“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
Proverbs 10:12
Hello dear friends! It is the first Monday of October which means a new edition of Monday Morning Blooms. We finally have relief from our record breaking temperatures. I must tell you while I was setting up and photographing last Thursday (October 3, 5:00 p. m.), it was 98 degrees. You will note that there are a couple of throws on the chairs, just because I was dreaming of needing them eventually!
We miss our lovely Shirley. She hopes to be back with us soon. Thank you for keeping her in your thoughts and prayers.
If you need an easy idea for a fall table, this one is perfect!
“October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
Our common theme is an arrangement made with cuttings from the garden or yard. It is amazing what you can find this time of year. The box contains goldenrod, blush nandina, sunshine ligustrum, rosemary, and beautyberry. Everything was cut from my garden or on our property!
The links for Mary’s and Lidy’s beautiful floral arrangements are at the bottom of this post!
An antique quilt bought at a charity auction many years ago is used as the table covering!
This narrow box has served me well, it has been used in so many different ways. For this arrangement, I placed four small jelly jars in the box and then added two pillar candles. After spacing the jars and candles, I begin adding my cuttings until each jar was completely filled. You don’t want any gaps showing, so I added a few more sprigs as needed.
I prepared a small cheese board…Mediterranean cheddar and smoked Gouda, roasted almonds, dried dates and apricots, grapes, pepper and olive oil crackers, pretzels and candy corn (EM’s personal favorite)…a perfect appetizer in the garden!
The basket quilt has some soils and a few tatters…I wonder who felt its warmth on cold winter nights or what hands spent many hours stitching it…if only we knew its story!
Leaf plates are wearing autumnal colors!
“Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies.”
-Sharon Kay Penman
Ice-cold apple cider!
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day with air like cider, and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
-Diana Gabaldon
Tip: A box is one of the easiest ways to arrange flowers. I often place bottles with a single flower stem inside the box! This one came from Kirkland’s a few years ago and was very inexpensive.
You will not want to miss the gorgeous arrangements from my talented friends!
Mary @ Home Is Where The Boat Is
Your visits and gracious comments always make my day. Wishing you a joy-filled week!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace, Calypso in the Country
Pam, Your box is a thing of beauty created from the cuttings in your garden! I love the addition of your candles mixed with the foliage and clippings. I’m going to have plant some beautyberry… the color is so vivid and it is so appropriately named. Your cheeseboard is perfect for fall dining and paired with ice cold cider! I’m a quilt lover too and your basket quilt is so pretty as a tablecloth. I am thrilled to have finally had a break from the heat, I hope fall is here to stay! So happy to join you for some flower therapy this morning. Happy Monday. ♥
Thank you dear Mary. We have cooler temps today and hopefully rain❤️
Everything is perfection. Where to find the copper cups that had the cider in them please. Thanks so much.
Thank you Sandi! The copper cups were a gift a few years ago, but I think they came from Crate and Barrel.
Thank you so much. I saw some on another IG account that look just like yours and they were listed as found at the Dollar Tree. I have not had any luck finding them there and never got a response back from that account. Thanks so much for your help. I loved everything you had on your page.
Sandi, I am so glad it was helpful!
Pam, I can see you drinking that ice cold cider after photographing your table. I remember drinking my ice cold drinks that were props after photographing a table. Glad you now have a little break from the intense heat and hope it stays.
Your arrangement is so appropriate using all natural things from your garden in your box. The antique quilt is lovely and your cheese board is both pretty and appetizing. Of course, your garden is the perfect backdrop.
Have a wonderful week.🍁🍂🍁
Bonnie, thank you. We are hoping for rain today, maybe you will get much needed rain! Have a wonderful week!
Beautiful post, Pam. Love everything, the quilt, the centerpiece and the quotes. So glad you have relief from the high temperatures, we are promised the same today.
Wishing you a lovely day and week, sweet friend.💛
Thank you dear Sandra. Hopefully we will receive rain today! ❤️
So beautifully done, thank you always for sharing
My pleasure and thank you Linda!
Beautiful MMB arrangement Pam. The antique quilt is colorful & evokes Fall. Your table is so inviting. We got heat relief & it started raining last evening & is still doing so! Praise God! First rain since Aug 28. We had a shower in Sept but this rain is glorious! Hope it’s on its way to you! Have a great day Pam! Clara ❤️
I am so thankful that you are receiving rain dear Clara. Thank you so much sweet friend ❤️
Everything about your arrangement and setting is glorious! The arrangement with your colorful leaves is so charming, and whispers fall, the perfect setting for a cider party. : ) Now if only the temperatures would drop! Your talent for creating beauty in a box with gathered foliage knows no bounds. It’s such a joy to share Monday Morning Blooms with you!
Thank you sweet Lidy! Yay, our temps have dropped and we have had some rain! xoxo
Perfect fall display! Love the quilt, the floral arrangement, and the cheese board looks delish. EM and Mr. P. would either get along beautifully or fight fiercely over the candy corn. 😉
Thank you Rita. EM has me eating candy corn 😊
What a beautiful centerpiece, Pam. Your table has me excited for fall! Happy Monday!
Happy Monday and thanks so much!
As I sit here in my PJs cozy and watching the rain and leaves falling outside, I am enjoying the Monday Morning Bloom posts and finally feeling like it’s Fall!! Your arrangement is stunning Pam, and the fact that all those beautiful things came from your yard impresses me so much! I picture you and Ella Mae wandering about with your clippers finding pretties! Your box is so perfect for this arrangement, and I LOVE the autumn charcuterie board you created and the stack of handy leaf plates, just perfect with the inviting quilts! Beautiful Pam!
