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Dazzling DIY Thanksgiving Decorations For The Home Or Table

October 30, 2019 by Jackie Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and it’s my favorite holiday. Every year, it’s fun to explore what dazzling DIY Thanksgiving decorations I could put together for my home and table. If you’ve come here looking for new ideas for your Thanksgiving home and table, you’re in the right place. Let’s explore together!

DIY Thanksgiving Decorations For Home Or Table

My Thanksgiving table is never complete without the addition of plenty of candles. Candles provide an extra boost of warmth and ambience you need at this cozy time of year. This DIY Thanksgiving decoration idea involves a stop at Dollar Tree for some simple glass votives. Next, cut squares of yellow felt into flower shapes, or purchase felt flowers to fit the width of your votives. Place the felt flowers in the bottom of the glass votives, with a lighted tealight on top. The faux ladybug here is a nice touch, but not necessary.

Kids like to help with DIY Thanksgiving decorations. Why not let them help you make some of these adorable toilet paper tube Pilgrims and Indians? All you need is assorted colors of construction paper, glue, and a Sharpie. They are pretty self-explanatory!

I love this DIY Thanksgiving decoration idea! Paint a pumpkin with a Thanksgiving motif, and set it anywhere you want to add a festive touch–your front porch, your fireplace hearth, or even your Thanksgiving table.

When you host Thanksgiving dinner, it’s nice to do a tablescape that’s easy but elegant. Try an idea like this one! Cut stems from your own yard, or pick up a fall bouquet at the grocer’s. Add apples and pears with stems and leaves still attached–just scatter them down the center of the table. Beautiful!

Here are a few more easy but elegant DIY Thanksgiving decorations for your home or table. Burlap is a simple table runner, but add plenty of pinecones, fall leaves, tiny pumpkins and fall flowers and it looks rustic but amazing. Tall candlesticks add the finishing touch.

For more dazzling DIY Thanksgiving decorations, check out these 15 DIYs perfect for your Thanksgiving table.

Homemade Pumpkin Crafts {Just In Time For Fall!}

August 21, 2019 by Jackie Leave a Comment

Fall is one of the best times of the year! To celebrate its imminent return, we have some fun homemade pumpkin crafts. Pumpkin season is the best time to make some adorable pumpkin crafts to add to your fall decorations. Not all your pumpkins have to be real, especially when they’re this cute.

Homemade Pumpkin Crafts

Rustic pumpkin crafts are some of the cutest pumpkin crafts to make. This rustic wood jack-o-lantern made from reclaimed wood is a craft you’ll love to display on your fall porch for years to come. The good news is that you can customize something like this however you like it. Change the face, change the size, or change the shade of orange paint–and it’ll still look amazing!

These little yarn ball pumpkins are so simple, yet so adorable! How could anyone resist making them? Just wrap Styrofoam balls with yarn–and it doesn’t have to be orange. Attach the balls to a square of wood using hot glue. Go outside and find some twigs for stems and attach them to the tops of your yarn pumpkins with hot glue.

This homemade pumpkin craft is easy and fun for the kids. You can call them stained glass pumpkins, but no glass is involved. Cut tissue paper squares in yellow, orange and red. Use a glue stick to glue the squares randomly over the surface of a construction paper pumpkin. The one shown is yellow, but white works as well if that is what you have. {You can also cut a pumpkin shape out of waxed paper for a real stained glass effect}. Cut green construction paper spirals for your pumpkin stems. The kids will love to display their creations in the window!

Do you crochet? If not, these little crocheted pumpkins just might make you want to start! They’re surprisingly easy to make, even for a beginner. And there are free patterns available all over, in different sizes and configurations. Here is a pattern we like that is perfect for beginners.

These fabric pumpkins deserve a real mention. If you’ve never made fabric pumpkins before, it’s time to try it. They are so easy to do, and some patterns don’t even require a sewing machine. If you’ve got a needle and thread, some rectangular pieces of fabric, some hot glue and fiberfill to stuff your pumpkins with, you’ve got everything you need. Check out this tutorial from Pennies Into Pearls.

Which of these homemade pumpkin crafts is your favorite? Need more pumpkin craft ideas? Here are some amazing no-carve ways to decorate pumpkins!

It’s Time to Harvest Your Halloween Decorations

September 26, 2018 by Jackie Leave a Comment

Halloween is coming up fast, so it’s definitely time to harvest your Halloween decorations! Halloween decorations can be anything from sweet & simple, to scary and over-the-top. No matter where your style falls, we’ve got some ideas for you. Check them out!

A simple Halloween banner can be yours with a trip to Dollar Tree and a little bit of time and creativity. Grab some construction paper in classic Halloween colors–you could throw in some purple too! Cut out letters, bats, or pumpkins– whatever you like! Attach them to a string of jute with some simple wood clothespins. Done! This is one of the easiest way to harvest your Halloween decorations.

For a bit of simple, scary fun, try cutting out black bats and attaching them to a wall in a clever pattern. You could also attach them to your front door, or to a window. Let the kids help you cut them out! Another great idea for these bats is to hang them as a mobile from the ceiling. You can slightly bend their wings to give them a 3D feel, too.

Most people seem to spend the most time and effort on Halloween decorations for the front porch. After all, it’s where the trick-or-treaters come! Wheat stalks, pumpkins, hay bales and black lanterns make a classic Halloween porch that is festive without being freaky. Dried corn stalks are another great thing to use in your Halloween decorations! These kinds of decorations double as Fall decorations, so you can even leave them up through Thanksgiving! Talk about harvesting your Halloween decorations!

