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Fall is here!

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Season shopping for friends and family is approaching. Don’t miss out on these fall styles for your home and special loved ones.

Shop now and get 10% off when you enter GIFTFORYOU10 at checkout.

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The Elise Nightgown with smocking and red rosebuds is an essential for the holidays. Shop the red Pear Topiary tissue box cover for the ultimate gift.

We love boxwood topiaries! Order the cozy Boxwood Topiary pillow for your friend who loves our linens.

Can’t get enough of these Honey Bees. Shop now for a busy body you know will enjoy these embroidered linens!

Shop the fall gift guide today!

girl's long sleeve white cotton dresses with embroidery
Our girl’s long sleeve white cotton dresses with embroidery are perfect for the colder seasons. Shop for your darling little ones and order the nightgowns to match!

 

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Fall-Inspired Decor to Add to Your Home

There is so much to love about the fall season, and now that Halloween and Thanksgiving are around the corner, there is even more reason to come up with ways to welcome fall into your home. For the most part, pumpkins are a sure way to excite you and your guests about the upcoming spooky holiday of Halloween. Who doesn’t love Halloween? Many kids and adults spend weeks, even months, deciding on their costumes and perfect haunted house party. For the adults, there are ways to take advantage of this fun holiday by inviting guests over for a dinner party, and incorporating your seasonal accessories, accents, and decor into your home. Read through our list of easy ways to give your home the fall makeover it deserves.
The How-to-Guide to spruce up your home with lovely fall-inspired decor:
Pumpkin Display

Everyone loves seeing pumpkins in fall

The key to a fall makeover is in the presentation

A little jar with mini pumpkins is adorable and festive. Who doesn’t love a little color of orange and green in their living room when fall hits? Now that the leaves are starting to change color, it’s important to keep your home up to date with the changing season. Adding mini pumpkins will keep your energy up and serve as a reminder of things to look forward to, i.e. Halloween and Thanksgiving! It will also give your guests a warm welcoming as they step into your home and see these festive touches. Everyone notices small things like this!
Fresh Smelling Plants 
window sill display
A beautiful bedroom window with a blooming plant and candle creates happiness in the most unexpected ways.

Spring may be special in all its color and glory, but fall is just as wonderful for growing plants at home. Buy a basil plant and keep it in your window sill where the sun shines, and remember to feed it daily. Soon, you will find it flourishing to be taller and stronger than you could imagine. Plus, the great thing about Basil plants is they smell wonderful, and you can always cut a little off to add to your pastas or salads. Decorate your window sill with plants, great reads, picture frames, and some of our high-end embroidered tissue box covers and curtains seen in the above photo.
Candle decorations, Cafe hygge and Fall apartment decor
Neutral or Beige Colored Bed Sheets
Bring out the high-end bed sheets with little touches of beige to highlight the fall theme


Our Jacaranda Living embroidered bed sheets with a Scroll embroidery are wonderful for a master or guest room, especially in the fall season. Put aside your brightly colored bed linens you had from spring and bring out some fresh beige and neutrals. It’s the perfect touch that will complement your new pumpkins, flourishing plant, and candle decorations you’ve placed around your home. Match your curtains to the scroll embroidered guest towels – either in your shower or around the main windows of your bedroom.
Cushions on the Sofa
Add some whimsy cushions to your sofa

Who says animals can’t live on couches? Our Whimsical wildlife designs in amusing settings are just what any home needs during the colder months. These pillows of animals lounging comfortably will certainly put smiles on your and your company’s faces. Choose from our selection of designs that best complement the colors in your living room.
Layer the cushions on your sofa or chair for an elegant look that requires minimal effort

 
Table Setting
table settings
Little touches of greenery and glistening gold acorns are easy ways to bring out the season’s colors


dinner napkins
Dine in high style with these beige fleur-de-lis embroidered cocktail and dinner napkins

Our Jacaranda Living leaf embroidered table and cocktail napkins are a wonderful way to make your dinner party that much more festive. Don’t be afraid to host that next dinner party when you have these table setting arrangements down. Order our matching cocktail and dinner napkins today.

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And one more thing, don’t forget to go apple picking! Apples are another great way to display your love for fall.

The little things count. Other additions and design trends for your home can be found on our Fall Season Pinterest board. Check it out!

 
Have a wonderful weekend!
xoxo,
The Jacaranda Living team

5 ideas for an upscale Halloween party

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Halloween parties can be a lot of fun, but you don’t have to settle for mass-printed paper decorations and a punchbowl full of candy to complete your theme. With a little imagination and a DIY spirit you can transform your gathering from vague to vogue.

Pumpkin ice buckets

Store your cold beverages in hollowed-out pumpkins and fill in the remaining gaps with ice. For a more eerie look use white pumpkins. Don’t carve a face into the gourd or you will have a watery mess on your hands.

Masquerade

It’s hard to keep a consistent theme when your guests come dressed as a ghost, The Joker and a space ninja. Instead of costumes, encourage your guests to come in a limited formal wear and supply them them with masks. Consider black tuxedos for the men and white dresses for the women, such as ones from our line of cotton sleepwear. You can purchase a collection of masquerade domino masks or even create your own felt animal masks to liven things up.

Black cocktails

It’s one thing to create mixed drinks along a theme, but it pays to go one step further and give them a striking visual tie-in. Consider getting black sugar to rim the glasses and add whole blackberries into the mix, or try classic drinks like a brain hemorrhage or blood-red sangria.

Party by candlelight

Create some good mood lighting by unscrewing or disabling all the lights and use expressive candles instead. The dim lighting will give the party an inky atmosphere. You can opt for clusters of thick white candles and mix it up with a few skull-shaped candles here and there. Just make sure you have some type of barrier to restrict the melted wax so it doesn’t spill onto the carpet.

