Decorating for November
We added a few more autumn details to our house. I really like the idea of using natural decorations and don’t want to rush into Christmas with so many American and German celebrations to come this month.
Pulling decor straight from nature is easy, refreshing, and just the perfect little touch for the coffee table and other corners. Plus when the season is over, you don’t have to worry about figuring out where to store everything. Most goes right into your tummies!
You might remember the arrangement on our dinning table. Using natural decor just takes a trip to the grocery store. As we eat one of the squashes or more walnuts, I find myself purchasing new ones to slip into the empty gaps.
Our newest additions are little glass votives filled with nuts and bees wax candles. Easy and cheap! Bees wax candles smell amazing, and they seriously lack the toxins of traditional paraffin candles. Your house can sport environmentally friendly decor and cost almost nothing.
For a few extra touches, have you checked outside? We have little acorns, twigs, and leaves I have picked up from walks in the park. It’s the little touches that add to our days. (Bringing a little browns and yellows insideIt’s also a clever way to keep Christmas at bay and savor the Thanksgiving season first.)










November 4th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Beautiful! The natural items feel so relaxing and are great for the whole season.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Kaite – I’m so glad I started following your blog! Every day it’s a little bit of inspiration to keep me moving towards a paired-down life. Today’s reminder is great, because I’ve started wistfully eyeing Christmas decorations, and you snapped me back to the reality that it is, in fact, ONLY the 4th of November!
November 4th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Cute idea :) We’ve got pumpkins sitting outside our front door that I can’t wait to turn into toasted pumpkin seeds and pumpkin pie!
November 4th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I like to save old wine bottles and pretty jars to use as candle holders for tapers. They always look so dramatic with light filtering through the colored glass and wax cascading down the outsides.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Hi,A friend found this web page and told me out it…I live here in Igersheim..Germany. I love the decorating ideas….I have brought some of my pumpkins inside to decorate.. for my birthday…Nov6th…we live in a house but have to share the front door….that opens to the street so not a good thing to put them out side our front door…and people like to use them for bowling balls too…true…..!!! I was on my way home one day by way of bike and I saw an older man helping himself to a few of my pumpkins, that I did put around the side of our house. He very nicely put them back when I told him in my broken German that they were my pumpkins….he ashed me what they were for and I told him in German that they were to look at…
I have to add that someone wanted to sell but ended up giving me lots of German canning Jars…I use them as gifts….I put flowers in them from my garden and with my Daughters help..we decorate the outside with a lite copper wire wrap around it with added beads or what ever fits to the occacation.
OK I hope to get a chance to ream more…. Later
November 9th, 2009 at 2:19 am
I have taken some of the grapevines and made a wreath for the front door. I made pumpkin soup and homemade marshmallows over the weekend. The fact we get woke up by leaf blowers sucks big time on a Sunday.
I did make soft boiled eggs and toast soldiers for breakfast with fresh carrot juice. I am so lame.