Fall is in the air and on the front door

Not to be confused with its prequel,

"Fall is in the air and on the mantel".

A few weekends ago, when I crafted the wreath out of kazoos, I also put together a Fall-ish slash Halloween-ish wreath for the front door.

Two wreaths in one day?

Absobloominlutely.

Here she blows:

Okay, so a little more Halloween-ish than Fall-ish, but not all that

 scary spooky-ish either.

A Falloween wreath, if you will.

What did I use to make this Falloween wreath?

I'm so glad you asked...

An extra large grapevine wreath salvaged from our hob lob,

2 floral stems + 2 berry twigs from Michael's,

2 black birds from the Dollar Tree,

1 1/2 packages of black creepy cloth, also from Dollar Tree,

1 roll of purty orange ribbon from Hancock,

and 1 extremely fake looking spider from the dollar spot at Target

And if you haven't met yet, allow me to introduce you to creepy cloth-

This stuff is amazeballs.

See?

Creepy Cloth will most definitely be making an appearance in my Halloween decor.

Sorry.

Back to the wreath.

I wrapped the creepy cloth around the wreath, and, .....well,

that was it.

No glue.

No tape.

No nuthin'.

The twigs of the wreath were perfect for 'pinning' the cloth in place.

Love me some lazy craftin'.

As for the birds,

they had these brilliant little built-in wires.

Thanks Dollar Tree.

Thanks for selling such awesomesauce goods.

All I had to do was stick them in place where I wanted and twist.

After cutting a bit of stem off the florals, I secured them with the last little bit of picture-hanging-wire from the toolbox

Forgot to mention that earlier.

I used a bit of picture-hanging-wire.

And then covered the wire with my purty orange ribbon-

And since you know I loves my monogram, I thought I'd stick an 'M' in the creepy cloth, along with Mr. Dollar Spot Spider.

Interesting side note about this particular M-

it's actually another bit of tornado debris.

While it's entirely possible that it blew from another sign, I'd like to believe that it came from the marquee of my church building since that's where my mum found it.

hello little birdies

And since no Falloween entryway would be complete without a punkin',

I went a step further

and put

TWO

on my front steps.

So there ya have it.

A Falloween wreath, with a couple of cute punkin' on the side.

I'm linking with:

 

The Pink Hippo Party at Pinkopotamus,

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm,

Thrifty Decor Chick's Before and After Party,

Categorically Crafting at Someday Crafts,

Fall is in the air and on the mantel

Happy Monday friends!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

I have lots to share about ours, including an adventure with some friends to see Les Miserables on Friday night,

but first,

it's that time again:

Will any of you be joining these partays?

Can't wait to be inspired by other's creativity.

Since Layla's mantel party is tomorrow, I'm sharing mine today:

I spent zip, zero, zilch on this mantel, which makes me love it all the more.

black vase, florals + berries, pumpkins= all from hob lob in years past

black mirror from Kirklands is back after a short hiatus in the master bedroom,

large 'M' is from Jo-Ann's,

and the felt circle garland is something I whipped up Saturday morn-

I grabbed these supplies that I already had on hand:

wool felt in fall-ish shades (from hob lob),

pumpkin & white twine,

great big needle,

scissors

I free-handed several circles out of each color-

and strung them together with the twine-

and that was all she wrote.

Done.

Here's a quick reminder of what the mantel looked like

before:

Did you notice something else missing?

Besides that orange ball peeking out from underneath those logs?

Those logs that are just posers in that fake fireplace?

That's right.

Fake.

Total fakeness going on.

I removed the logs and hideous gold log holders because,

quite honestly,

I have no idea why I kept them there so long in the first place.

It was rank-nasty underneath that stack of wood, so good riddance is what Ima sayin'.

You with me?

I'm thinking that new, open space down thar would look fabulous with some pumpkins or a stack of vintage suitcases.

Yes, two completely different looks.

I know.

Of course, it means we'll no longer get to enjoy this:

but it also means no one's gettin' an eye poked out with those pointy gold hazardous could-probably-be-used-as-a-weapon log holders.

They're up for grabs now, along with Mr. Shower Bear.

Any takers?

p.s.- I'll be back later today to share something super exciting that's taking place this Saturday. It may be the reason that I've been craftin' off my bootay lately.

squee!

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I've linked this to:

Made by You Monday at Skip to my Lou,
Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch,
Craftomaniac Monday at Craftomaniac,
Mad in Crafts Mad Skills Party,
Market Yourself Monday at Sumo's Sweet Stuff,
Tutorials and Tips at Home Stories A 2 Z,
Anything Goes at Type A Decorating,