I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂
I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂
Day 23: Sunflare
Battleground, WA. Travis took this, he’s really a great photographer huh!
I am out of town right now, relaxing on the couch of my Oma’s/Opa’s. Eating sauerkraut (yum!) and watching 4 generations of ladies hanging out. Family. Fun times. But I have a great friend who I asked to guest post today. Her name is Kerstin and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. I asked her to give us an idea of what a typical South African Fall is like. Please give her tons of awesome comments!
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I am out of town right now, relaxing on the couch of my Oma’s/Opa’s. Eating sauerkraut (yum!) and watching 4 generations of ladies hanging out. Family. Fun times. But I have a great friend who I asked to guest post today. Her name is Melissa and together with her husband, they suffer by living in beautiful Hawaii, raising their two adorable princesses on the sandy beaches. Horrible, I know. I asked her to give us an idea of what a typical Hawaiian Fall is like. Please give her tons of awesome comments!
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The word autumn always makes me think of beautiful yellow and red leaves, crisp air, the smell of burning leave piles, and apple pie. Those are the things that I miss the most, living in Hawaii. But there is something to be said about a nice balmy breeze, the smell of plumeria in the air, and of course sunshine, that warms you to the bone. Autumn is actually my favorite season in Hawaii, summer can be too humid, spring my allergies annoy me, winter is great too, but we are talking about autumn.
Autumn in Hawaii is filled with the trade winds, and my favorite, rain. I love waking up in the morning and discovering that there is torrential rain outside. I love to curl up on my lanai (balcony) and just watch the rain come down. Everything gets so quiet, and where we live you can see waves of water moving down the street.
Maybe the best part about Hawaii in autumn is that we can still go swimming, in the pool, or my personal favorite, the beach! There may be things to miss about a mainland autumn, like hot cocoa and reading in front of the fire place, but in Hawaii I stay tan year round.
I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂
This DIY project is something that I’ve been wanting to do for a loooong time. It’s simple, beautiful and my favorite part is that you can customize it to your liking. Many more will be made.
Lots of awesome pictures are coming…get a favorite drink in hand and be ready for some eye candy. 🙂
Fist you need to get some fabulous cheap fabric. For this just one reason I am crazy about Jo Ann’s.
Next cut a felt circle and trace it on the back side of any fabric you want to make a flower of. It’s so the fabric and felt circles are the same size. Looks better that way.
Now after cutting circles, take one and fold it twice. So it looks like this:
Then just start sticking them on the felt circle. One at a time till you get yourself a flower!
Forgot to take a picture of a finished flower. Whoops. I got too caught up in the creating. Really. You can kinda see it on the right side of the picture above.
But Emma did take a couple pictures while I was making the necklace. My ‘craft table’ with tons of scraps, hot glue and smelly candles. Cutting the circles took the most time.
Next, once your flower is complete, you want to slather the backside with hot glue.
And before you put it down on more felt, you want to attach a long piece of chain. This way, the necklace chain is secure, in between two pieces of felt. Picture shows better than I could explain.
Does that make more sense now? Hope so. So now you have your necklace and it’s almost done!
Just cut away the felt from the flowers an that’s it!
Emma really wanted one…and I can’t say no to Emma wanting to do crafts. So this was created:
Let me know if you try it! 🙂
I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂
Had to. It’s October. It’s fall. So my ‘orange’ is our pumpkins. I felt really bad not going to the pumpkin patch this year. Like we were not allowing Emma the opportunity to have the experience. But the more I thought about it, I realized that I would rather have her remember fall as crisp walks together, caramel apples, carving pumpkins with daddy, getting to wear new scarves/hats and getting her own hot drinks at Starbucks. All of which we’ve done…except the caramel apples….must take care of that this weekend with OMA!!! 🙂I have decided to join some other bloggers to do a 30 day challenge. We are following a fun list of things to take a picture of every day for a month. It would be awesome to have you join in on the fun! Just let me know so I can follow ya. 🙂
I saw these hot pads on pinterest and thought, ‘YES!’ I actually got so excited I showed Travis and told him, ‘I’m doing this tomorrow!’
The felt and stones from dollar store. Pretty happy with how it turned out.
It was like playing tetris. Fun. 🙂 I made two, one for those big casserole dishes and the other a circle.
Let me know if you do this 🙂
Easy cute frame for the fridge to display your kids art. I’m sure you could make this more cute and boutique-y. But I wanted to keep it bright and kid-ish. I wanted Emma to be happy it framed it art. It is after all for her, not me. 🙂
Pom poms, frame, magnets and hot glue.
Emma loved it. 🙂
