Fall Centerpiece...

Another one of my mom many talents... flower arranging! She surprised me with this for my kitchen table... I love it!

Welcome Post...

 Halloween Welcome...

 Thanksgiving Welcome...

 The post with sign...

Some people have asked about the post that my mom and dad built.  The main post is a 4x4 cedar post... a fence cap on top and a plate that the 4x4 sits in at the bottom... a 1.4 inch maple square base that should hold up to the cold Utah weather (made by Bob Morrow - the wood man as we like to call him). The wrought iron arm post was from Home Depot and it included the little black sign holders. My dad drilled a hole in the bottom of the base and the 4x4 ... countersink the lag screw to keep it from wobbling. A coat of outdoor paint and voila... a Porch sign holder.

The signs are 2 pieces of cedar glued together... sanded and painted.  Bob (The wood man who made them for us) also drilled a small hole in the top of each one so that we could screw an I hook into the top for the sign to hang from. I then used vinyl for the sayings and some older wood cut outs from The Wood Connection.  The Halloween side has glitter on the pumpkin ~ ghost and star along with cute faces made from vinyl using my Silhouette.  The Thanksgiving side is also an older cut out along with some wire and ribbon for the embellishments.

This year the pumpkins don't have the cute vinyl faces like last year See them here... September and part of October have been filled with lots of fun on the inside my house before painting... and finally seeing the beautiful completed project...  Yeah!  Finally on the 11th of October the house was Halloween/Fall ready (only a month later than normal... but there's always next year... right?)

 

Halloween Wood Letters..

My mom is doing great at getting her Halloween and fall projects completed (I'm struggling... still!).  She was kind enough to send me her pics (sorry... the picture is a little dark).  My mom is not a fan of the bright colors for Halloween... so she changed to the the more "pastel" colors (can you use pastel and Halloween in the same sentence?) The pumpkin does have a cute face cut out of vinyl (I love my Silhouette) as well as the inking around the edges and the cute ribbons for the final touch.  The stackers are the same as the one I posted previously... but I hated how I put the vinyl on the "apples" log... it slanted some.  I like how this one turned out much better... I like having 3 different fonts!

Come In For A Spell...

 My moms cute front porch...

 Fall flowers...

 Autumn wood letters...

I thought I would post some of my moms newest and cutest fall decor. The top picture is of my mom and dads front porch and their awesome welcome post the designed and made. Last Saturday afternoon my mom came down and we designed  the "Come In For A Spell" sign and on the back is the Thanksgiving side (I love two-fers). I will post pictures when she turns it around.... I love how she used the cute scarecrows and hay bales to complete her porch. Thanks mom for sharing your talents!

Pilgrim Couple

I think this will be the last post for Thanksgiving crafts. I have noticed in blogland most all of the pilgrims are done in black and white.  99% of the time I would be all over doing them in black... (black is my accent color in my house) but in all of my Thanksgiving decorations there is not a single one with black. I think my OCD kicked in and I had to do them in fall colors instead.  The tan color didn't photograph really well... and the paper I used for the apron on Mrs. Pilgrim has lines of orange and green to help tie in the fall colors.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Gobble...Gobble

Nothing like waiting to the last minute... I'm still trying to finish up all of my Thanksgiving projects... and it doesn't look like I will be getting them all completed either..... maybe next year!  I got this cutie at The Wood Connection in Salt Lake...I painted him in the same colors I used on my shelf sitters I completed last week... I sanded the edges and then used my chalk to give the feathers some detail... just a little but I like how he turned out... and of course... he has green eyes... because I am the Green Eyed Girl after all... Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Turkey Day Sitters

Corn Stalk...  Some yellow bling along with some

green "hair" to complete the look!
(I bought the hair to go on my witches...
that I still need to finish... next year!)

 He just plain turned out cute!
The "gobbler thing" is a pipe cleaner that goes from
wide to thin and back to wide again...

He HAD to have GREEN eyes...

since I am the Green Eyed Girl!

Here are all of them on the shelf...

I'm not really crazy about the

pie... maybe I will still add some "slits"

on the top with filling coming out.

The past few weeks have been a struggle... I can't seem to get into the crafting mood for anything! Lots of ideas... just no production!

Painted Pumpkins

 

 

This large pumpkin has a section of bead board on the front

Well the large pumpkins are finally finished... woot...woot...

Painted Fall Wood Projects

The brown "L" has glitter sprinkled on the top

Pumpkins with leaves... leaves are antiqued with liquid chalk

These are all of the wood projects
that my mom has painted...

she did a beautiful job!

Give Thanks Wood Letters

Painted the sides and back with Burnt Umber
and used a different fall color for the

front of each of the letters...

Wood Turkey

Striped fall scrapbook paper Modge Podged on to painted wood

I added green bling for his eyes

He's ready to... Gobble... Gobble... Gobble!

Fall Candle Decorations

 I finally had a few minutes that I could post the pictures of the cute tray and candles
I bought a few weeks ago... I just love the acorns!

Fall Magnets

Striped scrapbook paper - cut to back marble.