Finally Some Fall Decorations

I am so behind! If anyone has tips on how to manage blogging, work, commuting, home caring, family, friends, crafting, thrifting, decorating, errands, etc please PLEASE comment! I have no idea how some of the bloggers manage to do it all... They must be Wonder Woman! I am not, so here it is October 31st and I'm finally sharing some pictures of my decorations.

Before picture of mantel in dining room...

After a few changes...

Definitely more "fall-ish" don't you think?

A little corner with my scarecrow...New fall garland I got at a huge discount last year. I've been so anxious to put it up!

I love this detail about our home, having this whatever you call it opening to decorate.

A closer view of the garland, there's even feathers in it! I love those feathers!

On this wall I used to have some old OLD family portraits but decided I needed a change so they are safely tucked under my bed and I hung up this painting instead. Not really my taste but I sort of thought the fields and house fit my harvest theme I had in mind.

Remember in the before mantel picture - my faux P.O.O.P.I.E. or anti-P.O.O.P.I.E. greenery basket? I can never remember if P.O.O.P.I.E. is good or bad - any who, I stuck a black glittered crow on a stake in it and stuck it on top of a trunk along a short wall in our dining room. I probably should have just stored the greenery for the season and found something else to stick the stake into ....

My dining table... I love dressing this table up! If I have my table all set pretty then my guys are discouraged from using it as a dumping ground...
I should find some candles for those candlesticks. They were purchased in a Charleston yard sale for a buck. The green handled flatware is from Bi-lo grocery store, fifty cents a piece, the apple ramekins are from WM's Better Homes & Garden Collection and were about $4 each. The leaf plates were found on an end cap at WM for $3 each and of course my black wicker chargers were from my beloved Hobby Lobby Garden 2008 clearance... You don't want to know how much I paid for them!
I have these black wicker book cases in my dining room that I hot glued some fabric to the backs of so I would have a way to display a few things in there since I don't have a china cabinet. Then I made my dining room curtains and the fabric totally doesn't match, this is more of a muted burgandy and my curtains are a rich deep brick-ish red burgandy so I've been debating what to change it to. Any suggestions on color or pattern?
Another shelf with a metal basket weave bowl from Cracker Barrel, I love this bowl and have candle cup holders to match but I haven't found them yet in my attic! Pumpkin on candlestick in hallway... I had no idea where to put this since I had my dining table all done up with my pumpkin soup tureen so I stuck it here.

Remember the before shot of my mantel? This is where all that stuff ended up!
Normally I do a very fussy mantel with lights, loads of garlands, the village tucked in and ribbon galore but this year I went a simplier route due to a severe lack of decorating time.

Now y'all know how these apothocary jars challenge me! I don't have beautiful and bountiful collections of bits to fill it with, I swear I'm drinking wine as fast as I can to get enough corks *smiles* just kidding... but my Girl said she loved the pinecones in it so ....
All you talented tassel makers look away! Look away! My pathetic attempt... Usually I put a little pumpkin up here on the seat but I couldn't find it, I swear every year there's a box or two of decorations that go missing till I root around for the next holiday's decorations and then I find them too late to use!
And that's it, my pitiful attempts this year but there's always Thanksgiving to redeem myself, and maybe this year I'll manage to find my light up pilgrims before the big day instead of after...