Pinterest emails me my weekly activity.  This is the one I got today

✭ You added 101 pins
✭ You received 7 likes
✭ You were repinned 47 times
✭ 1 person started following your boards.
As you can see, I pinned 101 times in one week…LOL  Yeah I am addicted.

But!  I do sometimes take the ideas I get from Pinning and actually do something with them  Here are some that I have done recently

My Pin is from Inspiration for Decoration

You use coffee beans as a filler with a vanilla scented candle…smells so yummy!

I got the cake plates and wreaths from Ikea in their Christmas section.  I know, can you believe they already have their Christmas stuff out?  It isn’t even Halloween yet!

I used the coffee beans sparingly since coffee is so expensive now a days.  I used a glass enclosed candle inside a glass vase.  It made it hard to get those beans to fit in between the two glasses, lesson learned.

This pin is from My Heart’s Desire

You use different colored beans as a vase filler.  I opted to use my beans as a filler for a dried floral arrangement for my Thanksgiving table decorating.

When I showed my husband the arrangement he said “oh wow, that is a neat idea.  And you can even re-use the beans after you are done.”  I just nodded in agreement, like “yeah, I know, right?”   But seriously, a bag of beans cost about $1.29 each, one bag filled up two vases, so at that price I don’t think I really need to re-use them.  But I guess you could if you really needed or wanted to.

I used red beans, split pea beans and corn kernels for my layers.  

I also started a new thing that I do with Pinterest.  I get LOTS of unsolicited catalogs, I mean a ridiculous amount daily.  So now, I ear mark the stuff I “might” want or could DIY and then go on to their web site and pin them.  Helps me remember what I saw and eliminates the stack of catalogs laying around.  I pinned this cute rustic metal turkey from At West End and actually ordered two of them.

They look so cute at my front door

I know it isn’t Thanksgiving yet, but since I don’t decorate for Halloween, I couldn’t resist using them as soon as I got them

Another item I pinned and bought was this cool tool you use to cut out holes in fruit or vegetables to make them into candles.  It is from Kitchen Kapers

It is called a Candle Carver.  I did try it on two apples, and it worked pretty well.  The only thing is, the apples looked sad after a day after being cut into.  So I will only be using it the day I want to use the fruit for candles.

I have so many more things I want to make and do that I have pinned..but as you can see from my pinning numbers, I need to stop pinning a little less and start doing a little more.

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Oh and I am linking up to Amanda’s party since she is as addicted to Pinterest as I am

What I made from my Pinterest inspirations is a post from: Cre8tive Designs Inc.

I used most of what I already had.  I did buy some fall flowers for my urns and some realistic apples from Wal-mart to put in my apple basket

Since my front doors are so large, I added some height with an old chair for the scarecrow

On the other side of my front door I used  a step stool that my daughter Tara no longer needed for her old bed

I love the texture of these pumpkins I put in the basket and the punch of orange from the real pumpkin {$3.38 at Wal-mart!}

Now I can just sit back and enjoy fall.  Feels good to be ahead of the game for once.

Have you started any fall decorating at your house?

I am not Fall-ing behind this year is a post from: Cre8tive Designs Inc.

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I sometimes {or at least think I am going to} make or implement what I pin. Some of my friends and family members have made some recipes from what I have pinned, so I keep pinning so that they have lots of ideas to choose from.  Yeah, it is a big sacrifice, but I do it for them…

Although…today I did use some of my Fall/Thanksgiving pins as inspiration for decorating.

My pin

My interpretation of the pin

I know they aren’t pumpkins, but I saw these cute ceramic candy corns at my friends store and it reminded me of them.  I would of never of thought to use candy corn for a fall decoration, thank you Pinterest

My Pin

My interpretation

I liked the idea of using a circle of texture,  so I put a wheat grass wreath under my faux fall hydrangea arrangement that I sat on a silver tray.

My Pin

My interpretation

Ok, there is no interpretation here, it is pretty literal, but mine aren’t handmade like the pin picture, I cheated and bought them at Home Goods.

My Pins

My interpretation

I loved the idea bunching a large amount of wheat grass together and using a pumpkin as a vase { I put candles in mine}.

So I think that it is paying off pinning as often as I do.  Not just for my family and friends, but for me too!

All links to the wonderful pins can be found on my Fall/Thanksgiving board here

I want to be a professional Pinner is a post from: Cre8tive Designs Inc.