Fake Take 3

Well, if you read the comments from the last few posts it seems that people either love fake plants and such or hate them. There is also a large group of us in betweeners. We are P.O.O.P.I.E.S yes, but we find lots of fakes that are not objectionable. I have no set rules for you to follow when using fake or if you are a fancy person "faux" plants so because this is my blog and I can ramble on and on and on about the same exact thing for days at a time, I'll just tell you what I look for and how I add to pretend stuff to make it tolerable.

Feathers. I gotta have em. Long ones, short ones even pheathers. I bought these probably at Hobby Lobby or Garden Ridge.


Since we have lots of geese round here my boys find big fat long goose feathers all the time. Most people don't want to touch them for sanitary purposes. Not me and my boys. We stole this one out of my sister's yard. Is it bad to touch a feather? I don't let them put it in their mouth or anything.


If you didn't like the idea of the real feather you certainly won't approve of this. Yes. It's a real, live nest. Aware of my addiction to all things bird, my boys ran in the house last spring holding this beautiful, fragile freshly made home. I don't even think the poor bird was finished with it. I figured after they boy handled it no self respecting bird would live in the nest so I keep it in a glass apothecary jar. It's such a sweet treasure. And the eggs are plastic. I do know where to draw that line.


How about these beauties? They are supposedly driftwood. Real? I guess.


Look how pretty they are in this $1.99 apothecary jar I found at the goodwill.


Every time we go to the park we come home with treasure. My boys love to pick up rocks, sticks, seed pods, pine cones, nuts, cattails {I'm not even gonna say it} moss, acorns, reeds, bamboo, nuts, and vines.


I keep all my glass jars together and right now they are housing all the stuff my boys have found. I also buy shells at the beach and add that to what they find. Sometimes, I throw in stuff that's not natural like glass door knobs and old finials and marbles or a fake pumpkin.


Here's a moss ball I made last spring. You just hot glue moss to a styrofoam ball. It was bright green but has faded in the sun and ready for fall.


So, here's that arrangement thing I keep showing you. I think it works well for me even though it's got fake stuff. Here are some ideas that I try to keep in mind:

*use a container that you love
*mix natural items with fake
*keep natural hues and don't try to make a bright colored arrangement
*use interesting items that you are drawn to

For this one I got two containers and stuffed them both with florist foam, hot glued on moss and stacked the two tins. I didn't attach them. Then I sat a nest, pumpkin, shells and stuffed in cattails and feathers. Nothing is glued in so I can change it up and put a big pine cone in for Christmas.

I'll be adding to my wreath over the weekend to make it Fall-y. Do you have your fall wreath up yet?