Fall craftiness

So, having our own home to decorate with each season is turning out to be so much fun! I'm definitely on a crafting kick between making Truman and Cecelia's costumes for Halloween and making stuff to fall-ify our house. Love it so much. Wanna see some of my craftiness (mostly inspired by Pinterest, as always) ?

Our front porch:


We never made it to a pumpkin patch this fall which makes me sad for all of the lost photo-ops we could have had with the kids. But we usually like to do apple picking in combination with pumpkin choosing and this year there are basically no apples to be had in Wisconsin. So we took the easy way out and got these pumpkins and gourds from the local grocery store for SUPER cheap.


I added the hay into our planters (after figuring out a way to make the pumpkin sit on top nicely--used a terracotta pot and disc!) because it just needed a little something. And the hay is sort of janky because I pulled it away from our cut-back hydrangeas. Whatever. It works.




And my favorite corn! Again, from our grocery store. Love having pillars to decorate---just picturing a hundred different options for Christmas!



So the yarn wreath was my actual 'craft' I wanted to show you. I got all of my supplies at Michaels and it was $17 total for everything (yarn, foam ring, flowers, letter 'H'). I started wrapping my gray yarn around the wreath ring when Cecelia woke up after being down for only 30 minutes one night. Big surprise. So I went back up there to soothe her back to sleep and when I returned? This was what I saw:

Nate's first craft! Momentous day! He said it was 'kinda fun' and I have no idea what possessed him to take over my wrapping. Something methodical and detailed WOULD intrigue my husband, of course:)



I just bought a few pre-made flowers from the scrapbooking aisle and wanted to figure out a way to fix them to the wreath without making them permanent. I'm hoping to reuse this gray wreath and add other colors to it throughout the seasons. So I just tied the flowers to ribbons, and tied the ribbons to the wreath. It works!




I painted the letter 'H' (for our last name) a green because the black just wasn't cutting it for me. And voila! Something very exciting about hanging our own nail on our own front door for decorations!






The only real indoor decorations I've done are these fall leaves in our wooden box. (And yes, that would be the Kardashians if you are trying to figure out what we are watching. And yes, there are the hated speakers for the surround sound that 'ruins the decor of the entire house'.)



I wanted to make it a lot more fun with candles and sticks and autumn-y stuff like that. But fake leaves will have to do for now.

And I REALLY want to give our fireplace a facelift. Badly. I want to get a black/wrought iron insert instead of our ugly gold one and I'd love to pain the bricks a dark gray. And hanging a wreath on our front door makes me want to repaint or replace the old door, too. Pretty sure neither of those will happen for years. So many projects, so little time!

Our leaves have already peaked and many are already on the ground, but my eyes popped open when I saw this beautiful hot pink bush in front of a patients house the other day. The picture doesn't do it justice because it's SO bright and pretty! Anyone know what it is? I want one!




And because I'm too proud to keep you TOTALLY in the dark about Truman's costume, here is a teeny sneak peek. It's almost done and then I have to do a little bit of crafting for Cecelia's outfit. Then I want to do a little photo shoot with the two of them wearing their costumes before Halloween so it's not too stressful to try and nail good photos on the day of. Can't wait for Truman to see this bad boy finished ! (I've managed to keep him out of the basement for a few days but it will never last)