As you likely know, we’re in the midst of designing and photographing our Harvest and Halloween collections. With Candy Corn and Spooked Pumpkin complete, we shot our new Harvest collection late last week. I’m going to share all the photography on Thursday, but until then here’s just a little peak at the fabulous cookies Sue from Sweet Tooth Cottage hand iced to perfection when she recreated our pumpkin from the collection.
Happy Monday everyone!
My little ones start school next week and these apple cookies and apple basket cupcakes from Bright Ideas would be perfect for a first day of school snack!
I often hang out in the craft room with my mom on the weekends. (Believe it or not, hers is even more elaborate than mine!) It’s my way to relax and get the creative juices flowing. A few weekends ago while we were planning all of the Halloween crafts that I’ve recently posted about (DIY fabric Halloween masks, DIY fabric Halloween and/or birthday hat, DIY ruffle cake plate), we got the boys involved and whipped up these easy dish towel child aprons.
My mom just got some new fall designs for her fabric die cutting machine so she let the boys crank out the designs they wanted to use to embellish their aprons. But a template and a pair of scissors works great too!
The boys chose pumpkins, leaves and acorns for a Halloween/fall theme. We attached Wonder Under (self-adhesive for fabric) to each design and let the boys place the die cuts anywhere they wanted… note the lack of symmetry… oh well, they were super happy. Once the designs were in place, we peeled off the backs and ironed them on.
Next we selected our ribbon, a 3/4″ grograin, folded in each side of the towel and sewed a pocket for the ribbon. Then we inserted our ribbon, making sure it had enough room to lay flat and move up and down. I love this because the aprons are adjustable to height and make it super easy to get them on and off!
Here’s how the back looked when finished! Oh, and of course my mom had to monogram their names on with a dripping Halloween font!
As always, I hope you’re inspired!
As those who stop in often know, we’ve been working hard over the past few weeks to bring you some exciting new Halloween collections and ideas. Well, a spooky twist is still to come and I can’t wait to show you (update: Spooked Pumpkin Collection printables)! But in the meantime, I just had to share a sneak peek of our new Harvest collection. It’s really somewhat of a sister to our semi-sophisticated Candy Corn collection, but for this one we wanted to leave off the scary and just focus on the beautiful season.
This collection will be perfect for those who love pumpkin patches, apple orchards, kettle corn and hayrides. And it could even be perfect to help you decorate the kid’s table at Thanksgiving this year. I know that I’ve decided I will personally be using it!
The invitation is in the shoppe now and the photo shoot of the new orange and white polka dot table decor and printables will take place next week. Much to come everyone!
And as always, I hope you’re inspired!
I was browsing around tonight and visited a wonderful little blog called Skip To My Lou. Heard of it? Well if not, you have now. {wink}
Similar to how we’re saying thank you to all you wonderful people for reading our blog and shopping our store with a free set of BELIEVE! cupcake printables, they are offering a free Thanksgiving printable! Love it!
You can get yours with a quick, or not so quick, visit to their blog. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
