The holiday season is officially upon us and we've managed to organize the perfect spot to enjoy all our favorite fall gatherings just in the nick of time.

The new patio is the place to be at our house to soak up all that lovely Carolina sun. Enough so that we relocated the couch from the porch to the patio. Between the sun filled days and the campfire filled nights, the sofa is seeing a lot more action than it did on the porch.

We did manage to score a couple of oversized wrought iron chairs through Move Loot to add to our collection. The cushions will eventually be replaced, but the real value is in the frames, which happen to coordinate both in size and style with our existing pieces.

The new containers at the front of the house relocated our terra cotta planters to the patio - we recently filled them with boxwood, pansies and creeping jenny. You know I love my potted lavender as well. I can never get enough lavender. Ever.