I’m so glad you’re here today!  I’m joining a group of seriously talented bloggers in sharing our fall tables with you.  I love creating tablescapes for my family and friends, especially during the holidays, and enjoying it with really delicious food.  But I especially love the excuse to set a table for some girlfriends, like this brunch tablescape for Fall, and invite them over to eat good and visit!

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A simple and feminine place setting

Before I ran out to buy anything, I decided to look through my dishes and linens and try to use what I had.  Sometimes I find inspiration for a tablescape in a flower arrangement or new napkins but sometimes it comes in just looking through what I already have.

When I think of girlfriends, I think pink and floral.  So I wanted to make a pumpkin floral centerpiece and then decided to put it with white and pink linens.  They had to be ruffled, of course, because those are so feminine and beautiful.

Earlier this year, I scored some beautiful vintage gold-rimmed milk glass dinnerware off of Facebook Marketplace.  I mixed those in with my white beaded salad plates.

I used my gold flatware (a.k.a. “goldieware” as I call it) and gold-rimmed wine glasses.

Then I thought the teacups would be a cute way to display and give them a small rose to take.  After all, what girl doesn’t love flowers, right?!  The teacups can be used for tea, with or after their brunch, or just act as a vessel for their rose.

DIY Pumpkin Floral Centerpiece

I found a bunch of faux pumpkins in my fall storage bins that I’ve had but wasn’t using this fall so I grabbed a medium-sized one and cut the center out with a sharp kitchen knife, since it’s made of foam.

I grabbed one of my shorter glasses from the cupboard and placed it in the center of the pumpkin to act as a small vase.  I buy fresh flowers every week when I get the groceries and always grab a bunch of eucalyptus stems in the fall.  I grabbed some white and pink roses and the eucalyptus stems to make a simple but lovely arrangement.  The entire thing took about 10 minutes.

I added it to a pretty pink cake stand to give it height and just love how it looked.

My grandma passed away this year and we were close.  I inherited a lot of beautiful things that mean a lot to me and these vintage crystal salt and pepper shakers are one of them.  They are always pretty on all of my tables.  And then there’s a piece of Grandma here too.  She’d love this table.

So that’s it! Easy peasy!  The only difficult thing about this tablescape was deciding which of my favorite foods to select for the menu.  Croissants and muffins are a given though.  Who doesn’t love those?!

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A Burst of Beautiful | The Learner Observer | Home Made Lovely | The DIY Mommy

Finding Silver Pennies | Town and Country Living | Satori Design for Living | My Sweet Savannah

City Farmhouse | Rooms FOR Rent | She Holds Dearly | Anderson + Grant

Inspired by Charm | Summer Adams | Paint Me Pink | The Wicker House

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Today I’m excited to be joining a group of over 30 other talented bloggers who are also sharing a Fall Mantel or Vignette with you!  A special thanks to my friend Krista at The Happy Housie for hosting this tour and getting us all together.  I created a blush pink glam fall mantel for the season and can’t wait to share it with you!

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Our television hangs over our living room fireplace.  I didn’t thing I’d want that again, as I’ve had in a previous home, but as it turns out…it’s been perfect.  However, when it comes to decorating a mantel for the changing seasons, it can sometimes be tricky and make my options different than if I’d had a beautiful large mirror instead.

No worries, though.  I’ve found a way to decorate around it.

On the left side of the television, I kept a tall brass vase for height and also because I wanted to incorporate some gold tones with the blush tones.  I’ve found some beautiful blush glass pumpkins (as well as gold and silver pumpkins) over the years.  I grabbed a couple of them and added them to my mantel.

I placed a faux green leaf stem as a swag, coming from one pumpkin.

I happened to have some live eucalyptus from last week’s floral arrangement and thought it would be pretty to mix them into the faux greenery swag and then add some faux white and blush rose stems.

On the opposite end…

Remember these?

I decided to grab 2 of the 3 candle holders with the DIY Fall Glam Candle Wreaths that I made a couple of weeks ago and shared with all of you.  I left one of them on my buffet with something else.  I’ll update you on that later.

Adding a couple of more pretty glass pumpkins gave this mantel even more of a glamorous feel.

I liked the idea of just decorating from the ends of the mantel and not going all the way across.

I want to save the heavier decorating of the mantel for Christmas and keep this lighter but festive for fall and just the perfect touch of blush and glam!  What do you think?

Please take a second to take in all of this stunning inspiration…

The Happy Housie // Bless’er House // Rooms FOR Rent // House by Hoff // The Turquoise Home

The DIY Mommy // Sincerely Marie, Designs // Craftberry Bush // Amber Tysl // Just a Girl and Her Blog

Maison de Cinq // So Much Better With Age // Hallstrom Home // Shabbyfufu //
Town and Country Living

Summer Adams // Finding Silver Pennies // Paint Me Pink // Clean and Scentscible
Nina Hendrick Design

Jenna Kate at Home // Modern Glam // Place of My Taste // In My Own Style // Kelly Elko

Rambling Renovators // Just Destiny // Deeply Southern Home // Setting for Four
Willow Street Interiors // Stacy Risenmay

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Welcome to my blog today!  If you’re new and coming from Styled With Lace, Kim & Lacey’s blog, thanks so much and I hope you come back again and again.  To my regular readers, I LOVE YOU for always coming back!  It’s so fun to have you!  Today I’m sharing how I’m adding a little fall decor to our temporary townhome in this blog hop with my friends AND also a non-alcoholic peach drink recipe.  Make sure to stick around for that!

