Wire Pumpkin Tutorial

I found this tutorial and had to make them.

Each pumpkin is $1.00ea and so simple to make.  First you start with a package of floral wire from the Dollar Store and a round container.  Anything round will do.  The larger the circumference the less loops and the larger the pumpkin, the smaller the circumference the smaller the pumpkin and more loops. 

Wrap the wire around the container, leaving a bit at the end so you can make a curly.

Take the curl off the cylinder and use twist tie that was on the package of floral wire and twist it in the center like so....

Then fan out the coils, twist the stem and presto....you have a pumpkin.

What a fun and simple craft to do with the kids!

Lily took these to school and gave them to her teachers.

Linking to these parties, here.

My New Curtain!

Yesterday I made this curtain for a window that is at the top of the stairs.  It took me a few hours...but I am SOOOOO happy with how it turned out.  Yes, I did a happy dance.

I have had this fabric FOREVER...ok it has only been about a year, but it seems like eons ago that I bought it.  I bought it on clearance at a local Joanne's that was going out of business.  I bought a ton of stuff really cheap that day.  SO anyway I finally got off my butt and made this NO-SEW curtain for myself.  Yeah, I could have had my mom sew it for me, but I kept forgetting the fabric and the curtain (the one in my bathroom) I was modeling it after.  No-Sew = hem tape.  YES, I made this whole curtain with hem tape, fabric, ribbon & my iron.

The curtain in the photo below is wrinkled at the bottom because I had it up and forgot I wanted a photo of it down.

On another note...
I am sooooo loving my woodwork painted.  I thought my husband was going to have a heart attack when I painted all the woodwork in the upstairs hallway.

I painted it because we..

1. added a wall (see #3), 
2. added 1/4 round (there was none because the previous owner had put carpet down & removed it) and 
3. added a new door for my daughter's room (her room was attached to mine)

After doing those things there was no way we could get all the woodwork to look right without painting it.  Shhhh...I have plans to paint the downstairs woodwork one day while he is at work.  I am NOT fond of the woodwork in this house.



Check out more DIY projects:
at A Soft Place to Land &

at Today's Creative Blog.





Don't forget to check out my snow scene tutorial & enter my giveaway, here.