Fall Wedding Shower Basket

Fall is definitely close by! Along with all the usual joys of fall (apple picking, leaves changing, pumpkin spice lattes, etc.), this fall will also include my sister's wedding. With the wedding less than two months away, we are getting very excited. A couple of weekends ago the bridesmaids and wonderful mother-of-the-bride threw my sister a movie-themed wedding shower. Liz, my sister, is a huge movie fan, so we tried to incorporate her favorite movies into the shower. I will post shower pictures soon, but today I wanted to share with you the fall basket my mom and I put together for the couple.

For my wedding shower (only four months ago!) my mom and sister gave me an "Italy Basket" (our honeymoon was in Italy) filled with things like Bath-and-Body Works Italian scented candles and soaps and a Moka Pot for espresso with a couple of espresso mugs. Since my sister is getting married in the fall, we decided we would make her a fall basket.

First of all, the basket itself is part of the gift. It will make a great laundry basket. What you can't see at the bottom of the basket are some pieces of the Lemax Spooky Town Collection from Michael's. On top of that, we have some fall-scented soaps from bath and body works, and the scarecrow in the front is an oven-mit (so cute!). Then we have these:

I got this idea from Pinterest. It's just orange yarn (I wrapped it around a balled up paper towel) with pine cones on top. The pinecones were actually from a bag of potpourri, which smelled like cinnamon- these two bits from it alone made the whole basket smell delicious!

The other thing we have in there are mugs my mom and I painted for Liz and her fiancé Andy. If you have not painted pottery before, it's a lot of fun and very relaxing.

Finally, we put some jars of homemade hot chocolate in the mugs.

"His" is chocolate-peanut butter hot chocolate (I added reese's chips- and that is probably the only time I will have peanut butter in my kitchen. As delicious as it is, I am sadly allergic) and "Hers" is pumpkin spice hot chocolate. 

We put all of this fall fun together in the basket, threw in some tissue paper, and set it out. She loved it!! Baskets are such a fun way to give a personalized gift to someone special. The possibilities are endless!