We have some nifty little decorations that we hang on our front door for the different seasons. Like right now we have a carved, patina’d metal hanging with some autumn leaves on it and it says, “Fall Greetings.” For summertime we have a carved wooden heart that is painted like an American flag, a folk art type of thing. For easter we have a small bunny door hanger that says “Every Bunny’s Welcome.”
We decorate pretty extensively for Christmas, but we had to tone it down a bit over the last 2 years because my Dad had open heart surgery, so it was hard for him to move, carry and unpack the stuff from our attic in the way that he used to. So now we decide ahead of time what is feasible and what is not.
We used to do a lot of decorating on the day of Halloween, but ususally we don’t decorate at all any more, because we go to my brother’s house and go trick or treating with my little nephew. We don’t want the kids coming up to our house if we’re not home (cause it’s no fun to ring the bell and not get any candy) also the constant ringing scares my cat, so we try to discourage the kids from coming up to the door. If we were home, we would go all out. I will probably get a few pumpkins and put them amongst our potted flowers in the front yard as “general” fall decorations, just because I cannot resist them, especially those nifty heirloom pumpkins that come in all those crazy colors, like These
For Christmas, the inside or our house looks like Santa Claus is moving in, even with our toned down decorations! My whole family (none of whom is religious) is Christmas fanatics.
For Thanksgiving last year, I got one of those pretty white “ghost pumpkins” and hollowed it out and put a lovely fall flower arrangement in it, like This. I also got some of those small pumpkins, that are about the size of a large grapefruit, hollowed them out and put some dip in there to serve with crackers and chips, like This I also did that one year at a Halloween party, where we were having a chili cookoff. I made a vegetarian black bean chili and then served grated cheese and chopped onions out of little pumpkins.