tying it up

I have been looking for something cute & affordable to put on our front door for fall and I couldn't find exactly what I wanted. Well, I found some stuff but I didn't want to pay the price for it. So I did what anyone else would do....I made one myself! 

I saw one last fall on a blog somewhere that I thought about trying because it was super cute & super easy. It was basically fake leaves hot glued on a picture frame mat.....but that didn't happen. Then I kept seeing some this fall that looked even easier to make so while I was at the store one day I picked up what I would need to make it.

I picked up the styrofoam from Michael's and the fabric from Wal-Mart. I love that Wal-Mart sells fabric in these pre-packaged things now. Each one was two yards of fabric and I ended up using one yard of each color. I'm a huge brown/orange fan for fall but you could use any colors that you want really, I've seen some that were used with ribbon & those were super cute! Maybe at Christmas time I will do that?!

I simply cut the fabric into strips and then tied them onto the styrofoam alternating between the two colors. Then I trimmed the ends of the knots to the length that I wanted. Tied some ribbon on the top and it was done!

I wasn't sure how I was going to like it while I was making it but I think I really like it! {plus Ryan even said that he thinks it looks good....that doesn't happen often!} It's super light too so I don't have to worry about it falling off the hook and it's not too big so I don't have to worry about it getting smashed between the two doors.

I'm thinking about getting the letter P to attach to it somehow or maybe a little scarecrow.

Opinions on adding something to it....yay or nay?!