Fall Wreath

We are having a bit of a heat spell right now - the weather has been around 85 in the city, which is rare! We've been loving every second of it, but even with the warmth, the light has somehow changed, and we're starting to feel the first few hints of fall.  The leaves on the tree's have a twinge of yellow to them, and the days are definitely shorter!

With the first inklings of fall, I decided to revamp our doorway decor - not that I'm going nuts with pumpkins in the house (too soon) but just something a bit autumnal.

I had a pine-cone wreath from last year that was very... brown.  Lots of twigs, acorns, and pine-cones... and it looked so depressing hung up, so I always took it down pretty quickly.

Well, I bought some berries and autumn leaf sprigs at Michael's (literally $5 for everything with my coupon) and busted out the glue gun.  This is the finished result...

There is still plenty of green in the leaves to keep it feeling fresh, and the color from the berries makes these pine-cones the opposite of dreary.  Lively?  Inspired? Awake (at the least!)...

A gold ribbon (mainly to hold it to the door) finishes it off...

I'm super stoked about how this turned out!  Last Christmas, I'd bought a live boxwood wreath from Trader Joe's, and it dried beautifully, so that's been hanging on our door for the last year.  The new fall wreath brings some new life to this space, and if you ask me looks awesome with the brass door knob, key hole, and numbers.

Not that I'm biased or anything, but I think it also looks fetching alongside the new gold leafed frames...

Ok, enough talk of leaves changing, and temperatures dropping... Indian Summer is here baby, and I'm heading outside to soak up the heat!

xoxo