On A Personal Note…

In May, my husband’s company moved us from Dallas, Texas here to Vancouver, Washington to take a promotion.  We are in the middle of building our home and it should be done in about 6-7 weeks at most.  {I’m crossing my fingers and praying and squinting my eyes and knocking on wood right now not to jinx it since I just said that out loud and we’ve already been delayed.)  We are in a furnished townhome with all of our things in storage.  We literally only brought what we could fit into suitcases and then sent a few boxes.  I am so grateful to be here and it was so kind of them to find us a temporary home.  At the same time, I can’t help but feel a little sad that I don’t have my own things, like ALL my holiday and seasonal decor, to make this place feel more like home.  We’ve moved around so much, between education and going where our company needed us to go, that I’m pretty good at turning any rental into a home.  But right now I have none of my own things and no seasonal decor.  So I added a few minor touches to this little townhome to help me ease into fall, until our big move next month (knock on wood again).

The Smell Of Fall

Let’s start with the “smell of fall”.

Isn’t it the best thing in the world when you get to bring out your spicy cinnamon, vanilla, and pumpkin candles?!  My dear friend Rachel of Agape Candles brought me this candle, Pomme Spice, when I met up with her and a few other blogging friends this summer in San Francisco.  It was so so fun!  I’ve talked about how much I love her candles before and these new scents for fall had me all giddy and excited to try them! This candle is just sooooo yummy!

Most of you know I just LOVE a bright white space (see my Bright White Home Series) and I was so glad when this company had furnished a white sofa for us.  The furniture is dark but I added a little white tablecloth over the coffee table to give me the calm and relaxation that a bright white space does for me.  It worked.   I grabbed one of my favorite gold trays and then brought out this blue and white ginger jar from my own home decor stash of things I’ve been buying for the new house.

Last week, I shared a little bit of this blue decor when I posted The Best Blueberry Pie I Have Ever Eaten on the blog (a fabulous dessert this time of year).  So many of you loved it and I’m so glad.  I decided to keep the blue going.  I love the way it pops against the white!

And then I happened upon this gorgeous mercury glass pumpkin with a touch of gold and brought it home with me.  I love neutral fall decor and I love that this gave that touch of glam that our little temporary home desperately needed!

Last year in one of my Autumn’s In The Air Fall Tour, I shared how I used fur to decorate my coffee table.  I almost did that today but instead just draped it across the shoulder of the sofa.  It gives this room a more cozy feel and added texture.  Also, I grabbed my set of 3 gold mirrors from that stash of decor in the garage for the new house (it’s growing weekly and Josh just shakes his head…ha!) and hung them on this wall.  We will be here almost 6 months by the time our home is finished being built and I had to replace the dark blue and green art that was on the wall.  The mirrors are so much “lighter” here than that heavy, dark piece of art and they help reflect light off the walls of an already small space with few windows.  It made a HUGE difference!

I haven’t done anything yet with our mantel, I’ll save that for another post.  But let’s move over to the kitchen nook….

Same thing happened in this nook.  There was a dark piece of art so I hung it in the garage and swapped it out for another pretty mirror from my “new house decor stash” in the garage.  Bless that stash, ha! This is a tall dark table with tall barstools so I also threw a white tablecloth on this table to brighten up the nook.

I’m not one to use a lot of color but I loved that blue so much that I decided to bring it into the kitchen as well.  Blue hydrangeas, added to my existing white roses, were just the perfect touch!  Of course, my regular readers know I love to put flowers in a pretty white pitcher, just one of the ways to add a little glam to your home.  I know farms in our area are probably already producing little white pumpkins but I haven’t had time to go and grab them.  So instead I threw one I saw at the Target Dollar Spot in my cart and thought it would work until we went out this weekend or next to look.

Most people think of apples and pumpkins for the fall.  I do too!  However, peaches are still in season through the end of September here so I try to bake with them as often as I can.  I make a killer Peach Meringue Pie each summer and I just looooove my Cinnamon Baked Peaches this time of year.  The smell permeates through the home and you know fall is coming!

But today I thought I’d make a yummy drink with peaches.  After all.  It’s still really HOT outside so I want a little something to cool me off.

I’m sharing with you this Non-alcoholic Peach Drink Recipe that your entire family can enjoy!  I started making it years ago, something I came up with on the fly and it turned out great.

Peach Drink Recipe (Non-alcoholic)

Ingredients:

2 cups 7-Up or Sprite
32 oz. peach juice (refrigerated section of your supermarket)
2 TBSP grenadine syrup
2 peaches peeled and pitted (or equivalent frozen/canned)
2 cups ice

Instructions:

Blend all ingredients in a large blender.  You may have to blend half of the recipe at a time and then the other half, if your blender is not large enough.  Pour in glasses and serve with a peach slice if desired.  Enjoy!

It’s so frothy and delightful!  I hope you love it as much as we all do!

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I so thrilled you stopped by!  Hop on over to my amazing friend Janine at Happy Happy Nester and see what inspiration she’s sharing for fall!  Make sure to visit everyone sharing today, which include:

Happy Happy Nester  |  Remington Avenue  |  Maison de Cinq  |  Simple Cozy Charm
MemeHill  |  Designs By Laila  |  I Don’t Know How She Does It  |  2 Ladies & A Chair
The Design Twins  |  Citrine Hill Living  |  Lindsay-Hill Interiors  |  Modern Glam Home
Crazy Chic Design  |  Styled With Lace  |  Summer Adams

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