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Saturday, October 22, 2011

DIY Art Project For Fall!


What do you get when you have a beautiful Fall day in the 70’s, and add a walk with your nine year old granddaughter?

An Art Project! A Fall Collage!!
We took a walk to try, and find leaves, and pretty pieces from nature to make a collage.
The plan:
Sweet granddaughter would arrange, and place Fall goodies, and Grammy would do the hot glue.

What you will need:

One child with a great imagination, and potential to become a little designer in the future.

A walk in the park

Hot glue gun

A piece of scrap wood

A wood chop stick for child to use to press down leaves once Grammy applies hot glue( no pinkies were burned  in the making of this collage.)


What you will get:
Time to sit, and marvel at how creative your young artist is and watch how they can create beauty.

The Process:

Sarahs Fall Art Collage 2011 Oct 004 (800x600)
She decided she would start with the left side first and then work her way to the right……..

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Center
Sarahs Fall Art Collage 2011 Oct 006 (800x600)
Right side: She was very careful in placing the bean pods, and the fun little round berries, just so. I had so much fun watching her little mind at work. She was so strategic in the placement of each piece and she actually had a method all her own.(Grammy set back and watched with pride!)


The Finished Product!
Sarahs Fall Art Collage 2011 Oct 003 (800x600)
Sarahs Fall Art Collage 2011 Oct 007 (800x600)
So if you have an extra hour, or so in your day, and need some fresh air, take a walk with someone you love and see all that God has to offer. I feel like I had a little piece of heaven today……..

Happy Fall !
 
Kathysue

Friday, October 21, 2011

Does Halloween Have To Be Scary?


Halloween does not have to be scary!! In fact I insist that it is either pretty, or cute. I already did a post on pretty and sophisticated, so now I think it is time for some cuteness………

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Now, who can resist Winnie the Pooh!?



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For our inner-flower child! Too cute!





Is it time to go Trick or Treating yet?



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Aaaaah! I wonder who lives here?



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Wouldn’t your little Princess just love to have this pumpkin?



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Adorable Black Cat pillows. I would not use the spider he is going towards the scary side!!!



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I think this is adorable!! What a clever way to dress up your Halloween party table.



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More fun witches legs, good witches of course!!


FUN WITH  FOOD!


If you are having a party, how about some cute ideas for the food you will be serving………





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Yes Please!!


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For some reason I have had more people use this idea from my blog last year!! It really is pretty darn cute and really easy to do. We Mom’s love that!!

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A ghostly look for your strawberries!! Cute!!


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Your little Trick or Treaters will need to have dinner before they go out and collect their desserts. Why not make it fun instead of just plain old Spaghetti and meatballs!!!

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Even bacon and eggs get a fun look for Halloween!


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the cutest decoration of all……..

What an adorable way to remember your own sweet little ones and how precious they were during October 2011!!



You still have  eight more days to do some of these fun ideas for your kiddos!!



“Enjoy the Process” Of:

Keeping Halloween Child-like and fun,
not scary!!

Kathysue

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Is It Too Early to Start thinking About Christmas?

I had a surprise while watching TV last night!………

I just saw my first Christmas commercial last night!! It was adorable. There was a cute little girl all dressed in Christmas clothes pulling a Christmas tree across her front porch.
It was for QVC. At first it looked like a Target commercial. After I saw it was QVC, and not Target it dawned on me…. Omgosh Christmas!! How many days until Christmas!??




As of today there are 66 days until Christmas!!! Basically 2 months. Is it time to start at least thinking about it? What do you think?



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I will have to admit I have been thinking about Christmas just a little bit. I have a few gifts in mind, and I also have a plan of what I want to do for my Christmas décor this year. I keep the basic family ornaments the same, and I will always do that, but I do like to shake it up a little so I am already thinking about it.




If any of you follow along with me on Pinterest you probably can figure out what direction I will be going! Even though I am thinking about it, I must admit I was a bit taken aback that there was already a Christmas commercial on TV.



So I am wondering how many of you are thinking about your plans for the Holiday's? How many of you are refusing to go there yet?



However, or whenever you choose to start thinking, or preparing for Christmas, I hope you are…….



“Enjoying the Process!”

Kathysue