My Dollar Tree Autumn Decor Haul

A week ago Saturday we slid right into November in my area. We had 8 days of rain, dark clouds, and cool weather, 1 day of sunshine (yesterday), and now, today, the November-like rain and dark clouds have returned. All last week I kept thinking about fall. 

I had previously mentioned plans to go to Dollar Tree to check out their autumn decor. I did go, but to the  one that was convenient at the time. That one is always later to get stuff put out or doesn't get the selection that the other location near me. But it was convenient for my errands that day.

So on Friday I went to the Dollar Tree which my daughter had mentioned had a good display of fall decor pieces. Here's what I bought:

4 small artificial pumpkins, 2 faux wheat-like sprays, 1 autumn leaf spray, and 1 russet mum spray. The cost was $10 plus tax. (Dollar Tree is now $1.25-Tree.) I used a gift card given to me by my daughters a year ago for my birthday, which covered all but a little over $1 of my purchase.

These are for the wall troughs by our front door. being in complete shade up against the house on the north side, I'm going with artificial botanicals and pumpkins.

For as early in the season as I went, the fall decor pieces were beginning to look a bit picked over. I bought what they had in stock at the time. I would like to check out a 3rd Dollar Tree for more of the mums and leaves. With the 1st of September right around the corner, I'll be putting these together very soon and will show you how they turned out at that time.

What's been your favorite restaurant re-creation as of late?

Yesterday we talked about how cooking at home is such a budget stretcher compared to dining out, even when using some convenience foods or premium ingredients.

Most of the time, our meals are just ordinary. Tonight we had tuna-noodle casserole with fresh blackberries and figs from our property. Nothing fancy, and certainly nothing that you would likely find on a restaurant menu. However, sometimes one of us gets the notion to recreate a restaurant favorite.

the homemade tostado bowl

Since I'm asking what your favorite restaurant re-creation has been, I'll tell you my recent favorite. This was in early summer. I already blogged about it. My daughters found a tortilla bowl maker at a garage sale in spring and later treated us to tostado salad bowls in homemade flour tortilla bowls, like a Taco Time taco salad bowl. 

the Taco Time Tostado bowl

Taco Time is a "better" taco place near us. Their prices reflect that. They sell beef tostado bowls for $8.19 each.

Our version was really very good.

How about you? What's been your favorite restaurant re-creation?