Preschool & Thrifty Autumn Garland

Josie switched rooms this week and is officially in preschool. So far, it's going well.

Although she did inform me when I put her to bed last night that she "wasted" her lunch because she was too busy talking. Yep. That sounds about right. She's my little social butterfly.

Remember the original garland that I brought home from the Dollar Tree?

I enhanced it with coffee stained book pages and it now looks like this.

One of my favorite thrift stores sells books for a quarter and I took the book apart, brushed coffee on the pages and let them dry in the sun.

I then traced one of the leaves onto cardboard to make a stencil and cut out several leaves from the coffee stained paper.

I then hot glued them to the leaves on the garland to give it some dimension.

Super easy and super cheap.

Happy crafting!
My craft room is going to get a work-out this long holiday weekend!!