Fall is for...

New front door wreaths.  And cozy blankets and sweaters.  And hot drinks.  Fall has finally hit in Missouri, I am of course being stubborn and have not turned on the heat at our house yet.  The cooler weather meant a bonfire at our house Saturday night while we listened to the Mizzou game on the radio.  And drinking wine out of my Tervis tumbler, classy.

 

 Our actual firepit kind of bit the dust so we're planning to actually build a brick one, but for now we just keep it classy by making our bonfire in the hole where the fire pit used to sit.  And wine has to go in a lidded cup so my dog doesn't try to help me drink it.

Okay, back to wreaths.  You know I love me some wreaths.  I made a super cute Mizzou-ish wreath for our kitchen door last fall.  I still love it.  It still came back out for fall.

But I  needed a new wreath for our front door.  The first fall we were in our house, I made this wreath.

 

Kind of sad and not very cute.  It made me think of the 70s.  And the idea definitely looked better in my head than it turned out.  It has since been turned into a different wreath.

Last fall I just kept this wreath up until Christmas.  I thought the black and yellow kind of still worked, Mizzou colors anyway.

 

But this fall I was ready for something new.  I'd been pinning tons of cute wreaths and my mind was full of fun, cozy looking wreath ideas.

So, I set to work with a straw wreath, a roll of burlap ribbon and some felt.  I'm apparently obsessed with burlap/twine wrapped wreaths.  With flowers on them.  And after.... um.... at least a week, I had a finished wreath.  I finally sat down Saturday night during the end of the football game to finish it up.  I made my poor husband wait for dinner until I was finished.  Then I had it all together and my wreath was too fat to go in my wreath holder.  So I dug around and found some ribbon that worked perfectly.

 

I didn't end up actually even gluing the flowers on.  I just stuck them on with sewing pins.  Which you can totally see in the centers.  I need to get something to put over the pins.  But overall, super happy with how it turned out.  I keep opening my door to stare.

Anybody else working on making their home (and entryway) super cozy for fall?  I'm feeling the need for more cozy blankets.

 

 

 

Showin' a Little Love

Holy cow you guys!  Someone nominated me for one of the Homies awards on Apartment Therapy.  I'm nominated for Best Home Project & DIY Blog.  Guys!  I don't know who nominated me.  I didn't even know I was nominated until I noticed my traffic was way up and the Apartment Therapy website was the referring address.  Holy cow.  Whoever nominated me, thanks, you're the best.

So, if you want to vote for me you can click here and it will take you there.  And if you don't want to scroll forever and try to find me, you can hit "Ctrl F" and a cute little search box will appear and you can type in Lip Gloss and Flats.  Or you can vote for whoever you want to.  I'm not the boss of you.  There are tons of wonderful people nominated.  Lots of sweet people whose blogs I read and more I can't wait to start reading.  Either way, head over and vote for somebody, show some blog love.

And in spirit of some love I'm back with some fun little Valentiney projects to share with you.  First off, my other front door wreath.  Remember, back when I shared this wreath with you, I promised there was more in store.  So, here we go.  Since I have two front drawers, I have to have two front door wreaths.  Apparently at all times.  It's become an addiction.

So, this is a foam wreath wrapped with white yarn.  I hot glued on pink and grey diamonds and wrapped hot pink yarn to make this snazzy argyle pattern.  To finish it off I hung it with a grey ribbon (the ribbon came off a blanket I got for Christmas, resourceful!)

And my Valentines mantle.  I wanted to do more but....  I got lazy is really the only excuse.  So, I dressed up my candle holders, I just wrapped some pink polk a dot ribbon around them.  And I made a pretty pink wreath.  I wrapped bright pink yarn around a foam wreath.  And I made a big pink bow out of felt.  So pretty.  And then there's the heart canvas.  It's the cousin to my Christmas confetti canvases.  The canvases from Christmas came in a three pack so I had one left over.  I grabbed all the bottles of pink paint from my paint stash.  I just went to town making pink dots in the shape of a heart.  I used a piece of wax paper cut into a heart stencil as my guide.  It's not perfect but I think it's pretty cute.

So, there we go.  The rest of my Valentines decorations.  Did you decorate for Valentines?  Or are you like me and had great intentions of pretty decorations and then just got too busy.  Sure, I could do a couple more things this week/weekend but I don't see much point when Valentines is next week.