Jenna
Thank you dear Jenna. Your comments are always so gracious and encouraging. I am so excited it is finally feeling like fall. Enjoy your Monday!
The boxed center piece is perfection (what glorious Fall selections) and the wooden slab for the
appetizers is the perfect accompaniment. The leaf plates complete the setting on a treasured
quilt table covering. Those frosty copper mugs lend the cooling touch… We had a thunderous,
lightening downpour through the night and it blanked out the ending of the recording of a very good Hallmark mystery , but was forgiven in gratitude for the rain.. Will I ever know who committed the dastardly deed? Hope most are enjoying the cooler temps.
Thank you dear Mary, I am running late on replying to emails. We had a busy but lovely weekend. I am so glad you received rain, we have been so excited and I am doing a happy dance for receiving rain and cooler temps! Have a most wonderful day!
Pam, how I would love to spend an autumn afternoon gathered around this beautiful table! I love it when you use the wooden box to make an arrangement. Your fall floral gatherings look so pretty in it, and those snacks look most delicious! Enjoy your day, sweet friend!!!
Thank you Shannon, it finally is beginning to look like fall! Have a wonderful day sweet friend!
I love that centerpiece, the cheese board, the leaf dishes, yes…the pumpkins too! In fact I just love this post!
So autumnal, relaxing and just beautiful!
Love you too, my friend! 💕
Thank you sweet Esther! Have a wonderful week❤️
What a beautiful Fall setting! It looks very cool in the pictures! I thought at first the box might be your RM’s toolbox…it is so lush, overflowing with your autumnal harvest. I am with Ella Mae on the candy corn, I love that stuff. It is Princess Food! We dropped 30 degrees over the weekend with hopefully some rain coming. Hope you had a wonderful birthday celebrating with your dad.
Thank you Roxanne. We had a wonderful birthday celebration. Have a lovely week~
Very pretty Pam. Love the quilt. The box looks lovely with the fall florals. Love the copper mugs,
Thank you dear Linda!
Pam you set a very welcoming invitation. Lovely.
Marilyn
Thank you Marilyn…enjoy your week!
The pumpkins are just the right touch in your arrangements.
Marion
Thank you Marion, I love pumpkins 🎃
Stunning Fall tablescape! Your centerpiece is absolutely gorgeous!Have a lovely week,dear Pam!
Thanks so much Maristella! Wishing you a lovely week dear one!
Gorgeous Pam! Love that wonderful quilt!
Thank you Debra!
Pam this is so lovely! I always love a box or tool box for a center piece.
Your fall foliage is so very perfect along with the quilt and leaf plates! It’s another lovely Monday!
Thank you my friend. Wishing you a beautiful Tuesday!
Gorgeous flowers, lovely tablesetting, and a luscious cheese board! A trifecta!! As always, a joy stopping over. Have a good week, Pam.
Thank you Katie, wishing you a great week!
Oh, I adore that beautiful quilt on the table. I am SUCH a sucker for vintage quilts. My collection is pretty good but it lacks one in autumn colors!
Thank you Jeanie, I have a soft place for quilts.
Pam, just love this beautiful quilt and your box filled with everything from your property. Your cheeseboard and ice cold cider seems perfect with this table. As always, your garden is a magnificent backdrop. Enjoy the cooler weather.
I love it all, Pam but the little pedestal holding the pretty plates is what really caught my eye. Such a neat idea.
You are so sweet, thank you Libby!
Your Autumn Arrangement is just lovely. I need to be on the lookout for a box like that, I’m sure it has many uses and the perfect container for your arrangement. We’re still having a heat wave in N FL and no rain in sight. Our local weather man has been teasing us about a cool front coming our way but I suspect our afternoon highs of 95* are going to stay with us for a while. We are desperately in need of rain. I enjoyed your post so much.
Carolyn/A Southerner’s Notebook
Carolyn, thanks so much. We are getting much cooler weather on Saturday! Hopefully it will come your way soon!
I so love everything about this table. From the beautiful arrangement of pretty cuttings from your gorgeous gardens wonderfully nestled in the wooden box to that perfectly coordinated aged vintage quilt. Miss joining my MMB friends. Happy Fall Pam!
Thank you dear friend. You are SO missed❤️
Your floral arrangement is wonderful! Love that you were able to collect the flowers from your gardens and yard. A beautiful way to bring autumn to your table!
This is just gorgeous!! I LOVE the apple cider mugs! I kept trying to figure out what was in them and was happy to see you revealed that as I scrolled down! LOL! The beautiful, old quilt is just perfect, and I, too, would love to know its story. I just released some old quilts that I had been hanging on to for so long and always wondered about their stories. I just have so many, and I finally came to the place that I could part with the ones that weren’t sentimental to me, personally. I LOVE old quilts and have a hard time passing them by when I see one in an antique store or thrift store! You come up with the neatest ways to make them useful again. 🙂 God bless you, sweet friend.
Thank you dear friend. My beloved Mother love to quilt and I have so many of her fabulous quilts and many she gifted friends along the way. I don’t mind parting with one that has no sentimental value to me. I love displaying them. Have a wonderful day! ❤️
This looks so inviting Pam! 😀
Blessings,
Jennifer
Thank you Jennifer!
Your yard is so beautiful Pam! I could just sit and look at it for hours. (Better to be IN it, but I’ll take the blog photos any day!) 🙂 I can’t even list all the things I love about your table, but your flowers are gorgeous. Thanks for another dose of inspiration!
Barbara, you are so sweet and thank you for your encouraging words!