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Turkey Table Topper

11.14.2009

Gobble, Gobble! For this week’s craft, I made a tissue paper pom pom turkey to use as the centerpiece for the children’s table at Thanksgiving dinner. Pass the sweet potatoes, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Cozy Car Caddy

11.14.2009

Little dudes, start your engines! This Cozy Car Caddy features bright green fabric and earth-friendly denim, recycled from an old pair of dad’s jeans. The inside pockets are big enough to hold six matchbox cars and are within an easy distance from the highway. The caddy folds up into a little 6×5 inch pouch of [...]

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Wishbone Book

11.14.2009

Rather than create a straightforward turkey design for this week’s theme, I decided to take inspiration from one of our family’s turkey day traditions–the wishbone. This part of the turkey was anticipated by my brothers and I every Thanksgiving. As kids, we would fight over who got to break the wishbone, and the possibility that [...]

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Ceres Crown of Leaves

11.14.2009

Leaves are things of beauty, whether or not they’re real or made of wool felt. To celebrate the cool autumn nights and the falling of the leaves, I created a felt leaf crown, named for Ceres, the goddess of the harvest. What little (or big) girl wouldn’t love wearing this at the Thanksgiving table? Mostly [...]

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Tea-licious Harvest Tea Towel

11.14.2009

When the weather turns cooler and the leaves begin to fall, there’s nothing better than a hot pot of tea to warm you up. And just so you don’t burn your fingers, it helps to have a little pot holder or fall-themed tea towel to go with your Earl Gray and pumpkin muffins. Rather than [...]

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Poor Girls Chandelier

11.14.2009

I love the juxtaposition between what we think of as garbage and what we think of as fine art. Since I try to go green whenever I can, I thought it would be interesting and beautiful to create a chandelier using cardboard–something which would normally be cast away after use. Wouldn’t this be cute in [...]

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Christmas Frame

11.14.2009

For this weeks theme I intrepreted it two different ways. Green as in the color color green and also going “green.” Since Christmas is right around the corner I thought Christmas trees would be a great way to intrepret this weeks theme. As for the going “green” part I upcycled an old frame I had [...]

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Burlap Tree Frame

11.14.2009

When I think of leaves, I think of fall and the vibrant colors of all of the leaves. This project is very inexpensive and so easy to make. I used burlap for the background to give it a rustic look. To represent the leaves I used red and gold buttons and painted the tree and [...]

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Harvest Topiary

11.14.2009

When I found out the first theme of S.Y.T.Y.C I was really excited because fall is one of my favorite time’s of the year and I just love all of the fall colors! When I started brainstorming what I was going to do I just kept thinking that I really wanted to showcase those beautiful [...]

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