Fall Mantel

Remember when I said this:

"There won't be a single pumpkin stepping foot in this house until October."

Ahem.  Dang you cute little grocery store gourds!!!  I was perfectly happy not accepting the fact that fall is here.  Until I saw the bag of mini pumpkins.  They're so cute!  So fine, I brought some home.  My plan was to just put them in a bowl.  Well, you should know me better than that by now.  Somehow it turned into a full on mantel rearrangement.  I didn't name myself The Rearranger for no reason.

In my defense, I didn't do a complete overhaul.  I just switched out a few things.  The Halloween/Fall deco is NOT coming out of the attic until October 1st, and that's final.

Here's the mini makeover:

I took out all the green glass vases and only left the green bottles and insulators.

I added the wicker covered jug, the lidded jars, one with pine cones, one with beach glass, (and yes, one is still empty - I'm gonna pick up a bag of candy corn to fill it) and just a few fall colored items.

On the other side, I left the wicker balls in the large cloche and switched out the piece of coral in the smaller one for three small gourds.

And of course, the bowl of gourds that started it all....sitting on top of the ice chest that moved back to the kitchen in my last rearranging frenzy.

There were a few changes in the kitchen as well, but I'll save those for another post.

Before I go, here are the last hydrangea blooms from the garden.

I decided their fading color went with the fall theme.