Our Spot: End of August and Beginning of September

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

End of August and Beginning of September

The Fun we've had lately:

1. Visits from Grandpa (see collage picture. Grandpa just got back from Alaska)

2. Visits from Gigi (we went to Time Out for Women...I highly recommend going)

3. Gage going to co-op preschool

4. Watching Dane grow right before our very eyes it seems. He was 3 mo old on Sept.4 and he weighs 16+ pounds now.

5. The car dying (loads of fun)

6. Back to teaching Boot Camp and a new class called Cardio Definitions

7. Making peach/nectarine freezer jam, spaghetti sauce, dried fruit, Zucchini bread, canning nectarines and grinding hamburger.

8. A girl's night out on the lake

9. Subbing Cole's Nursery Class

10. Harvesting our garden...31 lbs watermelon (see collage picture), corn and beans.

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5 comments:

kg said...: Totally impressed with your garden harvest! Look at how much Dane is growing!; September 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM
***Julia C. Greenfield Vanikiotis*** said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; September 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM
***Julia C. Greenfield Vanikiotis*** said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; September 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM
***Julia C. Greenfield Vanikiotis*** said...: Aww uncle George looks just like my dad when he sleeps! Funny! Looks like youve been a busy gal - when are you going to take a break so I can do your family pics!?; September 17, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Red Head Family said...: Amy-your pictures are great to catch up on. Thanks for adding me-I love to see how people have been over the years-and we aren't too far apart. We have a blog too-mjsorensen.blogspot.com.; October 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM

Spotlights

Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.