Autumn is my favorite season. The changing colors outdoors bring a bounty of inspiration, and it is the perfect time to update your home decor to invite in a new gorgeous color palette. From festive wall art to fanciful table decorations, here are some fantastic fall decorating ideas that take no time to create.

All for Fall Entryway

Your entryway is the welcome you receive every time you open your door. Use the fall's harvest to showcase the fruits of the season. My favorites are Indian corn, acorns, gourds and unshelled nuts. Create a fun tabletop display by grouping like items together in large glass hurricanes, or reuse your glass lemonade pitchers and fill them with any kind of unshelled nuts and long stems of curly willow. Hot glue cinnamon sticks to a long shallow tray and use it as an elegant and fragrant key holder. Update a summer floral arrangement by adding a few drops of red food coloring to the water in a sunflower-filled vase. Experiment: Add more or less depending on the shade of orange you desire.

Walls That Wow

Update your decor for the fall months by sprucing up your walls with artwork that can change with the seasons and home fashion trends. I love to press flowers and leaves; this simple art project incorporates that idea. Purchase an 8 x 10-inch frame that fastens with bendable metal clasps inserted into the wood of the frame and not the back. (This is important because you won't be using the back.) Purchase another less expensive frame and use it only for the glass insert. Place the frame face down and place one piece of glass in the frame. Collect leaves from your yard, or find unique faux fall foliage at your local craft store. Sandwich the leaves between the pieces of glass and secure them together by pressing down the metal supports on the frame. You can simply hang these on the wall as is or attach a decorative ribbon to the frame and loop it over a decorative curtain rod finial. If you choose, you can secure the finial to the wall using an anchor, then you can switch the finial out seasonally as well as the art. Acorn inspired finials are a delightful seasonal touch complemented by burlap or rust-colored velvet ribbon. Cut 2 1/2 feet of ribbon and tie one end to an eyehook on the right side and then tie the other side of the ribbon to an eyehook on the left side. Now you're ready to hang your pressed foliage on the finial.