Dress up your window boxes with purple Mums. Add a few spooky touches like skulls, spiders, and faux spider webs. Find some super stretchy web material at Amazon.

If you love the crazy, scary, over-the-top type of Halloween decorations, then you can’t go wrong by turning your front yard into a spooky graveyard the neighbors are sure to remember! You can also make some fabulous DIY signs for Halloween. Check out our post to see more!

Happy Harvesting!

Fall Under the Spell of This Magical Fall Porch Decor

September 14, 2018 by Jackie Leave a Comment

It’s time to decide how to welcome visitors for the Fall season with your fall porch decor! To help you, I’ve got some inspiration to get your creative juices flowing. Check out the following magical fall porch decor ideas.

Here’s an example of what you can do with a wide farmhouse porch. A bouquet of sunflowers graces the front door. The door is flanked by tall greenery. From the approach to the porch, draw the eye upwards and right to the front door with strategically placed mums in classic fall colors. You can complete the look by adding a few pumpkins to your porch.

This simply stunning front staircase is highlighted beautifully with an assortment of mums in all the brightest colors. Several lime-green plants are also added to the mix. That bright green color really adds a touch of magic! The tiny pumpkins placed on each step are the finishing touch to this beautiful fall porch.

Don’t let anyone tell you that white pumpkins and mums don’t scream fall! I think this fall porch decor idea is really elegant. It’s perfect for a farmhouse porch!

If purple mums are your favorite, don’t be afraid to use them. The combination of purple mums and orange pumpkins on a bed of hay looks magical against the color palette of this home. The scarecrows are a fun touch!

This fall porch proves that less can be more. You don’t have to feel like you need a truckload of elements for fall porch décor. Just a few simple touches like a pot of mums, a few pumpkins, and a couple of lanterns can be enough.

If you are a sucker for the vivid colors of autumn leaves, then by all means, use them in your fall porch decor. This welcoming entry shows that you don’t have to use autumn leaves in just a wreath or a garland. Fill a lantern with them, or display them right on the door.

Have you planned out your fall porch decor yet? Good luck and happy decorating!

10 No Carve Ways to Decorate Pumpkins

October 6, 2016 by Jackie Leave a Comment

Paint fun Halloween designs on your pumpkins instead of carving them this year! Just put a stencil (or reverse stencil) on the pumpkin and then get to painting!

Instead of painting a design on the pumpkin, just paint the whole thing! You can do one color, or lots of different colors for a fun pattern. Whatever you want!

I think this idea is so cute and funny! Just add a witch’s hat to the pumpkin and then put it out to be a fun little Halloween decoration!

Add some cute or spooky texts to your pumpkin. Just choose classic fall and Halloween quotes and phrases and then put them onto your pumpkins!

Turn the pumpkins into planters that you can keep around your home, inside and out! You may have to carve the top part out, or you can just stick them to the top of the pumpkin. Do what works best!

This idea is great! Attach marquee light up letters to the pumpkins and use those as decorations on your pumpkin! Not only are they cute, but they add some extra light to your porch or house during the fall.

Add some fancy jewels to your pumpkins and make it a cool and classy pumpkin this year! There are a few different ways you can do this, just make it look good!

If you want a super unique pumpkin, then give it antlers! Pumpkins and deer are some classic fall and winter decorations, so why not combine them?

Wrap some lace around your pumpkins and you’re good to go! It doesn’t take a whole lot of work and it’s actually really classy!

Make a stained-glass window design on your pumpkins that you can display proudly this year! I love the color and shape of this pattern. Absolutely stunning!

15 Ways to Decorate for Fall {From Dollar Tree}

August 16, 2016 by Jackie Leave a Comment

I love this idea. I think it’s absolutely gorgeous. Buy some cheap glass jars, stencil a letter on each one to spell a fall-y word, and then fill them with popcorn kernels! It just looks so great!

If you don’t want to paint the containers or use as many kernels, you can fill it up less and put a candle in it instead. This works better for a single jar instead of multiple.

Make a gorgeous burlap garland that you can hang anywhere in your home, porch, or yard. Add some letters or other designs to the burlap to make it look even better!

You can really make all sorts of wreaths from materials at the dollar store. You just need the foam wreath and then add faux fall flowers or other decorations.

Get your traditional fall pumpkins and just buy some spray paint from the dollar store. From there, spray paint the pumpkins and add some fun designs to them!

You can’t talk about fall decorations without mentioning a classic fall sign! All you really need is some wood and paint, but you can make it as elaborate as you want!

I love terrariums, and I think the idea of a fall terrarium is fantastic! It may take a bit of searching to get the materials you want, but it’s definitely worth it!

Anything that is fall-colored leaves is a great decoration. You can use the leaves anywhere inside or outside of your home. I love the idea of a fall leaf garland for the front door!

Make your very own rope basket that will bring in a great rustic, fall-centered theme. You can fill the basket with all sorts of fall-inspired décor.

Take those leaf cards and use them as decorations! Get a card holder and put the cards in them and use them as an art display.

While you probably can’t get gourds and squashes from the dollar store, they are pretty cheap at the grocery store. You can actually turn them into awesome fall vases for your flower arrangements! You’ll just have to replace them every now and then.

Add some texture, fall style, and color to your glass votives by wrapping them in some sort of fabric paper or other fall theme.

Hang some Mason jars by ropes and use them for all sorts of ideas! They can be lights, candle holders, bird feeders, planters, or whatever else you want.

Take some gourds and other fall plant life and paint them! You can make a fun and colorful decoration with this idea. I love it!

Get some paper and paint and use them to make leaf art for your home. There are lots of options and the type of leaves are limitless, so just have fun!