Dare to Entertain!

I joined a blog party!

This week's challenge: Dare to Entertain.  So...let's just get to it, shall we?

This is what I started with (it was dark outside when I did this so I brightened up all the rest of the pictures).  I did some "research" yesterday (as in, I googled and googled and googled) and finally found something I liked and could do.  I bought these guys on a recent trip to Kohl's and just took every other votive out and put a pinecone instead.  A couple of them were too scrawny but was I about to go out looking for more when it was dark outside?  No, sir.  I lit the candles (pumpkin spice...smells good, huh?) but it still looked a little bare so I sprinkled the acorns that were in my apothecary jar around in a sort of controlled mess.  Better.

I used a scarf as a table runner because I don't own a table runner.  Not a single one.  I did iron the scarf, though.  You're welcome.  I felt like everything was too brown so I added a pop of green with some apples from our fruit bowl (and by fruit bowl I mean 3 apples...ha!) and a pear.  A few weeks ago, I really wanted some pears to put in a pitcher and finally just bought these Melissa and Doug ones from our bookstore.  They're part of this cool grocery store/lemonade stand.  I also used the acorn candles from the same Kohl's trip because they are so stinkin' cute.

 At the other end I used my other apothecary jar (just got it last weekend for $2.50 at Goodwill) and just stuffed if full of leaves from our yard (leaves don't really turn colors here in mid-Georgia, they just turn brown...and sometimes orange). 

I decided to try these little pumpkins I had on our kitchen table in place of the pear and acorn candles.

And then I brought the acorn candles back out and used them as candles.

What I like best about this table is that there's still room for food.  Lots and lots of food.  What I like least is that I forgot the napkins.  HA!

Behind the table I opened the curtains and did a little display with a couple things I picked up from Hobby Lobby (they're doing 80% off Fall/Thanksgiving this week).  Sorry again for it being so dark.  I just love those acorn plates (by the way, Pier One has some really cute fall stuff on big time clearance, too.  Lots of acorns.  I went last night and just looked.  I didn't buy a thing.  Not because I didn't want to.  I wanted to buy it all!)

So...there you have it.  Will you be joining Kim's Dare?