrow. :)

My heart is full

I truly cannot thank you enough for your incredible comments and emails over the weekend and today. I’m humbled and so grateful for of your prayers and thoughts. Each and every comment made my weekend.

The past few days have been filled with so much sadness, but SO MUCH joy and love as well. Our friends and family have gathered around us with real and virtual hugs – YOU included. It always amazes me how I can feel so much love at such a sad time – but that’s what it’s all about isn’t it? Celebrating how someone lived and realizing what we have to live for.

I don’t how else to express my gratitude but to just say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts. I mean that – each and every one of you are a blessing to us.

Tonight, I leave you with one of the bouquets that the staff at hubby’s school sent:

Beautiful right? But do you see the extra special additions? Garlic, avocado, chilies and peppers – some of my father-in-laws favorite ingredients! Absolutely unique and stunning. He brought so much joy to those he cooked for. PERFECT. :)

Thanks again so much. This weekend has inspired me many ways – I’ll show you one way tomorrow. :)

Taking the Plunge

We're off today to check out a part-time daycare/ preschool for our little guys.  I'm sort of mixed about it, but mostly excited.  It will be 3 days a week and my mom will be watching them on a 4th day.   I'm attempting tp take the 5th day off so we'll see how it goes.  Christian's three years old and is dying for "friends" and loves classes and that sort of thing so I think it'll be great for him.  I worry a little bit about Justin (8 months) but I'm sure he'll be okay too.

We're really hoping that with me moving my office out of the house (and opening a store in Leesburg-  more news on that soon!!)   and with almost full-time daycare, that we'll be able to get a bit more of a separation of work & home.  I hope my expectations aren't too high but I really feel right now that "something's gotta give."  If anyone has any insight out there about all of this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. 

I'll be back today later with a real post!!

 

Arquitectura moderna para vacacionar

Diseño

En Inglaterra, gracias a un original programa, es posible tomarse unas vacaciones en una casa de diseño arquitectónico moderno.
El programa procura servir educativamente para que muchas personas lleguen a apreciar lo que es habitar, acostarse y levantarse en una casa de diseño realizada por un arquitecto destacado. La intención es lograr mayor valoración de la obra arquitectónica. El precio para pasar una noche en alguna de las casas es accesible.

Por ampliar información sobre casas de arquitectura moderna siga este vínculo, hay una larga lista que puede revisar.

Casa moderna volada como granero

Cinco son las casas de diseño singular que estarán destinadas a las vacaciones en arquitectura moderna, en estas fotos se pueden apreciar tres de ellas, no todas se han completado. Usted puede ver más imágenes en el sitio web publicado en inglés. El programa se llama Living Architecture.
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Arquitectura moderna para vacacionar

Diseño

En Inglaterra, gracias a un original programa, es posible tomarse unas vacaciones en una casa de diseño arquitectónico moderno.
El programa procura servir educativamente para que muchas personas lleguen a apreciar lo que es habitar, acostarse y levantarse en una casa de diseño realizada por un arquitecto destacado. La intención es lograr mayor valoración de la obra arquitectónica. El precio para pasar una noche en alguna de las casas es accesible.

Por ampliar información sobre casas de arquitectura moderna siga este vínculo, hay una larga lista que puede revisar.

Casa moderna volada como granero

Cinco son las casas de diseño singular que estarán destinadas a las vacaciones en arquitectura moderna, en estas fotos se pueden apreciar tres de ellas, no todas se han completado. Usted puede ver más imágenes en el sitio web publicado en inglés. El programa se llama Living Architecture.
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House Exterior

Home Office Design Ideas

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4 Places to Find Decorating Inspiration For Your Home

4 Places to Find Decorating Inspiration For Your Home
When you decide to redecorate a room or you move into a new home that is waiting for your decorating skills, it can be a difficult decision trying to find the exact style that you want for a room. There are so many different choices. Paint or wallpaper? Carpet or hardwood floors? Dark colors or light? Those are just a few of the hundreds of options that you have when it comes to decorating your home.

The best thing that a homeowner can do is do some research. Don't just rush into the first idea that you have for a room as it may not work out or you may find something that you like a lot better. You need to really figure out what you want for the room and that means finding inspiration for decorating your home. If you aren't sure where to find your inspiration from, here are several places to look.

Decorating Books and Magazines
Take a visit to your local library and look through some decorating books and magazines. Spend some time really looking over the books, and then you can even take some of the books and magazines home to really pick out your favorites once you have narrowed it down.

