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September Recap + $100 Pottery Barn Gift Card Giveaway!

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Wow – yet another month as literally flown by and we are fast approaching the holidays!  I was thinking that maybe you could use a little cash-ola to help you with your holiday decorating or gift purchases.  With that thought in mind, this month’s Reader Appreciation giveaway is for a $100 Pottery Barn gift card!  It can be used online or in stores and can be redeemed at any Pottery Barn, PB Teen, PB Kids, Williams-Sonoma, Williams-Sonoma Home, West Elm and Mark and Graham.  How’s that for flexibility?  😀

Entry couldn’t be easier – simply leave a comment on ANY post during the month of October and you are automatically entered!  More comments = more chances to win!

MAKE SURE YOU SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO READ THE CONTEST RULES.

$100 Pottery Barn Gift Card Giveaway

THE CONTEST WILL END ON OCTOBER 31st AT 11:59 PM EDT.

My September was mostly consumed with all things fall!  In case you missed any of it, here’s a little of what I was up to.

FALL IN MY FARMHOUSE DINING ROOM

The whole time that I was working on my dining room makeover, I was thinking about how much fun I was going to have decorating it for the different seasons and holidays!  Do you have spaces that you actually get excited about decorating?

Fall decor in a farmhouse style dining room || Worthing Court

KISS FALL DECORATING – RUSTIC FARMHOUSE OPEN SHELVES AND CENTERPIECE

Seasonal decorating sure can be time consuming, so I’ve come up with a way to make it fast and simple!

Rustic Farmhouse Fall Open Shelves And Centerpiece || Worthing Court

WELCOME FALL ON MY FRONT PORCH

To a lot of people, a front porch is kind of like having a living room when you already have a family room.  You know what I mean – a space that you want to be pretty, but not one that you really use.  That isn’t the case for us – Pookie and I love to spend time on our porch!

fall front porch || Worthing Court

WORLD’S BEST BAKED HONEYCRISP APPLES

Friends, you don’t want to miss out on this delicious version of baked apples!

The best tasting baked apples you'll ever eat! || Worthing Court

THERE’S EVEN MORE!

ONE FALL COFFEE TABLE – TWO WAYS

RUSTIC FARMHOUSE FALL MANTEL AND FIREPLACE

ONE OF MY FAVORITE GO-TO DECORATING STAPLES

ONE MORE FALL SPOT IN MY HOME

BEST OF FALL – MY FAVORITE VIGNETTES

THE NEXT STEP IN MY OFFICE MAKEOVER

GIVEAWAY RULES:

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY

$100 Reader Appreciation Gift Card Giveaway || Worthing Court

 

Until next time - Suzy


Comments

  2. Sherry Arant says

    I love your urn decorations…..I am moving to my new home today and have already borrowed your urn ideas! Thank you and keep them coming……(I can hardly wait to see your Christmas decorations)!

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  5. Susan says

    I love you post! I’ve got to buy some honeycrisp apples this weekend and may your baked apples. Welcome fall!!!

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  7. Doreen says

    HI Suzy,
    You must know by now cozy is how your home makes me feel. Seems I use that same word with each comment I leave. Your fall decor adds to the feeling in my opinion. I made the baked apple recipe last night. Yummy!

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  18. Rebecca Nelson says

    Your dining room is quite pleasant. I especially like the wall shelf and the scales with the pumpkins sitting on them.

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  19. Bev says

    I love your enthusiasm and excitement about decorating and making your home cozy. It isn’t home if it looks staged and cold.

    I really enjoy when you include pictures of your trips. I loved giraffe manor!

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  22. Beth R says

    I discovered your blog last winter and it has been such an inspiration. Thank-you for helping me improve my home!

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  29. Jean from Georgia says

    Your projects are so easy and fun to complete. Keep sharing and thank you for doing al the pretty arrangements.

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  30. Erin says

    Somehow I missed the baked honey crisp apples. Glad my son talked me into them (thru were a bit pricey) yesterday so I can try it. And WOW, a Pittety Barn Card! Fave!

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  35. Sue Dorsett says

    I spend some blissful hours wandering your site. I open one page after another until I am stuffed with inspiration. Your writing content and pix go well together. I think I enjoy fall decorating almost as much as Christmas. I am especially interested in novel ways to repurpose items in many homes like yours.

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  36. Laura says

    Started to love open shelves a while ago, regardless of people in my ear about showing all the clutter. Ha Ha amateurs. Love your blog!

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  49. Joanne B. says

    Really love your open shelves and how simply you changed them up for the seasons! I am in southern Florida and while fall here is practically non existent I am anxious to bring in some pumpkins and fall colors into our home! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  53. Lisa Schillinger says

    Your dining room looks so wonderful and cozy! Thank you for the chance at the giveaway, Pottery Barn is my favorite home decor spot!

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  58. Constance A Meints says

    I love your Fall porch & I especially love the changes you’ve made to your new home. The kitchen is stunning.

