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Easy Inexpensive Fall Wreath
by Becky Breaux

Try this simple and inexpensive fall wreath made from just a few supplies. What you'll get is a lovely wreath to hang on your door that everyone will love!

Supplies needed:

Straw wreath
Paper Twist Ribbon - A nice brown paper bag color, and a small amount of orange and green.
Artificial fall colored leaves - Sold in small packages.
One small round styrofoam ball - 1 or 2 inches in diameter.
Hot Glue
Craft wire (Optional)
Take the wreath out of its plastic wrap. You actually want to see the straw in this wreath!

Untwist some of the brown paper ribbon, leaving wrinkles, and wind it around the wreath, leaving straw showing between the ribbon. Make a bow from the paper twist - any kind you like - and attach it to the wreath with hot glue or craft wire. I put mine at the top, off center to the left. Put yours wherever you want it.

To make the pumpkin:

Unwrap a piece of the orange paper twist long enough to cover the styrofoam ball. Wrap the ball in the paper ribbon, leaving some wrinkles in, and securing the paper with hot glue. Try to avoid getting the glue directly on the styrofoam, because it will melt.

For the pumpkin stem: Cut a piece of unwrapped green paper ribbon into a star-type shape and glue to the top of your pumpkin. Use a small piece of unwrapped brown paper twist and glue it to the top of the ball. Now you have a tiny pumpkin.

At the bottom of your wreath, glue on a "pile" of the fake autumn leaves, and glue the pumpkin on top of the pile. You can add more artifical leaves to other places on the wreath.

Do whatever else to it you want! This is how I did mine, and it was very inexpensive, and I get lots of compliments!

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About the Author:
Becky Breaux (a.k.a. Roo) is a wife and mom living in upstate NY. Her son Devin is 7 years old and she is a work at home mom. She also takes care of children with disabilities at their homes. "I also have a 6 year old sister that lives next door with my mom, and we're together a lot, so it's almost like I have two kids. Also have two kitties and a snake."

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