Thankful Pennant

I saw a version of this on Parents.com They had made their pennant with grains stalks and different kinds of fall foliage. I liked the idea, but wanted to do it with beans so that my five year old could count and sort them, a little math homework of sorts. Fun to do with him and easy peasy.

Fall Pumpkins

Here are a set of wood pumpkins that were inspired by my friend Kellie.  Are they not ADORABLE?

Thanks Kellie for the inspiration!  And thanks to my sweet friend Anne, we had lots of fun crafting and making pumpkins together!

Gotta Love Pumpkins!

I know, I know!  I am obsessed with FALL and one can never have to many pumpkins!  Right?  Wanna make some?  I can tell you how!

Supplies: 

1 - 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 board (at least 30 inches long)

Orange Paint - I used Delta's Terra Cotta

Glaze (mine is Ralph Lauren Glaze, tinted brown)

Ribbon

Wire (or an old wire hanger maybe!)

Green Spray Paint (I used Krylon Hunter Green...from Walmart, only $2.50 a can!)

Glue

Drill

Sand paper (mine was 120 grit)

Hammer (yeah, I will tell you why!)

Glue

Directions:

1. Cut your 3.5x3.5 board into lengths of 12 inches, 8 inches, and 5 inches. Or, whatever desired length you choose.

2. Paint each pumpkin orange.  Let dry.

3. Grab your hammer and hit your boards along the edges, the sides, the top.  Wherever you want to "distress" your pumpkin.

4. Pull out the sand paper and sand the as desired.

5. Paint on your glaze, let sit for a few minutes then wipe it off with an old damp t-shirt or cloth.

6. Now, you need to wrap your wire into some curly q's then spray paint them green.

7.  While you are waiting for the spray paint to dry, drill small holes in the top of your pumpkin.  The holes should be roughly the same gauge as your wire.

8. If your green curly q's are dry, dab a little hot glue on the end of the wire and stick into the hole.  Arrange stems as desired.

9. Wrap each pumpkin with ribbon.  Tie in a bow or knot.  They also look cute without the ribbon, ooh, they would even look great with some twine!  I may have to go try that right now!

Pretty easy right?  So go, have fun....create your own FALL PUMPKINS!

Happy Day! It's Finally FALL!

Okay, well the weather sure is not FALLish, but it's officially September and Fall is on it's way!  I love the Autumn months, the colors, crisp air, leaves, sweaters, perfect weather...you know what I mean?  There is a fabulous tutorial at Blogging With Holly on how to make fabric pumpkins!  I immediately knew I HAD to have them.

I changed mine up a little because I was trying to use what I had at home.  I also wanted to make them a little more "fun" for my kids, this way, I don't mind if they happen to FALL into the hands of a little man name Griffin!  Even though the pumpkins are high on a shelf, don't be shocked when I tell you he's a mini Spider man and can climb up walls, counter tops, pretty much anything.

Okay, enough about Little Man Griffin.  Pull out your sewing machine and some scraps of fabric and get to work!  If you don't have scraps, not to worry!  You don't need more than a fat quarter to make one pumpkin.