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  59. Jacque says

    I tried your tasty baked honey crisp apples recipe tonight- delicious!!! Thanks for the recipe! Baked apples and fall go together!

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  60. Lois Edwards says

    First- thanks for the PB giveaway
    Next- love your blog. Thanks for making it so interesting and easy to spark some ideas for my home.

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  62. Shelley Anderson says

    You have given me so many beautiful fall ideas to try during my fall decorating this weekend. I will also be decorating my father’s home so I need several new ideas.

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  63. Carol Griffin says

    Love your blog! You definitely hit the “nail on the head” when you said that Honeycrisp apples are the BEST! My absolute favorite apple ever and I will pay the price. Cannot wait to try this baked apple recipe.

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    • Suzy says

      Hi Candyce. The shelf is actually an old mantel that has had the long sides cut off. I found it at a thrift shop for $10!

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  66. Gail Ernst says

    I am so inspired! On my way to stock up on decorating supplies and honey crisp apples RIGHT NOW! Thank you!

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  67. Bonnie says

    I appreciate that you show examples of stunning vignettes and decorating with just a few items……..showing us that “less is more.” Thank you!

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  76. Anne says

    Your home is cozy and beautiful….I love your dining room and your kitchen….your fall decorating is inspiring…enjoy your day ! Anne

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  77. Peggy Summitt says

    I absolutely love your dining room….it draws you in and makes you want to spend time there. Great job!

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  82. Deborah says

    Fall in your dining room is not only stylish but elegant. I love the neutral colors but have always been a little shy of trying them. But seeing your post has inspired me to mimic this beautiful and timeless palette. The pheasant feathers and the Salal are my favorite.

    Thank you for sharing your passion and beauty of decorating.

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  84. Christine Ashkeboussi says

    Thanks for all your design ideas and the chance for the giveaway. I happen to love Home Goods, as well. Keep up the good work and I look forward to more!

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  85. Christine Ashkeboussi says

    Thanks for all the decorating posts. Home Goods is such a great place to get ideas . Looking forward to more posts.

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  87. Mary says

    Just found your blog. Love it! I signed up to get the emails. Looking forward to seeing your great ideas with each new day.

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  89. Noreen says

    I love all your posts, which is why I get them delivered to my inbox. Each post is filled with all sorts of tips and great things, I look forward to reading them.
    Hugs,
    Noreen

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  92. Diane Westbrook says

    Everything is so wonderful! I especially like the white pitcher with the eucalyptus and feathers…it is something that I can do and am on the search for those feathers! Thanks for the generous giveaway!!

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  98. Jamie says

    Everything is always so beautiful! Love the basket on your front door. I have one just like it, but not being used, it’s in the attic. I’m inspired to get it down and fix it up for maybe my side door. ( already have a wreath on my front door)… Thanks is for the inspiration.

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  109. elizabeth ashley says

    New follower! Looking forward to looking through your seasonal posts & preparing to decorate for fall 🙂

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  111. Janie Hayes says

    Love your office makeover progress! I am contemplating changing my living room into a “Lady” office. You have given me lots of inspiration!

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  116. Cindy A. says

    I love fall so much! I always look forward to decorating, dressing up for Halloween, and handing out treats to the neighborhood kiddos.

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  120. Nancy says

    I’m new to your blog. I had seen it many times via Stonegable. I am enjoying it.
    I can’t say I have a favorite spot to decorate but I love decorating for Christmas. I do some things the same, but I try to add a new idea or two that I have seen on a blog.
    Fall in Florida is actually a state of mind so I bring out my decorations to remind us. Ha!

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  121. Pamela says

    I’m not sure which I like more, the natural looking autumn decorations or that mantle. That mantle belongs in MY 200+ year old house built in 1795. My family has been in it for just about 100 years. I’ve been in it almost 20 years now (I can’t believe it) after a complete renovation that it DESPERATELY needed.

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  123. Phyl says

    I am in the process of making the lantern on barnwood that you have hanging on your wall. I just think it is so cute and I have some lanterns from our wedding decor this summer. I just have to do it.

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  125. Mary Chris says

    I love the mantle vignette. It is so fresh and welcoming. I also love the table for your office in the gray color.
    Great decorating ideas.

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  127. Cindy Jones says

    I love he way you decorate your open shelves! If I could I would have them in every room but I just don’t have the wall space to do it!

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  128. Jackie says

    Thanks to your blog I am about to paint an armoire which I bought at an auction. My grandson Nicholas and I are doing this as a project together and then it will go in his room. We have andonized bronze paint already! I wouldn’t have known about this without your blog. And I showed him the pictures so he had a visual in his head. Otherwise he was asking for U.K. Blue. We are Kentucky fans after all!!!

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  129. suzi says

    suzy, all of the pictures of your home are lovely…i wish you were my neighbor to help me achieve the same results in my home! i have on my to-do list to purchase pheasant feathers, what a striking look.

