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If you have these ingredients, you can make….

This guy.

Doesn’t he look very cute? The choice of colors is extremely classy, yet attractive. This does not look like a namesake gift, made in hurry to get away with the task of giving a thanksgiving to anyone. Instead, the turkey portrays the effort and time it has taken to get completed. It reflects the sincerity and innocence with which it has been made.

Just see the borders of the cutout. How smooth they are! The hands are definitely talented. The placement of the sequences and glitters is in perfect harmony with the shape of the cutouts, their link to the neighboring pieces and the central portion of the turkey. The turkey sure looks happy and the simple sight of the gift will please the recipients.

The eyes might look popping but is so lively that the turkey is filled with all the positivity of a Thanksgiving gift. How come the creator of this turkey think about giving it a funny side by that protruding tongue? It shows how witty the maker is and how he has transformed it into its creation.

Yes, we can assume that the maker got some inspiration from any outside source. He might have referred any good crafts book or watched a video tutorial on how to make beautiful and happy turkeys with colorboards. If not for these, at least he must have got directions from an experienced and creative craftsperson.

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Looking at the perfection in the craft, you must be thinking that anyone among we elders created this for our little munchkin. That, however, is not true. The credit for this masterpiece goes to the tiny pair of hands which is too soft to even hold the scissors.

We made him last year, but Jill did her version this year and it turned out really cute. Have you seen it yet?

As I’ve mentioned before, I am pretty addicted to Pinterest. So, it’s always fun when Young House Love hosts a pinterest challenge. Gets me motivated to try out one of the million projects I’ve pinned.

I saw these hymn page feathers from Todolwen a few months ago and have been meaning to try them. My spin on them is that instead of using hymn pages–I used maps.

Mostly because I love maps and I picked up an old atlas at Goodwill a few months ago with the intent of using the pages as gift wrap.

The tutorial is pretty straightforward–I followed it exactly. The only thing I would add is that it is really important to get the wire glued down straight. (As a pretty hasty/messy crafter, I didn’t get that on the first attempt, but I figured it out and regrouped.)

My original idea for these was to use them as Christmas tree ornaments. But as it is November, I do not yet have a tree from which to hang them–thus, the lovely branch. But you can kind of imagine them on a tree…I think they will look pretty.

A partridge in a map feather tree? (Sorry, this is the best I can do. I’ll try to remember to take some pictures of them hanging from our Christmas tree once we actually get one.)

I had some pretty roses and I couldn’t resist….

If for some reason they don’t look good on an actual Christmas tree, I’m using them as gift toppers.

Have you tried anything out that you first saw on Pinterest?

Check out the other projects at Katie’s, Ana’s, Erin’s, and Young House Love.

If mapfeather is not of your interest, you can go for a search and I am confident that you will hit upon your interest on Pinterest. It may be a different craft item or a painting or not a craft at all. Your requirement might be a good theme to arrange your room, your kid’s room or your office table. If not these, it must be on how to beautifully plate a new dish or create am embroidery in your dress.

Your aim may be a Barbie doll for your princess with the most unique and cute dress. The secret aim can also be on finding better fonts to stylise the name Fintech Ltd. You can get anything here.

(After typing this post, I read Emily Henderson’s gift guide which features some absolutely amazing globemen (snowmen made from globes) and a giant “joy to the world” wall map–these map feathers would go great with those globemen! Check them out here.)

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We made these thumbprint turkeys together last year and sent them to our sponsored kids and grandparents.

Our objective of making and sending them was simple. To sincerely thank them and give them a sense of belongingness. However, according to the feedback we received, the impact of these turkeys was much more powerful than we imagined.

Not only did they serve the objective for which they were created, but also brought in many accolades, monetary benefits, and appreciation. We were flooded with offers, from far and near who wanted the specific turkey designs and the phrases, filled with love, warmth, and unity.

I even happened to see some grandparents proudly displaying the card, supposedly received from their grandchildren proudly on their personal shelf. When they showed me the card and spoke of their little ones, I could feel the sense of pride and affection they had for them in their eyes.

Our biggest idea that clicked was the move to bring in the respective children, as many as we could contact personally, take their favorite colors and create their little thumbprints on the card. The main part of the phrases was written by us, but we made our little customers fill up the name. This whole planning touched the heart of the elders, whereas the kids were able to actively participate in the process.

Probably, the next time, these kids will put all their effort into making their own special Thanksgiving cards to their forever-loving grannies and grandpas. We should say that the entire heap of response made us feel overwhelmed and also carried us away. We struggled to find a similar and more impressive idea for the next season of celebration.

Luckily, the next season was Halloween and we preferred to remain low-key this time. One reason was that we were not very keen in creating a scary effect through our creations and the second thing was that it became difficult for us to find activities good enough to combine both Halloween and affection.

