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October 5, 2026

3 Fall Decorations Using Faux Flowers

Hello friends! Today I’m sharing 3 fall decorations using faux flowers that are pretty easy to bring together and great for any small table in your home.

I’ll be using many of the supplies that I normally love to use when making simple arrangements so if you have things like twine, a collection of inexpensive faux flowers, recycled bottles and mason jars along with a few extra decorative items you can create your own beautiful fall decor too.

And bonus for anyone that doesn’t love using hot glue (like me) you don’t even need a glue gun to complete these simple DIYs!

I hope you enjoy these fall decorations and leave inspired to go make something of your own! Not because you need fall decor or anything, it’s just so much fun to craft 😉

3 Fall Decorations Using Faux Flowers

There’s something about brown bottles that just make me so happy for fall.

Here I’m using a recycled soap bottle, twine, white flower accents, yellow faux flowers and sticky dots.

I started by removing the label off of my bottle under warm soapy water. Thankfully, it peeled right off which was a small miracle because usually it takes some muscle to rub labels off of bottles for me!

Anyway, after my bottle was clean and ready to use I wrapped a super long strand of twine around my bottle and used a few small pieces of sticky dots to hold the twine in place. I find these dots to be really useful for things like this but if you’d rather use something like a hot glue gun that would be great too.

I found these adorable little white silk flowers at Walmart a couple of months ago. If you look closely they have a tiny pearl right at the center. So cute, and girly!

I used 3 of these flowers to add to my bottle, again using the same sticky dots.

As for the main star of the show here, the faux flowers…

I’m using two delicate stems of small yellow flowers which were part of a larger bunch of flowers that I picked up a few months ago at my local dollar store.

I love this simple and slightly messy look with the flowers that kind of resembles what we see out in nature where flowers rarely ever look perfect.

This second piece starts off with another recycled item…

A recycled can for my container, paint from Walmart, a few Dollar Tree flowers, Dollar Tree ribbon, twine, and a cute little pumpkin sticker. I’m also using sticky dots to hold my ribbons and sticker in place.

I started by painting my can with crafting paint from Walmart in the color territorial beige (what a pretty color!)

Then I wrapped my plaid ribbon around the can holding it in place with my sticky dots. After that I created a really simple shoe lace bow using 4 strands of twine, as you can see below. Lastly I cut out one of my pumpkin stickers and then attached everything to the ribbon using sticky dots.

FYI: the sticky dots are very large for what I’m doing here so I just cut them down very small as I went and that worked pretty good for me.

As mentioned, all of my flowers here are from the Dollar Tree. The small stem of hydrangea was from a few years ago but I purchased the other two about a month ago.

And here is the finished piece. This one is great for a kitchen counter or anywhere in the kitchen that has a little room for some decorative items.

This last arrangement is made up of colors that are not necessarily your classic fall colors but I really liked how everything paired with the beautiful stems of wheat that I have right down the center so I figured why not.

So I started with a mason jar for my arrangement. I really wanted to use something that wasn’t transparent but I didn’t have anything that would have worked so I ended up filling it with brown crafting paper.

As for my flowers, I’m using stems of wheat from the Dollar Tree, and a mix of white and light pink flowers that I’ve had for a few years now. Possibly from a dollar store or Michaels Craft Store.

Then I’m using beige mini sunflowers from the Dollar Tree and smaller yellow flowers from Michaels.

To make this arrangement I used all of the wheat stems first in the mason jar then I started placing my white and pink flowers all around the rim of the jar, keeping the wheat in the center.

After that, I added the mini sunflowers and lastly the small yellow flowers all down the middle with the wheat.

Once all of my flowers were in the mason jar I looked around the entire arrangement to make sure everything looked ok from all angles and moved around any flowers that needed to be adjusted.

That’s it for these 3 fall decorations using faux flowers. Thanks for stopping by!

***Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way.* *May*** God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

💜

August 7, 2026

3 Seashell Table Decorations – Perfect for Countertops and Small Tables

I know we only have about one month left of summer, but as always, I’m still trying to enjoy what is left of the season.

I always have a hard time transitioning from one season to another. I love taking in all the beauty that every season has to offer, and as for my crafts and decorations…. Well, after putting some time and effort into them, I never really want to put them away too soon. So frustrating!

Can any fellow craft lovers relate to that feeling? Never wanting to take your work apart or store it away when it’s time to move on to making new decorations for the next season.

Well, if you are like me and still want to see more summer decor ideas, then these simple seashell decorations may be perfect for you. They are super easy to put together, and you can probably still find many of the supplies that I’ll be using (or similar items) at any craft or dollar store. You may even get lucky and find items on clearance, since it is almost the end of summer, you know 😉

So let’s get to it and have some last-minute summer decor fun before those gorgeous fall pumpkins start rolling in.

3 Seashell Table Decorations – Perfect for Countertops and Small Tables

All three of these seashell table decorations came together with seashells that I found at my local dollar store. I purchased them a couple of months ago, and I believe I used a total of two small bags for everything.

For this first seashell table decoration, I’m using a few small pieces of faux leaves that I cut off of flowers I had in my floral stash, along with white and brown seashells and light blue beads.

Then for my container I’m using a cylinder vase that I found at Walmart a few years ago, along with a white candle.

My candle was a bit short for my vase so I used a floral styrofoam to raise it up as you can see here, but if you are using a candle tall enough to fit your vase you can skip this step.

Once I had my candle and vase ready, I used an old piece of fabric that I had on hand and added it to the bottom of my vase to cover the styrofoam and give the look of sand. You can use burlap here as well, or if you have some sand of course that would be perfect here!

Then I added my leaves, seashells, and beads to the top of the fabric, and this one is done.

(Friendly disclaimer: this is only for decorating purposes. Please don’t light a candle with fabric, faux greenery, or any other flammable decorative item)

So summery!

This next seashell table decoration consists of the same white and brown seashells that I picked up at my local dollar store along with a few short strands of iridescent beads that I had in my crafting stash.

I’ll be using a small recycled olive jar here that I filled almost completely with my seashells, then topped them off with those iridescent strands of beads.

What I really love about this seashell jar is the extra large, almost silly but adorable bow that I placed on top. Tehe…

To make this bow, I used sisal twine, which is a very strong and stiffer twine compared to regular twine. I found mine at my local dollar store, but I’ve seen it on Amazon, and I’m guessing you can probably also find it in hardware stores.

I made a rustic layered bow and then hot-glued it onto the top of my jar along with a few beads and one seashell.

A perfect summer decoration for any countertop or end table!

For this seashell table decoration, I’m using another recycled jar and filling it with a layer of small rocks, a second layer of blue gems, and a top layer of flat clear marbles.

Super simple!

All of my rocks and gems came from my local dollar store, and I used a little less than one bag for each layer.

Some sisal twine gets wrapped around my jar a few times and hot-glued around the back to hold in place. After that, I made a large bow with the same twine, hot-glued that onto the bottle, and then hot-glued on some seashells and beads to the center of my bow.

Keep in mind this type of twine can be very messy to work with, so it’s good to work over something to catch the mess like I did here with pink tissue paper.

Easy peasy and we’re done.

I hope you enjoyed these seashell summer decorations. Thanks for stopping by!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

July 15, 2026

Green and Yellow Faux Floral Summer Arrangement

Today I’m sharing a simple and pretty easy arrangement using green and yellow faux flowers. I really love bright, vibrant colors for the summer but the colors in this arrangement are a bit on the more subtle side with the different shades of green and yellow mixed in.

I have the lime green flowers combined with my smaller light yellow flowers then I added a very bright yellow ribbon to my vase over a Lacey burlap and a kind of army green ribbon that I had actually picked up for spring but have still been making use of now for the summer.

I hope you enjoy this simple summer arrangement!

Green and Yellow Faux Floral Summer Arrangement

I started with a skinny cylinder vase and wired green ribbon.

Using a glue gun, I wrapped two layers of my green ribbon to the vase to create a large band of ribbon for my vase.

Then I took this burlap ribbon with lace and hot glued it over the center of the two strands of green ribbon.

Now a yellow ribbon goes over the lace burlap.

Each layer of ribbon is hot glued around the back but in this next step I’m using a toothpick to add a very small amount of my hot glue under the burlap to keep it from moving around.

You can skip this step if you want. It’s just a little extra glue to keep things perfectly in place.

Lastly, I’m adding a small white bow over everything.

Now the flowers …

(oh happy day, oh happy day, oh happy day. Don’t mind me, I just really love flowers)

I’ll be using one stem of these lime green flowers…

and one stem of light yellow smaller flowers.

Here’s just a closer look of the flowers that I’m working with 🙂

So pretty!

(FYI: Both stems of flowers came from Michael’s Craft Store)

and here is the finished arrangement!

I just cut my stems to a good size for the vase and then stretched everything out here and there to shape my arrangement.

I hope you enjoyed this simple faux floral green and yellow summer arrangement 💙

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

June 8, 2026

Faux Sunflower and Turquoise Summer Arrangement

I find sunflowers to be so perfect for decorating almost any time of the year. They are especially beautiful for the fall, but for this centerpiece, I will be using sunflowers along with white flowers to put together a summer arrangement that is simply an eye-catcher with its bright yellow color.

What flowers do you like to decorate with for the summer?

Do you like beach-themed decor, nautical decor, tropical?

There’s so many beautiful options for the summer! There are sunflowers, wildflowers, vibrant colors, lemons, watermelons. The options can go on and on.

Well, no matter what you like for summer decor, I hope this sunflower arrangement is a favorite for you!

Faux Sunflower and Turquoise Summer Arrangement

I’m starting with a few sunflowers, some green leaves and a few white faux flowers.

For my container, I will be using a turquoise glass from the Dollar Tree along with a bunch of marbles.

The marbles will help keep my flowers in place as well as act as a pretty vase filler.

Once filling my cup with the marble, I add a large sunflower, slightly off to the side.

Those leaves you see above will be going in next.

One large leaf off to the right and a couple of stems with smaller leaves off to the left. (FYI, these stems are just random stems that I took from other flowers in my faux flower stash)

Then I’m grabbing a couple of white flowers from IKEA (possibly named alliums but don’t quote me on that) and placing them to the “back” of my arrangement.

Now I have a few more flowers to work with…

A small sunflower goes around the back along with my white flowers…

A medium sized sunflower off to one side…

And those smaller white flowers go off to the other side.

I wanted these flowers to kind of cascade down the side so before placing them in, I made sure to bend the stem enough to get that effect.

Here is where I stopped and took some time to look at my arrangement, see if it needed more flowers and decide where I would be placing my arrangement.

Where I would be placing my arrangement was important because at this point it was pretty much done as long as I would be putting it somewhere that the back was not very noticeable. But if I was putting it somewhere that I could see the entire arrangement, I would want to add more flowers around the back.

That’s exactly what I ended up doing.

I added a couple more small sunflowers and another bunch of small white flowers all around the back and I slightly moved everything around a bit wherever I felt it needed some extra love 🙂