A thankful foyer

Hello all! Hope you had a great weekend! We are DONE with marching band season (so proud of them!!) and I now have my hubby back�for approximately two weeks. :)

I haven�t done anything crafty in a while and last week I was feeling my mojo creeping back�so I got busy on a quick Thanksgiving project for our foyer.

I�ve been admiring the cute �Thankful� banners I�ve seen over blogland lately, and figured it was high time I made one of my own. I picked up about $3 of paper from Hobby Lobby:

And warmed up my sah-weet Silhouette machine:

My original thought was to do some circles, then put leaves in pretty colors over those, with letters on the leaves to spell my thankful message:

But after I cut out the leaves, I realized they were going to be way too small for the letters. Plan B was to cut out additional circles a bit smaller than the original ones:

I love love LOVE that cardstock � I use it all the time. It�s got a simpler, lined side, and a side (the one I prefer) with a linen-like texture to it. And aren�t those scalloped edges too cute? (I purchased the design on the Silhouette site for a buck.)

When I was done cutting, I ended up with large and small circular cut outs, the leaves that I wanted to try to use, and the letters:

Normally I use spray adhesive for paper projects, but the glue stick was closer. :) It worked great!:

Using my hole puncher, I added two holes in each one, then strung the letters and little leaves on some twine. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out!:

Isn�t that so stinking cute?

I had the buffet in our foyer dressed for fall six weeks ago, but took it all down for the Halloween display. I just put everything back the way I had it, even though it�s only for a few days, week, couple of weeks till Christmas starts peeking out. :)

I plopped one of my (real) blue Cinderella pumpkins on some burlap:

Can you believe I�ve had that pumpkin for about eight weeks now? It�s still perfect! Crazy.

Back in August, I was strolling through Pier 1 and saw some beautiful faux leafy stuff, and it was gorgeous. I especially loved that it was really, really tall and full. I knew I�d need a few of them though, so I held off. (They weren�t really cheap.)

Imagine my glee when I saw something very similar at Hob Lob:

I think they were $3 each, half off? Wicked good. :)

When we were working on my father-in-law�s house a couple of months ago, I saw this beautiful amber glass piece and swooned:

Isn�t it gorgeous? Perfect for my fall display!

I filled it with little beady stuff, pine cones and acorns I�ve used through the years:

All together, with our new Give Thanks garland on the mirror, and it�s a lovely, warm welcome!:

You�ll notice my Cinderella pumpkin tower shrunk by one. I noticed the other day that the middle one had cracked and it was NASTY. Ew!

I can�t even believe the difference a year makes � this little bitty table just didn�t do it for that spot:

Thanks to Craigslist, I have a lovely new spot to decorate each season!:

Yippeeee! For that, I am thankful. ;)

I�ll show you a few more of my fall goodies soon, and then it�s all over folks � get ready for some magic!!!

Are you still working on fall decor? Has Christmas crept up around your house?

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