Fall Burlap Banner

Fall is by far my very favorite season of all time!!!  I'm lucky if I can wait until Sept 1st to pull out my fall decorations most years!  :)  This year was no exception!  After setting everything out, my mantle just looked so plain so I decided to make a banner.  I'm pretty addicted to banners on the fire place now and think I need to make one for every holiday & season! 

I still have a few yards of various colors of burlap and a roll of twine and I just went to Home Depot the other day and got some fall colored paints so I was all set!

 

I cut the burlap into 5" x 6" pieces and picked the Rustler font for the letters.

I thought 4 squares would look a little too plain so I decided to paint maple leaves on burlap for each end of the word.

 

 

I just love these sample bottles of paint that you can get at Home Depot for less than $3!!!  A bottle of this stuff actually lets me do several projects and I love not having huge cans of paint cluttering up our already cramped garage!

On my last trip to HD I had originally picked out 12 colors that I wanted to get samples for but wanted ot get some other things too so I decided to take it down to 6 so hubby wouldn't be as upset with me!  :) 

 

 

 

I love a more rustic look so I didn't want to sew the burlap so I used clothespins to attach the burlap to the twine and I love the way it turned out!!!

Here's our fall mantle:

Back to School Command Center

Today was my son's first day of school and kindergarten orientation day for my baby girl and the perfect day for my Thirty-One order to arrive!!!  YAY!!! 

 

(By the way, my friend Tawny is a SUPER FABULOUS Thirty-One consultant!!  If you don't have one already, you should join her FB group HERE where she posts the monthly specials and giveaways and all the other awesomeness of Thirty-One!)

 

Anyways, back to me.  ;)

 

A few weeks ago I shared about our dry erase board that I made to put at the top of our command center:

 

 

Ugghhh...those ugly coat hooks make me cringe every time I see them!  :)

I guess we've survived almost 6 years living with them, we can handle another 6 months or so until we buy a house!

 

This space is really small but we're working with what we've got so this is how it looks with all my new Thirty-One goodies:

 

 

 

I just love these colors!

The wall organizer is the perfect fit for our school calendar and has spaces for us to put any notes/school work that needs to be kept and I love that it has the dry erase marker to write on each area!

The 2 Littles Carry-All Caddies wouldn't both fit on the hooks along with the backpacks so I tucked one down below the two rectangle boxes and hung the other one up where I can keep an extra dry erase marker for our board and I can put things in them that the kids need to remember to take to school. 

 

I think it turned out really cute, especially given the tiny space we were working with!  I love that we now have a drop-zone for all the school stuff and the kids can keep library books and everything else  in the same area so no losing things!  PHEW!