Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

You might already know how to make fabric pumpkins, but if you don't, this is how I made some for this year's fall decor. First gather your materials: 1.  fabric remnants in colors you want to use.   2.  scissors 3.  A plate or other round object 4.  Sharpie 5.  glue gun 6.  glue sticks 7.  bits & bobs ie., leaves, flowers or other ornamental items to decorate your pumpkins 8.  brown craft paper or brown paper  for making pumpkin stems 9.  batting or plastic bags to stuff pumpkins 10. needle and thread Steps: 1.  Lay your fabric face down on cutting surface.   2.  Place your plate face down on the fabric 3.  Draw around the plate with the sharpie making a circle 4.  Cut the circle of fabric out, using the sharpie line to guide you. 5.  Thread needle, and run a basting stitch all the way around the edge of the fabric circle 6.  Once you have the bastin...

As you know by now, I love puttering around and making changes, mostly small changes, here and there.  Today was one of those days.  I took the old wreath I'm using this year off the door, and removed some of the older items that had faded, and changed out the bow.  I like it better with the white bow. BEFORE AFTER I had this ribbon left from a wreath I made for my Great Niece. The other items I added were some I had from 1 & 2 years ago. I bought this burlap flower at Hobby Lobby.  I think they are so pretty.  I bought it thinking I would try to make some. I like the interest it adds to this vignette. I tweaked the dining room table by putting the drop cloth table cloth on and using this ladies scarf as a runner.  The scarf was bought a couple years ago in the Wal Mart ladies department.  Its Fall colors are so pretty. I added some orange scrap paper to this old yellow wood box, and arra...