Round Up Of My Favorite Fall Projects

Hello! How are you? 

Over the course of 14 years of blogging, I still get inspired to create every autumn. I've been searching Pinterest and YouTube for fall crafting ideas. I realized that I have done some fun fall DIYs over the years and that it would be fun to share them with you. 

Let's look back on some of my favorite autumnal ideas.

Some of these, I still have and use. Others items didn't make the move with us. 

This year is the first year that I decorated the country house with all of the fall decor that has been consolidated from both houses. 

I still have the ticking stripe pumpkin that I made one year. The real pumpkin stem and vintage ticking is why this little pumpkin is a keeper. Ticking stripe is classic even though the colors aren't super autumnal. 

I adore the little concrete squirrel. It is one of the first things to get pulled out each fall and it remains one of my favorite little pieces. 

One of little ears has a chip after years of irresponsible packing but that doesn't take away from his charm. 

This is how I styled the pumpkin this year. 

The squirrel planter was thrifted and he is a cutie! 

One year there was a plethora of buffalo checked pumpkins painted out of Dollar Tree finds. 

This was a ton of fun to do but it didn't last as a decor element for me. For a while all the black and white checked items came out to the new house but eventually, I purged them from my collection. 

The pumpkin in the image above, had the orange bleed through. That was disappointing considering the work involved in painting buffalo check. This year I recreated the look using scrapbook paper. 

The new checked pumpkins go with the valance in our laundry room. 

I also made this pumpkin pie. 

I don't have it anymore because it was a full sized pie. It was too big of an element for styling. I prefer the mini pies now. 

I made this adorable Apple Pie a few years ago. This started my love for faux mini pies. I still have it and I'll pull it out in a week or so. 

The crust is made out of air dry clay. The apple chunks inside are styrofoam. They were both painted to look like they are supposed to. Now, I make my crust out of natural canvas duck cloth and then there is no painting required to get it the correct color. 

This Honey Pie is my latest creation. 

It is my favorite pie so far. 

I created some scarecrows in the summer of 2021. Life was still weird at that point and creating was such a means of escape for me. I made one for our city house and one for the country house. The both escaped the purge when we moved. Since my rooms aren't open too much to one another, one is in the den and the other in the living room. 

This one ended up being a favorite so he's taken a place of prominence. 

My favorite creations usually birth out of me during fall and Christmas. It is the coziest time of year and perfect for crafting. 

This year, I went on a faux bread making binge. 

Mother Thyme inspired these creations. I also watched Sweet Home Living With Tracy Cambell. 

When they say it will expand, believe it. I overfilled and then had to cut some away with the bread knife. Then some of them shrunk a little. I don't care, they are adorable. 

That is about it for now. 

Is anyone still reading blogs? I assume you are if you have made it this far. 

I looked at Liz Marie after a long while and I noticed that she hasn't done a blog post since the spring. 

For all I know, she could have switched to different platform for writing. 

I'm so glad I didn't leave Blogger. It has served me well. 

I hope to see you again soon.

Katie 

Late Summer Sunflowers and Bees/Summer To Fall Transition

Hello, Friends,

How are you? I hope you are well. 

It's been a long time since I've blogged. I started a post in July for the Fourth but I never got around to finishing it up. 

Here in East Texas, we have had a pretty mild summer, however, I get tired of temperatures in the 90s by August. 

In the transition from summer to fall, I always pull out some sunflower decor. If you have been around for a while, you might remember that my classroom decor was sunflowers and bees for many years. I love this type of decor to bridge the summer to fall decorations in the house. 

Let's have a look around. 

I'm going to start with my cute Honey Pie. I had no idea that a honey pie was an actual recipe but in my search of images for inspiration, I actually found that there is such a thing. 

So I created a faux pie using a mini pie dish from Hobby Lobby, foam, muslin and paint. 

Don't forget the glitter! 

As far as I know, there isn't another one like it on the internet. I love making these faux pies. I adorned it with a little "prim" tag, some scraps and a cute little bee button. I didn't move a lot of my craft supplies so I've had to essentially start over. I'm sure moving a few little bee buttons wouldn't have loaded down the moving van but they did not make it to the new house. I have no idea what I was thinking except I was feeling overwhelmed with the move. 

I copied the recipe onto a bee recipe card and created a vignette on a wood riser that was made by my brother in law at  Zander Wood shop. This was a birthday gift from them. 

I added a little prim bee and a decoupaged sunflower box. This was my fourth attempt at a bee that I loved. The box was made from a Michel Design Works napkin. 

Because we never use it, the breakfast room table has become the location of some large centerpieces that are changed for the seasons. 

The sunflowers were ordered from Walmart. My collection did not survive the summer of our construction. I guess there were just a few too many Daddy Long Legs on them for Bill's liking. 

The lights came from Hobby Lobby online. 

I adore the little pillow. I used transfer paper to copy an image from The Graphics Fairy. 

This other little pillow is one in which was successfully printed directly onto fabric. 

 This is the best of the lot because it is printed instead of using a transfer method.

 It was nerve wracking experience because I didn't want to jamb the printer. 

I styled it in the gravy boat painted by Bill's grandmother. My Le Creuset pie bird is nestled in with paper shreds and a crochet sunflower. This is my second pie bird because I broke the first one. I found it on eBay. 

I usually dangle an ornament from the knobs on the corner cupboard. These are a set from The Round Top Collection. 

The theme would not be complete without some honey pots. 

The breakfast room buffet got a vignette. 

The bee hive ornament came from Hobby Lobby. I found the glass bee and sunflower garland last summer. I cannot remember where I found it but I love it so much. 

I created a couple of vignettes in the living room. 

The clock faces came from an antique mall in Sulpher Springs. More paper shreds elevate the clock faces. I got the idea from the YoUniquely Vintage You YouTube channel. 

The new little shed porch got a sprinkling of decor. 

The screen porch got redecorated. 

The potting bench had been tucked back in the new shed. It needed a thorough cleaning but I'm so glad it's out in the open again. 

The front porch got some pillows 

and a few faux sunflowers. 

Here are some more photos. 

Finally, say hello to the newest member of our family. 

Rufus showed up at the beginning of May. According to a comment on my Nextdoor app, he had been dumped or abandoned by his previous owners because they moved. He could have been hiding that day but who really knows. He showed up in the yard. I think to eat birds feeding at the feeder. Bill fed him (saved the birds) and the next day he came right up to me. He was very thin but he is in good health. We got all his shots, flea and tick treatment and got him fixed. The vet thinks he's about a year old. 

He spends a small part of the day outside and the rest we've transitioned him to indoors.

He and Caroline are getting along great. 

They love to wrestle. 

He is a keeper! 

I hope to continue blogging. It is rare, though, that I sit down at the computer. 

You can follow me on my Instagram because there I post frequent stories. That is the best way to see what I'm up to. 

Katie