...bAcK to ScHOoL decorations...

So..I finally got tired of looking at the Fourth of July decorations and decided to change things...problem is... it's too late for fourth of July but it's too early for Fall and Halloween...if I put the fall stuff up now...I'll be looking at it until the end of November...I LoVe my FaLL goodies...but not enough to look at them for almost 4 months...especially in Southern California...we don't really have FaLL at all, so to try to stretch it for a quarter of the year is ridiculous!!

My solution?  ...BaCk to ScHOoL...

Here's a banner I made this morning...I just picked through one pile of papers and found things that looked "school-y" to me :)

...a little ribbon, some Heidi Swapp letters, a few medallions...done...and I didn't buy a thing..woo-hoo!

I left the candlesticks alone...just pulled off the red, white, and blue candles and added some school supplies and a pile of mini books...again, I just used things laying around the house...so...more free....

Here's a close up of my stack of little books just because I think they are so cute...I spent a few years collecting them and actually have a small shelf hanging in the hallway that looks like a mini bookshelf holding most of the collection.

here's the table right by the front door...super simple...still using what was around...

The pictures are the boy's most recent ScHoOL  photo (1/2 way through 4th grade) and a Kindergarten picture that I LoVe!  That boy was sooooo cute back when he smiled for the camera and didn't have a 13 year old girl's BaD attitude! 

 Just some scrabble tiles, one of the prizes I made for Connor to give his previous teachers and then I had to come up with what to do with the Apothecary jar that always sits there...It usually holds a picture supported by the Scrabble tiles I'm not using in the tray...but...instead...

I did this!!! :)  

It totally makes me laugh!!  I went out to out extra school supplies box and pulled in things that fit...SuPeR quick and easy...aaaaaannnnndddd....FREE!!  

Probably took 2 hours total...most of that making the banner...and $0.00  which is awesome since this is what is going on outside the front door....

Yup...that's a big ol' rotten hole in the front of my house...and rotten columns...and generally...a giant mess....

So...I don't really have money for something as GoOfY as BaCk to ScHoOL decorations...it's kinda being spent trying to keep my house from falling down! :(  

Amazing how creative you can be when you just don't have the money...

or maybe it's just that I have CrAZy amounts of craft supplies at my house and should open a store instead of continuing to go to them...NOOOOOO....let's go with the first one...yeah...definitely the first one! :)