HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

So many things to be thankful for this year- family, friends, we are truly blessed! Delightful meal is ready and we will sit down to it in a few minutes.

 We had a lovely peaceful day, warm and sunny. D. took a bike ride-he's getting so good at it! We read


And made a Thanksgiving collage-D. pasted a little note of what he's thankful for, a little thanksgiving song, some fall leaves on brighly painted background. We sealed the whole thing with the mod podge and it made a lovely centerpiece for our table. :)

Blessings to all friends and visitors!

Autumn...

Our autumn was especially beautiful this year. Now all the gold is almost gone from the trees, but I still want to share it here.

We did a window display again. Last year we did the most beautiful watercolor leaves out of coffee filters for our window. This year we decided to use tracing paper and wax crayons for more "cartoonish" effect. The result is a very cheerful window :)

Happy Friday to friends and visitors!

fall crafts- something borrowed

A few wonderful crafts from my favorite blogs :) Thank you, all the crafty ladies, for the inspiration.

Tissue paper+watercolor fall leaves from Art projects for kids  

D. took the idea of "tracing around" a little too literally :)

Autumn window display from Frugal Family Fun Blog

C. helped a lot with painting the leaves for this one, we had to give her a bath afterward:)

Leaves and a lantern from Moment to Moment

This is a great idea, we loved this project!

D. picked leaves for this one with special care, they had to be perfect :)

It's so much fun to make fall crafts- the colors are so warm and inviting.

Fall crafts-mobiles

We like to make mobiles for our kitchen and in the end of September we decided to make a fall mobile.

D. said that he would like to have a "rain" mobile. That was the simple one. D. drew a shape of cloud on the gray card stock paper (folded in two so we have two sides to the cloud) then cut it out and glued sides together. Then I had him pick out tiny sequins of "rain" colors (blue and silver) for "raindrops". Then we put sequins on the embroidery thread and sewn the threads onto the cloud. Punched a hole on top of the cloud and put a piece of yarn through and voila.

Second mobile that we did was inspired by Paper Birds Craft from Family Fun magazine. We made birdies two-sided  and stuck feathers between sheets to represent tails, D. also put googly eyes on some birds. We hanged birds by embroidery thread (decorated with more sequins:) ) attached to the cross made out of craft sticks and hanged the mobile next to the "rainy cloud". We had one extra bird and it made a pretty fridge magnet.