Monochromatic candy

It’s routine to see a mix of orange and black candy in a dish during Halloween. Make your display stand out by limiting your candy to a single color, such as all red or all white candies in a clear glass dish. You can order bulk M&Ms and jelly beans in any color and mix in marshmallows or licorice.

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Create a Centerpiece to Complete Your Fall Table!

Here at Jacaranda Living, we love Fall in New England. We thought it would be great to bring you some easy ideas for Fall centerpieces for your home. We searched and found the prettiest and easiest do it yourself centerpieces featured from weddings, home decor magazines and design blogs. We found the ten we thought were the best. Enjoy!

You don’t have to be having a wedding, event or dinner party to decorate your table for Fall. Get the same look as any professional florist but do it yourself with the many resources the Fall season has to offer.

1. Pumpkins gone wild…

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Use pumpkins and goards for your fall centerpiece. Photo: Martha Stewart.com

How to create this look by Martha Stewart.

Find three matching pottery type plates of various sorts or sizes or find some  white plates. If you don’t have any, here are some gorgeous assorted Bellezza plates from  Cachet in Wellesley MA – assorted set of four designs ($24).

Find various sized real or faux pumpkins for your local farm or craft store.  Add nuts and any sort of dried orange flowers. Create multiple plates and place together or spread around your table, countertop, sideboard or entry table.

2. Vintage Romantic Victorian Fall Display

Vintage Fall with Flowers and Candles.
Vintage Fall with Flowers and Candles.

How to create this look:

It’s time to pull out that old silver or grandma’s china you never use along with that antique platter sitting on your sideboard or a silver tray from your serving drawer. If you don’t already have these items they are easy to find at a flea market, vintage or thrift store or online from one of our retailers such as Lavender Fields ($210.00 available online) or Cachet’s in Wellesley MA, Silver Demask Tray ($34, available online)

Arrange together orange and yellow Dahlias with fall berries and submerse with a bit of water in your silver or vintage china dishes. Add 3 – 4 white votives in white or other Fall colors.  Place this gorgeous peice anywhere around your house and your guests will be impressed.

3. Indoor Foliage

tree branches for Fall centerpeices
Bring the outdoors – indoors with tree branches Photo: Martha Stewart.com

How to create this look:

Bring the outdoors into your home! Trim one of your outdoor Fall trees branches off in any size and arrange into some sort of heavy vase. Here are some vase ideas from a few of our retailers such as this rustic garden vase from Cachet in Wellesley MA ($45) or these gray cup vases from Lavender Fields ($150).  Arrange pumpkins and ghords into wooden or Fall colored dishes around the branches. This arrangement makes a large statement!

5. Romantic Fall Candle Display

Romantic Fall Candles Centerpeice with acorns
Romantic Fall Candles Centerpiece with acorns. Photo: Wedding Colors and Themes

 

How to create this look:

Find vases of all shapes and sizes around your home. Send your children outside to collect acorns or use shelled nuts to fill the vases about 1/4 full. Insert white candles into 4 – 5 vases and arrange together. Add greenery or leaves around the candle vases. Be sure holders are heat resilient! Be safe!

6. Warm Pumpkin Pie Centerpiece

Pumpkin Candle Pie Centerpeice
Pumpkin Candle Pie Centerpiece. Photo: Wedding Colors and Themes

How to create this look:

Carve a fake or real pumpkin at the stem and place melted wax or a candle holder directly into the hole (try to carve the same time to avoid rotting). Place candle into the holder and decorate with faux berries. You can create this centerpiece in any size, mini-pumpkins, larger pumpkins, just have fun!

7. Mini-Centerpieces: Acorns and Dahlias and Votives with cranberries

Siimple and Easy Fall Centerpieces for around the home
Mini Fall Candle Centerpieces. Photo: http://blog.myweddingreceptionideas.com

How to create this look:

Acorns & Flowers: Fill glass jars, vases or candle holders with acorns and decorate with faux Fall Flowers or add a bit of water to the bottom and use real flowers.

Cranberries & Candles: Fill glass candle holders with cranberries (real or faux) and insert white candles into them.

8. Country Farm Mason Jar Arrangement

Fall centerpieces using mason jars, real or faux berries and candles.
Country Farm Mason Jar Arrangement. Photo: howtonestforless.com

How to create this look:

This is likely the easiest centerpiece of all of these to make. Three mason jars with votives, some beach rocks, faux or real berries. Simple as that. Be careful of hot mason jars if you leave candles burning too long, you could also use LED faux candles, available at Pier 1 imports and other retailers.

9. Fall Lantern Centerpiece

The Lantern Fall Centerpiece
The Lantern Fall Centerpiece. Photo: How to Nest For Less

How to create this look:

Purchase a candleholding lantern from Michael’s Craftstore or another store such as Pier 1 Imports. place faux leaves and mini pumpkin goards around the centerpiece.

10. Happy Thanksgiving Centerpiece

Happy Thanksgiving Centerpiece
Happy Thanksgiving Centerpiece.

How to create this look:

Collect various sized white pumpkin goards and stencil the letters onto them in black. Scatter with various sized dessert dishes add candles and other goards. Here are some gorgeous beaded candleholders from Furbish Studios ($29) or these Beechwood Pine candles also from Furbish Studios ($14)  that would add some vintage romance to this look. For this white look, keep everything white. For a multicolored look add oranges and reds.

We hope you will add some Fall joy to your table and visit us or one of our many retailers mentioned above online for design ideas, products and inspiration!