Dishfunctional Designs: Decorating & Crafting With Pine Cones

I love pine cones! If you can get to them on a dry day before it rains, why not collect some yourself to use in crafts, home decor, and gifts? Autumn is the perfect time to start collecting pine cones and a great time of year to bring some of the outdoors

into your home. Fall's bounty of leaves, acorns, and pine cones

offer great opportunity for both crafty folk and DIY decorators. Whether you use them right away in fall or save them for Christmas crafts and Christmas decorations, you will find that the humble pine cone is versatile, beautiful, and can be used in many different ways!

Check out some of the ways that pine cones can be incorporated

into your home and be inspired!

My daughter and I created these glitter pinecones for Christmas decorations many years ago when she was in elementary school! We collected them from our yard, dried them out, wrapped the tops in wire, and then rolled them in white or ivory colored paint and then rolled them in glitter and allowed them to dry. We still admire them each year.

Pine cone chandelier via BHG

Estrela feita com pinhas clareadas. Eu ensino esta técnica para você transformar suas pinhas recolhidas da natureza.

Pine cone Christmas ornament

The vine is made from pine cones. DIY from Martha Stewart

Pine cone decorated cake from Martha Stewart

BHG's Winter Charm Pinecone Tree (here's the DIY) is just beautiful

Use different colored acrylic paint to create a Painted Pinecone

Pretty acorn and pine cone wreath by Hwit Blog

Wax-dipped and painted pine cones

Glittery cones from Speckled Egg

Simple pinecone garland

HomelySmart | 11 DIY Pine Cone Decorations For This Christmas - HomelySmart

Pine cone and holly topiary

Pine cone flower bouteniers from Rustic Wedding Chic (above and below)

Pine cone centerpiece

Painted pine cones from HGTV

I love this humble look via Martha Stewart

Make your own firestarters from Green Home Guide

Wool woven into pine cones by Family Chic

A garland of pinecones

A pretty pine cone wedding bouquet

Garland by Two Shades of Pink

Painted pine cones

Pink pine cone wreath // #Kranz #kränze #wreath

Painted pine cone wreath

I love to make these and hang them around the house.
I roll mine in glue and either gold, clear, or silver glitter. Photo via Country Living

I've been wanting to make some wax fire starters for the Fall. Since the weather has been so hot in