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Thursday, 10 October 2013

Throw-back Thursday - Fall Leaf Garland

A while back (2010?!) I did a post about how to make a dried leaf garland. I came across it the other day an thought it was worth another look!

For the first step, look to this post for how to dry and mod-podge your leaves. Gather some strong thread or twine and a needle and you're ready to go.

I tried using thread first, and didn't like it. It got twisted, and the leaves slid around too much.

Then I grabbed what was left of my hemp (I seriously think that I've had this since I was 12!!) and used it instead.

This required me to use a yarn needle to poke holes first

I threaded the hemp through one side

And through the other side

And then do it again, and again, and again!!!

Ta-da! Now you have a festive decoration that will last for the season!

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

BOO!!

Because my best friend Amy liked my Fall blocks so much, I decided to make her a set of her own!

Instead of fall though, I chose to do Halloween for her. Her husband LOVES halloween. Every year their house turns into halloween central!

I made these blocks to add to their awesomeness!

This is my favorite side!!

But wait, there's another...

And for a little more pizzaz....

If you're interested in making something like these, check out in instructions on the Fall Blocks post!

Linking up:

Monday, 27 September 2010

A few favorites!!

A huge thanks to everyone who linked up on Friday! We had 29 links which is great (seeing as how this is only my 2nd linky!)

Everything was so wonderful that it was hard to pick just a few favorites! But I'll give it a try!

I loved this idea of slushy apple cider over at Mommy's Corner!

Little Big Nest made this fabric wreath which is simple but gorgeous!!

I love this idea of making subway art on a tile! I'm thinking I'm going to have to stop by my ReStore and pick some up!

Two crafters had similar centerpiece ideas! Lovely!

The Autocrat

Try to Keep Up!

If I featured you (today, or anytime this week) feel free to grab a button on the left sidebar!

Thanks again to everyone who participated!! I had fun and I hope you did too!

Friday, 24 September 2010

What to do with apples?

My first thought was to make an apple pie. Then, upon more thinking I realized I've never made a pie before, and now doesn't seem like the time to start.

Then I was thinking apple cider. I absolutely love apple cider, yet I've never made it. Now seemed like the perfect time to start (and it seemed easier than learning how to make pies) however, once I considered the stuff I'd have to buy (whole cloves, cinnamon, allspice) this idea also hit the scrap pile.

I finally decided on apple crisp. Still contains apples, AND delicious!

I thought we had a recipe in my family recipe binder (I'll be doing a post on this later!) but couldn't find it. :( Instead, I pulled out my trusty Betty Crocker book.

Well, the end result was a little disappointing. Very edible, but disappointing.

So that's the reason there's no recipe with this. It's not good enough that I'd recommend it. If you have an apple crisp recipe that you think is the best, I would love if you shared it!

Check this idea out:

Carmel Apples at I Heart Naptime

Take a look at the other projects that I've posted this week!

Monday

Dried orange slices

Autumn spice salt scrub

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Dried mod podged leaves

Pretty Candles

Leaf garland

Friday

Wreaths
Link Party

What's Fall Week Without A Wreath?!

I love wreaths, which is funny because we only have one that comes out at Christmas at my house. I wanted to change that, but just can't decide what type of wreath I'd like to make.

My original plan was to create my own wreath form out of something... but it didn't happen.

Annnndddd...because this is kind of a cop out, but I still love wreaths, let's look at everyone else's!!

Grapevine and leaves @ Diamonds, fur and laundry

Vintagy Burlap @ Diary of a Preppy Mom

Fall Wreath @ The Quiet Crafter

$5, YUP $5 Wreath @ The Penny Parlor

Check out the other projects that I've posted this week!

Monday

Dried orange slices

Autumn spice salt scrub

Tuesday

Vellum luminary

Autumn blocks

Wednesday

UCreate Pumpkins

Leaf stenciled pillows

WTHW

Thursday

Dried mod podged leaves

Pretty Candles

Leaf garland

Time to Link UP!

As promised, here's a link party to wrap up all the fun we've been having with this week's fall party!!

I have very few rules (because I want to make this as easy as possible)

1. Add the link to your specific post NOT just your blog page

2. Make sure your entry is FALL THEMED! Anything fall-ish whatsoever is cool, baking, yummy drinks, crafts, sewing, painting, etc. Halloween would be alright too.

