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Recent finds of the author include buckeyes and cones.
Autumn just started, and it's time to decorate for the season. Many frugal families already know that fitness and fun can be easy and free when taken outdoors with the many parks and trails that our counties and cities provide. They also know that nature is full of decorating material. Looking for good decorating material can be like a scavenger hunt, adding a new focus for places that are often visited and perhaps grown stale. My family took to finding as many conifers as possible last year -- we found at least ten different kinds of cones that had fallen on the sidewalk during a walk around the block!
Typical autumn purchases are gourds, pumpkins, straw bales, and corn shocks. Why not change things up? Depending on where you live and look, families can find the following right now: acorns, "pine" cones, buckeyes, grasses, cattails, hedge apples, and the favorite of many young kids, sticks. Willow branches will fall soon in great numbers. Make sure the nuts taken home are without holes -- a worm may crawl out!
This is also a nice time to find colorful leaves. Better Home and Gardens most recent magazine issue mentions arranging long-stemmed leaves (pressed or fresh fallen) as if they were flowers, using small-necked bottles, bud vases, and test tubes. For people with the patience to press leaves, pressings can be applied as a decoupage to candles. In the above photo, decoupaged candles brighten a corner with a tray of tumbled rocks and acorns.
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