Fall Mantel 2012:: Accessory Roundup

Hope everyone had a good weekend! This past weekend it certainly felt like Fall had arrived here. The mornings were brisk and the afternoons cool, but there was lots of sunshine which was good. I was even able to venture to the pumpkin patch and pick a few pumpkins. Now that I have my pumpkins, I’m hoping to take some pictures of our front porch to show you guys soon.

If you missed it on Friday, I blogged about my first ever decorated mantel for Fall.

Today I thought I would do a breakdown of where I got everything. {I know for me I’m always curious what people bought, or what they shopped for around their house…so if this boring to you, I apologize in advance}.

I tried to re-use as much stuff as I could, but since I’ve never had a mantel to decorate for Fall, I didn’t already have a ton of stuff to work with.

Here’s the breakdown::

#1., #4, & #5 all came from one of my favorite places, Home Goods.

Now, I have to stop here before I go any further and explain something. Any good DIY’er makes their own wreaths…especially for Fall. Let me say, I had every intention and every desire to make my own…however I just plum ran out of time and didn’t have the energy. I felt like I needed to take a moment to confess that I completely bought this wreath and didn’t make any part of it.

Hopefully you’ll forgive me and not give me too hard of a time. I thought it was pretty so I just went with what I found

2. The spindles came from an antique store in Franklin. My intent was to use them as candlesticks. Hopefully in my next mantel decor or vignette, I can use them for that.

3. Both of the big white pumpkins are fake. I bought them at Hobby Lobby. I thought it would be good to have a few fake ones to be able to re-use in the future and save some money.

6. I bought this shutter several years ago with the intent of using it to display some of my cards from my now non-existent Etsy shop at a craft fair. That never happened so this has been hanging around just waiting to be used. I added a fresh coat of white spray paint and then dry brushed some brown paint on it to give it a bit of a distressed look.

7. The fall burlap bunting was actually something I made for our shelves last year {I used them as a faux mantel for decorating}. Please excuse the poor photography…clearly I’ve come a long way when it comes to photography since those pictures

8. In my previous apartment I had covered our outdoor patio table with some burlap fabric. Since we no longer use that furniture, I’ve had all that burlap fabric sitting in storage. So, I used some of it to fill the basket on our hearth and used some to put underneath everything on the mantel.

#9. & #11. Both the basket and the faux acorns came from JoAnn’s.

10. The vintage Coke crates came from the Nashville Flea Market several months back. I just re-purposed them and decided to use them on our hearth for now.

Besides buying stuff, I did work on a few craft projects for the mantel. One of which included the wooden initials on the mini white pumpkins.

There are four of us girls that live together so I decided to add each of our initials to a pumpkin. Just thought that would be a fun way to incorporate everyone.

I just bought the wooden letters at JoAnn’s and then bought some metallic craft paint and painted the front and sides.

I also used the same metallic paint for the pine cone garland, another craft project. We have a pine tree in our background so I just gathered up a bunch from the yard {free=awesome}. I painted some completely and then some I just painted the bottoms with some white paint.

I didn’t really attach them to the jute string in a fancy way. You can kind of see from the picture below, but I just strung the string through the back of the pinecones.

I didn’t really have a specific vision for how I wanted the mantel to look. I just bought things and used things I had and just played around with things until I got it like I wanted.

Luckily I didn’t have to buy a ton of stuff and was able to re-use a lot.

If you have a mantel, do you re-use a lot of your decor every year? Just curious how often you switch up the theme and look.

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