10.01.2013

Our Fall Decorations: Pintrest vs. Reality

Last week I posted on the Pintrest inspiration images I was used to help me "Fallsify" our condo and here is how they turned out.

1. Craft Wine Bottles: F
 Pinspriation:
DIY Halloween Wine Bottles.  Drop in glow sticks and they glow!
The spray paint was expensive and the lady at Michaels told me it would never stick to the wine bottles. I decided not to fight her on it and just give up the pipe dream.

2. Fill Hurricanes with fall goodies: A-

Pinspiration: 
So pretty 
Reality:

I added some corn kernals to spruce up my mantel - and if I find some fake leaves, I'll be adding those to the mix too.

3. Add a Burlap Runner: F

Pinspiration:
tie burlap runner ends with cute ribbon
Couldn't find one anywhere!

4. Spruce up our front door wreath: A-
Pinspriation:
Fall Berry Wreath --an easy DIY! 
Reality:

I found a cute white letter at Michaels, hung it with brown ribbon and ta-da!

5. Invest in Fall Signs: A
Pinspriation:
Fall sign
Reality: 

I found that cute Autumn Blessings (which is two sided) and the plug in Halloween goodie. 


6. Pumpkin Candles everywhere: A
Pinspriation:
Pumpkin Candles 
Reality: 

Yes and they're heavenly. I had to fill this glass pumpkin with oranges because if I start on the Halloween candy now, we're all in big trouble.

Fall, we are ready for you.

8 comments:

  1. I spray painted bottles for my reception and it stuck totally fine! If you scratched at it, it would come off, but not just on it's own! Geesh, Michaels must employ all the haters.

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  2. LOVE all your sweet fall decorations, especially the table set up! Everything looks beautiful!

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  3. Love all your cute ideas, Tess! If you're still thinking about hunting for the runner, I actually "made" a burlap one by getting a hunk of it from the fabric store and cutting it to size- it was incredibly cheap!

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  4. You are the cutest. Love your autumn wreath!!

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  5. Love the decorations! I wanted to do the wine bottle idea but I know I would mess it up!

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  6. I can't help it but every time I see a picture of those bottles the remind me of little animated Halloween condoms. It might just be my naughty mind playing tricks on me but I can't help it :)

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  7. The oranges instead of candy is such a good idea! Plus I love clementines- they basically are candy. I think you did pretty good with your inspiration to reality. Does your craft store sell burlap that you could have them cut to size and then hot glue ribbon trim or something like that?

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  8. That's weird that they said the stuff wouldn't stick to the bottle. I bet they had no clue what they were doing. ;)

    I bought some rolls of burlap at Hobby Lobby, but I think I've seen them at Michael's too. You could easily just buy one of those and cut it to size.

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