3. Not a must, but I'd really appreciate if you'd put my button on your post so that other people can come and join the fun!

4. Again, this isn't so much a rule as a suggestion, but try to visit a couple of the other links and leave a kind comment. Everyone loves comments!

Thanks for joining in the fun! It was a busy week for me, but I still managed to work on some stuff for next week!

Check back on Monday when I'll be featuring some of my favorites from today's link party!

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Leaf Garland

Time to do something with those leaves that we mod podged earlier in the week!!

I'm not big into the buntings that everyone has around craft land (sorry, just not my thing) but I do like the occasional garland, so here's what I did with my leaves!

After you dry and mod podge your leaves as done in this post, gather some strong thread or twine and a needle and you're ready to go.

I tried using thread first, and didn't like it. It got twisted, and the leaves slid around too much.

Then I grabbed what was left of my hemp (I seriously think that I've had this since I was 12!!) and used it instead.

This required me to use a yarn needle to poke holes first

Then I threaded the hemp through one side

And then through the other side

And then do it again, and again, and again!!!

Check out the other projects that I've posted this week!

Monday

Dried orange slices

Autumn spice salt scrub

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Dried mod podged leaves

Pretty Candles

Linking up to:

Pretty Candles!

I've made a variety of autumn candles using a variety of things I had around my house (and in nature!)

This really doesn't have any step-by-step method, I just used wax from other candles and used it kind of like glue. It doesn't work that well, so that's why I only got as far as 1 orange slice. lol

These candles I surrounded with dried kidney beans. They just looked very fall-ish to me!

This next idea is one of my favorites!

Can you guess what the base of this candle holder is???

It's a VHS TAPE!!!

1. First I opened it up and took all the tape out for another project, and then I used Gorilla Glue to glue the white reels to the case. Because this was creating the base of my candle holder I didn't want them to wobble around!

2. Then I used the sticks that I gathered and started hot gluing them on.

After putting sticks all over, I used smaller ones to fill in any gaps!

3. Then I used some moss to cover up the white parts. I figured that when it eventually gets covered in wax, I can just rip it off and glue new stuff on!

4. Then, to stick some tapers in here, I had to whittle the bottoms down a bit.

5. I was debating whether or not to add anything. I have a few pine cones, but they didn't look right, so I added some of my small mod podged leaves. I'm not sure about the leaves though, maybe if I had (and had used matte mod podge?) Thoughts??

And there you have it!

Other autumn candle ideas:

Wine bottles with raffia @ Try to Keep Up

Check out the other projects that I've posted this week!

Monday

Dried orange slices

Autumn spice salt scrub

Tuesday

Vellum luminary

Autumn blocks

Wednesday

UCreate Pumpkins

Leaf stenciled pillows

WTHW

Thursday
Mod podged leaves

Leaves Leaves Leaves!

Oh my goodness, so incredibly frustrated. I had a whole post done up, ready to go, and then I some how deleted it all, and now have to start all over again.

Well, what's an autumn party without some leaves? Here's what I decided to do!

1. Go for a walk and collect a bunch of pretty colored leaves. Grab some pine cones and sticks too, you never know when they might come in handy! Also, ignore the odd looks from strangers walking by as you're searching for fallen branches under the trees...

**Nature note: remember to be kind to nature when gathering things like this. Take only what you need, and try to take what you can from the ground instead of the trees, but remember we're not the only creatures that want these things, so be sure to take a small amount from a large area (ie don't make it look like you've vacuumed under a tree!!)

2. Grab wax paper and your old engineering textbooks that you can't sell because those bastards have come out with new editions (Physics, seriously: you don't change, the gravitational constant is still 9.81m/s2 for first year purposes!)

I chose this one, Digital Systems, oh yeah!

Open your book to about the middle.

Cut a piece of wax paper large enough to cover both sides of the pages.

Lay your leaves out on one side of the wax paper.

Carefully close the book on them, trying to keep your leaves flat.

Open the book a bunch of pages later and repeat the process. When you're done, you'll have a book full of wax paper and leaves.

3. Gather up all your other books you haven't sold, and stack them on top of the first book. (oooh microcomputers and microprocessors, sounds interesting!)