Fall Wreath

So I am always looking for exciting ideas to try. I found this wonderful wreath at Thrifty Decor Chick and thought I would have a go at it. I did not follow her dimensions and so mine is larger. I painted the background orange, thinking that would be the perfect fall color should any show through. Now I know better and suggest painting it a lighter muted color, such as gold, brown or tan.

I had bought three bags of fall leaves and just hot glued them willy nilly. Next time I think I will plan it out a bit better and take breaks where I will step back and look at it. When all the leaves had been glued on I was appalled   unsatisfied, so I decided to glue some acorns onto it. 

That helped but it still was not complete. So I found some wonderful fall colored wired ribbon and added a bow. Overkill?? Maybe but sometimes I just don't know when to stop. The family gave it praise and thought it was beautiful. The only question that I kept getting about it was "Is that a picture frame?" due to the square shape.  I like it and it is now hanging on the front door. Next year I may make it a pumpkin shape, who knows?

    

Kids are walking germ labs

Oh yes... the FLU has struck. It came home laughing gleefully on the back of one child and has now taken down four out of the five of us. If I could stick my kids in a bubble or have a sanitation center that thoroughly degerms (yes another Melanieism) them as they walk in the door I would. I am not a healthy person - never have been. I have basically no immune system - and I do not say that in a joking manner. When my daughter got a slight cold for one day and then passed it on to me I had bronchitis for a month. So, when the FLU walked in through our doors it was laughing and clapping it's hands because it knew it had come to a place where it could run amok.   Friday was the worst but recuperation is taking it's time. The only upside - I have lost 9.6 lbs. in 3 days. Not the way I wanted to start to lose weight but I'll take it and run with it.

So, beware all of you fellow readers - that season of passing germs is here. May your house be missed. Give me a few more days and I will be up and going again. Can't wait to share some recent projects that I've finished.

A few of my projects

 I must say that looking around my house I would label me a "crazy crafter". In one are I have my sewing/quilting area where I have no less than 3 projects going at once. Look to the dining room area and you will gaze upon my most recent creative interests - painting and polymer clay. It drives the family crazy that I am scrambling to clean up from my projects all the time so that we can actually use the dining table for the intended purpose of dining together as a family. My dream is to have my own space, be it a room, loft, garage, something, anything where I can actually set up all the projects I'm working on and leave them out until I am finished. Ahhhh to dream. But for now it will be a mix of stuffing things into drawers, onto a desktop, or into plastic containers. I'm sure many of you feel the same way. So, if you have any great ideas for how to make my life, and my families, easier please share your knowledge in the comment section. We can all benefit from the wisdom of other crafters. So here are a few of my projects that I have recently completed or am working on.