These books can also help to expand your knowledge about interior decorating so that you can be more knowledgeable when it comes to actually doing the decorating. One thing to keep in mind is that some of the pictures and designs in books and magazine are not functional for some families. Use these ideas and pictures as only an inspiration for your own functional designs and styles.

Design Shows on Television
If you get cable channels such as HGTV, then you may want to start watching the channel every once in awhile to get some inspiration for your home. There are plenty of shows on TV that can at least give you some ideas that you may want to incorporate into your home. Another added bonus is most of these design shows, tell you how to do things, so you can replicate what you see quite easily.

Model Homes and Rooms
Look around your city to see if you have any home tours or model home showcases that you can take a look at. Sometimes you may get lucky and your city will have a model home showcase in which the top interior decorators get together and redecorate rooms and homes. Then the public gets to see the homes for a small fee (which is usually for charity). This is a great way to see some great work by interior decorators and not have to pay for a consultation for your own home.

Interior Decorator
If you have the money, you can always hire an interior decorating to come to your home and give you ideas for a room. This does not mean that you have to hire them to decorate the room, but most interior decorators will have consultation visits in which they will provide you ideas for your home.

Some interior decorators will do this at an hourly price and others may charge a flat fee. Always ask how they charge and what the possible amount may be before you have an interior decorator come to your home.

There are many different ways that a person can find inspiration for their interior decorating. Simply walking into a store and finding a great piece of décor can spark some inspiration. Just be sure to not rush the process.

3 Successful Home Office Decorating Schemes

3 Successful Home Office Decorating Schemes
Artists have known for centuries that color schemes taken from the Color Wheel have a dramatic effect on the final impact of their paintings. There are hot, energetic colors which leap off a canvas, and there are cool, soothing colors which recede, drawing the viewer's eye into the distance. The ways in which these colors are juxtaposed can completely change the emotions a painting evokes, and they can do the same for interior spaces.

Interior designers who specialize in home office decorating know that the color schemes they choose will have an affect on the mindset of the home office worker, so they determine in advance if a calming, or invigorating, style of home office decorating is more appropriate.

Those home workers who expect spend several hours at a stretch in the home office should do a bit of self-assessment, and determine if they would benefit more from a home office decorating scheme which helps them stay calm and focused, or a home office decorating scheme which makes them feel energetic and confident.

Calm, Cool, and Collected

The cool colors--blues, purples, and greens--will provide a low-impact home office decorating scheme which quiets the mind and allows the worker to focus on a project instead of his or her surroundings. If concentrating is one of your weak points, stay at the cool end of the color spectrum.

Spicing It Up

If, on the other hand, you feel like falling asleep as soon as you sit down and turn your computer on, you will benefit from a home office decorating [http://www.i-homeofficefurniture.com/Cheap_Home_Office_Furniture/] scheme which features warm colors. Yellows, oranges, and reds make their surroundings much more invigorating, and stimulate the brain. In office spaces, however, it's a good idea to limit the pure reds, yellows, and oranges to accents and have larger areas colored with more diluted warm shades like russet. You don't want to go overboard with your home office decorating scheme.

The Neutral Zone

If you have a very small office space, consider a neutral home office decorating scheme. Light neutral colors, when used without too many dark accents, can make a small space appear much roomier. And neutral schemes adapt beautifully to any type of furnishings. If you find them too boring for your home office decorating scheme, just enliven them with touches of your favorite warm or cool pure colors. You'll have enough color to soothe or energize you, and a home office which seems much more airy and spacious than its dimensions give it any right to be!

A great man

My husband is a great man.

He the most patient person I’ve ever met. He loves so true and deep. He is never threatened when I succeed – he encourages me, drives me, inspires me. He is gentle and calm and when I see a bug (and jump on the chair screaming), he will pick it up and take it outside rather than kill it. When I have a problem and ask him what I should do, he is always, always, ALWAYS right.

He works 12 hour days most of the year. And after working a full day, he walks in the door and never takes even a second for himself – he immediately has his arms outstretched for our son, and comes to kiss me before even putting his keys down.

He worked from home all summer and we were together all day, almost every day, and I never get tired of being with him. He is my very best friend and he is the best person I know.

My husband is the man he is because of another great man. My father-in-law raised three amazing children, my husband the oldest of them.

We had a rough holiday season last year – first my father-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Then only weeks later, we lost my mother-in-law.

It was a punch to the gut – twice. But we used the news of his cancer to live differently – we saw my father-in-law as much as possible. He lived with us on and off for months, so our son got to know him and see him often. Even though he was in his 80’s and couldn’t really play with the Bub, Papa was one of his very favorite people in the world. (There is something about Grandpas, isn’t there?)

