Fall Decorations

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I picked out several nice leaves, traced them onto 1/2 inch pieces of scrap wood (pine and poplar) and cut them out with my husbands scroll saw. They look really neat and are thick enough to stand up on the mantle and end tables. Everyone asks me where I got them and seem to like them. I have used them for several years. They really blend in in my log house.

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), October 09, 2001

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Oh, I love fall decorations, especially those I grow myself. It's really pretty to take the small ornamental corn and make garlands with that jute string stuff and hang them in the door ways. I add strips of torn calico tied in a bow between the cobs. I also love making the bittersweet wreaths using the grapevine wreaths.--Vicki

-- vicki in NW OH (thga76@aol.com), October 10, 2001.

Heres one for the kids. We gather pretty leaves, I iron them between wax paper to coat them with wax, them we glue them to a circle of cardboard from a cereal box or something to make an autumn leaves wreath. The one we did was really pretty and hung in our mudroom for about a year. Time to do another! also cornstalks and pumpkins are decorations of choice around here for the outdoors. And the biggie here in my neck of the woods is an autumn scarecrow out in the yard display.

-- Alison in N.S. (aproteau@istar.ca), October 15, 2001.

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