Fall Copycat Project

I got a catalog from Grandin Road a few weeks ago and their Harvest Leaves Collection caught my eye.   Specifically, the hanging basket pictured below.

Shortly after seeing this and bookmarking the page, I found three of these hanging baskets {with coconut liner} at a garage sale for $1.00 a piece.  I bought all three, kept two for myself and gave one to my daughter.  So that took care of the basket.  Please excuse the glam shots of my garage, where I put this together.

I decided to go to the dollar store to see if I could put together something similar to the Grandin Road one on a budget.  The Grandin Road basket is $69.00.  The dollar store didn’t have too much Fall décor out at the time, but I bought two small resin pumpkins, 4 Oak leaf picks, 5 assorted Fall picks, foam for the basket, and a bag of Spanish moss, spending $11.00.  The project cost me $12.00 to make in total.

I used a little hot glue for the foam in the basket liner.  Then just stuck the bunches into the foam.  I covered it up with the Spanish moss {used the whole bag} and then used hot glue on the resin pumpkins.

I am going to make a second one, with the other basket I had gotten, for the shepherd’s hook I have near the garage door walkway.

I also want to try and do their urn filler that they are selling for $159.00.  This does not include the urn it is just the filler.  I have an urn just like this outside our front door and this would bring me right up to when I decorate for Christmas.

I’m hoping to do that urn next and I will share that project with you, too, and then I’ll get a picture of the whole area.

Catalogs can be great sources of inspiration for projects.  Most of the time you can come up with a reasonable facsimile of the item being offered but at a lower price if you make it yourself.  Have you copied something from a catalog recently?

Linking up with:

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

Inspire Me Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Fall Into Fall at DIY by Design

Open House Party at No Minimalist Here

Be Inspired at Common Ground