Creative Steps to a Siimple Life FALL Issue 2014 | Page 40

For fall, I kept the yellow chair and the welcome mat. I picked up a different mat at Christmas Tree Shops over the weekend, but it was a little smaller and the colors were all wrong with the Welcome sign. I stuck it out by the back door instead. I feel a little silly having a big Welcome sign and another “welcome” on the mat, but not silly enough to buy another mat! Everything I did buy came from Home Depot. I spent a little less than $25 and bought three pots of mums, a hay bale, and two small pumpkins.

I dumped out the begonias (yes, it was a little sad!), and reused their pots. The smaller pot was one I had planted tomatoes in last summer. It was perfect for the smaller red mum and for setting on the little chair.