an autumn wreath

I saw this wreath at Williams Sonoma, and thought it was lovely. But for $100? Not so lovely. You know what’s coming next, don’t you??

  Of course you do.

6 bags of reindeer moss from Dollar Tree,

I climbed up in the attic and found a bag of these pumpkins from Michaels autumn clearance last year, and wondered if they would have them again this year.

(If you look closely in the picture below, you can see the different color of the pumpkins from last year)

They did! AND they had 50% coupons on Labor Day….score!

I bought 3 more bags at $5 each.

I had rescued this wreath form from my neighbor’s trash last year and started sticking the moss to it with spray adhesive. 

Then I globbed hot glue all over the pumpkins and stuck them on to the moss wreath:

My cost:

$6 for the moss

$18 for the pumpkins

$3 burlap ribbon at Walmart

free wreath form

Grand Total: $28

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It may not be an outside wreath, we’ll have to see how it goes. I hung it using Martha’s little trick here, so I can easily flip it to the inside if I need to…

Who’s ready for autumn??