Autumn Art
Yellow Leaves
No, I don’t think we’ll be having a white Christmas. It may be a yellow one, though. Our ornamental pear trees have just now begun to turn bright yellow. They usually turn red in October and are completely bare by this time, but for some reason they have not changed […]
Autumn Decorating 2009
Any of you bloggers ever had a post ready and then forgotten about it? I had this one ready two weeks ago and just now remembered it. Since this isn’t really a decorating blog, I got caught up in other projects. Well, here are a few of the little autumn […]
Acorn Tea Set
Here is our tiny tea set made from acorn caps, inspired by one of our family’s favorite children’s books, “Miss Suzy” by Miriam Young. We took it out into the garden to take some pictures… We thought it looked best perched atop a flowering plant, for you never know when some fairies […]
Acorn Tea Cups
One of my daughter’s favorite picture books is Miss Suzy by Miriam Young. It’s a sweet story about a little girl squirrel who lives high up in a cozy tree-home. One of the cute things this squirrel has in her tree-house kitchen is acorn cups to drink from. I recently decided to try […]
“Autumn Story” by Jill Barklem
Some of our favorite picture books are the Brambly Hedge series by British author and illustrator Jill Barklem. The illustrations in these books are as sweet as any I’ve ever seen. Every page is full of cute little woodland critters donning 19th century attire and going about their lives in quaint rural fashion. The […]
“Mice and Berries” after Jill Barklem
First Colors of Fall
Autumn Foliage Paper Doll Dresses
There are so many inexpensive ways to use magazines for arts and crafts! Recently, my Grandmother gave me all of her magazines from Sept. and Oct. I ripped out several sheets that had full-page pictures of fall foliage. I used the same technique mentioned in my Thou Art a Sea post […]