Fall Wreath and the New Addition

I have been missing in action over the past several weeks. I did actually have a really good reason to be. On August 12th, I gave birth to our fourth child. Our newest addition is our sweet little boy who weighed close to ten pounds. My biggest baby by far. I'm not quite sure how he got that big considering I moved more and had most of my meals eaten by two growing one year olds. It feels like he has already been a part of the family. I am sharing a cute little picture of him at the bottom of this post. 

Well, I really wanted to incorporate a new color scheme to my fall decor. I picked up some navy chevron burlap ribbon from Michaels. Using a straw wreath with the plastic covering still in place I wrapped the wreath with the burlap ribbon. Then I took the fall themed arrangement from Michaels and attached it to the wreath with floral wire. 

I made a simple bow from burlap ribbon and brown satin ribbon to top off the wreath. I wanted simple and sweet, and something I could make between feeding the baby. Although, this one was also made with the twins hovering at my feet wondering what I was doing and asking all sorts of questions.

Glad to have something on our front door that says we are ready for the change in season. Even though this week we are still going to be in the low nineties and high eighties temperature wise. Have a great week!

Now here is the picture I promised I would share of our sweet boy.

Fall Project Round Up

I cannot believe I have been blogging for almost three years. I decided it was time to put all of my fall season projects in one post to share with you.  Here are some easy fall ideas for you to try in your own home.

fall treat jar

Yarn Wrapped Letters

Land of Nod Inspired Halloween Wall Decor

Cabinet Door Art

Embroidery Hoop

Baby Food Lid Art

Fall Decor

Fall Mantel

Fabric Garland

PB Inspired Plastic Bag Stuffed Pumpkins

Ghost Bucket Treats

Treat Bag

Halloween Wreath

Puffs Container Pumpkins

Hope you were able to find an inspiring idea from this round up! Have a great day!

Halloween Embroidery Hoop

A simple Halloween decoration that can be changed for a season or holiday going forward.

I had an embroidery hoop and some light colored burlap in my craft stash. I was itching to do some sort of craft while I had some me time this weekend.  I put the burlap in the hoop.

I took a sheet of scrapbook paper and traced on a pumpkin. I cut it out and add some letter stickers I also found in my pile of crafty goodness.

I added a velcro dot with adhesive backing to the front of the burlap and the back of the pumpkin. That way I can switch out a decoration on the hoop for each season. I paired it with an owl I purchased on clearance at Michaels. The owl was ivory with a rust like look on the feet. I spray painted it orange for Halloween, and I plan to actually use the owl for an upcoming baby shower as well. The owl is doing double duty this season.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Enjoy your day.

Kid Craft - Baby Puffs Pumpkins

Here I go again recycling baby food container related items. This time I am using the baby puff containers. We certainly have quite the collection of these as the boys love them now. 

We first took some craft paint and foam brush to cover the puffs container without the wrapper.  

Then I helped her cut a slit into the tops of the containers. We painted the tops with green paint. We also painted some tongue depressers with the same green paint to make stems.  
After they dried we put the tops on and slipped the stems through the holes we made in the tops.

The last step was to write on faces with a marker once the orange paint dried. Wynn let me do the honors of creating the mouth. She helped make the eyes and noses. Clearly we are certainly an artisitic family. ;)

I was thinking we could fill them up with candy and use them as teacher gifts when Halloween gets closer. I think Wynn would love to do that. This was certainly an easy craft to do with her at four years old. I bet you could make all different Halloween related ideas with these. I cannot wait to make snowmen in the winter time.

Fall Art with Baby Food Lids

I came up with another baby food lid project for fall. This is for my front door once fall comes into full swing. The saying reminds me of my sweet sister who lives in the south.

I painted a white canvas with some tan craft paint. Then I cut out the letters on some purple vinyl on my Silhouette Cameo.  I used a hot glue gun to attach the food lids to the canvas. I added a strip of fall colored burlap to give a hanging piece to the canvas

This was my project I shared a few weeks ago.

Transportation Wall Art

This project could easily be done by children too. I would just use craft glue with them instead of hot glue.  Wynn and I played around with the lids on a table and made an apple, a bunch of grapes and some other objects with the colorful lids.  I am glad that I have saved them.  The Peter Rabbit brand butternut squash baby food had the perfect orange color for the pumpkin art.

Enjoy your day! Thanks for stopping by!

A Little Bit of Fall Decorating

Most of the fall or Halloween decorations in our house right now are mainly for Wynn. So they are a little more fun and kids related. This little spot in the living room is just for me. I love anything metallic. I took some fun metallic pumpkins and placed them on candleholders and a rusty spring. I also placed a picture of my sister and I and my World Market wood decoration in the middle.

