Gnome Decor

November 2018

Add a Natural Twist to Your Fall and Thanksgiving Decor with Easy DIY Burlap and Raffia Pumpkins

Today’s fall craft tutorial is brought to you courtesy of my crafty Mom.  She showed me the two pretty pumpkins pictured above she had made and I was wowed by how she had turned a simple foam pumpkin from the dollar store into a beautiful fall decoration, using mostly supplies she already had on hand.  I told her she’d have to show me how to make one, so we set up a mother-daughter craft day last weekend to make her third pumpkin and my first.  These are really fun to make (as long as you…

Tiny Harvest: A Thanksgiving Fairy Garden

There’s a chill in the air and temperatures are falling faster than the leaves! It was inevitable our long stretch of summer-like weather would come to an end.  It is November after all, but a mostly unseasonably warm fall prompted me to decorate another fairy garden last month.  I realized my Fourth of July fairy garden was still on my front porch and that I should have transformed it for fall.  It seemed like a good idea to give it a makeover to match my pumpkins, mums, and wreath on my porch.  After all, it was still 80…