Free November Calendar Page

Welcome November!

Around these parts this is the time

when we are thankful for full harvests,

friends and family.

To celebrate, I'm sharing a

free printable calendar page

filled with my hand-painted gourds and mums.

Just click on the photo above

for your instant free download.

Happy November!

For Fall clip art you can use in

decor, invitations and your own printables,

visit me HERE.

Free Printable November Calendar Page

Hello, November!

It is a time of harvest and thanksgiving

in these parts.

To celebrate, I'm sharing this

free printable calendar page for the

month of November.

It features my hand-painting in gouache

of mums, squash and gourds.

Quick DIY Pumpkins from Grapevine Balls

If you love decorating for Fall...

If you love pumpkins...

If you love easy crafts...

This one's for YOU!

Transform those decorative grapevine balls

you have around the house into

quick and easy DIY Pumpkins

in just three steps!

Here's how:

Thanksgiving Wood Burned Spoons

Make a unique Thank You gift

for the host or hostess of 
your Thanksgiving celebration:

a wood-burned spoon.

Use a simple wood burning tool
to 'engrave' fun Thanksgiving-related
words or designs.

Lightly sand the spoon and then

add a little extra color to

the inside of your design

Gratitude List Printable

I have a free gift for you!

In November I like to take time here on the blog

to officially celebrate

the "Season of Gratitude,"

as I like to think of it.

Often there is a rush straight to Christmas and other winter holidays.

Pause with me to savor this moment

and give it its due. 

To help with that, at the end of this post

I have a free 

Gratitude List printable 

FREE Pumpkin Shaped Social Media Buttons!

Summer is almost over

in these parts and that can only mean….

the season of the

PUMPKIN

is almost upon us!

So I've made something special for you.

I think you'll FALL in love with them…

{wink!}

A whole set of free

PUMPKIN Social Media Buttons

for your blog or website!

New Digital Clip Art for Instant Download at my Etsy now!

Thankful for You Gift Tag Download

A simple little

sentiment on a 

simple little gift tag

celebrates the Thanksgiving season.

It is my gift to you.

Standing Hand Turkey Tutorial & Template

These pretty, irresistible little gobblers

are here to make your Thanksgiving festive!

Let's get started with the

Standing 3D Hand Turkey Tutorial

and Template!

Mason Jar Pumpkin Tutorial

These little wide-mouth half-pint mason jars are irresistible as pumpkins. Great for gift-giving throughout the Fall and especially at Thanksgiving, you can fill them with your favorite Fall mix.
{*Click here* for the Pay Day version.} 

Right now, you asked for the Mason Jar Pumpkin Tutorial, and here it is!

{Mason Jar} Pumpkin Payday!

They are the most adorable, versatile little pumpkins you'll ever meet!

They're perfect for Thanksgiving gift-giving:

Half-pint Mason Jar Pumpkins! 

Fall Yarn-Wrapped Ornamental Balls

Yarn-wrapped ornamental balls are versatile for displaying in a bowl, on a garland, or hanging from the tree. When you choose interesting color combinations and textures, you can easily span the Fall and Holiday seasons.

You can make simple, traditional balls with pumpkin-like colors, to unusual yarn combinations with added bling. Let's see how...

Reversible Burlap Thanksgiving Ornaments

Burlap offers the perfect warmth and texture for Fall decor. These handsome Thanksgiving ornaments can be used in wreaths, on garlands, swags, and trees. 

And here's a bit of ingenuity:

Burlap Scary Movie Poster Ornaments & Garland

You can make them as reversible ornaments to span two seasons: Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Let's see how:

Thanksgiving Day Parade of Stars!

Columns left to right: My 1929 Charmer; Cottage & Broome; Reading Confetti; Choux-Choux; Crafted Niche; Chrissy's Crafts; Eclectically Vintage

    It's your front-row seat to the I Gotta Create! Thanksgiving Day Parade! Our "floats" are SPECTACULAR!  {Macy's got nothin on us} Let's get started! You can click on any text link to visit the artist for a full helping of their creativity:

Snarky Thanksgiving Apron

I don't know what comes over me. But sometimes these vintage ad women have things they gotta say. Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday...and can be a little nutty with all the cookin' and cleanin.' So, if you find yourself getting a bit snarky, laugh about it!

I love this fabric! And of course, I always print my designs on washable computer printer paper. {resource here} That way I never have to worry about washing and ironing my creations...

Natural & Fancy Place Cards

Here's a more sophisticated use of nature's bounty to decorate the Thanksgiving table. 

Gobbler Gourds {Simple Napkin Rings Part 2}

Ahhh, Autumn. Fall yard work unexpectedly leads to creative inspiration. I can hardly wait to show you!! 


First: wanna take a short trip down the winding backroads of creativity and see how it all evolved?

C'mon! Climb in...we're going to a beautiful plant farm, home of this purty little rig.  

The plantings are gorgeous this fall.  

Here's some great junk. You can see much more on the Picking Out Fall Gourds tour *here.* I give you some tips on choosing gourds. 

For now, as you may know I fell in love with an assortment of gourds and brought them home... 


...and made simple ornaments...

...for a halloween project that didn't quite turn out. You can see the mayhem on facebook. For today's purpose, please note the green balls at the base of the tree. 

Those are hedge apples. They fall like rain {actually more like giant green hail} from the hedge trees in our yard. So when I ran into Babs, who bought and celebrated hedge apples on her blog, I was stunned! And I realized: sometimes when you have something in abundance, you take it for granted. 

So I thought: what else am I not really seeing and fully appreciating? These locust tree pods are everywhere in our yard. That's when inspiration struck. {Stay with me...the road is winding back around.} 

I wanted to use the locust pods and plant farm gourds to take things up a notch. You might have seen my post on napkin rings that do double duty as place cards. But they are actually now serving as a base for these Thanksgiving table decorations / place cards: 

Aren't they SWEET? She sports gold paint stripes, a head from a {fake} acorn, and feet of leaves.

Both get google eyes and wattles from a fall fake flower bush. His feet are flowers.

To make the tails, I poked holes into the gourds and stuck in the pods.

The turkeys from the plant farm do a double-take...

See more pics of these two on Facebook.

So. Much. Fun.  


Want to see something a little more refined for the adult Thanksgiving table? I thought so! *Click here* for Natural & Fancy Place Cards.

May you find inspiration in your fall chores! And thank you, Babs, for reminding me that abundance and opportunity are all around us. There's so much to be grateful for...

 Snarky Pilgrim Apron Here
Thanksgiving Napkins Here

Simple Napkin Rings - Place Cards Here

Funny Thanksgiving Card Here

Hilarious Silverware Turkey Here


Grab some virtual candy here

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