Fall Decorations

So. Every year, I see all of these gorgeous decorations for the holidays EVERYWHERE. In stores, in other people's homes, on pinterest... And every year, I wish I could decorate my house. But, the truth is, it's expensive!! (Not to mention we have moved about a thousand times) Everyone always tells me to buy decorations after the holidays, when they go on sale. Well, that stinks! Because, who wants to wait a whole year, when everyone else's house is all cheery and fun?! Not me!

Well, at work last week a lady said 'September first is coming up! I get to put out all of my fall decorations.' I could have cried. I want my house to look all cozy and fall-like!!

I talked to Lovie and he said this year we can get some stuff and store it until next year. BUT, in the meantime, he let me get all crafty!! I made us a few decorations (pictures to follow!!).

Let me just say, glass jars are EXPENSIVE!!! I want to do a candy buffet for baby girl's party. But, holy moly! $10 a piece? Just to hold candy? No thank you! We have been going to thrift stores (Goodwill, Re-Store,etc.) to find these jars. I have gotten a ton of them at $.50-$1.00 a piece. I love going to thrift stores! We always find the most unique items for insanely cheap! And, in turn we are helping the community. ☺

Anyways, back to my fall decorations. I used a few jars that we got for Ellie's party. But, at $.99 per glass, you wouldn't be wasting much money to buy them solely for decorations!! 

Next, we went grocery shopping! My mom had the baby, so we got to spend a little more time meandering through the store. I bought 1lb. bags of dried beans to fill my jars. We got lima beans, black beans, split peas, red beans, and popping corn. To top off the decorations we got two fall colored floral arrangements from the 'fake flower section' as I like to call it. ☺

I wanted to take pictures of each section, but the baby was having a bad night, and it is sort of self explanatory!! :) Pour the beans into the glass containers in sections. You can do any color assortment you'd like, but mine went from bottom to top: Lima Beans, Black Beans, Split Peas, Red Beans, Popping Corn. After I had the beans/corn in my glasses, I slowly pushed the flower arrangements down in there. Once I had  the arrangements in, I had to add some more corn around the top (you could still see a little of the stems). You could skip this issue by measuring and trimming your arrangements. Here is the final product:

The jars look bigger in real life. This is kind of a wacky picture. I also had enough left over to fill a bigger hurricane type glass and I put a candle down inside the corn layer. Overall, I am ECSTATIC about my homemade fall decorations!! Also, while we were at Goodwill collecting cheap glasses, we found a stuffed turkey decoration and a little girl piggy bank. The little girl is wearing orange, and looks almost like a pilgrim. So, I thought it would fit the fall theme well. We also took a big glass bowl I got at Ikea years ago, and filled it with some fall potpourri I have been saving for the right time :) I will get some more pictures tonight and add them on here tomorrow.

I will say that I am no super-genius, and I did not come up with this idea on my own. I got it off of Pinterest. Click the link below. They made theirs into a sort of wineglass candle holder type thingy! Also very cute. But, I did what I could with what I had, and could afford!! I hope everyone goes out and makes their own fall decorations now!! It makes it so much more meaningful! Even if it's just beans in a jar. You made it and you should be proud of it!! ☺

My Inspiration!

For some reason, when I go to her blog, I can't see any of the pictures. So I just used that one as my inspiration, and I winged it!

Overall, I am very proud of my cheap decorations, and I feel so cozy when I see my fall living room/kitchen!! Please comment and share any of your own fall decorations!! We all need to get in the fall spirit!!!

I hope everyone has a very happy Tuesday!!!

♥♥♥♥


UPDATE:: Here are the rest of my Fall Decorations!! :)

Here are the little girl piggy bank and the stuffed turkey that we got from Goodwill. The Love sign is from Ross. I got it years ago.

Everything all together on my 'mantle' AKA: My kitchen island!