Design through the retail eye

Happy Fall!!!!  So excited to starting getting my house together for fall & Halloween. The Leaf Garland came from Michaels, the Halloween lanterns from the Dollar store. I bought the letters and ribbon at Michaels and painted the letter myself.  My Mom made these Fall Apothecary Jars ! She went to the dollar store bought small pumpkins/gourds and leaf garland. She also found the black cats in TJmaxx. These Gourds are so amazing from Meadow brooke Gourds . They have Gourds for any occasion and holiday.

September 1st inspired me to start pulling out my Fall decorations. I decided to try making Pumpkin Topiaries similar to what I have seen in a couple of stores.  I made these Topiaries for $15 using items from the Dollar General store.  Here is the list of items I bought - 2 Fall leaf garlands    - 2 stems of fall leaves         - 2 punches of fall bundles - 6 small pumpkins     - 2 candle burners       -1 jar of toothpicks       I was able to pull the leaves off the leaf garland and leaf stems. I took the bundles of flowers and cut them up to make them smaller. Place the leaves around the bottom of the candle burner. I used a hot glue gun to glue the leaves to the bottom of the candle burner. I hot glued the bottom of the pumpkin to the bottom of the candle burner. Once the first pumpkin was down I placed leaves around the top of the pumpkin. Once I was happy with the placement of the leaves I hot g