If you have a plate rack or a plate rack wall in your home? Here are some ideas for how to decorate a plate rack wall for fall.
Hello friends.
I hope your October is going well.
Can I press pause on fall for just a second and ask you a question?
When do you start feeling like a real grown-up?
*sigh*
I’m still waiting.
I have a house and a family and four children who have been successfully launched into the world….
….and I still want to watch the Brady Bunch and eat peanut butter on celery sticks and take a nap.
And instead of doing grown-up things like paying the electric bill and making sure the outside of the house is ready for winter and flipping the mattresses twice a year and being extra responsible?
I just want to decorate my plate rack for fall.
Yep.
This plate rack that used to look like this.
And now?
It looks like this.
Did you see what I did?
I took a plate rack that was cool, calm and collected.
To a display all warm and fuzzy for fall.
So much more exciting than paying a utility bill.
// beaded wreath with lambs ear //
When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up.
There was this one lady who lived down the block from us who had the most amazing outfits and wore fake eyelashes with bright blue eye shadow and her dog wore a raincoat and a tiara and she had an entire refrigerator full of nothing but Diet Pepsi.
All she ever drank was Diet Pepsi.
Every time we walked by her house she would be standing in her yard looking like a movie star drinking a Diet Pepsi in short shorts and a tube top as she watered her flowers.
She totally fascinated me.
My mom would never let me wear short shorts or bright blue eye shadow or drink Diet Pepsi and we had German Shepherd that never wore a headpiece of any kind.
She was organized and amazing and creative and exhilarating.
And I knew that was exactly the kind of grown-up I was going to be.
Seriously.
Except.
Except. I’m still not sure I’m really grown up and I never really learned to like short shorts or tube tops or bright blue eye shadow….
…..or Diet Pepsi.
// beaded wreath with lambs ear //
But my almost grown-up self and I love red lipstick.
And statement earrings.
And pumpkin pillows.
And changing up a plate rack for fall without too much time or effort and doing just a few quick things to transform it.
// beaded wreath with lambs ear //
It was so simple.
I took down all the plates and added in cutting boards.
Some I got at thrift stores.
Some I got online.
That turkey cutting board I got at Target last fall when John Derian released his collection for Thanksgiving. It’s all sold out now, but I just saw that John (of course I want to be on first-name basis with him) just released a new collection.
You can see entire the John Derian for Target collection here.
I also added this hand-stitched tray my sister made for me years ago at Christmas.
I love it just as much as the day she gave it to me.
You can make a similar tray (such a fun gift) using these instructions.
// beaded wreath with lambs ear //
So I took down the plates. Check.
Added an assortment of random cutting boards. Check.
And a wooden turkey cutting board. Check.
A hand-stitched tray. Check.
And then? To finish off the entire display? I tied a wreath to the front.
You can see the wreath here.
// beaded wreath with lambs ear //
Isn’t it the cutest with the lamb’s ear and the beads?
But it’s not just any wreath. It’s a brilliant wreath idea that will take me from now to when Santa comes down the chimney—kind of a fall-to-Christmas (and maybe even hanging around until spring) wreath.
I might even leave up the turkey, too.
It would save me time and energy and I think turkeys like Christmas, too.
That sounds like a good decision.
That sounds responsible.
That sounds exactly like something a grown-up would do.
PS I put together a few of my favorites from the John Derian collection at Target.
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