DIY Fall Decor

This weekend I found time to do some fall decorating and thought I would share these easy DIY decorating ideas with you!

Fall bring so much creativity and opportunities to bring the outdoors in so I created this centerpiece with mini pumpkins.  This time of year you can find mini pumpkins and gourds just about anywhere.  All you have to do is fill a glass vase!

Dining Room Table

Aren't these guys cute?!  They are ridiculously easy to make.  All you need is a glass jar, vase or glass of any size, gauze, googly eyes, glue and tape!  Just wrap the gauze around the jar, tape the ends of the gauze to the jar to secure it and glue on the eyes. 

DIY Halloween Mummies

They look really cute at night with a candle in them!

DIY Halloween Mummies

And, because I had some googly eyes left (since you have to buy them in packs of 100 eyes) I just glued them on some mini pumpkins.  I think they look pretty cute!

All of these projects are easy enough to do with your kids too.  Try them out if you need an activity for your classroom or your family.  This is an easy and less messy alternative to painting or carving pumpkins.

Finally, I thought I would share our new addition to the farm! We were able to sneak away to a cattle sale in Nebraska yesterday and brought home two new heifers.  They are pretty sweet girls and will make a great addition to the farm!  We are excited to have them!

Have a great week!

Fall Decorating Pumpkin Tower

I LOVE this idea for fall decorating - Love it!!  I found it yesterday while I was reading A Thoughtful Place Blog. This is such a fresh new idea for decorating your front porch with pumpkins so I thought I would pass it along if any of you are looking to spruce up your front door with some fall decor.  I don't know about you all, but I'm not too successful when it comes to carving pumpkins.  They never turn out like the ones I see in magazines. 

If you can't tell I'm pretty excited about this idea and you are probably wondering "Why don't you do it?"  I would love to build a pumpkin tower.  In fact, I'd probably be working on this little project today because it is a beautiful fall day here in Iowa.  Unfortunately I have three problems that make this project a little difficult.

Problem 1:  Meet 'Bam'
Bam is our smart, young, and extremely energetic black lab.  He would see these pumpkins as the best toy that he has ever played with!  He litterally couldn't keep his paws off them.  I could see these pumpkins rolling around our deck, strung through our front yard or eaten within the first day.

Problem 2:  We live in rural Iowa (Not actually a problem)
We live in rural Iowa, on a county road.  Below is a view of what we see from the deck on the front of our house.  It is beautiful here! There are very few vehicles that drive by - it's great!  This time of year, during corn and soybean harvest, there is actually more traffic with farmers hauling grain to the local elevator. (They probably aren't my target audience.)

Problem 3: Five-digit house number
Because we live in rural Iowa, we have a rural 911 address that is five digits.  Could you imagine this pumpkin tower?  It would be huge!  I think this is a two or three digit house number project.



There are my three excuses.  I actually laughed when I was writing this post thinking about our dog tackling this pumpkin tower to play with the pumpkins and me trying to size up and stack 5 pumpkins on top of each other.  It would be chaos to say the least...

If YOU would like to do this project here is thelink to instructions from the Better Homes and Gardens website.  And, if you do build a pumpkin tower, please email me (contact me page) with a photo of it.  I would like to post it on my blog to show off your project!

Happy Fall!