First Fall Craft

Like I said in my last post, I am so excited for colder weather!

I love everything about fall, especially here in St. George where we kind of cheat

the colder weather months ;)

I also love decorating for all of the fall holidays!

So when Ty took a guys night out hunting doves,

I headed to the dollar store to see what creation I could make!

I had remembered seeing a picture on pinterest

 (all this pinterest stuff is starting to get embarrassing)

anyway, this is the picture but the link just lead to the same picture...

 without a tutorial or anything. 

I decided I was going to try and replicate it and this is my journey.

This is what I bought..

The Dollar Store had these fake styrofoam fake fruit which was perfect!

I didn't have a plate I wanted to use so I just picked one up. 

Then I traced the top of the apple using the candle and cut about a 1/4 of an inch down

Then I ripped off the top part of the apple and dug out the styrofoam.

Classy right? haha I just went for it.. I probably could of done it

nicer buuuuut live and learn right? 

Then I shoved the candles into the spots,

lit the candles,

and then as the wax melted, slowly poured it over on every side.

I accidentally didn't watch very carefully and the "apple peel" caught on fire

needless to say I'll be doing that one again...I told you it was a journey. 

Overall I think they turned out alright. 

(I should say that I didn't like how it looked with the burnt candles,

 so after I melted the wax, I replaced it with new candles)

I got a little brave and drew some leaves on the corners of the plates

with a skinny sharpie.

Voila!

Happy Fall!