We Fall For Faux!

Can it really be Monday already?

I'm Mosaic-ing and Metamorphosis-ing today, taking some things I found here:

and here:

and at HomeGoods, and just at home, and playing with seasonal and holiday decor.

I am lucky that a wonderful well-organized Dollar Tree, and a T.J. Maxx are both located
in the same little mall as our local supermarket. Howard may not agree with me on this.

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During this week, I'll be using and showing these things, and many more, as we move ever closer to Halloween and Thanksgiving. Here's my collage for Mosaic Monday, over at Mary's Little Red House -- random seasonal kitsch!

Ah . . . so many little new friends, to join my little old friends. :-)

And the reality of clutter, too. I'm in the midst of creative chaos.

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My Metamorphosis today is all Dollar Tree. Oops, no . . . I lie.

The cauldron is from CVS, but it did cost one dollar.

Three floral bushes from Dollar Tree -- roses and peonies in Fall colors --
with one foam block from DT, the CVS cauldron, some ribbon . . . . . . and here goes!


I cut the flower stems off the bushes, and with most of the stems I also stripped off the leaves.

On really chintzy faux flowers, the leaves are sometimes the dead giveaway that the arrangement has never had its tootsies in the dirt. The flowers can often pass from a distance, but the leaves? Never the right color!



Go visit Susan at Between Naps On The Porch, for the popular and fun Metamorphosis Monday.
You will find dozens and dozens of wonderful ideas and show-and-tell stories there!

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Snip, snip, snip!

Can I interest anyone in some unwanted leaves?

Scrunch the stems into the foam block. This takes more effort than you might think!

Tuck 'em in tight.

Hmmm... looking okay, but a little stark.

It's a good thing I can't resist pretty ribbon, and always have some on hand.

This came from .... you guessed it! .... Dollar Tree.

Ta-da! All finished.

I love fresh cut flowers. But sometimes, they are not practical.

Sometimes you want to put florals in an out-of-the-way spot, or a hard-to-reach spot, or you realize that nice fresh flowers are seasonally expensive. It can make good sense to go faux. I'll show you later this week where this little cauldron is going to spend Halloween.

I recently put a vase, a Goodwill find that I haven't shown off yet, on the pie safe. It needed to be filled, but it has a crack I had not noticed when I paid a whopping two bucks for it. I am not sure about putting water in it! So I bought nice flowers at Michael's, and I'm going to buy more, and keep switching them around. I think it's a good idea to keep artificial arrangements moving and changing, as they would if they were fresh cut.

If I can fool myself, I am a happy gal. -- Cass

PS.... Thank you for your warm support of the Alzheimer's Walk yesterday. We had a marvelous turnout, and our family team raised more than 2,300 dollars; how about that? In all, I believe more than $650,000 was raised in that one location.