How is everyone’s November going? I have settled into the month nicely. My house has been de spoooki-fied. That is a thing, right? Well, either way it has been done. However, I am staying strong in my fall hoopla projects this month. I guess I am going against the grain here, there is a lot of sites and blogs doing Christmas themed stuff already. To quote a Minion “Whaaaatt!?” There will be none of that here at Our house now a home. This month is fall, we do fallish stuff. I know, I am being pretty rebellious. I walk on the wild side, the wild home decor blogging side. Also totally a thing.

So for today’s project…. I have kids, my kids have toys, toys come in containers that were at one point a way to organize said toys. The toys are now all over the floor, and I commandeer the containers and use them as assistance to my decor. Typical life cycle of a toy container here at Our home. I used most of these great wood Melissa and Doug boxes for my shell display, gallery wall. I had one left. Now I have none left. I put this one to use.

Confession time, this project was done a few weeks ago. Back when we had green leaves on our trees. I had a few leaf projects I was going to do so I grabbed a few different kinds of leaves. They were all going to fall off the tree shortly so I had zero guilt about cutting these leaves life cycle down a little.

I asked Dale to get me a few other leaves to see if I wanted to try something else. This is what he brought me, apparently this is “a few”

I decided to use a standard maple leaf for this one. Nice and big, with a great shape.

I had purchased some acrylic paints for another project, and used them on this one.

I used a bright orange color, trying to cover as much of it as I could with the paint.

Centering it in the middle of the wood box, then push and mush down. And yes, this nifty gif was needed to show what I did. Pictures in motion. Everyone now “Oh, ah, wow!” Be sure to push down and not allow it to slide around. The more sliding that happens will make the leaf look more sloppy. Keep it tight.

After I pushed away, it looked like one of those psychiatrist ink blots. Since this is not meant to be anything deeper then some pretty leaf decor. I need to add the nature to this. I painted with brown the stem and veins of the leaf. Much more leaf like now.

It looked nice, but needed something…..

….Twine! Twine is always the answer to add a little oomph to a project. Especially a fall project.

I took my always ready to use twine and weaved it around the top of the wood box. I sat and weaved. It took a while, but I was so happy with how it turned out, I just kept at it.