I know I have already shown you some of my fall decor, but I went a little crazy and well, I’ve “fall”en and I can’t get up. I can’t get enough of this season and I swear I have some sort of pumpkin on every spare surface in my home. They will be adorning my porch next as my front door is already taken. Here are a few of my latest projects I have proudly displayed.

I got this cute paperback pumpkin idea from The Craft Monkey. I have since added a stem and leaves, but was too lazy to take another pic.
Book 10 cents at a garage sale
Card stock, leaves, stick, and rhinestones on hand

We made a whole bunch of these easy paper pumpkins (Idea altered from Two Peas in a Bucket). We made some small and some big. The top pics are from my house, bottom pics from my sister’s place. She has a front room decorated with hints of giraffe. I love the tiger pumpkin in her tree.

The original idea for these signs came from this burlap boo banner on Everyday Chaos. My sis and I found Halloween colored burlap at Robert’s and decided to do “spooky” since we had enough burlap for that many letters. That evening her friend could only find black burlap. She glittered the letters and they turned out sooo cute! I plan on adding some spiders and things to spice it up.

My sis saw this next one at Ikea. All you do is melt a black candle and drip it down the sides of an orange candle. We put a small black candle in a jar and sat them on my candle warmer to melt. We covered some of the tops with black and left others just around the edge.

I found these corduroy pumpkins with cinnamon stick stems (so cute!) along with the vine and twinkle light adorned multi-candle stand at a garage sale. I stuck them in my fireplace since we never use it. I even cleaned it out with lysol wipes because my son kept sticking his hands in the ash residue. It looks extra festive at night with the lights on.
$1 for the pumpkins
$1 for the candle stand

Can you believe that I have not even pulled out my Halloween decor? These are all items I have made or collected this year. For heaven’s sake. Here are two more garage sale items in the works. They will be “fall”en soon!

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We have not quite entered in to “fall” yet here in Utah. The temperatures are predicted in the high 70’s this week, but you can have fall inside! Fall is my very favorite season and unfortunately sometimes here in the beehive state fall seems to be oh so short. Sometimes like 2 weeks. It is hot, then the leaves change and there is snow before they fall off the trees.

I am praying for a good Autumn this year. When it’s crisp at night and you get to pull out your sweaters for the first time. The visit to the pumpkin patch and drives up the canyon to see all the beautiful leaves. The smell of the leaves and pumpkin spice. Oh, how I love fall!

With the economy as it is and trying to be a wise consumer I have really been concentrating on using what I have and bargain shopping to feed my seasonal decor addiction. Here are my most recent displays I call an ode to fall.

I picked up this grapevine pumpkin up at Ross for $5. I loved it, but had to dress it up a bit. I remembered a scrap of ribbon I had saved from the lunch box at the Moms Who Make It conference a couple months ago. I curled it to look like pumpkin vines. The flowers were left over from the YW flip flop activity. I added a little raffia under it to give it that haystack feel.
Total cost:$5

I added more of the left over flowers to this shelf in the living room to bring in fall. Everything else was already there. That is my family motto and crest if you were wondering.
Total cost: $0

This bookshelf in the family room got the brunt of my random fall scraps. Click on the pic to get a close up.

Supplies:

• Three bouquets of flowers from the dollar store. I was going to make flower pins and hair accessories. (I also used them for the the YW motherhood relay, which is another post entirely.)
• Two mini pumpkins (from a set of three from Ross for $4)
• Two sunflowers pulled out of a plant arrangement someone gave me when my little guy was a baby, that I killed and tossed a few months ago.
• Three random candles I had sitting around
• A fabric pumpkin from Ross ($3) that says “Give Thanks.” Put it up backwards until Halloween is over, then turn it around for Thanksgiving.
• A pathetic plant with one long vine string, revived from my hubs old apartment. It usually sits on the kitchen table all wound around itself to make it resemble some sort of plant.
• Raffia
• Eternal Family sign I made at a Relief Society Enrichment activity when I first moved in 4 years ago. (We have not had a super Saturday in FOREVER. Seriously, like 2 years. Who do I talk to about that anyway? 😉 )
• Digital pic frame that is always there

Phew! Total cost: $10

There you are, $15 spent for my little touch of fall. What do you have sitting around that you can use?

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