i heart fall!

Fall is in the air in our household. We've been keeping the windows open at night (hence the beginnings of the sore throat I can feel), and even though my mother adamantly refuses to get excited about any sort of decorating, I have enough excitement for like 4 people.

Remember that little obsession I constantly talk about called Pinterest? Yep, inspiration for this blog post too. I always doubt my abilities to be crafty, but when I showed this project to my mom she didn't believe I made it (she thought I bought it at the store), and Sam said "that looks like it was made by a pro for real." So therefore, I believe it is blog worthy!

So, without further ado, behold, The Fall Wreath.

I started out with a basic GrapeVine wreath from JoAnn Fabric. They are only $4.99 and they happened to be buy one get one half off, so I picked up another one to make a Christmas wreath (spoiler alert!).

They also had a bunch of "Autumn Inspiration" bouquets, so I picked up three of those. You could probably vary how many you buy by how voluminous you want your wreath to be. These were also a steal--the bigger one was $4 and the others were $1. I got lucky and went on a day when all of their fall stuff was 50% off! Once I got them home, I cut each individual stem apart so that they'd be easy to stick in the wreath.

These were each like $1.50, and while they weren't as good of a deal as the bundled bouquets, I thought the little scarecrow man would make the wreath.

I also bought some ready to finish numbers and painted them white. I thought these were 50% off (and they were only $2 to begin with) but the woman at the register wouldn't quit arguing with me about it and I was really hungry so I just paid full price for them. She was really annoying.

So anyway, this type of wreath is SO EASY to make. I just stuck each of those individual stems through the wreath and made sure they weren't poking through the back. Although the covering on the stems are plastic, the underneath part is wire so it makes it easy to bend and make sure it's in there really snug. It does not make it easier to cut, FYI.

And here's the finished product! I was pretty impressed myself, although now looking at this picture I can see a gap in the leaves I'm not pleased about. As you can tell the house numbers aren't on there, because I can't figure out how to glue them on there. Hot glue won't hold them to the leaves, so I'm thinking I might try some twine or something.

And here is the beginning of my other fall project. I'm obsessed with tablescapes and I'm terrible at making them. We had most of these things (minus the pumpkins and scarecrows), so I just decided to put out what we had and then add as I find more stuff on sale.

Did I mention I love fall?

How is everyone else decorating for this most joyous of seasons?!