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Stuff a pumpkin into a bear’s lap, and you have an instant fall decoration. This pumpkin is made of fabric, but it would be easy to make one out of an air drying clay such as Hearty (Karui Kaminendo sold at 100 yen stores.) They also sell small pumpkins at dollar stores and hundred yen stores in the fall if you want one ready made.

These wooden cut outs are tied with twine, and are combined with cinnamon sticks and short branches of acorn caps--just enough to decorate, but not so much that it blocks the light from the window. Look for wooden shapes at dollar stores or craft store. A pine cone wreath, also from a hundred yen store, is above the window--in keeping with the fall theme, but not the bright orange to clash with the pink valance. You can make a pinecone by gluing pinecones to a wreath base.

The colors on this wreath of silk flowers weren’t particularly fall colors, but after I added an orange ribbon and tucked in some fabric fall leaves, it turned into a fall wreath.

These cute scarecrows were purchased at a hundred yen store, but they seemed a little skimpy by themselves. So I cut out more felt leaves, added them along with some bead “acorns,” and tied a paper bow at the top (I used the handles from a paper gift bag, untwisted them, then tied them in a bow.)

These scarecrows were purchased at a hundred yen store. Dollar stores sell them, too. I set them on a wooden box, and added a fabric pumpkin. The basket was also a hundred yen purchase, and the dried plant was a weed that I picked from the side of the road that had been growing in a crack in the pavement.

The Pilgrim and Indian figurines, as well as the ship, were all purchased at American dollar stores. The orange candle was purchased at a hundred yen store. It seemed a little plain by itself, so I added the floral pick at it’s base. Seasonal floral picks are sold at craft stores, dollar stores, hundred yen stores, and Japanese department stores that sell seasonal items. You can also make them yourself, by bunching “silk” leaves, and nuts or pine cones and fastening them all together with florist’s wire.

A garland of fall leaves strung along the top of a window, or the bottom of a cupboard can add a touch of fall to the room with very little effort.

A Beanie Baby turkey can double as a toy and a Thanksgiving decoration.

An alternate way to use the cute scarecrow faces from the hundred yen store or craft store is to add them to a wreath with fall leaves, or fall colored flowers.

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