Velvet Material Pumpkins :: DIY Thanksgiving Crafting Tutorial
We’ve been making velvet pumpkins to get us into the Thanksgiving spirit. We add a few drops of On Guard essential oil to the rice inside and now our home smells so so so yummy! They are really very quick and easy to make, just a few simple steps… You can also follow […]
Snowy Pine Cone Garland for Christmas : DIY Tutorial
We love using the things we find in nature to decorate our home for the holidays. There is a pine tree in our neighborhood that drops the sweetest mini pine cones. We took our basket on a walk yesterday and collected a few to make a snowy pine cone garland for our mantle. Isn’t […]
Felt Leaf Garland :: DIY Tutorial
We are having Thanksgiving at The Sunny House this year. Of course, this is a GREAT excuse to get crafting. We have the whole week off from school and have LOTS of projects on our list. We can tick off a felt leaf garland that we made today. Isn’t it awesome?! Of course, I know […]
Felt Leaf Ornaments : Crafts for Thanksgiving
Are you looking for a fun and easy crafting tutorial to make your Thanksgiving table look even more gorgeous this year? These felt leaf ornaments will do it! Here is a list of materials you’ll need : I used my good old Sizzix to cut the leaves from autumn-colored wool felt. […]
An Autum Nature Walk
We don’t get much day-to-day fall here in Southern California. But we have a special, magical, nearby place that we go to often. Where the seasons are surprisingly prominent… dew collects on the grasses and light shines golden like magic. It’s an hour’s drive away but, always, so worth the trip. I know […]
Pine Cone Halloween Crafts
Are you getting ready for Halloween? At the Sunny House, our rose bushes are draped in spider web, there is a carved pumpkin on the front steps and few mini-skeletons hanging from the mailbox (Teddy is our Halloween decorator!) And, of course, we dug out our Pine Cone Spider and our Pine Cone Fairy to […]
15 Nature Inspired Autumn Crafts
Mother Autumn gives us so many gifts to craft with in the Fall. Colorful leaves, acorns, pine cones… her generosity is boundless. Here are some of our favorite nature-inspired Fall crafts. 1. Indian Corn Necklace 2. Leaf and beeswax Suncatcher 3. Watercolor Leaf Rubbing 4. Autumn Gnomes 5. Beeswax and Leaf Bowl […]
Make a Spider Web With Wire and Sticks
Here’s one of our favorite spider crafts from the archives… a wire and stick spider web for Halloween… Here is the full tutorial : how to make this stick and wire spider web. Happy Halloween crafting, Blessings and magic, Donni
Weaving an Autumn Tapestry with Wool Roving
Look at this gorgeous woven autumn tapestry Kitty and I made together. We used a vine wreath form, colorful autumn wool roving, some wool yarn and a couple of felted toadstools. Step 1 : Make the Tree Loom I tied off the yarn branches and roots using a simple slipknot. […]
Make a Colorful Harvest Corn Necklace
Kitty and I saw Indian Corn in the grocery store the other day and we remembered when we made gorgeous corn necklaces a few years ago. I though I’d share the tutorial again … Tutorial : How to make an Indian Corn necklace. Blessings and magic, Donni