Halloween  is a holiday celebrated on October 31.

It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints’ Day. It is largely a secular celebration, but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones.

The day is often associated with orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o’-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o’-lanterns, pranking people, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies.

What is your favorite Halloween activity?

Check out these fall champagne flutes!  Each Autumn Splendor Toasting Set has distinctive ribbons of brown and green and a unique, natural, lacy oak leaf preserved in iridescent copper.  This is the essential item for a fall wedding.  Cheers!

Are you looking for a fall wedding favor?  These Autumn Gold and Chocolate Brown Candy Boxes are perfect!  Each one is filled with you choice of candy, tied a with gold or brown ribbon and topped with an Autumn Leaf.  Your tables will look spectacular!

What other fall favors do you enjoy?

This beautiful embellished Red Silk Scarf is a must have for the fall season!  Wrap yourself in luxury and pair it with some gloves and boots for a great time out.  Perfect for any occasion or as a gift too.

 These purple leaf cork coasters are a great accent for fall.  They will enhance your dining room table setting or look festive in your bar or kitchen.

If giving them as a gift, why not add on the personalized fall leaf sticker.  Your thoughtfulness will be appreciated!

 These orange cupcake wrappers are the cutest things I’ve seen in a long time!  What a perfect cupcake treat for fall!

I’m planning on using these at the kids next bake sale  and will save a few for the girls bunco night.

What are your favorite cupcake treats?

  Did you know…

Pears are consumed fresh, canned, as juice, and dried. The juice can also be used in jellies and jams, usually in combination with other fruits or berries. Fermented pear juice is called perry or pear cider.

Pears will ripen faster if placed next to bananas in a fruit bowl. They stay fresh longer if kept in a fridge.

Pear wood is one of the preferred materials in the manufacture of high-quality woodwind instruments and furniture. It is also used for wood carving, and as a firewood to produce aromatic smoke for smoking meat or tobacco.

We love pears at our house and are looking forward to using these silver placecard holders and cookies cutters this autumn season.

Why do leaves change color?  According to my kids, “it’s because they are tired of being green”.  Now, this answer may not earn them an ‘A’ on their science report, but I thought it was pretty amusing and I will remember our little chat the next time I set out these Yellow Leaf Place Card Favor Boxes.

Do you have an amusing fall anecdote?

Red Apples go hand in hand with the fall season and bring back memories of picking apples in the orchard but you can really use them any time of year.

Here are some Red Apple Wedding ideas:

For the fall theme, have you wedding in an apple orchard for instant and natural ambiance or a big red barn filled with hay bales, little white lights and red apple candles on the table.  You can make these yourself by carving a tealight size hole in the apple with a candle carver.

Your guests can enjoy the crisp autumn air outside while toasting the happy couple with sparkling apple cider or hot apple cider spiced with rum and cinnamon.

For dessert, don’t forget the the hot apple pie with cinnamon ice cream or candied apples with a personalized tag attached.

Send your guests home with a jar of apple butter or a mini apple candle.  It will be an event to remember.

I grew up with a front yard filled with Maple Leaves and every Fall I would volunteer to rake them up to help with the “family chores”.  I just loved getting them in a big pile and taking the Nestea plunge.  It was so fun, I’d do it again and again until the leaves became crumbs.  Then it really was a chore to rake up the leaves or what was left of them.  But for a few glorious minutes, there was a total abandonment which renewed me for another year.  The picture on this Fall Leaves Tray remined of all the Maple leaves I have raked over the years, and instantly brought back some fun childhood memories.  What are your best Fall Leaves memories?