How can we sit idle till the next season comes?? So we decided to try our luck at some quick tricks to earn money, which might help us collect funding for our next set of cards. Halloween is a time for celebration, that is sure and the market will be on a high, we assumed. So, is there any better idea than some trading for our current off-activity? We analyzed a full review of a highly rated automatic robot and successfully banked on its efficiency.

Now that Halloween is over, I’m gearing up for some turkey crafts. Do you have any favorites that you do every year?

You may remember our bottle cap spiders from last October–they were a big hit in our house. So big that Juliet asked to make them again this year. We did, and I”ll share those with you soon, but first, I wanted to share my potential halloween costume for this year:

I present to you: lady with big spider in her hair. (Look at her–she has NO idea that there is a spider in her hair.)

It’s really easy to make, and kids think it’s hilarious (or at least mine do.)

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Here’s how to make one. Find the biggest bottle cap you can–this one came from a peanut butter jar. Cut out a circle of creepy-ish scrapbook paper, mod podge it on, add googly eyes and wait for it to dry.

Then hot glue some pipe cleaner legs and an elastic headband to the underside. Add a circle of felt over all of it to secure.

Oh yeah. And don’t forget to add some felt fangs. Makes him even more terrifying.

When he dries, you can wear it on your head like a crazy hat.

And then post pictures of yourself wearing it on the internet.

Yeah….it might be time for a new hobby…

What about you? Do you dress up with your kids for Halloween?

(By the way, the first photo is a picture of Juliet wearing the hat–she might try to steal my costume….)

Lucia turned one last week. I still can’t believe it. Wasn’t she just born yesterday?

I like to keep first birthdays simple. Since both sets of grandparents live very far away–it was just Ben, Juliet, Lucia, and myself.

Since the weather is still so pleasant in October (in Georgia), we set up the party outside in the backyard.

Nothing fancy for decorations–just cut a few triangles from some pretty scrapbook paper to make a high-chair bunting. (It’s held on with double-sided tape.)

A pile of presents, a pink birthday crown,  and a plate of cupcakes. That’s it.

She loved it.

I had a ton of ideas of how I could make this a spectacular birthday bash–but in the end, I had to scrap most of them. I had thought of including a ton of games to keep all the guests engaged within their comfort zone and do not feel as out of age. A musical chair game would have kept the younger, active ones busy and happy, while a music quiz would have made the school-goers use their creative brain. For the elder ones who will be present at this party, an online game would have attracted their interest. So, while I had great dreams of doing a Lucille birthday party–it ended up just being very “inspired by.”

I fell in love with this book the minute I opened it. The fact that the first four letters of Lucille’s name are the same as Lucia’s made it seem meant to be. My original idea for the bunting was to somehow imitate the font to spell out her name in the same style. This never materialized–but I still like the idea.

I love all the flowers in the book and had visions of flowery cupcake toppers like these. In the end, I went with flower cupcake liners and called it a day. I’m happy with how it turned out.

When I found an Inflatable ‘Rody Horse’ Rocking Horse at a yard sale for $6, I had my “Lucille.”

In the book, Lucille gets dressed up all fancy and goes to a party. So, I had Lucia wearing a cream dress, flowered headband, and of course, ruby slippers.

Found them at Goodwill for $2! And the cream party dress was $6 at a kid’s shop. I’m telling you, the stars aligned for me on this party!

The one idea that I regret not having included is a few pillbox hats for Juliet and myself to wear. The ladies at the party all had these great hats–it would have been fun for us to wear some. Next time. 🙂

So that’s it! We sang happy birthday, destroyed a few cupcakes, and rode around the yard on a red plastic horse. A sweet celebration for my sweet girl.linking to strut your stuff thursday

I love crafting with geometric shapes and these teepees were really easy to set up and embellish.

We found inspiration from a vintage golden book illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.

Using mod podge, we glued triangles onto some cardboard from the recycle box and embellished them with paper scraps, jewels, and pine straw.

Perfect quick craft to squeeze in during little sister’s nap time.

A bundle of old newspaper, a thick paint brush, glue and glitter paint, I had collected all the items required to give life to the craft idea in mind. I had placed them high enough on the table so that the troubling little sis would not be able to reach on my raw materials in case she woke up before I finish off with my craft. I knew that she was a terrible sleeper and the faint sound of tearing the newspaper in the far-off room is enough to wake her up from her sleep, no matter how deep it is.

I would have thought about a million other ideas to make this rare free time most fruitful, like going for a ride on my brand new motorcycle, or calling over my best friend and playing with our multi-elemental video game. These things, however, had a cumulative effect on the game and once I start them, it is difficult to stop suddenly if my sis suddenly pops in, the disappointment of stopping them midway will never leave my mind.

