on a cold rainy fall day waaaaaay back in 2007,
i visited designer Danny Seo's blog...
and when i saw a photograph of something Danny had created, i was smitten.
the guy took old sweater sleeves and put them on clear glass vases!
i jumped up and grabbed an ivory cashmere sweater of mine
that had recently become to small for me to wear.
(i did not become too big to wear the sweater - that's my story and i'm stickin' to it!)
i cut the sleeves off of the sweater, popped them into some clear vases
then added candles and bare branches to them...
the result was a cozy grouping that warmed up my dining table.
(when i added some small pumpkins to the grouping and looked at them side by side,
i thought up the very first Original Sweet Sweater Pumpkins!)
i've made a few different versions of sweater-wrapped vases over the years,
and this year i had fun combining a few ideas.
continue reading to see how vases and ornaments and sweaters are a perfect match...