10.18.2009

easy fall decorations

These are easy and very cheap fall decorations.  Hanging Leaves!  I just finished my first batch, and once I'm finished, I'll post photos of my hanging leaves and other fall decorations I've completed this week.

The first step: Exercise a little!  Go on a walk and collect some great condition, and colorful, fall leaves. Make sure you have most of the stem connected to the leaf.

The second step:  Buy yourself some wax.  I went to Michael's and bought microwaveable soy wax.  It was pretty cheap out of the bunch. $9.00 for a pretty large container.

The third step:  Melt a small amount of wax, depending on how many leaves you collected.  I melted way less than 1/4 cup and collected about 8 leaves and had much left over.  So, melt smaller than you expect.  Follow directions on wax to get the right temperature, although I don't really think it matters.  I melted the wax for about 1 minute 30 seconds.

The fourth step:  Dip and drench leaves in wax, shake off extra wax.

The fifth step:  Hang leaves from clothespins.  (Side note: make sure you have newspaper or magazines, something you don't care about,  underneath the hanging clothespins because the leaves do drip a little).

Final step:  Once the leaves are dry, hang anywhere you want from monofilament or, other hanging materials.

{Source & Photos: Martha Stewart}



3 comments:

  1. such an adorable idea, am doing it tomorrow. Just posted a link about House of Hollin, need to buy some of your 'recycleables' :) thanks for the ideas and beautiful pics.

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  2. Oh dear! These are so cute!!! Is this from the craft encyclopedia or just Martha's website?

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  3. These are gorgeous! Perfect for fall.

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