Fall Beauty

I decided to decorate a tree stump with red, yellow and brown colored things found in my back yard.  The reason I chose to use red, yellow and brown colored materials is because, during the time of this project it was Fall and during fall, my backyard is  full of those colors! First I used these red berries and smashed them and decided to spread them on the stump to use as a glue like substance. Once the glue was spread, I stuck red berries, yellow leaves and brown leaves all on  stump creating sort of a color wheel.  This whole process took me a while because the win kept blowing everything off of the stump.

This  is what the finished product looked like!!!!!;)





This is the day after I finished this masterpiece.  The "glue" worked well in keeping the berries on the stump but the leaves struggled to stay on.  I was very suprised the berries stayed on the stump, I thought maybe a bird would have eaten them.




This was the 2nd day after I had finished the piece.  As you can see more leaves have fallen off and about a third of the berries had now fallen off.  I am beginning to think that because of the freezing temperatures, the "glue" may have frozen and become very fragile making easier for the wind to blow everything off.


I did not snap a picture on the 3rd day because the stump was now bare.  This leads me to believe the freezing temps played a role in how well the natural adhesive held the materials to the stump.