Fall 2025

It may look like Christmas at other people’s houses already but over here it is still Fall. I already wrote about some of our Fall decor – the sunflower picture I needlefelted and the Day of the Dead offrenda ornaments and the new quilt my Brooklyn niece gave me for Christmas last year – so here’s the rest of it.

I was inspired to make these little mushroom houses by @studio_rosie on Instagram. I made the little tiny pumpkin in front of the second one (from the left) after taking an online workshop with Mirjam Gielen. It was wet felted in a tea strainer and embellished with embroidery thread.

I went to Marshall’s the same day I watched the tutorial and couldn’t believe that they actually had a round tea strainer! I made an apple too and I intended to make an Evil Queen (from Snow White) pegdoll to hold it but had trouble drawing the face – maybe next year.

We put the Halloween trees in the living room again this year.

I didn’t feature the heirloom ornament I made for it last year because I was making other ones as a Christmas surprise.

I made some ghosts out of an egg carton after they flashed by quickly in an Instagram story. I intend to hang one or two on the trees next year but this year I made a garland of them and hung them in the dining room under the Fall branches.

I took them down today because when it actually snowed this morning I thought “Well I guess I should take down the Halloween decorations” but it is obviously still Fall out there!

The only thing we bought this year was this little grey fuzzy pumpkin. When we saw it during the Andersonville Sidewalk Sales we knew it had to join the other grey pumpkin we bought at the Found Cottage a few years ago.

Last year Four Sided featured old scary movie posters in their Halloween windows and I knew that was what I wanted to use for my treats this year. I found one that was perfect – several people commented on the fact that Vincent Price was in it. I paired it with Kit Kat Ghost Toasts (apparently they tasted like Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal) and simply wrote “Boo!” on the back in orange.

The treats are all gone now and the Halloween decorations are back in the storage box but happily the Fall decorations will stick around until the end of November!