Hello all! Hope you had a great weekend! We are DONE with marching band season (so proud of them!!) and I now have my hubby back…for approximately two weeks. :)
I haven’t done anything crafty in a while and last week I was feeling my mojo creeping back…so I got busy on a quick Thanksgiving project for our foyer.
I’ve been admiring the cute “Thankful” banners I’ve seen over blogland lately, and figured it was high time I made one of my own. I picked up about $3 of paper from Hobby Lobby:
And warmed up my sah-weet Silhouette machine:
My original thought was to do some circles, then put leaves in pretty colors over those, with letters on the leaves to spell my thankful message:
But after I cut out the leaves, I realized they were going to be way too small for the letters. Plan B was to cut out additional circles a bit smaller than the original ones:
I love love LOVE that cardstock – I use it all the time. It’s got a simpler, lined side, and a side (the one I prefer) with a linen-like texture to it. And aren’t those scalloped edges too cute? (I purchased the design on the Silhouette site for a buck.)
When I was done cutting, I ended up with large and small circular cut outs, the leaves that I wanted to try to use, and the letters:
Normally I use spray adhesive for paper projects, but the glue stick was closer. :) It worked great!:
Isn’t that so stinking cute?
I had the buffet in our foyer dressed for fall six weeks ago, but took it all down for the Halloween display. I just put everything back the way I had it, even though it’s only for a few days, week, couple of weeks till Christmas starts peeking out. :)
I plopped one of my (real) blue Cinderella pumpkins on some burlap:
Can you believe I’ve had that pumpkin for about eight weeks now? It’s still perfect! Crazy.
Back in August, I was strolling through Pier 1 and saw some beautiful faux leafy stuff, and it was gorgeous. I especially loved that it was really, really tall and full. I knew I’d need a few of them though, so I held off. (They weren’t really cheap.)
Imagine my glee when I saw something very similar at Hob Lob:
I think they were $3 each, half off? Wicked good. :)
When we were working on my father-in-law’s house a couple of months ago, I saw this beautiful amber glass piece and swooned:
Isn’t it gorgeous? Perfect for my fall display!
I filled it with little beady stuff, pine cones and acorns I’ve used through the years:
All together, with our new Give Thanks garland on the mirror, and it’s a lovely, warm welcome!:
You’ll notice my Cinderella pumpkin tower shrunk by one. I noticed the other day that the middle one had cracked and it was NASTY. Ew!
I can’t even believe the difference a year makes – this little bitty table just didn’t do it for that spot:
Thanks to Craigslist, I have a lovely new spot to decorate each season!:
Yippeeee! For that, I am thankful. ;)
I’ll show you a few more of my fall goodies soon, and then it’s all over folks – get ready for some magic!!!
Are you still working on fall decor? Has Christmas crept up around your house?
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