We celebrated with one final Mexican Fiesta (he would cook for our friends once a year):

   

We took a ton of pictures, wrote down every recipe, and listened to his instructions (very carefully!) and stories for hours.

We lived. He LIVED for those nine months.

It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you my father-in-law passed away early yesterday morning. We were able to prepare, somewhat, but many of you know you can never prepare enough.

Oddly enough, it wasn’t the cancer that caused his death. He fought it like a tiger. A very stubborn, determined tiger. :)

But the cancer is what allowed us to spend as much time with him as we could over the past nine months. Isn’t that funny how the worst news you could get turns out to be a blessing in disguise?

Without the cancer diagnosis, we may not have seen him as much. We may have let a couple weeks go by without visiting. We may have let a week pass without talking to him. My son may not know to grab his drumstick (or any long item) and wobble around the house with a “cane” like Papa.

:)

My father-in-law was a GREAT man. He came to the USA as a teenager, became a United States citizen, and worked his tail off to make the American dream possible for his children. He and his wife raised three fantastic kids – two boys and a girl.

He made my husband sit at a piano from age five, because he saw his talent, even at that young age. My husband is an amazing music teacher and composer today because his father believed in him and pushed him to be all he could be.

He created a GREAT man when he raised my husband. My husband will create a GREAT man in our son with what he has learned from his father.

For that I will be eternally grateful to him. I admired and loved him so. I wish I could have thanked him a few hundred more times for what he has given to me.

For now, he is heaven, cooking up some fabulous Mexican for all of his loved ones. :)

We love you so very much Dad.

A great man

My husband is a great man.

He the most patient person I’ve ever met. He loves so true and deep. He is never threatened when I succeed – he encourages me, drives me, inspires me. He is gentle and calm and when I see a bug (and jump on the chair screaming), he will pick it up and take it outside rather than kill it. When I have a problem and ask him what I should do, he is always, always, ALWAYS right.

He works 12 hour days most of the year. And after working a full day, he walks in the door and never takes even a second for himself – he immediately has his arms outstretched for our son, and comes to kiss me before even putting his keys down.

He worked from home all summer and we were together all day, almost every day, and I never get tired of being with him. He is my very best friend and he is the best person I know.

My husband is the man he is because of another great man. My father-in-law raised three amazing children, my husband the oldest of them.

We had a rough holiday season last year – first my father-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Then only weeks later, we lost my mother-in-law.

It was a punch to the gut – twice. But we used the news of his cancer to live differently – we saw my father-in-law as much as possible. He lived with us on and off for months, so our son got to know him and see him often. Even though he was in his 80’s and couldn’t really play with the Bub, Papa was one of his very favorite people in the world. (There is something about Grandpas, isn’t there?)

We celebrated with one final Mexican Fiesta (he would cook for our friends once a year):

   

We took a ton of pictures, wrote down every recipe, and listened to his instructions (very carefully!) and stories for hours.

We lived. He LIVED for those nine months.

It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you my father-in-law passed away early yesterday morning. We were able to prepare, somewhat, but many of you know you can never prepare enough.

Oddly enough, it wasn’t the cancer that caused his death. He fought it like a tiger. A very stubborn, determined tiger. :)

But the cancer is what allowed us to spend as much time with him as we could over the past nine months. Isn’t that funny how the worst news you could get turns out to be a blessing in disguise?

Without the cancer diagnosis, we may not have seen him as much. We may have let a couple weeks go by without visiting. We may have let a week pass without talking to him. My son may not know to grab his drumstick (or any long item) and wobble around the house with a “cane” like Papa.

:)

My father-in-law was a GREAT man. He came to the USA as a teenager, became a United States citizen, and worked his tail off to make the American dream possible for his children. He and his wife raised three fantastic kids – two boys and a girl.

He made my husband sit at a piano from age five, because he saw his talent, even at that young age. My husband is an amazing music teacher and composer today because his father believed in him and pushed him to be all he could be.

He created a GREAT man when he raised my husband. My husband will create a GREAT man in our son with what he has learned from his father.

For that I will be eternally grateful to him. I admired and loved him so. I wish I could have thanked him a few hundred more times for what he has given to me.

For now, he is heaven, cooking up some fabulous Mexican for all of his loved ones. :)

We love you so very much Dad.

Corolla & "my" Beach House

We're finishing up our week here in Corolla, North Carolina and I DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE.  I love this place.  we've been coming here for summer vacations ever since I was a kid and I even spent a summer working here with one of my best friends, Alissa, at the local sports bar, Sundogs.   

