Fall Mantel 2012… It’s A Fall Festival!

 

Hope you’re ready for some

Fall Y’all!

This year… my fall mantel theme is: 

‘Fall Festival’

(burlap banner with cut out felt letters)

and

Just to warn you… I went a little crazy with it!  YEP!

Anywho…

Let’s put on our boots and get going to the festival!

So how do we navigate around this place?

Oh Good… directions!  Let’s go right!  :)

For the sign…

just took some scrap wood, cut some points on the end of each piece, painted some words, and glued them on an old stake we had.   Easy Peasy!

The Burlap Sack…Tractor Supply store for $1.00… is covering a decorative jar where the stake is inserted.   It worked out perfect!

Do you remember this BARN?  Click Here if you don’t!

A new coat of red paint made this barn a fantastic focal at the fall festival!

(a little tongue twister there for ya!)

I didn’t have any fall décor until I went to Hobby Lobby!

All the pumpkins, leaves, and hay were compliments of Hobby Lobby’s 40% off sale on fall décor!

Aren’t these chalk board buckets adorable? 

Got ‘em at Target… $1.00 a piece!

An old metal bucket holds the harvest of red delicious fake apples…

Maybe some apple cider or even apple pie for the festival?

Sounds good to me!!

Well Folks…

Hope you enjoyed this year’s Fall Festival on my mantel!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Harvest Everyone!

Praying MANY Fall Blessings to all this season!

My Version of a Photo Ladder

Back in the spring… my gracious neighbor gave me these

nice tree branches.

Well… they sat on the back porch for awhile as I contemplated what to use them for.

So back in the summer… when it was like 100 degrees I finally decided to build this.

 

Basically, my hubs cut the pieces I needed and I nailed it together.

IT IS PURELY A DECORATIVE PIECE.

so…

WARNING:

No climbing on this ladder!

After I got it assembled… I didn’t know what to do with it.  I really didn’t have a place or a plan for it yet.

So it sat out on the back porch with me staring at it for months.

And then finally it came to me… a photo ladder and a possible place in the dining room.

So I went out and bought some ingredients I needed…

and then got to cookin’.

All I did next was (after measuring) predrilled a small hole in the branches and photo frames and then screwed in screw eyes.

I had originally planned to use S hooks to link the frame to the steps but because my steps had different heights… it didn’t work out.

So I used hemp string I bought at Walmart a few weeks back.  I actually like it better than the S hooks.

Next,  I painted my photo frames white and then picked out some black and white photos of our wedding and put them in.

I had some berries left over from my White Cradle Centerpiece (Click here)

and just stuck them on.

But wait… I’m not through.

I want your opinion!

My hubby and I cut some pieces of wood from some branches outside.  I had planned to glue them on the photo frame to make it look more rustic.  I used a white wash over them.

Here are some just taped on…

Not sure which way to go??

SO…

what do you think?

With

or

without

the stumps of wood?

Thanks For Stoppin’ By!

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