Fall
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“Thankful for Neighbors” Pumpkin bread
I have some really wonderful neighbors! I am realizing that I don’t let them know how great they are very often! Over the weekend I decided to make a few batches of mini pumpkin bread to take to my amazing neighbors. I used this pumpkin bread recipe and added chocolate chips to it. Next I headed over to Google to find the perfect tag to let my neighbors know how thankful I am for them. I downloaded the free tags from best design options, she has a wonderful variety. While the bread continued to bake. I cut a few strips of fall patterned scrapbook paper at 3″ by 12″. After…
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Hand Made Fall Acorn crafts with Free Templates
I wasn’t planning on making anymore fall crafts but while browsing the internet I came across the Burton Ave blog. She has some really fun Acorn crafts and images and right now you can download the acorn box for FREE! Of course when I saw it was a free download I just knew I should make of few of these. Thinking these cute boxes will most likely make a great Thanksgiving favor for my family and friends. They are really simple to make. First cut the box on some patterned card stock and use a clear window sheet glued behind the cut out. This will keep the treats in place, I…
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Fall Orange Soda with a Treat and Free Printable
Before diving into our Christmas crafting we have to show you a few cute things we have found. How can you pass up these ideas and not make them? These darling Orange Soda bottles showed up in the design studio on Cricut’s website. I just had to make some of these for my new co workers! I picked up some Crush Orange Soda glass bottles at the store (12 total). whipping these up in no time at all! I had to have something to go along with the sodas so once all the paper, burlap & pumpkins were hot glued onto the bottles Krystal and I set out to add…
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Gratitude Sign
My heart has pined after this gratitude sign for a few years! I just can’t pony up the $89 for it!!! You all know I am cheap skate! On my quest to create more fall and Thanksgiving décor for my home, I knew this sign was the perfect element that I was missing. I went out to the wood pile and found a few scraps of bead board. I sanded the bead board to give it a rustic look and then added some of my famous glaze to completed that rustic look. Next I set up a template with the wording on my computer. I cut the wording in teal…
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Trendy Aztec Pumpkin Decor
I am loving this Aztec vibe that is floating all over the world right now! As I was searching images on the Silhouette studio store, I came across this darling Aztec style pumpkin! I had to buy the cut file .99 cents later it was mine! I have been dreaming of ways to use it for some fall décor. I finally decide that the pumpkin is just perfect on it’s own. I found some boards in my scrap pile, they measure 9 1/2″ x 9 1/2″. I glazed one of the boards and painted the other one a cream color. I cut this darling pumpkin out of rust and…
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Fall Burlap & Subway art board
After I put away all of my Halloween decorations, I began to look around and realized I only have a few fall and Thanksgiving decorations. I was kind of sad! I think we often overlook Thanksgiving. I am on a mission to make some Fallish home décor. I love a good subway art board, found a similar one in this etsy shop of course they were no longer offering this item for sale. I needed to make my own, First I painted a scrap board white. Next I made up template similar to the subway art I saw. I decided to use orange and brown vinyl for mine. I cut the…
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Easy Fall/Harvest boards
I found the idea for these for fall/harvest boards at Simply Kierste. She is offering a free cut file and great tutorial too! I had a few wood scraps hanging around like always, I just adjusted the cut file to match the size of my boards. I mixed up my famous wood glaze, let it dry and then got to work painting these cute pumpkin and fall boards. Check out her site and give it a try.
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Rustic Wooden scrap Pumpkins
I had several odds and ends of boards lying around. It wasn’t really enough for a project I was hoping to do, I was tempted just to throw the boards away. You all know I am a craft hoarder, I hate to throw out anything that has potential to be something amazing. I started playing around and placing the boards together and then I saw this idea over at make it love it and knew this boards could be cute rustic pumpkins. I placed 3 boards next to each other and then traced a pumpkin shape around the boards, I also took 2 more boards and placed them side by…
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Annual Halloween Party and the unknown Witch who crashed it – 2015
It is that time of year again when we adorn our bodies in all sorts of fun costumes, make up, accessories and masks for our annual Halloween party! Although this year had a twist. To kick of this year here are Mine and Krystal’s costumes! We went as Jack (Sandyclaws) and Sally from Nightmare before Christmas! This year’s annual ladies only Halloween party was yet another success! Although, I do have to say there was a HUGE twist in this year’s party that had everyone intrigued, nervous, and skeptical. Let me say first off I had NO part in this twist in the party so it made it even more…
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Advice from a Pumpkin Home Decor Wood Sign
Our friend Liz showed us this darling saying about advice from a pumpkin and she was just dying to make it! I have no idea where she saw it from for us to give credit but we were able to see a picture. Off to the Pallet yard Krystal and I went to find free wood (yet not necessarily pallet wood). We were lucky enough to find this insanely large piece of pine at the pallet yard for free! Take a look at this photo to see how large it is before cutting it! Imagine two women trying to get this home and then cutting it themselves on the table…
