Gettin' crafty with fall decor!

Do you like my cheesy title?? I saw it on a magazine in line at the grocery store and it made me laugh. But seriously on Tuesday during nap time I got my craft on for the first time since summer break. Partly because I have run out of ideas and partly because I have NO time!

I had no fall decorations in the family room so we had to fix that. First the golden pumpkin...

I found this little white pumpkin at Target for $8 and some gold paint for $2 at hobby lobby. This proved quite the feat. At first I wanted to do polka dots, but that was a hot mess. Then I decided to try horizontal stripes. No big deal right? Wrong. It was too hard to free hand straight stripes on a bumpy pumpkin, so I busted out the painters tape and that was even worse. So vertical stripes it was! This was slightly easier. 

Also gold paint is super thin so I had to do like 5 coats to get even coverage. I shoulda' just used spray paint! After all my labor, it still came out pretty cute!

Next up, bunting. This was so easy...

They have pre-made burlap bunting at hobby lobby, this 12 piece already put together set was $5. I couldn't have made that for this cheap, so I went the easy way! Also some orange paint that I already had was needed. I just free handed the letters so it took like 10 minutes and voila!

Its a titch hard to see in the pictures, but it says "happy fall". Now the family room is ready for fall!

Bobbing for Punkins

This is going to be a quick one today! So Fall is upon us, well October is upon, so that should feel like fall, right? This is the weekend that I usually get all my fall decor out, but we are going to be in Winter Park with Brien's family, so I have been getting all of the odds and ends this week!

There has been so many fun fall things at the store, I want to buy it all!  For example this weekend I was the grocery store and they had a bag of baby pumpkins for $3, I mean 3 bucks, I couldn't pass that up. Plus,  I know that we won't be hitting the pumpkin patch for a few more weeks, so I bought them.

I had this pin on pinterest that said if you soak pumpkins in a bleach bath for a few hours it "preserves" them and they last longer. I decided, what the heck, it's worth a shot to try to make my gourds last as long as possible.

So on Sunday afternoon, this was the scene in my kitchen...

I filled the sink with cool water, some dish soap and about a cup of bleach. Then, I let them soak for about 2 hours and air dry in the sun.

Now they are here...

So glad I bought this pretty jar! We shall see how long they last and I will report back if the pinterest pin was accurate!!

All Things Fall!

This weekend, after our mountain get-a-way, Callie pointed out that it was October and we had not gotten out our fall things! I love fall in general for many reasons, but I love a good chance to decorate! I love fall smells and crafts, boots, getting out all of our cold weather clothes, pumpkins, cider, the pumpkin patch, playing in the leaves, "fall" cleaning to get the house winter ready. The list goes on and on, more about those things to come!

So, we busted out our box of fall decorations. Last year, I went through everything and got rid of tons of stuff so my options seemed sparse. Never fear, I will take this as an opportunity to get more fall things!

We always have a few random pumpkins, strewn around the house. They are all real. I am thinking about investing in some fake ones. You see, last year as I was putting away all of our fall things, I accidentally put away a real pumpkin with our fall decorations. We have a few white pumpkins that my mother in law had given us a few years back, I reached into the bucket and pulled out a white pumpkins and it turned to mush in my hands. EEEEEKKK! I freaked out, it may have possibly been the grossest thing that every happened to me! Truly, horrifying. This year I will be extra diligent to put away on the fake pumpkins.

Callie decorated the dining room table with her garland of leaved shoved into a vase, a leaf spoon rest and some of the pumpkins she harvested at the farm. She was pretty proud!

Another scene brought to you by my mini decorator. She used another leaf garland wrapped around a candle holder and she put on the fake white pumpkins.

I love me a fall wreath! I bought this a looonnnggg time ago on Target clearance!

Our front porch... A little plain, but I will vow to do better next year!

I made this little wreath last year with my mom and mother in law. They claim to not be creative, but they sure had some great crafty moments this day. We made a few of these with large grape vine wreaths from Hobby Lobby for like $10. We wrapped it with large weave burlap ribbon and hot glued it on. Then my lovely mother made the flowers by wrapping the burlap around itself and securing it with old buttons. I love how it turned out and I love the ladies that made it for me! I painted a "w" and it rests inside the wreath to complete the loveliness.

I made this little sign on my maternity leave last year. I used the same method from this post to make a fall sign for the armoire, along with more fun, fall, leaf garland.

A little fall flavor for my mornin' coffee! Whilst, I do like the pumpkin spice latte, I tried a salted carmel mocha last week and it was AH-mazing!

Last, but certainly not least, my fall scents! I love these wall flowers from Bath and Body Works,  leaves, cinnamon pumpkin and caramel pumpkin, they just make the house smell warm and cozy!