When it comes to decor, trends are very big. From major elements like wall color and furniture designs, all the way down to dish patterns and candle styles. The latest and greatest seem to take center stage. And holiday decor is no exception. While pumpkins have always been perennial favorites and fall decor staples, this year, my feed seems to be flooded with ghosts. Ghost paintings, ghosts under glass, ghost cookie jars, snacks, costumes and ghost themed crafts . Of course, that's the one that gets my attention.  Now, I tend to favor fall decor over Halloween decorations. Between you and me, I don't even like Halloween .

This weekend fall finally arrived in my neck of the woods with cooler temps, heavy rains and strong winds. Making it an indoor kind of long weekend. Which gave me tons of time to play with all my autumn craft supplies.  Since fall is one of my favorite seasons to craft in , I have a lot of things planned, but this weekend, I jumped right in by combining my homegrown white pumpkins with temporary tattoos. Yup. It's a craft I've seen a number of times over the years, and while I've decorated pumpkins in a ton of ways , I've never tried this one. I guess it's because I'd hadn't ever seen tattoos that fit my style. Or more likely, because I thought it'd be difficult to get a tattoo to stick to all those bumps and ridges on the surface of the pumpkin.  I mean, I remember trying to get a perfect tattoo application on my kids when they were little and it was kind of a struggle. But honestly, I couldn't have been more wrong. This was, hands down, the easiest...

Ah...October. It's that wonderful time of year when all the holidays seems to collide. Whether you're scrolling social media or walking into a store, like I did this past weekend, you'll find yourself face to face with Jack-O-Lanterns, turkeys, Santa Clauses and Christmas trees. Side by side as if they were all celebrated on the same day. I know a lot of people love this holiday hoopla, so they can map out their decorations early.  I myself am usually more of a live in the moment kind of decorator, preparing for each one in its own time. However, when it comes to home decor, my mantra has always been do what makes you happy.  And this weekend - in something that's becoming a bit of a habit - that’s exactly what I did...which means my home looks like those stores. Trick or Treat and Ho-Ho-Ho cohabitating in a seasonal time warp. And it's all because of this box. This post contains gifted product from King Of Christmas . All opinions are my very own . The one that ar...

A few weeks ago, I shared some pretty exciting news. I had become a pumpkin farmer. Apparently with a little patience, a lot of help from their husband, and a generous neighbor with hearty seeds, anyone can be a successful gardener. Including me. The girl with those terrible brown thumbs. I was such a good student, that by the time fall arrived, I was the proud plant mama of backyard full of pumpkins in all shapes and sizes . However, there was more to that story than I originally shared. You see, right about the time my husband showed up with those seeds, I spotted the most adorable painted Halloween gourd in a shop. It was too expensive for my taste, but...I figured if I could grow a gourd, I could make my own.

If you haven't guessed yet, rub-on transfers have become my new favorite craft supply. No matter what kind of art I'm trying to create or thrift store item I'm trying to recreate, using transfers always seems to be on the top of my creative idea list. Transfers are extremely versatile, you can use them on any surface from  wooden furniture  and glass makeovers to paper garlands . They're readily available online and in local stores. And best of all, they're budget friendly.

Decorating with bold colors and patterns has always been my passion. However, several years ago, I suddenly felt the need for a change in my small hall bath. So I painted everything white. Or close to it. The formerly crimson walls were coated with Benjamin Moore's Chantilly Lace . The dark wooden vanity received a muted, cottage style makeover. Even the artwork was neutral.

We grew pumpkins in our small suburban yard and so can you. It doesn't take a lot of room to create your own pumpkin patches, you just need to get creative in your existing garden. And keep those vines in line.  I live in a charming beach community, filled with homes that were built in the 1920s for summer fun at the shore. They're mostly tiny homes, on tiny lots, in a neighborhood where life has always centered around sand and surf. Not farming. So this spring, when my husband showed up with a bunch of seeds, proclaiming that we were going to grow pumpkins and gourds in our shoebox of a yard, I laughed. You know you need a lot of room for that, right? I mean the vines get nuts and take over. We don't have that kind of wide open space... Where you going to plant them? By the pond?