Burlap Bubble Wreath

Welcoming fall--one burlap piece at a time!

A girlfriend and I spent a craft night creating this fun burlap bubble wreath to welcome fall. I immediately loved its messy, non-uniformed look. Once we figured out the first 'bubble', the rest fell into place. We did add the extra step of wrapping the wreath in burlap before adding the bubbles too. That way we didn't have to worry about unwanted styrofoam peeking through. Whole thing took just a few hours.

I added a little berry bunch and an "S". I got a small wooden one, traced/cut some paper then mod-podged it on. I hot-glued some twine to it and tied it around the wreath to keep it secure. 

Much closer to being ready for fall!

Make A Guess! ----->

It's up! Finally! I was having major issues with the poll from blogger so went to a third party poll place. You have exactly ONE week to guess what we're gonna have before we know!

So take a moment to vote on the right side bar what we should expect: more loud and rowdy battles or perhaps cozy, dandy parties this time! 

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Fall Lovin'

I'm sorry. I'm going to disappoint you.

I still have not finished my kilt tutorial that I was hoping to already have published. Plus, some highlights from T's first birthday. Boo! Sorry, you're just going to have to wait on pins and needles until I'm finally ready.

Until then, jump over to Newlywife to see some ideas I'm sharing about fall and creating your own bucket list. 

It's the best season. Might as well have its own bucket list...like, leaf jumping!

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T Turns One in T-minus Three Days

Our Sweet baby T is turning ONE on Saturday. Fastest year of my life. We keep birthday bashes pretty small around here for the first year. Just family. Limited gifts. A few decorations. But loads of merriment, memories, sugar and picture-taking!

 I finally started in on the prep for the little big guy's big day. I decided to go with a sweet little theme and will tie it in here and there.

One of our birthday traditions is a crown. I love love love the etsy seller, Dream Child Studio. Her felt feels so good and it's so thick! With the elastic backing, the crown will be able to be worn year after year!

And his tee to match.

Bought a cheap target long sleeve, fabric fat quarter and basically followed this applique tutorial. I zig-zag stitched around the border after ironing the number on. $6 later, I had a super easy personalized look.

Almost ready to celebrate our sweet Baby T!

Featured! Hooray!!

 

My "Rise & Shine" pallet art was featured on tatortots & jello a few days ago!! Yippie for colorful creations. I loved the tin can lanterns and the amazing quilt also mentioned. So many creative projects!

Whatever Craft Weekend Sponsors

LAST Craft weekend post, pinkie-promise. {part one and two: here and here} I wanted to share some of the amazing products and sellers that graced us with goodies over the weekend. I'm pretty sure my bag was split between SWAG and antiques I found while shopping. Even some of the crafts we did were sponsored.

We made felt pillows using Benzie's felt. Amazing! I'm a sucker for the stuff and am SO SO happy to finally have a quality source to buy felt from! Tute for the flower pillow inspired by here.

{I went a little stripe-y...rebel..}

Lisa Leonard showed us how to hand-stamp which was SO fun and NOT as hard as I imagined. Although I don't think I could sell my product! She provided all the supplies for us to make one with the option to make more. So sweet of her!

We used Benjamin Moore new line of chalk board paint on some trays for an instant chalk/magnet board.

And our final sponsored craft was from SayHello. They provided these adorable pennants to turn into a chalk board style banner. How awesome is that?! SO many ways to use this!

  Now, I'm eyeing their ampersand to paint for our master. I love it!

 We had some major goodies all ready and packed up for us to take home. 

BrowardPatch- the cutest camera strap cover! And I've been wanting to get one forever so it was just perfect! I put it on my camera first thing.

House8821- a tablecloth!! um, already IN use!

Pleated Poppy- her fabulous ruffle pin + a store discount. yes! i'm digging her zippered pouches.

Dear Lizzy- ribbons, trim and lovely tags

Amy Tangerine- adorable stickers and a mini scrapbook

Jenze- sweet Thank You cards + store discount. her paper products are super cute and so affordable!

Thirty-one- craft organizer bag

Crystal B- sweet ring

Knitty Bitties- awesome mug rug with cute fabric. and her hoop art is to die for!

made by jewls- cute little fabric covered earrings. all of her shops' funds go to completing their adoption. head over there!!

Studio Calico- truck load of amazing scrapbook goodies. the paper is so happy, i must figure out a craft to use them ASAP!

And the ever-adorable "YAY" banner from the fabulous Heather over at CMhandmade was waiting on each of our beds! Seriously, love getting custom banners from this girl!

Wowza! So much goodness! Just knowing that most of these are women who were inspired to start a homemade business just blew me away. I love that! And I love getting to use/wear my new products and remember what an amazing time I had.

photo credit: meg duerksen

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Other Craft Weekender's Recaps...

Nicole: here; who also just started The Orange Bird with an amazing mission and cute products to boot! I snagged an adorable wrap bracelet that I wear everyday!

Lisa: here and here

Meg: here

TWO FEET

Expansion expected to be complete by February 2013!! Things are about to get a little bit wild around these here parts. ;)