It's that time of year again. In Canada, Halloween and Thanksgiving are in the same month, so Fall/Thanksgiving decorations are only put up for a very short period of time. I seem to focus more on Halloween, but decided I needed a Fall crafting blitz.
Here is my Fall fireplace mantel. Yes, it's a fake fireplace, we didn't inherit a real one with the purchase of this house *sigh*.
Here are the close-ups of the mantel (from left to right:
Dollar store pumpkins/gourds in the Hurricane lamp and the metal bird cage.
Dollar store foliage garland and Michael's 60% fake mums (5 bunches @ $1.11 ea.)
This cool rattan or corded raffia pumpkin was a new purchase from HomeSense (similar to the U.S. HomeGoods). I have been waiting 8 years for a HomeSense to FINALLY open in my town. It's been 3 weeks and I have been there more then a dozen times.
Now for the DIY bits:
A while back, my mother-in-law purchased two standing plaques at a discount store for me to re-craft. I Mod Podge'd burlap over the base of one and then added cardstock letters which were in the Dollar bin at Michael's. The Leaf charms are from my card making stash.
This dollar store pumpkin was covered in pages from an old Dictionary that is used just these kind of crafts. (I think it was hubby's dictionary in High School - ya, that's definitely not up to date, can you imagine the World Map section *laugh*
I tore the dictionary paper into strips and adhered it to the dollar store plastic pumpkin with Mod Podge. I tucked the top of the paper under the removable plastic pumpkin stem.
This pumpkin was from the Dollar Store gourd package.
I tucked the start of the twine under the plastic removable stem and then wrapped the twine along the seems of the pumpkin.
Tucking and hot gluing the end again under the stem.
I used some left over letters from the above "Fall" signage and glued them to a cork covered piece of 1 x 6 (cut down to 1 x 3) from my wood stash.
Some more Fall decorating:
For more on the pallet pumpkin see the post here.
