November!

I always feel old when time moves by too quickly.  It's been an amazing fall this year with great weather and many blessings!  I'm ready for the Thankful/Grateful season of November.

Here is a fall themed table scape I did the other day.

My napkins are folded and sitting up in a wire basket that I found in the Target $ spot area.  It was $3!  I feel particularly proud of that this year.  

My favorite part was using my tree slices as a charger.  I used these tree slices as part of centerpieces for my wedding (4 years ago!!) and now they are spread throughout the house with all kinds of things like vases and candles on top of them.

I also always like to add different heights of interest at a table.  So I turned my brass bowl upside down and set up a dessert plate on top.

I love mixing grey/tans/browns/gold/silver tones together.  I think it makes for a warm comforting feeling.

If you like the printable table decorations you can find them in my etsy shop!  They are so easy to use, you can print them at home and just write names or sweet messages on them and add that extra finish to your fall or Thanksgiving table!

sketchbook

Happy May!

I painted this after looking at this jazzy gal's work a lot!

Chiffon Flowers DIY

I've been wanting to make chiffon flowers for a long time.  I happen to have a little stash of navy chiffon in my collection so here is what I did....

I loosely cut a bunch of circles out of the chiffon.  These are about 2.5" in diameter.  The trick is to lightly melt all of the edges with a lighter so that they don't fray.  It also gave the circles fun realistic petal shapes.  I then folded each petal in fourths and sewed about 5 of the corners together.

This is what it looks like after you sew them together.  Then you can personalize them any way you want.  I sewed on a big jewel to the center and put it on a bottle of wine for a friend.  You could add pearls to the center, you could do anything.

This is a blurry picture of it pinned to my sweater!

new project

I've been crocheting a little here are there.

I'm really trying to figure out a way to use my surplus of yarn and fabric.  So I decided to crochet a bunch of flowers out of the left over white and off white yarns that I have.

I'll let you see the final project whenever I get around to finishing it.  

Here is the pattern that I'm using if you are interested.

Ch 2

sc 12 in first ch

slip stitch to join

*ch3, skip one stitch, sc next st* repeat 5 times

in loop made by chain stitches *1sc, 1hdc, 1dc, 1hdc, 1sc* repeat in next 5 loops.

*sc around post ch4* repeat 5 times

in loop made by chain stitches *1sc, 1hdc, 3dc, 1hdc, 1sc* repeat 5 times.