Felt Fall Leaf and Pumpkin Garland

Fall Leaf and Pumpkin Garland

With the Fall Season here in South Texas you can't really get into the season very well without a little help from some fall decorations. We don't grow pumpkins, we don't have cool weather (it's like mild summer here in the 80's and 90's) and the sweaters and jackets are tucked safely away in the back of the closet for at least another month (or two)...so falling leaves and pretty orange pumpkins are a must to get you into the season.

So, DD and I decided to make the season come alive at home. 

I grabbed my Sizzix die cutter and my fall leaf die and cut out 42 different fall colored felt leaves and 10 yellow (didn't have any more orange felt) pumpkins and decided to teach my daughter how to hand sew!

We started with learning to thread the needle and then we discovered patterns and repetition. We (tried) to stick to the same pattern all the way through (then realized mommy didn't cut enough burgundy leaves).

DD learned to weave the needle in and out and to change the direction from the leaves facing UP, DOWN and SIDEWAYS! (Always a new lesson to learn)

OUR FINAL PRODUCT!!!!

a beautiful 6ft fall leaf and pumpkin garland to grace our dining room window. The great things is that this can be done with felt, paper, store bought leaves, or construction paper cut by hand by your own children. USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND LET IT RUN WILD!

I know this will grace our walls for years to come and every year my DD and I will be able to remember making such a great (easy) and fun craft for our home.

Enjoy Homeschooling!

Crazy days

Its been one if those weeks. I was determined to clean every inch of the apartment and keep it clean so I could finally craft without guilt...however dear daughter had other ideas about what it was she wanted from me.

She was a total terror this week and made it almost impossible to get anything done. But we muddled through and got more cleaned in these past five days than I have for a who year.

I have what I like to call crafters guilt. It is a condition that causes crafting women to put off the real desire to Craft and create because there is some kind of cleaning/cooking/child rearing to do before crafts can be started....I think I have it pretty bad. I refuse to pull out the "hard core" crafts till I know everything is done or I feel incredible guilty about my lack of completion...even though I would much rather be doing hand embroidery than dishes.

Sigh...but this Friday my wonderful mother and sisters said they would take the little angel spawn of mine off my hands for an evening so dear husband and I could have a date night. I was in desperate need of some alone time with DH after the many late night crying and the little ones talk of "spooky " Owl-Vacume cleaners.

Irritating -ly my wonderful spawn decided that the day that she was going to go to Grammys house was the day she would be a saint....she listened and obeyed ...for the most part...and let me get a ton of cleaning done.

My house is almost completely clean!!!! Its a miracle!

Now if I can keep it clean ill be able to beat the disease of Crafters Guilt this next week and maybe get a head start on Christmas presents. (Fingers crossed!)

Now if I can keep my precious little one from reverting back into the crazed 3 year old monster again this coming week should be really fun!!!!

Starting with a new project I started tonight of embroidering a fall/Thanksgiving wall quilt! Ill post pictures soon as I get it out of the hoop and viewable!

Till then Enjoy!

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STOP PINNING AND START DOING!

STOP PINNING AND START DOING! 

I'm addicted to the computer, I know it, no need to tell me...I've been peeling myself away long enough to clean the house and take care of the kiddo but I find myself stuck to the computer more than I like to admit.

So now that my HP laptop is being shipped to  abu dhabi  for repairs for two weeks....TEAR TEAR, SNIFF SNIFF! I know I'm going to have a lot of free time on my hands that I'm just dying to get busy with CRAFTING!!!!

SO here is my plan!

So, I'm going to stop Pinning to Pinterest and start actually doing the crafts that I've fallen in love with!

 Now this is WAY TOO much to do in two weeks, especially all the hand embroidery. But, I'm dying to get started...so right before I back up my  computer and pack it up in the box I decided to make one last little creation and get started on what I'm going to be doing for this two week computer break!

Since I still have a  smartphone (more like an idiot-savant phone) I'll be sharing as much as I can.

So here is a link to my Pinterest boards and maybe if you want you can follow along with me and make some of your own.

I'll post pics as I can!

Day 1: SIZZIX cutting, I need to get busy on cutting out shapes for the new MOPS craft day coming up in two weeks and then I'll have plenty to get started on for the felt crafts on pages 3-4. I think I'll probably get started on the window and wreath decorations first!

Pics coming soon!

PINTEREST PAGE!

FOLLOW ALONG RIGHT HERE!!!!

COME BACK AND SEE WHAT I'VE BEEN CREATING!

ENJOY!