It's Fall Y'all!! (Cheap Decor Ideas and more!)

Hey everyone! I am super excited because it is officially Autumn! I can now have my house decorated and using all sorts of Fall themed wax without my husband thinking I have lost my head. Anyways today I want to show you guys all of my very simple and cheap DIY Autumn/Halloween Decor. Autumn always gets me excited because it is the start of all the fun decorating and yummy foods to come! So enough of me pouring my love into this season and time to get started on what you came here for!

1. Candle Holders

Okay these are so easy to make as well! I bought to candle holders from Family Dollar ($1 each) then hot glued some leaves($1 at Dollar Tree) inside of it on the top lip so you couldn't see the glue and BAM you are done! SO easy to make and it looks beautiful if you ask me! Perfect for a Dinning Room Table!

2. Mini Wreath!

I bought a foam circle from Walmart for about two dollars I believe. I had some burlap form a while back so I just wrapped the ring and hot glued it together. Then I added some leaves to it! So simple and tiny but beautiful at the same time.

3. Simple Wall Hanger.

Okay this was about three dollars at Walmart I believe but not sure because my husband bought it for me as a surprise. He understands my fall obsession.

5. Sugar Skull Pen Holder

This is for my sugar skull obsession. My mother-in-law bought me this cup last year for Mother's Day but I keep it put up til Halloween. It usually is my Apple Cider cup but this year I wanted it to be more of a focal point so it became my pen holder.

6. Sugar Skull Pot Holder.

This came with an oven mitt which is pictured as well! This are so beautiful and colorful! I love how they add more sugar skulls into my house. Roughly $3 at Walmart. They work so well!!!

7. Sugar Skull Window Clings!

Okay so as you can see my kitchen has a whole Sugar Skull theme going on. It wouldn't be complete without the window clings! These are only a dollar at the dollar store. These will look amazing to finish off my sugar skull obsession room!

8. Cookies!

How can it be fall without these yummy things?!?! So they are about $3 at Walmart as well. Super yummy and very pretty to set out for company. I loves these cookies to death and get super excited when I see them out each year!

9. My Living Room Center Piece.

 I am in love with this arrangement. It is so simple yet so beautiful and makes everything look amazing! It was very simple to create. I bought a vase from Dollar General ($2) I had burlap already at my house from a while back but I believed I bought it at Walmart as well as the burlap flower. I got sticks from outside (Free) Sunflowers from the Dollar Tree ($1) and some leaves from the Dollar Tree ($1) The filler inside the vase is heart shaped cut out fall color paper. This was some more items I just happen to have on hand. It warms my heart to look at it and see how beautiful it makes my living room.

10. Pinterest Leaf Bowl

So I found this idea on Pinterest and I had to try it! So basically all you do is blow a balloon up, modpodge leaves to it and let it dry. So simple and It came out okay. At first I tried doing it with just basic school glue. It worked but I wanted it to be a little more harder so I layered the outside with modpodge to be safe. I should of just modpodged the whole thing but it is still adorable and looks cute in my little window out to my living room!

So these are just some very cute and simple ways to Fall up your home! It's all about having fun and just making your home feel more like the season. I am super excited to get more into the holidays!! 

xxoxx

-A

Zootopia Birthday Bash!

Hey guys, I'm going to do a little review of a birthday party I just threw for my daughter! We did a Zootopia theme, which is actually really hard to get ideas for since it's still really new. I spent about two months trying to figure out what on earth I was going to do to make this an amazing birthday! It would be my daughters first party that had friends and not just family so I had to make it right! So one day after three cups of coffee I finally figured out what I wanted to do. I sat down and sketched out everything that I was going to make and where it was going to go.

I knew I had a pretty tight budget to go on. I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg for a 6th birthday party but I wanted to do something really cute and special. Most of her decorations ended up being DIY. But it didn't end up tacky like I thought it would. My daughter ended up staying a night with her grandparents the night before so me and my husband could finish up birthday shopping for her birthday, also it was a surprise party so she couldn't be home when I did eveyrthing.

The "pawcicle" chocolates are really easy and super cute to have. Just buy a paw mold (I got mine off of wish), buy white chocolate, and buy red food coloring. Melt the chocolate, add in the food coloring, let it cool for a little bit the fill the molds with the not so hot melted chocolate. Let it sit til cooled and your done! I made these while she was home cleaning her playroom before going to her grandparents house. She never even noticed me (thank goodness).   

The treat bags are really simple, I made a header for them off of Google Drawings, Copied a few coloring pages from a Zootopia coloring book that my daughter already had, stapled a zip-lock bag in between the header and the coloring pages then filled it with the chocolate "pawcicles" that I made and then it's done!

The cake was made by an amazing baker. She did such an amazing job and worked with my budget well. I sent to her what I wanted and she made it happen no problem. I had to drive about an hour out of my town on the day of the party to get it but it was well worth it! She was simply amazing! The cake was super yummy as well! For some odd reason she couldn't find vanilla flavoring anywhere! She was so worried at first til she found a Mexican vanilla extract. It was so super yummy and I will be going back to her!

Okay so besides watching the movie I had to create a little game for them to play. We did Doughnut ring toss! It was super easy to make and lots of fun for the kids to play! As you can see its just a paper towel roll, cardboard pieces and paint! The kids loved it and I didn't have to spend much money at all for it! 

Here are some pictures of how I decorated my house for this day! Me and my sister had to wake up very early to get everything done by two. I owe her a HUGE thank you for putting up with how crazy I was and being able to help keep me calm during all of this. I know most of the details are things that my daughter didn't notice but I was so glad to do all of this for her, she deserved the best party and I believe I did good with what all I had to work with!
 (Please excuse the quality of the photos, I took them with my cell phone.)

Blew up tons of balloons for the party!

Carrot Forks :)

The Food Table

(I know a small TV -lol- but here is where they watched the movie)

A random window in my living room.

Time for cake!

Present table (before all the guest arrived)

Treat bags!

So as you can see it was an amazing party! My daughter fell in love with it all and was so surprised since we had her believing that her birthday was two weeks away. This is a moment I will cherish forever. She had a blast as well as all of her little friends! If you have any questions comment below, I'll be so happy to answer them!

xxoxx
-A