Forget the life-size light-up mummies and ceiling-suspended spiders. This fall, stick to a natural, season-spanning look that's more crafty than creepy, and you'll be done with decorating until after Thanksgiving.
Snipped from patterned plaids and fuzzy felt, this wreath's faux foliage will look fresh forever. Trace a leaf onto heavy card stock and use as a pattern to cut fabric. (For flannel and thinner fabrics, iron on craft backing to add stiffness.) With straight pins, secure leaves to an 18-inch Styrofoam wreath covered in tan felt, overlapping slightly to hide pins
Break out of your seasonal entryway decorating rut, but keep it simple. These quirky, cozy-looking pumpkins — decorated with scraps of leftover plaid fabrics — are scarily easy to make. Just take strips of varying widths and wrap them around the middle of your pumpkins; add large wooden buttons to the front, and use straight pins with colored ball heads to keep them in place. Large urns overflowing with mums complete the look.
This DIY tree charms with tiny pinecone critters. With a hot glue gun, attach felt features to pinecones as shown, adding sequin eyes, pipe cleaners as tails, and strings for dangling. Hang alongside clementines inked with black marker to resemble jack-o'-lanterns. Place branches — find them in your yard or at a craft or florist shop — in a plastic cauldron filled with damp florist's foam. Swathe cauldron in burlap, tie with twine, and cover foam with just-for-show candy corn.
This mobile mimics fluttering foliage — minus the raking. Collect leaves with intact stems and press in a heavy book for a few days. Wrap twine or ribbon around an 18-inch embroidery hoop; secure ends with hot glue. Tie eight 3-foot-long waxed strings at even intervals around it, attaching pinecones at the bottoms as weights. Knot the string around each leaf's stem, spacing randomly. Secure hoop to a ceiling hook using twine
To establish the palette for a fireplace display that can stay up until turkey time, drape a trio of pinked printed-fabric squares atop the mantel, and keep them in position with an assortment of colorful gourds and leaves. Add height with reusable silk ginkgo branches (or the real thing) in glass cylinder vases
Paper leaves encircling a white pumpkin make a graphic statement. Trace lawn-gathered leaves onto orange, yellow, and dark red tissue paper; cut tracings out, and stick them to pumpkin using decoupage glue. With a flat-head bristle brush, push from leaves' outer edges toward the centers to pucker paper slightly and create "veins"; let dry. Brush a thin layer of glue over pumpkin
Make tasty treats seem even more special by displaying them in materials you have around the house. Old produce crates lined with fabric scraps and a hollowed out pumpkin make for festive serving containers. Also, twisting grapevine around the base of dishes adds a nice seasonal touch to the table. For an eye-catching centerpiece, scoop out and fill a large pumpkin with yellow, orange, and deep red mums.
Get crafty with this jack o' lantern alternative, perfect for the kids because it's knife free. Use Japanese washi tape on white and orange pumpkins to create an overlapping plaid pattern. Because you aren't cutting them, the pumpkins stay fresh much longer — working as a centerpiece throughout the fall.
Skip a full scarecrow and try this take on the classic. Grab an old metal storage tin or thermos, and place straw so that it sticks out of the opening (as shown) with a pumpkin "head" on top. To make the face: Use the stem ends of small gourds for the eyes (tooth picks should keep them in place), a carrot for the nose, and pumpkin seeds for the mouth (hot glue them on). Top off the look with a slouchy felt hat.
Serve up spiced pumpkin seeds in style by placing cute, crafty pumpkins alongside the serving dish. Use a hot glue gun to stick the seeds in a circle around the base of the pumpkin stem. Add as many or as few seeds as you want — they'll look great either way!
Original article and pictures take www.goodhousekeeping.com site
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