a few pumpkins and cabbages on a Halloween front porch

With last year Halloween being cancelled,it is my first year decoration our new front porch for trick or treat:

and I had a good time!

I started with setting up my pennant from last year:

Then added some decorative cabbages in lovely shade of purply green

in the wood pumpkin I built a few years ago:

still good after all these years!

The crows took back their places on the porch,

on top of ladder and pumpkins

Our big pumpkin has not been carved yet,

Miss C. is doing it this weekend,

I am not sure what she will do,

but last year one was awesome:

Elmo on fire, very fitting for the pandemic!

Happy Halloween!

a mushroom embroidery and a fall mantel

I just finished my first fall embroidery:

And it has mushrooms!

It is a free pattern from Madame La Fée,

with the most beautiful fall colors you would want:

It is from the same designer that inspired my apple pillow:

These little mushrooms are quite smaller and faster to stitch!

and look perfect on the fireplace mantel

that I built last year.

So this year is my first fall mantel décor,

simple with a lot of reuse pieces from previous years,

and a few new ones, like the pumpkins pillow.

Happy cross stitching!