Showing posts with label acorns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acorns. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Sweet Is November

November brings with it
colder days and early evenings.
Time to light the fires, and get out those sweaters!

Quiet times spent with your family,
the sweet aroma in the kitchen.

Mom is baking a
Pumpkin Roll
Oh so sweet, Sweet is November.



A time to rake the leaves from your yards,
a time to read silently.

A time for Thanksgiving, a time of thanks.
Oh so sweet,
Sweet is November.
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Thank you dearest Clarice from
Storybook Woods
I love my acorn pin!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Autumnal Acorns & A Fall Frock

Ahhh!
This week we decided to make a new
frock for Freckles in warm tones.
I searched my stash of fabrics and lace & found
the perfect fabrics to make a skirt.

As you may know already, Fall is one of our most
favorite times of the year.
The best part is seeing all the wonderful colors in the trees
and walking through leaves, picking up acorns.
We have collected many already...
sometimes the nuts are already gone,
left behind are only the caps.
Which we also collect, since you never know
what you might come up with.
For instance, this delightful brooch was inspired.




I made this darling brooch from brown velvet
I had stashed in my sewing box, and the cap fit perfectly on top!



I used an antique piece of jewelry,
linen ribbon and a lace scrap which I used in the skirt to match.
I then pinned it to Freckle's corduroy coat,
making her frock complete!


The day's are finally getting cooler...
Perfect weather for frolicking.
Freckles did just that.


She even had a chance to chase the butterflies in our back yard.
When she got out the butterfly net,
they coincidentally disappeared.
It was fun no matter though.
And she made a wonderful model too!


Freckles even made her big brother, Maestro model her coat & hat.
What a willing guy!
I am not sure if he liked it much,
but he was sweet enough to allow this picture.

We also wanted to share this sweet book written
by Max Lucado with an acorn theme...
And very inspiring.
The Oak Inside the Acorn is the story of the miracle
inside each of us
For within every child is the special person
God created, just waiting to grow.