A women's magazine I read in the 90's used to run a column called 'What is in Your Hand?' which encouraged looking at what was already in your possession to create something new that was needed.  It was in that spirit that we pulled this centerpiece together from some grocery store gourds, a pumpkin, a turkey platter, and some clippings from the garden.  

 

Oh and some wonky candles apparently. The Polish candlesticks are wonderful but no candle is quite that circumference.  Every time I light them I melt the bottom of the candles a few seconds to drip wax into the candlesticks to keep the candles upright.  Need some clay I think.  

 

Looking at this reminds me of a conversation I had with Rebecca several years ago when she asked me if I was an essentially cool color person or warm.  I insisted cool because all the pictures I had saved and all the rooms I admired were composed of gray or robin's egg blue walls and white slipcovers.   Neither of which I had lol.   

Our ranch house was painted in sunset shades of salmon and rust when we bought it. Our home here has the exact same wall color in the great room as our old living room. 

 

When we were at the pumpkin patch my husband sighed and said how much he loved the harvest colors and would love to have the house full of them.  The feeling is mutual.  So while I do admire those cool, clean shades and crisp white upholstery in other's homes, our own nest is much more earthy.  (Literally too – a fair amount of EARTH makes its way into the house lol)  Autumn is one of my favorite times of all. 

 

It probably says a lot about me that I can ramble on for so many paragraphs about squash on a platter doesn't it?  Thank you to dear friends enjoy rabbit trailing along with me.