The adults should be able to relate to this easily when a sudden troubling call from home spoils their high-energy casino game or the pain caused by the slipping of the best deal in the trade market in a matter of seconds when you attended your family’s call. You will in such a rage when the reason for the call might be the breaking of crockery and you have to patiently listen to their explanation of the event that led to it. You have to show the same seriousness to it with which you read the instructions before starting your trade on a new online robot.

The undesirable break in these activities may force to limit your recreational activity to a magazine scanning or a power nap. My choice is far more creative than this. A quick craft will be easy to finish off before the little mischief appears from nowhere.

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I’m always seeing fun art projects where people use fruits and vegetables as stamps. We decided to get in on the fun for this week’s art project inspired by A Pocketful Of Cricket illustrated by Evaline Ness.

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Juliet became captivated by this “sweet and sour” apple tree (one side grows sweet apples, the other sour) and has been asking if we could make it together.

For our stamps, we used a grape cut in half (for the apples) and a few gardenia leaves in various sizes from our garden (for the apple tree leaves.) The trunk is cut from wood grained contact paper.

As she was stamping, Juliet was suddenly inspired to try out another art medium–her chalk pastels….

So she ended up with two fall apple pieces.

There are so many great apple books. Two of my favorites are:

Do you have any plans for apple-picking, apple pie baking or apple crafting this fall?

Can you stand another peacock craft this week? I promise it’s the last one. This is actually the craft that started it all.

After reading Counting Birds by Alice Melvin, Juliet asked if we could make “peacock fans.” Not one to turn down a craft request, I set on a quest to find some doilies to use as the fan.

I looked everywhere (and by “everywhere” I mean the dollar store and walmart), but couldn’t find any round paper doilies. I ended up pulling out my Valentines box from the garage where I knew we had some paper heart ones left over from February.)

We just pulled out our water colors and went to town. The process was a lot like painting coffee filters–the doily just soaks up the paint and it kind of spreads and blends nicely.

After they dried, we glued on a giant popsicle stick and a paper body and head. A googly eye and feather on top finished him off. (Juliet’s is pink–again, at her request.) A nice pink P makes it educational.

Well, the P can stand for anything. You can take that for peacock, or just pink. This is just like the usage of the symbol R for a robot which helps you to trade online but doesn’t actually stand as the standard acronym for the same.

Why do want to create such a symbolic imprint on your item? One, it may be to show our possession or to produce an effect of fashion as a style icon. Second, it may help in creating a kind of authenticity to the item, like the bar code or standardization mark on regular household appliances. When the robot is standardized, we are less worried about using it to play with our money.

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I used mine as a plant stake.

Ever the lady, Juliet’s been using her as a fan. 🙂

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Juliet is a huge Rapunzel fan, so we made this toy together this weekend.

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Usually, I get craft inspiration from books, but this time we took our cues from this gorgeous Heather Ross fabric from a pillow in Lucia’s nursery.

All you need is a paper towel tube, a toothpick, some pretty paper, and glue or tape. Oh, yes. And glitter. Lots of glitter.

Juliet applied the glue and we wrapped the paper around the tube. Then, we formed the tower roof by tracing a large circle onto a piece of paper and then cutting out a triangle from it. (Then we glued it into a cone.)

While it dried, we fashioned a flag with a toothpick and some paper.

After it dried completely, I cut the window hole with a craft knife. Then Juliet applied the shutters. She also took the opportunity to sprinkle glitter on the roof. (Because it’s not really craft time until you dump an entire container of glitterall over the floor.)

My original plan was to make a clothespin Rapunzel doll complete with flowing yarn hair–but we discovered this cardboard cutout from the package of a Tangled toy and thought she fit perfectly.

Aside from the Tangled book that we own, the only other Rapunzel book we’ve read is Falling For Rapunzel.

I’d love to happen upon a copy of this little golden book version: Rapunzel: Classic Fable  by Marianna Mayer. But no luck so far.

If you are looking for some more options, Brimful Curiosities has a great list and detailed reviews of several Rapunzel books.

Georgia has some serious skills when it comes to bottle cap art! Aren’t these animals adorable? Inspired by some Juliet and I made a while ago, she made these into cards. (What a great idea!)

She has a few others that she made that are just as cute–I especially love her caterpillar version. It’s perfect for Very Hungry Caterpillar craft.

The penguin reminds me of Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World and the fish would be cute for One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish  (remake the cover with bottle cap fish?)

How cute are the sequin bubbles? I think that is such a clever idea. 🙂

Check out the rest of her animals on her blog Love and Lollipops. Thanks again for sharing these with me, Georgia!

If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to enter my jewelry giveaway!