I love this time of year. I love watching the leaves change color and the sound they make as they rustle on the driveway...The breeze seems freeing as if it could take you away with it. I love the pumpkins and Honey Crisp apples everywhere and even though they don't smell the prettiest I sure do love all the Mums.
As a way of celebrating all things fall and friendships Michael and I are having some friends over this weekend. To prepare I decided to jazz up some old plastic pumpkins, disguise the hulk, reuse a Pinata, make a coffee cake, and paint a pumpkin...oh my!
Plastic pumpkins were on sale the other day and I thought "With all this chalk paint I still have, why not?" With these pumpkins I was also conducting an experiment. Which chalk paint is truly supreme? Over the summer I painted our kitchen cabinets with Annie Sloan "old white" chalk paint. The paint was absolutely amazing but expensive. Since then I have picked up two other brands of chalk paint and I thought this would be the perfect project for a paint comparison. To the left is Target's brand "Oats." The middle is Home Depot's brand "Vintage" and the end is Annie Sloan "Duck Egg Blue."
Hands down the Annie Sloan paint covered in one coat, went on smoother, and instantly stuck to the plastic. The other two brands were fine once I applied a second coat...Now I understand the Annie Sloan price - it costs more but you use less...the other brands cost less but you use more, so you will need to buy more. I love the way the pumpkins turned out. I just put a glass mason jar inside each one for the flowers and I think they make a perfect table scape!
Have you ever felt like you needed more decoration but didn't have time to shop? I always seem to feel this way...until... I started using the boys toys as decorations. My fall decor is very tame nothing scary. The boys wanted a little more Halloween decor in the house so I went out looking...Everything seemed scary and I can not risk them having nightmares soooo here is what I did...
I took a roll of toilet paper and I "mummied" the Incredible Hulk!
I did the same thing with this Fiesta Piñata I had in the basement from Jack's first birthday!
Tomorrow our friends are coming over early so I thought I would make a coffee cake... I don't know if it will taste like a "Drakes" but brown sugar and butter never smelled so good! For this I used Ree Drummond's Recipe - The Pioneer Woman I added a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the cake batter for some extra flavoring and I omitted the pecans ... so here's hoping'!
Lastly, I painted this particle board pumpkin cut out from A.C. Moore. They were on sale for a $1 per board so I picked up three! Two I painted "pumpkin patch" on and put then out in the yard surrounded by pumpkins and the third I kept inside. Here I used some acrylic paint and burlap ribbon to finish it off. 
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