Budget Fall Table ...

Tis Fall!   So I set a simple fall table for our guests 

this weekend.  I decided to forego a tablecloth - 

and used a scarf as a runner instead.  

(Yes, a scarf that we wear!)

The trug or faux wooden bowl is filled with some fall garland, 

wooden gourd, huge scissors or clippers, faux silver fruit, 

a horn, a fall candle in a yard sale container...

...some old photos and pheasant feathers.
In other words - I went around my home and gathered whatever looked 'fall'.

Under it all is a crocheted runner to lighten it.

That would be me - doing my thing... 

Fall paper napkins are from Dollar Tree.  

I prefer paper napkins when the menu includes a tomato dish - 

and we were having baked tacos (which were a hit by the way)!

The trug is sitting on an ornate black picture frame.  

Average price here is 50 cents a piece. (The bowl was $5 I think.)

 At each place setting (on sheet music place mats)

 I added a tea light.  Gotta have candles! 

Oh - and chocolate...heart shaped peppermint patties from a discount grocer. 

Tea lights aren't the most attractive by themselves - 

so I gave mine a little update with brown craft paper (hot glued!).

 They are sitting on a leaf from my dogwood tree inside 

glass dishes that I picked up from the quarter man 

at an auction last year... yes 25 cents for all 4!

I'd love to hear about your Fall tables!