image inspiration

This morning, at the day care, has been like a mad dash with the changing of the months over the weekend.  I started at five after six this morning ripping down pumpkins and Halloween lights and brainstorming about November and Thanksgiving and what to put out now.  I do love the creative side to my job that pushes me into thinking creatively first thing in the morning.  Our turkey is on the bulletin board, November is up on the wall where October was taken down, our Thankful Tree will be on the wall shortly and Thanksgiving garland will be up by the end of the day... hopefully.  I have looked up and printed templates for pilgrim hats, acorns, Indian corn and turkeys.  What a morning!

 

Please feel free to click the images and be directed to their source.

 

 

I really liked the idea of cutting out solid feathers then adding the notches at different spots all around.

Found on cutoutandkeep.net

 

 

This is where I spotted the acorns.  These look bought.... mine will be out of cereal boxes.

 

 

 

I really like this idea for "Gratitude Garland" and the free printable.

Some people make it so easy for the rest of us!

 

 

Why not make something fun on this second day of November to bring thankful thoughts into your home or office the entire month long!

 

 

Here is the beginning of our Thankful Tree last year.



Image Inspiration

Lately, my crafting inspiration comes in the form of Spring.  After all the snow it seems our April rains have come early.  Unless they will continue long into April.  But everywhere there are signs and even smells of Spring with buttercup and tulip pedals popping above ground for some air and light and certain trees anxious to bud putting a springy scent into the air.  But with the rains we are still stuck inside so what more to do than craft our tributes to the coming months!

Cascading Paper Flower Garland

This wonderful project from Liagriffith.com also comes with a tutorial and downloadable pdf of the flowers.  How wonderful!  I have made some in yellow and strung them from the ceiling.  I plan to find a branch once the weather allows.

Glitter Easter Eggs

A click on the title of this project takes you to twosisterscrafting.com.  The image that actually inspired was found on a blog that I like called bohemianvahalla.blogspot.com.  I was browsing her blog when I spotted the beautiful green egg in the above picture.  I also like the band of glitter around the pink egg.  An email from my sister Marty about a different post from twosisterscrafting led me to their tutorial of making the eggs.  Yesterday, before the tutorial, I tried my hand at making the eggs myself by mixing fine glitter in with mod podge then painting the eggs.  The plastic didn't want to allow for good coverage with one swipe and two barely did the trick.  I may try their version with the second round but am hesitant that some glitter will fall off which I don't want.  We'll see! 

Image Inspiration

Image Inspiration is a new series where I share images found all over the web.  Sometimes they are images that inspire me to make the craft shown, maybe something in home decor that inspired me to make a change in my own home and other times it may just be something I found beautiful and wanted to share with you.  A lot of time I will print out images for my journal and write down what about the picture inspired me.  I have a whole lot of fun doing that!  And here's where my sharing it begins!

Felt Heart Garland

Photo and craft credit: www.danamadeit.com    

I am always looking for new ways to decorate the day care for different holidays and months.  Since it is so early in January and I have plenty of felt pieces on hand, I believe I have plenty of time to create some heart garland strands... if my sewing machine will act right!  I spent this afternoon at the day care cutting out my hearts from felt.  I wound up getting 12 and sometimes 13 out of one sheet of felt.  I used red, hot pink, light pink and white.  Now to the sewing machine when I get home.  Then all I need is a red string of lights and I am ready to decorate the DC for February!

Lake Cottage Bedroom

Photo credit: ROSE HIP on Flickr, found on nestprettythings.tumblr                         

I stopped and googled at this picture for a minute then swiped it for my journal.  I love the yellows in the picture above the bed.  I also like the washed out wood walls, the hobnail bed side lamps and the array of pillows.  I want to make pillows from all the vintage fabric that I have.  Probably needed to be on my goals list.  

Meal Planning List

Credit: Liz at Lifeinyellow.com

I love this idea!  I would like to order one pad of these please.  I am a big list maker (although I vowed when I turned 40 to stop making lists... didn't happen).  This one you can take right to the grocery with you and when you get home it goes on the fridge so everyone knows what's for supper!  I went through a meal planning phase where I planned ahead for a month.  I really enjoyed not having to worry about what to make when I got home from work.  It was already planned out and the ingredients were all there.  Maybe I need to start that up again now that I think about it.  This list would help tremendously!  It has a free printable too.  Or you can copy and paste it into Word or whatever, turn it and get two on a page.  I do wonder why the list has only four days.  I generally cook all seven days... most of the time all three meals.  I need a notebook!