As I was decorating my house for fall I realized I needed something for my coffee table and nothing felt quite right. As I was playing outside with my kiddo last week it hit me, LITERALLY! Acorns, falling from the sky…or the giant Oak tree in our front yard.
So with a little help from my two year old we collected a bag of them and I was set to create a fun piece for our coffee table.
My first step was to boil all of the acorns in a pot on the stove, this was to kill any critters that may be hiding away in there and it helped bring out the color.
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| Before we boiled them |
Unfortunately, the tops of the acorns tend to pop off when they fall from the tree, so once they were dry I broke out the glue gun and started putting the little beauties back together again.
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| Making them whole again! |
I had two glass pieces that I knew would be perfect for this project, the first was a larger square vase and the second was a candle holder. I thought the idea of a little candle light peeking through the acorns would be pretty, elegant and very fallish!
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| Candle holder inside the larger square vase |
I LOVE the way it turned out and my favorite part is that it was FREE!!
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| Finished! |
Happy fall, y’all!!
