Pumpkins, Pumpkins and more Pumpkins!!

This is my fabric pumpkin patch!!

For a church function I was able to create some centerpeices. We were to have eight tables and I wanted three pumpkins per table. So, I went to JoAnn's to their red tag clearance section and got swatches of lots of fall colored fabrics. The pumpkin idea is not original...I found some cute fabric pumpkins on a blog and went from their. I did mine all different so that it really would be a fun pumpkin patch. I love how each one is unique.




I had to recreate what the tables looked like because I was so busy baking for the dinner that I forgot my camera!! So I recreated what they looked like.

I am going to keep enough to stretch across my mantle for the Thanksgiving holiday or down the center of my table but, I don't need a whole pumpkin patch. Although....that could be fun!!

Love Makes Little Things Grow

My sister's and I threw my other sister a baby shower. We divided up the shower with one of us doing invitation, games, decorating, ect. I was in charge of decorating.

This title "Love makes little things Grow" was the theme of the shower and I wanted to make a custom sign for her baby room. So, I made it to match the bedding and room colors. It's an old cupboard door that I added the cool light pink knob. It's hard to see the pink color of the glass in the pictures but, it really is cute. The vinyl I designed and had a local vinyl place cut for me. Then I dry brushed the other colors of the room. It turned out so cute!!

Home is where you Hang your Broom

This sign is a one-of-a-kind because I made it out of a dresser front. The drawer is curved and is flat on the ends. So, I had to add the wall attatchments to the ends. The knobs are curtesy of my friends bathroom remodel. The retro green and orange bathroom was pretty "RAD" but in need of an update. So, I inherited the glass orange knobs. They are sooo cool!! Just not in that bathroom!! The knobs allow you to hang brooms from them.

I sat the sign on the mantle so that I didn't have to put holes in my wall. But, you could see the broom and how it would hang down. So fun!!

This picture is to try to show you the curve of the sign. The paint is a pumpkin orange base with a pitch black glaze over the top ragged to help show movement and texture. The routing design around the sign was part of the existing drawer. I love changing things into something exciting and new!

Corn Stalks

This year I got to decorate with our home grown corn stalks!! Yeah..you get to eat the delicious corn then use the stalks to decorate with....so cool!!

This year we were excited to plant our first garden with corn. Boy was it yummy! We got just enough to eat for the summer at plenty of barbecues and for dinner. It sure was tasty! So, I was excited we would have corn stalks to decorate with.

I had to head to the local cow poke store and find me some metal fence post thingy's. I am sure you farmers out there can let me know their technical name but, I had to point them out of a book for the lady to know exactly what I wanted. Seriously, I need to research what an item is before I go looking for it at the local feed store. I got a good laugh out of my trip but, I am sure the lady was rolling her eyes at me. I really don't know what their real name is...stakes that hold corn stalks up....don't you think that should be their name!?! LOL Anyway, I had just enough corn stalks to do four bunches to line the walkway's with!! I just LOVE FALL!!!

Halloween Window Sillouettes

I found some great Halloween window clings this year. I am adding it to my Halloween decoration collection. They were just a full sheet and me being who I am wanted them to look great with out the lines, so I spent the time and exacto'd them out by hand. Definetely worth the effort because the effect is awesome!! So, I thought I would share my fun new addition to my Halloween collection. I will add some of the other decorating ideas soon!!

The pumpkins are at the bottom of the boy's bedroom window. The witch is in the second window and the tree with ravens is in the window by the front door.

I tried to take pictures at night so that you could see the effect but, I don't know if it just wasn't dark enough because they looked really vivid in person but look dark in the pictures. Oh well, you can at least see them to see what the windows look like.

I used the leftover window clings to put in the kitchen cupboards. I have a couple glass front cabinets so I added the extra's to it. They look really great!

Memorabilia Shadow Box Cupboard

This is one of my favorite projects that I have done. This was originally a built-in cupboard or some kind of shelving cupboard. Of course I didn't leave it as such! It was an awesome mint green color with oak accents. LOVELY!!!?!! Well, I changed all that by sanding and painting it out a light ivory color. I added a pink accents on the edges by doing a dry brush technique. This adds just a little bit of pink to add the perfect touch.

The back of the cupboard, I added the batting, fabric, buttons and ribbon to create a french memory board. The buttons are tied through the wood to the back so it is really secure. The ribbon creates the perfect way to display photos or to attatch small objects. This is a really fun way to create a display cabinet so that your precious items aren't packed away in a box but are being seen and protected behind glass.

This is the handles. I added details of small flowers and hearts to add some decorative elements to the original hardware.

This is the details I added to the corner of the glass. This one above is in the bottom right corner of the glass and the picture below is the detail I added in the upper left corner. The picture below has the word of "Love" by the paisley print and the flowers in the upper picture has the word of "Cherish" right above the flower. It's hard to see the word cherish because the picture didn't get rotated up.

The dress is my daughter's Easter dress she wore when she had just turned a year old. The picture is of her in that special dress. This cupboard would be really fun to display the shoes in the bottom or use some ribbon to tie them to the french board in the back.


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Fall and Halloween Signs

These were originally cupboard doors to probably a kitchen. I took them, sanded them down, painted them. Then I crackled the inside of the panels with some cream paint. The letters are chipboard, and other letters I had in my studio. See, there is a reason why I collect so much stuff. LOL

Each of the autumn letters were painted in the "fall" colors and the leaves I painted to match the letters then tied them with ribbon.

The edge of the trick or treat sign is some spooky tree's that I had in my Halloween collection of stuff. They add such a great element to the sign.

This Halloween sign I added a boarder of some of my favorite Halloween paper that I mod podged on. You can't see this in the picture but the lettering is glittery.

These signs are so fun and I love whe you can use something that would have been thrown away and make something so great and usable again. I love repurposing things. The signs are so fun and it goes along with my love for this Fall season and Halloween. Who doesn't love this time of year?!!