Here's a picture of Sundogs and its appearance is deceiving.  It's so much fun!!!  (If you ever come here, it's in the front of the Food Lion Shopping Center and gets going late night.  There's a huge tiki bar inside.)

During the 4 months that I worked at Sundogs (a college summer) I made some amazing friends who we get to come back & see every year...

It was a late night...  Nat Hall (on my left) & Jerry Cooper (on my right) used to bartend at Sundogs and play music all over the Outer Banks.  (Jerry's since moved & is now living with his wife in SC)...  I worked there 8 years ago and I've never looked at Corolla the same since.  It was interesting to get the "local" perspective after vacationing there for so long.  Honestly, I'd recommend having kids work at least a summer at their vacation spot because you really just do get a whole different flavor for it.  You respect it in a different way.  You see all that goes on behind the scenes and you appreciate it more.  (And, you always having friends to come back to!)

...The only types of pics Dave & I usually get together are the hand-holding the camera kind:

So, as I was saying, I do not want to leave this place:

Here's our beach house this year:

I'm not going to show you the inside BUT I'll show you what I wish it was:

Check out the lower level entry:

{Image via House of Turquoise)

And the dining area:

{Image via Head over Heels}

And the living room- oh my goodness!!!

{Design by SR Gambrel}

And "my" bathroom:

I LOVE this hammock which sits on the deck:  (really)

The bunk room:

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And my bedroom:

{Design by SR Gambrel}

Here's the walk up to the beach:  (Now back to reality ;)

Christian's having the best time.  He & my grandmother built this fortress:

Dave & my little sister Morgan (13 years old) enjoying the surf:

And Justin relaxing in his stroller:

I could literally dedicate an entire post to my son's thighs.  I CANNOT get over them.  They are so insanely squeezable and kissable and...  I'm going to spare you but it's hard for me to stop ;)

So anyway, have an amazing weekend and we will be enjoying the rest of ours right here:

Escalera posmoderna

Diseño

Esta escalera interior de lineas curvas, suaves y hasta sutiles, pertenece a una lujosa residencia en Beijin. Es apenas una muestra de la casa cuyo interior tiene muy pocas esquinas en ángulo, casi todo está definido con curvas y ondulaciones. El interior de esta casa es realmente fantástico, puede verlo en el link agregado más abajo. Para comparar con otras escaleras siga este vínculo, hay una lista de posteos relevantes.


En la casa hay apenas unos pocos rincones con ángulos, lo demás fluye en curvas ondulantes y jugando de un modo no convencional con la imaginación. La construcción fue realizada cuidadosamente, es una aproximación increíblemente moderna al concepto de paredes y espacios, dando una gran impresión de que todo fluye siempre. Es esa clase de interiores que sorprende continuamente pero siempre lo hace con sutileza y dando la bienvenida de una forma muy amigable.
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Escalera posmoderna

Diseño

Esta escalera interior de lineas curvas, suaves y hasta sutiles, pertenece a una lujosa residencia en Beijin. Es apenas una muestra de la casa cuyo interior tiene muy pocas esquinas en ángulo, casi todo está definido con curvas y ondulaciones. El interior de esta casa es realmente fantástico, puede verlo en el link agregado más abajo. Para comparar con otras escaleras siga este vínculo, hay una lista de posteos relevantes.


En la casa hay apenas unos pocos rincones con ángulos, lo demás fluye en curvas ondulantes y jugando de un modo no convencional con la imaginación. La construcción fue realizada cuidadosamente, es una aproximación increíblemente moderna al concepto de paredes y espacios, dando una gran impresión de que todo fluye siempre. Es esa clase de interiores que sorprende continuamente pero siempre lo hace con sutileza y dando la bienvenida de una forma muy amigable.
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Plano de Casa de 3 habitaciones y 111 metros cuadrados

Hoy les traigo una casa de 1 piso y 3 habitaciones.

La ubicacion de la cocina, en particular de la bacha es bastante particular. La forma en que esta diseñada la casa nos permite ubicarla en un terreno chico sin perder iluminacion ni aire de los ambientes. Podemos hacer, por ejemplo, que la pared de la derecha sea medianera, al tener 8,5 metros de ancho, nos deja a la izquierda 1 metro y medio (para los tipicos terrenos de 10 metros).

Decoración de habitaciones infantiles

Escalador

Brillante idea de diseño decorativo y funcional para las habitaciones infantiles, especialmente de varones. Un árbol desplegado en la pared con agarres para trepar. Genial para estimular la actividad motora de los niños. También es una instalación escultural de valor estético y lúdico. Por más información sobre decoración de interiores siga el vínculo.


