Worth Repeating and Mum studies

Look in my left side bar and click on "Acorn Pumpkins"  A tutorial will come up so that you can make these:

Into these:

I have just gathered some more Acorns from the Live Oak Trees that grow in the neighbors yard and sprinkles the edge of my lawn with them.  I love fall and colored leaves and Acorns.    And here is some of my still life arrangements that I took from today and plan to draw and paint the subject matter.

 I think that this would make a nice card.

 I cannot wait to see what I can do when painting this arrangement.

 The little bottle is an antique medicine bottle. I gather feathers because I collect them and I also use them in my crafting e.g. drawings of ladies in feathered hats, using the real tiny plush feathers.

This photo I enhanced the color to bring out the vividness of the orange color. 

Another that would make a nice greeting card. 

the antique blue-green of the tiny medicine bottle.

I love creating vignettes and still life arrangements.  I hope you checked out the little pumpkin tutorial from 2 fall seasons ago and that you are inspired to make some fall studies from nature of your own.  Thanks for coming!

 My Krafty Heart to Yours...

PINE CONE FLOWERS

Lovely Pine Cone flowers that I bought today at the Blessing of the Fleet and Craft show in Murrells Inlet, SC.  I have seen these before and just loved them.  They are really very easy to make and make a nice accent in your plants or a whole bouquet of them in a vase.

As you can see these are easily made with small pine cones.  A small hole is drilled in the bottom large enough to accommodate a wooden vegetable skewer.  These are very inexpensive with a hundred or fifty in a pack.  Cut the point off of one end of the skewer and  glue the skewer into the drilled hole at the base of the pine cone.  Paint the skewer green with acrylic paint and let dry.

Now you have something to hang on to as you paint the pine cone petals with acrylic colors of choice.  Place the skewers with painted pine cones into a glass or stick into a block of styrofoam.  When these are dry, simply add the accent of white on the tips of the petals and walah!  You have a beautifully petaled flower!  These are very striking in a bouquet.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will make some of these pretty pine cone flowers.  Please visit my other blogs for Mother's Day verses for you to use, our bird and duck pictures taken in our back yard as well as original poetry and sentiments.

Please leave comments-thanks! 

Kerrie