Happy Fall, Y'all!

Can I say that now that we have been in Texas over a year? :) Happy First Day of Autumn! I decided to bring fall/Halloween to the front porch on Friday.

I price matched some little containers of mums at Wal-mart for $1.96 last week for a bit of fall color. In BH&G they had a bunch planted in pumpkins and they were so darn cute, so I tried to replicate. These are more of the fake penny pumpkins my mom found at Michaels a few years back and I just cut the tops off a few, drilled some holes in the bottom for drainage and planted them inside, after retrieving them from my son who was playing soccer (!) with them

 

I got this witch from my friend Holli at a neighborhood yard sale we had back in Idaho. We call her Melissa~we won't go into the reasons behind that one. The fun spiders my mom found at a cute shop in Logan, Utah when we lived there and then something like them showed up at the Dollar Tree a little while later. My kids have loved them and they often disappear from the porch and are found among the Power Rangers and Incredibles.

I kept some of the mums in their containers and just wrapped them with a brown paper grocery bag and some ribbon to froof them up a little.