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Fall Foraged Decor

October 12, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner 10 Comments

Fall Foraged Decor - Tonka Truck makes fun decoration!I like to decorate with natural elements. Plants growing in the fields or along the ditch bank. Flowers from my garden. Pumpkins and gourds and apples from the farmer’s market.

Take a look at a few of my fall foraged decorating ideas. Yes, I use the term foraged loosely (creative writing, y’all). Foraged from the closet or flea markets or while on neighborhood walks with Lucy and Annabelle.

Use rusty old toys, wheelbarrows, farm implements, whatever, to display fall’s bounty inside or outside. In the picture above, my sister’s original Tonka Truck moves gourds around in the backyard. Yes, I still play in the dirt.

My wire porch basket is typically empty. This fall I spruced it up with a few gourds, a pumpkin, and Indian corn. Now when I take Lucy and Annabelle for walks, we pick up pine cones and leaves and deposit them here.

foraged fall decor - porch

Use what you have to create “flower” arrangements. If you grow sunflowers, decorate with them. If you have a beautyberry bush in your yard, use that. This next arrangement includes Arkansas cotton, wheat from Daddy’s last crop 20 years ago, and eucalyptus I foraged from another of Momma’s arrangements. Foraging does not mean stealing from a hardworking farmer’s field, but if you are a farmer or know a farmer…most farmers I know would be happy to share a few stalks.

In fact, most farmers I know would give anyone the shirt off their backs.

Fall foraged decor - cotton, wheat, eucalyptus

Hedge apples are plentiful in Northwest Arkansas. My neighbor, Stella’s, fence…I love her use of them.

Hedge Apple Fence, Fayetteville Ar

How cute are these apple/mum centerpieces?

apple mum centerpiece

No, you can’t have too much cotton. This arrangement is in a wide glass bowl. I placed a vintage flower frog in the bottom of the bowl to hold the stalks. I like the zen-ish look of it.

cotton arrangement

Annabelle fully embraces the fall foraged idea.

Annabelle - playing in the fall leaves

That’s it for my fall forage ideas. What’s your favorite?

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Musical Pairing:
The Kinks, Autumn Almanac

Filed Under: Crafts, Home, Nature & Seasons Tagged With: Autumn, decorating with vintage items, Fall Decorating, Fall Porch, foraged

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Comments

  1. Barbara Tate says

    October 12, 2015 at 8:18 am

    What great pictures, and how sweet-looking is that Annabelle. I am going to have to go “pick some cotton” for my house this morning. I really enjoyed our afternoon of foraging in the cotton patch.

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 12, 2015 at 10:09 am

      Yes it was fun!

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  2. Colene says

    October 12, 2015 at 8:23 am

    My favorite is Annabelle with her foraged leaf and also looking at what you created with your foraged items.

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 12, 2015 at 10:10 am

      Annabelle is a mess and happy happy that I’m home:) Lucy too.

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  3. frances creecy says

    October 12, 2015 at 9:32 am

    Great one, I always enjoy your blogs,

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 12, 2015 at 10:10 am

      Thank you, Frances. I always enjoy hearing from you.

      Reply
  4. Dorothy Johnson says

    October 13, 2015 at 9:08 am

    Great ideas, pictures and a precious pup. What could be better?

    Reply
  5. Barbara Tate says

    October 7, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    I enjoyed this again today, and I still enjoyed the pictures. Great arrangements of cotton.

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  6. Barbara Tate says

    October 7, 2016 at 12:30 pm

    I know it is Fall because I hear a marching band. Go Plano West.

    Reply
  7. creecy33bara Tate says

    September 23, 2017 at 9:13 am

    Here we are at another Fall. Love it. Got to get to Arkansas soon to see the white cotton fields.

    Reply

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