Debe haber alguien que seguramente ha concretado su sueño de la infancia en el equipo de diseño. Esto es lo que seguramente usted en algún momento soñó en sus días tempranos, trepar para divertirse sin preocuparse de estropear ningún mueble o terminar en una corrida al servicio de emergencias luego de intentar escalar la chimenea.
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Decoración de habitaciones infantiles

Escalador

Brillante idea de diseño decorativo y funcional para las habitaciones infantiles, especialmente de varones. Un árbol desplegado en la pared con agarres para trepar. Genial para estimular la actividad motora de los niños. También es una instalación escultural de valor estético y lúdico. Por más información sobre decoración de interiores siga el vínculo.


Debe haber alguien que seguramente ha concretado su sueño de la infancia en el equipo de diseño. Esto es lo que seguramente usted en algún momento soñó en sus días tempranos, trepar para divertirse sin preocuparse de estropear ningún mueble o terminar en una corrida al servicio de emergencias luego de intentar escalar la chimenea.
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Fall inspiration: Link it up!

(source: Pottery Barn)

Ohhh, the time is almost here!!! Can you feel it? It was positively CRISPY tonight! (Crispy in a good, cool way. Not a burning hot, I feel like the sun is baking me way.)  :)

I know, I know…we have another four weeks. Well, reeeeeeally, 27 days if you want to get all technical about it. That’s like, three weeks and six days.

Stinky Eye Sister keeps harassing me because I want to pull out the fall decor next week – she rolls her stink eyes at me, reminding me that “fall doesn’t blah blah start blaaaaah until September are you still talking? 21st.”

WHATEV SISTER. Talk to the hand.

I keep asking her…do you call June 1st summer or spring?

(She totally calls it summer.)

Booooyah!

Anyway, I’m on a mission this week – I told myself the basement decrapifcation (that I started eight months ago) must. be. done. before I pull out one piece of fall decor. Because once the holidays hit, a decorating BOMB goes off down there, and I’m determined to keep that from happening again. (Stop laughing, I can DO THIS.)

Needless to say, I’ve been down there all day. ;)

But guess what came today in the mail to keep me motivated? The latest Pottery Barn catalog, full of fall goodies! Swoooon!

I know PB isn’t the end all to decorating, but you gotta admit – they know how to style the heck out of a room. They are also wicked good at making warm and cozy ooooze off the page.

What I love about fall decorating is that it’s so natural – normally I’d scoff at hanging branches from a mirror, but for fall, it totally works. :)

I also love how something as simple as a few (real or faux) pumpkins and just a container full of branches is so striking:

Isn’t that huge pumpkin gorgeous? Did I just call a pumpkin gorgeous?

I love this mixture of pears, gourds and simple foliage:

Of course, it’s the colors of fall that make the decor so warm and loverly – they work SO well in our house. I think that’s part of the reason I love decorating for this time of year so much.

This picture is so AUTUMN I could just pass out from the gorgeousness:

 

It is now my mission to make a big, huge, honkin’ leaf wreath this year. I made a lovely little bitty one last year, and I need to do that times 50:

You can use just about an.y.thing. and fill it with fall fillers. There’s no candles in these hurricanes, just lots of random, fall-y, natural stuff:

I especially love how easy fall decorating is – pile some stuff in a tray, a candleholder, a bowl – and it looks fanfreakintastic:

I mean, really. It’s just a tray with pumpkins, gourds, beady stuff and little nuts for good measure.

That picture makes me want to go caress my bin of beady stuff and work on my dining table right. this. second:

My head is positively swimming. ;)

I won’t even mention the Halloween ideas in the Pottery Barn catalog – every year I get more and more into the spooky decor and I’m SO excited to work on some crafty goodies soon!

I’m throwing an impromptu fall decor linky party, so let’s share the fall mojo -- I’d love to see your  past decor or crafts, or current ones if you have already started! (You soooo rock.) Anyone wanna help with my basement??? Hmmm?

Link it up! I’ll leave this up till the 1st…when the bins come up from the basement, whoooooohoo! (I’m using the linky with pictures this time…let me know if you like it!)

P.S. My friend The Nester just did a post about fall decorating too. Inspired by Pottery Barn. I want to be her, that is why I did pretty much the exact same post she did. By accident. She rocks my world.  (Go here.)

P.P.S. My friend Melissa is having a Fall Nesting Party. Can I get a HOLLA for the fall love??? (She rocks my world too.)