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  139. Bev says

    It is quite evident that you have fun in whatever you do. I would love to go on vacations with you. I need to catch your enthusiam. I can’t think of a room that I can’t wait to decorate. You have inspired me though. Am very anxious for your Christmas ideas; I need to change up my decorations.

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  143. Teresa Denney says

    I am loving your antique mantle shelf. I have an antique mantel from my husband’s family home and no where to use it. We tried to use when we built out downsized home but builders codes said it was not wide enough. Thank you for the idea to cut and hang as a shelf.

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  157. Marisa Franca @ All Our Way says

    I love your mantle! You’ve really inspired me to do something . We travel so much I’ve gotten lazy and haven’t done a thing. I miss the days when I went “all out”. I love the natural look of your fall decor. Thank you, Suzy!

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  158. Jamese says

    So…..I’m slightly obsessed with all of your mantel posts! My hubs and I just bought a house in February of 2015 and it is the first time in my life I have ever had a fireplace and mantel to decorate! Where has this been all my life?! Anyway, our house was all stuffy and formal style, so I am slowly transitioning it into our casual, laid back style and your blog is just kinda my go to. Hope you keep the fabulous ideas flowing for us to enjoy. Thank you!

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  159. Phyl says

    Pottery Barn has always been a favorite of mine. I could wander in that stores for hours. What a treat to have a gift card.

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  166. Deborah Milo says

    Through your posts, I have learned so much about making a home beautiful, practical, and lovely. Thank you for the wonderful and informative posts.

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  168. Mary burke says

    I just Love Autumn,a palette of colors bursting forth! & the world goes on… I like your style! Porch decor,mantle,etc…u r a talented lady! ??

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  171. Janis Hill says

    first let me say how much i enjoy your blog. Not just this post or that post, but all of your posts!
    Since you said comment on one post i will. 🙂 Your “Fall in My Dining Room” inspired me to do something in mine! i love your striped items and used tape and spray paint to mimic them before adding a few feathers, some pumpkins, cotton and fall leaves to the mix/

    Thanks for the motivation and encouragement.

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  172. Sydell says

    I love looking at your open selves and your lovely decorations. You’ve inspired me! Also, I so envy you Southern folks with the big front porches. What a wonderful opportunity to take seasonal decor to the outside so you can share it with your neighbors.

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  173. Gina says

    Absolutely love that wire basket on top of the urn. This looks versatile and I’m sure it can be decorated for each season. Where on earth did you find that wire candle holder?

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  180. Rita Ugrin says

    I love your porch decorating ideas for fall. I have 3 porches and always need fresh ideas. So excited with the results. Thanks you!!

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  181. sandi says

    Honey crisp are my favorite apples—fall is all about apples & warm feelings of home! Thank you for your lovely blog.

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  187. ruby says

    i love your warm gray spray paint color! had to go to 3 stores to get it, ha! trying to decide what to use it on. thanks for the info, as i love warm colors and i love gray.

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  189. Kirsten Stephens says

    I am a new reader to your blog and I love, love, love your dining room lanterns! Definitely an inspiration for me

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  194. Jamese says

    I just finished painting my living room this past weekend….whew, what a job with 14 foot ceilings! Anyhow, as I’m putting the room back together, I find myself thinking, wwsd? What would Suzy do? I referenced your blog for inspiration several times. So, thanks!

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  195. Clare Godleski says

    I recently started following your blog and I am very inspired! Thanks for your great ideas and wonderful photos.
    Clare

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  196. Lynn Barnette says

    I love your decorative approach to using different textures, and collections of items. Very pretty and calming.

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  197. Cindy Richardson says

    I read about 15 blogs . All decorating. Yours is my fravorite. I can use something from Worthing Court every day. Just finished my centerpiece, doing my outside urn filler today, and Apple dessert on Wednesday. I love your home. Please continue to make decorating like Pro so simple for those of us who need your help!!

    Have a blessed day

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  198. Mary Chris says

    I recently started following your daily blog. I really enjoy your ideas and the changing of the season with you.
    Great job.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  203. Tonya says

    Thanks for the great giveaway! I really enjoy your blog and have been a longtime subscriber. I am looking forward to more holiday posts!

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  207. Tina Sipe says

    I love to look at your blog and see all of the great ideas. I’m still wanting those wire things in your front porch urns! Maybe I’ll get lucky and find some of my own!

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  208. sandi ekholm says

    I love that fall wreath!
    I am absorbing all of the ideas to use in our new re-sale home for retirement! Such fun!

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  211. Bev says

    I don’t miss a day without spending time on your blog. Your house makeover, room by room , is amazing. You sound as if you would be fun to be around.

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  222. June says

    Goodness, I am so enjoying your makeovers and decorating tips. I have copied a few of them and should send you some pics. Thanks for sharing it’s nice to have some refreshing ideas to look at.

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  224. Irene Kimball says

    I so love your arrangement on the mantel in your dining room. And, I never would have the nerve to do what you did to your dining room furniture, and how beautiful that turned out!!! I need to follow your lead.

    Reply

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