Then I added some copper colored accents to a gold vase I have to fill for each season in my living room shelving.  I placed my candle pumpkin I picked up on clearance from Hallmark last year along with my gold candle holder.

In my Pier 1 wire wall decoration I added a brown flower clip that I picked up on clearance at Michaels to give it a little something more. I placed everything on my little buffet on a burlap table runner from Hobby Lobby.

Nothing to crazy, but this is just enough for me to have a little grown up fall display in my living room. Also, when fall disappears and I am to my ears in diaper changes it will not take long to take down and put away. Even better!

Fall Treat Jar

I'm have been in the midst of pinning Fall and Halloween ideas on Pinterest the past few weeks. I saw these adorable treats from Cupcake Diaries and knew that Wynn would enjoy making them.  Check out the link to see how easy they are to make. 

I packaged them up in a glass jar from the Dollar Tree with a vinyl sticker I cut out on my Silhouette Cameo machine. Off they went this morning to my in laws to brighten their day. They said they really enjoyed them, and I just love these little Dollar Tree jars. I need to go and snag some more at some point.

If you do not already follow me on Pinterest click on the link at the top of my sidebar. It is my favorite place to share my ideas and favorite ideas shared by others. Thanks for stopping by!

Dollar Tree Thumbtack Pumpkin

Two years ago I saw the most incredible pumpkins pinned on Pinterest. They were done by Shannon at Madigan Made. (click on the link for the tutorial)  I've made a few of these since, and I absolutely love them.

All you need to get is a pumpkin and push pins from the Dollar Tree. I then wanted to have something other than the typical brass or silver coloring, so I used some leftover metallic spray paint to finish the pumpkin off.

The pumpkin sure does gain some weight once all those thumbtacks are added. I used approximately four boxes of tacks per pumpkin. That makes it about four dollars a pumpkin since all of the materials came from the Dollar Tree.  I literally just sat there during my favorite shows and just kept adding tacks until I was done. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Enjoy your week.

Pumpkin Parade

Fall Mantel

How can it possibly be the end of summer? The big positive thing in my mind that comes with fall is college football....just kidding...I think.  I have been purging and donating left and right and did not want to bring any more stuff into our house.  Therefore I used what I already had to create this fall mantel. I brought back out the printers drawer that my mom gave me a few months back, and then added a sweet little "V" to it.

I added all of the pumpkins I collected last year.  My favorite is the chevron pumpkin I made with the Dollar Tree pumpkin, fabric and mod podge.

I pretty much left the bottom half of the fireplace alone and just added a gold star I have bad lying around my basement. I'm still in the mood to paint or whitewash this lovely red brick, but I cannot seem to get Rob to get on board. However, with the time running out before the boys arrival I do not think this project will take a front seat any time soon.

Enjoy your Labor Day weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by. We are always glad to have you.

Napkin Tree

I picked up a package of napkins on clearance at Jo-Ann's for fifty cents the other week. I had purchased a paper mache cone for around three dollars at Michaels not knowing what I would do with it. I decided to cut about four napkins into strips and then use mod podge to adhere them to the cone to make a fall tree.

I'm still trying to hang on to fall colors and Thanksgiving here instead of giving into Christmas just yet. 

The total cost for this project was a little over three dollars because I did not use all the napkins in the package. I hope to find another use for the rest of the pack soon.

Thanks for stopping by.

Megan

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Fall Table Decor with Hardware Accents

I am a party of a challenge at the His and Hers blog to use anything from the hardware store for a project. I first did my Pendant Shade with Metal Washer Accents and then realized that I had many washers left over.  I used them to add a little something with some leftover fabric to various vases from the dollar store.

I picked up the plates and napkins from Target. Then created my own napkin rings with metal washers and some jute twine. I didn't include the silverware in my pictures because my two year old would be running around with them chasing my dogs.

I took the piece of fabric that came wrapped around the napkins and wrapped it around the bottle in the crate.  I picked up this cute little bottle and crate for next to nothing at the tag sale at Elizabeth & Co around the corner from my house.  I added some pine cones that my daughter collected on our beach trip. 

Thanks for stopping by my quick little table decor project.  

It was a lot of fun and it makes it feel like fall even though the day I did this it was almost 80 degrees here in Maryland.  I was  able to use some materials from previous projects.  However, now we are trying to get through this approaching hurricane, Sandy. I hope that it all blows through without too much damage. 

I am participating in the Random Acts of Craftiness at His and Hers where we had to use hardware to create a project in the month of October. 

Megan

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The NY Melrose Family
The DIY Dreamer
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