Three Not-Cheesey Fall Decor Ideas
I'll be honest here - I have a visceral reaction to seeing any faux farmhouse "distressed" wood sign saying anything like "Welcome to Fall". Same for knitted pumpkins or anything with glitter. I know, I know. It's crafter heresy, and now my truth is out there in the world.
But, there are a few things that I am interested in trying for fall that probably count as upcycling and don't involve wooden crates, a bale of straw or a raggedy doll scarecrow.
Here are three that I'm going to be attempting to do in the next few weeks. Will someone please try any or all of them out with me?
Click on the images for the instructions. Maybe we'll come up with some variations or improvements. But disasters would be funnier so I'm all about those too. Here are the ideas for upcycled fall decor:
SWEATER CANDLES
Courtesy 11Mulberry.com
I'm thinking the key to this is making sure that the candle flame sits low enough in the jar so that the light comes through the wool. Extra points if you add a sweater to a jar once you've made your own custom-scent-blended candle from my friend's amazing store, Moonshot Studio in SF!
NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S POT POURRI
Courtesy HomeEdit.com
For this one, I doubled the citrus and left out the vanilla because I wanted a brighter scent and was worried the vanilla could make it sickly.
Why is this considered upcyling? Well, once you've tried and failed to dehydrate citrus slices in the oven and have created crinkled brown wafers instead, you have a lot of dried fruit that you can't dip in chocolate or string together for decorations.
OLD BOOK OAK LEAF WREATH
This one needs the addition of something to make it just a little more cool or maybe macabre. I don't know what yet. Ideas? The link on how to make this wreath is giving me a "404 Page Not Found" error message and some internet sleuthing suggests that the website (One-Thousand Oaks) no longer exists. So we're on our own. Can't be that hard, right? I'm thinking we just get and old book, cut out oak leaf shapes, glue them onto a wreath ring then visit the ER to get our fingers separated after gluing them together.
Please send me your stories, successes, failures and ideas if you try any of these.
"Welcome to Fall" (by which I mean, "let's try to appreciate Autumn even though it's raining for the 10th day in a row", for those Brits reading this),
Sarah