So I don't know about you, but I love fall! Over the ten years that J and I have been married I have accumulated a nice collection of fall decor. With all the moving we do it may drive him a little batty at how many totes this collection fits into, but I really don't want it any other way. The boys love it as well, and I think its important for them to really fall in love with the idea of celebrating the seasons along with holidays.
I love the warm and toasty feeling it gives the house and I really don't have the budget to buy new every year to achieve this look and I really get sad when something doesn't work or gets destroyed. This year one of my lighted grapevine pumpkins decided it was done. I cut out the old lights and thought that I would just leave it as is....but it just wasn't the same. While visiting some family (blogging about it soon) I managed to pick up some brown string lights at a primitive store, with the intention of wiring some grapevine stars I had. I kicked myself for not thinking of my pumpkin when I got home. I first tested them on the pumpkin, but there just weren't enough lights on them. This past week Michael's was running a 20% your entire purchase and I had a 40% off coupon that they some graciously used on the same transaction...so I snagged a longer set of lights to rehab my pumpkin.
So after cutting out the old strand I gathered my supplies. The lights, a scissors, and small black/brown zip ties.
I then weaved the strand so that the lights were inside the pumpkin. I prefer the wires hidden inside and the lights to glow through the pumpkin with only a few lights poking through the framework.
I zip tied the strand to the grapevine making sure to loop around evening. One the lights were in and secure I went back and cut off the extra "tails" of the zip ties.
Now it glows in the living room, I am going to let the boys attach little spider rings to it for Halloween and leave it plain for Thanksgiving.
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