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I wrote this post almost 2 years ago, just before my little granddaughter Sofia was born! Since the Autumnal Equinox is on Monday, I thought I would share it again for Fun Friday this week! There are lots of links that you can follow to past craft posts and past recipes. I will link to a few other ones below. I hope you enjoy the memories!
Hello from California! I am with Alicia waiting for her new baby girl to be born! Since today is the first day of Fall, we are all working together on our Friday Fave post for our favorite season. I know that some people feel like Fall is the favorite holiday of too many people, so they want to be different. Or, maybe they don't like pumpkin or pumpkin pie spice. But, around here at 3 Winks, we love the fall for so many reasons. So, today's Friday Fave question is perfect for us:
What is your favorite thing about Fall?
It was funny because when I asked my girls this question, Alicia and Lindsey each gave me an almost identical response. They both said that in the Fall there are a lot of things to celebrate and reasons to get together with family. We have an extra abundance of reasons to get together in our family because all 3 of my daughters and one of my daughters-in-law have birthdays in October. Then, there is Halloween, Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving. As Lindsey put it, Fall signifies the start of the holiday season! You bake yummy food and spend more time with family. In many places, not necessarily in Phoenix, the world changes color and the air is crisp and wonderful! You get to start wearing scarves and gloves.
I was surprised that the first thing that Lindsey mentioned wasn't pumpkins! If you read Renny's Recipes, you know of her love of all things pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice. It was heart warming to see that she and Alicia thought of family first! But, Lindsey did mention that in the Fall she can eat pumpkin things without being judged! Maddy also surprised me. I thought that she would mention Halloween first since she loves Halloween. That isn't surprising because her whole childhood she had Halloween themed birthday parties. But, actually the first thing she said that she loves about the season is making Fall crafts. You can see examples of her crafts here and here!
Here is what I love about Fall.
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Because we love Fall so much, we decided to make a print to celebrate the season and share it with you, our readers! We collected all of the things that we love about the Fall and put them into one beautiful reminder created by Alicia! We hope that you love it!
Welcome Fall! Enjoy the season everyone! Click the photos below for more Fun Friday Ideas! (Or any day really!)
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! With Labor Day Weekend upon us, it is the perfect time to break out the Fall decorations and perhaps add a few new items to the mix. I love getting into the chest where my Fall items are stored and finding things I didn't remember that I owned! But, I also love going into the stores and seeing new ideas and getting inspiration there. Maddy and I went on a little Fall shopping spree and we came back with some great stuff that is pretty inexpensive! First of all, look at the adorable Thankful Chalk board that Maddy decorated. We found the plaque at Michael's for about $2.50. Maddy had a great idea to turn it into a chalkboard that family members can write things that they are thankful for everyday or every week throughout the season, whatever your pleasure. Of course, I already owned the chalkboard paint. I painted the base coat and did a thin wash of brown acrylic paint around the frame. Then I was nervous about writing "thankful," so I made Maddy do it! Ha ha! Look how cute it came out! She always thinks of the cute details like the little leaves and dots. She did it all with one chalk marker! Free hand! I would have written thankful and left it at that! Here are a few close-ups: Michael's had a lot of their Fall decor on sale for 40% off or more. This weekend would be a great time to check it out before it is all gone! Another great place we found to shop was at Dollar Tree! We found so many things to craft with and decorate with that we can't wait to show you some of our creations in up coming posts! In the meantime, here are some of the things you are going to love! (But I'm not going to tell you all of our secrets yet! Use your imagination and see what you come up with!)
My goodness you guys! There is so much fun stuff that I can't even list it all! You have to click the links and see for yourself! Just remember, at Dollar Tree, you have to shop fast because everything goes fast! Especially if you want stuff for Halloween! Decorating for the seasons and holidays is so much fun to do with kids because they get so excited. I was glad that my daughter and my granddaughter have been here to help at my house! (Even though my granddaughter is not quite 2, she sure gets excited about the stuff!) So, have a FUN Labor Day weekend and get in the Fall mood! If you are still have high heat and humidity like we are, it may even help you feel a little cooler! Click on our Halloween category to see past ideas! Also our Fall category has great ideas and recipes! PS: How do you like our new look? Let us know in the comments!
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! It's that time of year! School is back in and before you know it, Halloween will be here. Time to get out the Fall decor and start eating things made with pumpkin pie spice! I was thinking about a little strip of wall that I have between my family room and kitchen when I went to look around Michael's the other day. Michael's has a ton of really cute fall items for the home right now and I saw a bunch of really cute plaques for about $5.00 that I thought would be perfect for my wall. Then, I found these little unfinished wooden plaques for 99 cents! I knew that I could paint a whole slew of word signs at a much lower price! (.99!) I already owned the paint and brushes, etc. I am going to paint 2 more, which I will share with you later, but today I will share the basics for this cute little "Hello Pumpkin" plaque. Supplies:
As I said, I already owned all of these supplies except for the .99 plaques. If you have to buy it all just for this project, if will be cheaper to just buy the pre-made plaques! Instructions:
3. Use blackboard paint to cover the flat surface on top. 4. Use a stiff bristle brush or toothbrush to flick paint around the edge of the plaque. 5. Practice how you want to do your lettering on a piece of paper before you attempt it on your plaque. You could use white graphite or a stylus to give yourself a pattern to follow. 6. Use the white chalk marker to write on the plaque. 7. I decided it needed a little something extra, so I made a pumpkin in the corner. Use plenty of coats to fill it in and hide the black. Then use your brush strokes to add to the texture of the pumpkin. 8. Finally use green to add leaves, vines and stem. I am converted to Command Strip picture hangers for all of my picture hanging needs! No more pictures getting crooked with the slam of a door or big truck driving by! And, Command Strips make it so much easier to hang them straight the first time!
I'll show you the next plaques I do later on! Let me know if you have any good Fall sayings I can use.
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Hurray Fall! The time of year when there are things baking and leaves falling and lots of cool looking veggies in the stores and backyard campfires and eating chili and cornbread!
Wait! Let's stop right there with the cornbread part. I have not really been a big fan of cornbread throughout my life. It is often dry and crumbly, which I can deal with in chili but not in any other way. Or, it has jalapenos mixed in it, which makes it too spicy for my taste. Then, for awhile I made the cakemix kind of cornbread, which made it more moist, and sweet, but let's face it, I was eating cake with cornmeal in it. So, nothing really satisfied me when it came to cornbread. Now, fast forward to this year and our annual church Halloween party and chili cook-off. I signed up to bring cornbread. Don't ask me why. It had become a challenge to me, I guess. I started thinking and thinking about what I could do to make a really good cornbread. Then, I realized that in my refrigerator I had some leftover winter squash begging to be used. It was from the turban squash I had used in this recipe. I wondered to myself if that squash would work in my cornbread? Oh My Goodness! I have created the best cornbread ever! First of all, the turban squash has a very mild flavor, so the taste is very subtle in the cornbread. But, it added such moistness and the bread came out fluffy and amazing to eat with chili. As a side bit, it can't hurt to sneak a little vegetable into your cornbread! If you don't have some puree already ready to be used in your recipe, I suggest baking your squash for about an hour or so at 350 degrees, then cutting it open, scooping out the seeds and pureeing the flesh. It is super easy to do. (It is especially nice to do on a rainy day because it really makes you feel like you are doing an autumnal thing.) You don't have to use just turban squash. Butternut, acorn or even pumpkin should do the trick. The color and flavor may vary slightly though.
I hope that you will give it a try! You won't regret it! Try it, let me know what you think! (And share please!)
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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