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boys, craft, fall, family, november, paper, thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Craft: Turkey Garland

November 9, 2011November 30, 2011by casadeberry3 Comments

I saw this cute place setting craft at my favorite paper store

Source: paper-source.com via Claudia on Pinterest

and I’d been thinking of making a garland with my oldest, so I decided to make a variation of this cute turkey. I had all the materials except the eyes, so that was $1.99 spent.

First I punched out the body out of brown construction paper and cut tan triangles for the beaks:

Then my boy added googly eyes – we thought that would be a lot more fun! I asked him to go crazy coloring with oranges and reds on yellow paper, for the plumage.

Some of them looked silly, and my son said he wanted to make them all different because people are all different 😀

Then we taped the turkeys onto orange curling ribbon:

Et voila! Here is our beautiful, fun, and very silly turkey garland!!!

I love walking into my house and seeing this fun garland that my son and I made together. He loves doing crafts with me and I am planning more Thanksgiving fun – hope you enjoyed our Turkey Garland!

canning, cooking, craft, gifts, paper, pears

Pinterest challenge – mason jar gifts!

November 7, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry2 Comments

First let me tell ya that I will be moving to WordPress! Yay! And you know what? You can add this link to your reader feed: https://casadeberry.wordpress.com/feed/
I will be here for a few more weeks and I’ll keep reminding y’all so all my sweet followers can, uh, follow me in my new online home.

Okay, NOW we continue our regularly scheduled post.

Yeah, I am a few days late, but seeing this challenge pop up in some of my favorite sites got my butt in gear. That, and the fact that the pears on the tree were finally turning a gorgeous golden yellow.

I got plenty of canning and packaging inspiration from Pinterest:

Source: tipnut.com via Amy on Pinterest

I would LOVE to have a pantry filled with canned goods!

Source: google.com via Michelle on Pinterest

These are ADORABLE all packaged up for Christmas!

Source: canningacrossamerica.com via Denise on Pinterest

Okay, seriously. WOW. If I ever manage half of this, I will be so proud of myself!

Source: squidoo.com via Kristin on Pinterest

I started to think up ideas for the extra jars I had – scrubs would be great, don’t you think?

Source: tipjunkie.com via Kelly on Pinterest

How cute are these with their color-coordinated tags?

I was lucky that my mother-in-law came over to can pears with me because I sliced up my finger with a fruit corer and she had to take over – no worries, we cleaned the corer and threw away the pear I’d been working on – but we had a good morning, chatting as we processed the fruit, and me planning in my head how I’d package up the finished goods.

This is what we picked from the tree the night before, my oldest was a super helper:

Soaking in their Fruit Fresh so they’ll keep their pretty color:

Cooking down – we did some in sugar and some in Splenda. We did lots of tasting and they were yummy!

The smaller jars in front are pear butter, so good!

I also made some sugar scrubs – there are lots of great recipes at Tip Junkie.

I chose to go with a simple label I made in Photoshop, some ribbon/yarn and bits of a Christmas (fake) branch we had from last year’s decor.

While I don’t have an entire pantry full of canned goods, I do have a couple of small shelves full of these, and they make me happy. Maybe next year I’ll get many more tomatoes and I’ll be able to can lots of yummy sauce!

Hope you enjoyed my Pinterest Challenge!

contest, costume, craft, family, halloween, husband

Godzilla a finalist in SFGate’s contest!

November 4, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry5 Comments

I just saw that the Godzilla costume my husband made for our youngest was one of the finalists in SFGate’s Super Crafty Costume Contest!

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

boys, costume, craft, family, halloween, husband

Costume progress – and a hint!

October 30, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry1 Comment

My awesome husband is almost done with our little man’s costume. Good thing because he has a parade tomorrow morning!

The attention to detail keeps amazing me. Also, he helped with his cousin’s costume Saturday afternoon. I am not posting that yet, but it came out great. I think. Because I was a little creeped out by it and wasn’t really sure what/who it was. I looked it up and I’m still creeped out. Today my hubs is putting the final details on this costume and I can’t wait to see it finished!

costume, craft, halloween

Costume progress

October 26, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry4 Comments

My awesome husband has taken on the task of making our youngest’s Halloween costume. Every night after he’s done with work he works and works on it for a few hours. I think it’s going to look awesome!

I have to say I’m surprised that my youngest chose this and my oldest ended up going with a store bought costume. Can you guess what it is?

clothing, craft, flowers, sewing

Fashion Friday: Embellished Tank

September 30, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry2 Comments

I had some leftover fabric from the pillows I made a while back, so I decided to make some flowers and sew those onto a plain tank from Target:

If you Google “rolled flower tutorial” you’ll get hundreds of links to learn how to make these. I made a few in various sizes and then pinned them to the tank top. Once I was happy with the positioning, I sewed them on, et voila! a pretty tank that makes getting dressed so much easier – no need for necklaces with this one, I’ll wear mine this fall with jeans and a cardie.

I swear, now I want a tank in every color with pretty flowers on them! I hope you enjoyed my little sewing adventure – have a wonderful weekend!

craft, decor, fall

Door Decor and CSI linky parties

September 29, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberryLeave a Comment

Today I am linking up my Fall Wreath to Rhoda’s awesome Door Decor link party and to the CSI project! – go check them out!

craft, holiday, orange, paper, under 5

EEK! So scary!

September 28, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry1 Comment

Okay, not really, they’re just three cute black photo frames from IKEA that got dolled up for Halloween with the help of some scrapbook paper 😀

I first printed out some suitable frightening letters and cut them out – this cardstock looks yellow but it is actually more orange:

Then I matted them on the black cardstock and pop-dotted them onto the frames:

These will be part of one of my Halloween displays – I am lucky to have a couple of hutches and mantels where I can put out some scary goodness, so I’ll show you those as it gets closer to October 31. I bought the frames in a 3-pack for $5 and I had the scrapbook paper and glue, so this little project comes in under $5.

boys, craft, office, organizing, paper, school

Organization: A year’s worth of homework

September 26, 2011November 15, 2011by casadeberry3 Comments

With two boys in school now, there are lots of homework and art project pages filling up the bin I set up in the office. Now that the new school year has started, it was time to decide what to do with last year’s stash. Once I saw this, my decision was made:

Source: remodelista.com via Claudia on Pinterest

One evening a couple of weeks ago, I sat down and photographed everything I wanted kept for posterity. I did save a couple of projects from each of my boys, and the memory books their teachers had made of the whole school year. I know, I’m a sucker, and we’ll see how those fare in a few years, but for now I am keeping them.

I got a coupon for a free poster print at Walmart, and I found super cheapo poster frames for $6 each, so my project ended up costing around $12 total.

We are redoing this particular corner of the playroom/office, since my husband likes my computer better (better graphics card, yeah!) and now never sits at his desk, so this corner is going to be the media/recharging station/printer/etc. area, but for right now I really like my boys’ work up there.

craft, gifts, holiday

Thinking ahead

September 21, 2011by casadeberry1 Comment

I’ve started to think about Christmas presents – don’t shoot me! I know it’s barely September, but I am hoping to make some of these presents myself, which requires thinking ahead.

My husband and I had a Make Your Own Spa Goodies party a few years ago, so I think I could manage to make some of these scrubs: