I love Fall!
I love the chill in the air. I love breaking out my stash of Fall decor.
From pumpkins…
*By the way, this post is sponsored by Straight Talk. All opinions and testimony on my love of all things Fall, including but not limited to pumpkins are my own.*
To more pumpkins…
And more pumpkins…
To maybe a clever little spider on a much-too-bare hallway wall….
To bowlsful of acorns both felty and wild…
To… GO SEAHAWKS!!!
But what is fun Fall decor without FOOD?
Owl bet you didn’t know those are pumpkin pancakes!
I crack myself up.
I love cranking up the oven and bringing baked sexy/mini pumpkin muffins back into my kitchen…
Or making cinnamon rolls in the waffle iron…
Because making cinnamon rolls in the waffle iron makes my kids think I am THE BOMB DIGGITY.
My words, not theirs. But I know that’s what they mean.
Oh Fall…. It’s just the perfect time of year for being home, creating things, and eating.
(Learn how to make these Acorn Kisses here!)
Speaking of making. Lucy and I had to come up with a mermaid costume in a pinch. Her mother (me) doesn’t sew, so when I say mermaid HACK, I literally mean HACK…
We ran to the fabric store and found inexpensive fabric (with a coupon, it was $4). I purchased fabric wide enough to get around her waist, and long enough to make a tail.
(That’s the wordy way of saying, I don’t do math.)
I used ribbon I had at home and cut several slits along the side of the fabric to weave the ribbon through. That, my friends is what would become the waist:
And then we took a hair tie… wrapped it around the *tail*. I then pulled only one side of that tail section through a second time to make that little tail-split thing that mermaid tails do.
I saw the hair-tie trick on Pinterest. But with a towel. Which was a great idea, but that concept didn’t work for my higher mermaid-costume-hack standards and whathaveyou.
Most of the night… after that little craft-gone-AWESOME, I couldn’t get Queen’s “We Are The Champions” out of my head.
Speaking of awesome, look at THIS pumpkin I pimped out:
A gold pumpkin.
A GOLD PUMPKIN.
I’m UNSTOPPABLE.
Fall does that to me.
And though all the cute food and decor and no-sew magic can exist solely on their own merit, it sure is fun to share with friends and family and random Instagram followers about one’s adventures in homemaking and craft making and baking no-sewing and everything in between…
It’s nice to have people to share things with… and a plan.
A STRAIGHT TALK PLAN!
With Straight Talk’s 5GB high-speed data and nationwide coverage and Straight Talk’s great selection of smart phones it is easier than ever to capture those passing moments for you to keep for yourself or… share away with friends, family and/or the internet!
With my Straight Talk phone I can capture moments to share right away, or share later. I tend to share later because I like to try to stay in the moment…
But I can’t resist later sharing moments of creative genius and kitchen mastery.
For posterity’s sake aaaaaand to remember. Honestly, moments of mastery and brilliance and just simple life-enjoyment are not the majority of most days. Capturing those kind-of moments in the crazy chaos of family and life will help me remember that it wasn’t all taxi-driving, homework helping, and laundry folding.
Because honestly, if you look back on the calendar it LOOKS like it’s ALL driving around and time in the kitchen. You know what I mean?
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*This post is sponsored by Straight Talk. All opinions and loving on Fall are my own.*
