A stunning holiday centerpiece is one that’s filled with scents, textures, and colors of the season. An easy way to assemble one of your very own is by combining evergreens, antlers, ornaments, and pine cones in a wooden container like a vintage dough bowl or even a weathered board. The height is perfectly suited for…Continue Reading “Evergreen & Antler Centerpiece”
Tree farms and home improvement stores are brimming this season with Christmas trees in just about any shape, form, size, or variety. When choosing that perfect tree to take home and decorate there are a few factors to keep in mind when you are making your selection. Look for trees that are vivid in color…Continue Reading “Choosing a Christmas Tree”
Artificial pumpkins are great for their longevity but just look so, artificial. Give them a fresh, new look with a Midas touch and a stem that’s anything but fake. Simply pluck the stem from a spent pumpkin, and adhere with a little hot glue. Gold spray paint adds a shimmery effect and dripping paint in…Continue Reading “Gilded Pumpkin”
Invite some feathered friends to roost at your door this Halloween with a festive wreath. Upgrade a plain grapevine wreath to the standards of a night watchman with nesting materials like mosses, lichens, dried foliage, and cotton netting. MATERIALS: Grapevine Wreath Artificial Crow Black Netting Moss Manzanita Branches Dried flowers or foliage Floral Wire Hot…Continue Reading “Crows Nest Wreath”
As the darkness falls and the wild wind blows; forests just seem a bit more desolate this time of year. Create your very own haunted forest from the comforts of home with mini trees made from branches and a little burlap. Display on tabletops, mantles, or counters for a haunting effect. MATERIALS: Branches Burlap Scissors…Continue Reading “Mini Haunted Forest”
Mums require a great deal of water especially in the warmer weeks leading up to Halloween. So, if you purchased your mums a bit too early and have a few crispy, crunchy specimens by your doorstep; by all means paint them. You heard me. Paint them in a spooky black and plant them in a…Continue Reading “Dead Mum Planter”
Every winters table deserves a well-appointed soup tureen filled with steeping hot goodness. Soup tureens are some of the most underutilized serving pieces probably in your kitchen. And are most often left forgotten in the back of the cupboard. Customize your tureen with a bit of fall flair by replacing its lid with a pumpkin….Continue Reading “Pumpkin Tureen”
Halloween is fastly approaching; and your festive decor most certainly needs a creepy, cool scarecrow. Scarecrows have long been a thing of legend and a close friend to the friendly farmer of times past. These easy to assemble garden ghouls require only a little-worn plaid, a bit of straw, and some scrap wood to bring…Continue Reading “Scarecrows”
Assemble an eerily morbid mantle this October full of watchful eyes and jars filled with poison elixirs just begging you to wander over and take a closer look, that is, if you dare! Begin by placing a festive garland made from fall leaves directly on the mantle. Learn how to make one here: FESTIVE LEAF…Continue Reading “A Morbid Mantle”
Leave are synonymous with the fall season and about the most readily accessible element to add to your fall decor. Fashion a fabulous fall garland from nylon roping to drape on your mantle or over a doorway to usher in the season! MATERIALS: Leaf bunches, oak or maple Nylon roping, 4-5ft Scissors Floral Wire Spray…Continue Reading “Festive Leaf Garland”