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As we continue to decorate our home, we bring you along.  This week we are in the family room decorating it for Fall.  Welcome back to Decorate with Us | Fall Season 2023, joining me are my sweet friends, Corine Curly Willow Acres AKA Junk to Gems, Tammy Patina and Paint, Teresa Through a Vintage Door and Niki Life as a LEO Wife.

I will have all of their links down at the bottom of my page, you can watch me decorate my chest of drawers on both social media.

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I wanted a nice size branch to be the height of the mirror on the chest of drawers in the family room.  I couldn’t find one or at least the price I was willing to pay.  So, I did the only thing a DIYer or should I say cheap skate would do, made one myself.

FAUX FALL LEAF BRANCH

Supplies you will need:

• Good size branch; with all the leaves removed.
• Leaf bundles – I purchased all mine from Dollar Tree.
• Hot glue gun and hot glue sticks.
• Snips
• A container to add your branch to.

Pick out your branch

For my branch, our neighbor had a tree fall due to a storm, I took a nice size branch from the tree.

Brought it home and cleaned all the dead leaves off of the branches, being very careful not to break off all the little twigs.

I am funny about bringing things in from outside without taking all precautions.  So, I scrubbed the branch with soap and water, after it dried gave it a coat of poly.

Now I am ready to start adding colorful leaves.

Remove leaves from bundles

I used Dollar Tree’s 7 Tan and 3 Multi color Leaf bundles with berries.

Removed the leaves from the stems, I am not using the berries for this project.

Add leaves to branch.

Place a dab of hot glue to the end of a small twig.

Slip the leaf part with the hole over the twig.

Hold until hot glue has time to cool.

This is how the branch looks with one bundle of leaves.

Randomly add a couple multi-color leaves in the mix of adding the tan leaves.

If the twig is larger than the hole of the leaves, I used my snips and cut just one side of the hole and slipped it around the twig.

To keep my branch from becoming too colorful, I used more tan leaves than mulit-color leaves.

I love this DIY fall branch project! Was it a quick one, no it wasn’t, but was worth the savings.  I added it to a dark vase and look how pretty!

Add your branch to your favorite vase

Now make sure you go over and watch the other girls and how they are decorating a space in their family rooms.  First pop over and watch my video! 🙂

Niki Life as a LEO Wife

Teresa Through a Vintage Door

Tammy Patina and Paint

 

 

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