101 Autumn Crafts - part 4

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Yuppee! The last leg!

77 Autumn leaf cupcakes - make cupcakes, frost them, and then add the autumn leaves - I suggest you make these apple cupcakes with caramel buttercream. You can also make fruit leather to cut the leaves from... use lemon juice and food dye to get the flashy colors... though apple leather will always be sort of brownish... as far as I know. I have never made fruit leather. The lemon juice should work, at least a little.

78 bean leaf

79 easy, no-cook play dough - I was thinking about the leaf prints... sugar cookies, perhaps? 

80 paint with melting crayons

81 make twisted trees

82 knit a tam

83 Make an autumn leaf quilt

84 I love these acorn cap frames! The other ideas are interesting too, as always :-D

85 make your own felt and cut out leaves for a nice, woolly wreath

86 Make the cutest little autumn leaf guest soaps

87 irish crochet leaves - oak leaves, simple leaves, Japanese maple leaves (yes, the page is in Japanese and the graph might feel intimidating, but don't fear :-D), maple leaves and others (and you could make a belt of them),

88 I adore these acorn napkin rings...

89 crochet a pomegranate

90 crochet a horn of plenty / cornucopia - you can also make all kinds of fruits and veggies to fill it, by crochet, or fill it with real fruits.

91 wax paper and crayon leaves - now, this is another "kiddie craft", but I ADORE Vanessa's take on it.

92 apple and veggie prints

93 felt dahlias - or chrysanthemums or asters... I've never really seen much difference in those anyway. :-D

94 recycle bottles to apple boxes. If I drank soda, I'd make 24 of these for a count-down calendar...

95 fan folded leaves. Yes, I know, Autumn is MUCH more than just leaves, but I love them :-D

96 crochet chrysanthemum

97 apple clay pot jars

98 make felt apple spice pockets

99 Make a very nice jar... thingy... ? with bits, bobs, superglue and ordinary glass jar. You can really use anything as the knob. Like chess pieces, small figurines, stuff glued on other stuff to create an ornamental pile... drawer knobs... anything.

100 Golden apple fall bunting

101 floating acorn cap candles

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Oh, yes... one hundred and one... it's a nice number. And we have come to the middle of it - so, let's move on :-D

51 Thanksgiving hurricane vases - I would fill the vase with hazelnuts or acorns, rather than corn or peas or beans. Or other seeds and nuts. Not that beans aren't beautiful. You do what you like :-D

52 Make roses from maple leaves

53 Make grape cluster earrings

54 preserving leaves with "mod podge" and a lantern

55 Nut wreath

56 pinecone valance - or  banner (It's #29 on the list)

57 "easy nature notecards" - or any decoration, scrapbooking, cards, paper... using the leaves as stamps.

58 Pretty leaf pressings

59 Fall leaf window dressing - the other ideas are nice too :-)
(I don't have the idea what this was referring to, but BHG has great autumn projects. If the link doesn't work, just search "fall" "project" at their search square. I'm sure you'll find something nice and interesting.)

60 Amazing window display - of coffee filters

61 twig candle votive

62 pinecone flower garland

pinecone mandala by Kathy Klein

63 fall leaf napkin tags

64 Super easy leaf garland tutorial

65 Dry some leaves under press and then paint them - I suppose with acrylics or gouache

66 make some leaves from old books (like hymnals, bibles, school books, dictionaries, lexicons and such. The only kind of books my heart allows me to demolish.)

67 fall leaf cutouts

68 tweed leaf bowls and 22 other autumn crafts

69 leaf spirits or fairies

70 woodland fairy folks

71 I can so see this created with seeds, rice, beans, peas, corn, nuts, lentils and spices...

72 This list is for kids; games, activities, art and craft ideas - I'm sure you'll find something that tickles your fancy!

73 wooden beads and felt leaves garland - you can also use nuts as beads, and paper or leather leaves.

74 falling leaves - yes, I know, it's for kids, but... just imagine what YOU could make of it... using scraps of scrap book paper as leaves, making tree bark of yarn... paint a picture of autumn forest in the background...?

75 Making autumn trees of toilet paper rolls 
No, TP rolls are not unhygienic. The world is not full of horrible, dangerous germs - well, it is, but you are part of it. Your cutting board has more of the nasty toilet germs than the empty TP rolls from a normally clean toilet. Your cutting board has more germs than the seat of the toilet, for crying out loud! And you EAT what you cut on the board! You are not going to eat these trees. But - if you absolutely must, you can use kitchen towel rolls, or roll tree trunks of paper. Big deal.
And yes, it's a kids' craft too. So?

76 Autumn Brittle

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26 Homemade apple chips.

27 Newspaper chains - the acorn one is perfect for Mabon!

28 preserve autumn leaves in wax

29 Origami leaves

30 Make an apple topiary

31 Pumpkin pie play dough

32 shaving cream painted fall leaves

33 finger painted wax paper "leaves" 

34 paint some acorns gold with gold pen and use for all kinds of things...

35 DIY fall topiaries

these favor boxes are not difficult to make.

36 Napkins with hammered autumn leaf prints

37 5 apple cider recipes

38 pinecone picture frame ornaments

39 All kinds of things you can do with pinecones and glue gun :-D

40 make a leaf mobile

41 make pears of light bulbs

42 the cutest fall wreath placecard and napkin ring :-)

43 acorn earrings

44 autumn leaves as gift wrapping

45 make scented pinecones

46 things to do with scented pinecones :-D

47 Very pretty, easy and simple pinecone decorated jars or lanterns

48 make paper pinecones

49 make an acorn cap bowl

50 Wine cork crafts. You know, I just learned a couple of months ago that you can go to a local restaurant or bar and ask if they could give you their used corks! Never thought of the idea! :-D

Dance of the Cymbalist by Frederick, Lord Leighton

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101 Autumn Crafts - part 1

I just love the "50+ inspiration gallery" link collections? It gives me a feeling of plenty and abundance... and then you start going through the links.

Most of them are links to things you are not interested in. You just take the 40+ "inspiration" together with the 10- you ARE interested in... but the wealth doesn't feel quite as abundant anymore.
And there weren't really 50+ links to begin with... some of those links are "5 things to do with..." - or even worse, a list of links, with half of the links on the original list included.
And the ideas are so old they have been around the internet several rounds. Or misleading. Or don't work at all.

But - It's fun, anyway :-D

So, here goes:

101 Autumn Crafts - part 1/4

01 Make a wall decoration of some wire. This is for Christmas; holly, but you would, of course, make the Autumn leaves of your choice. And putting it on orange wall... perfect!

02 Salt dough leaf prints - they could be cookies too!

03 Decoupaging leafs on mason jars - to be used as a candle or storage jar...

04 Make a fall leaf wreath out of old book pages. Dictionaries, encyclopedias and Bibles are good for the paper.

05 Glue silk leaves on small pieces of foam, wood or canvas and spray paint it all... very pretty.
(The original tutorial isn't there anymore, so here's a picture to you to know what I mean.)

06 Very nice leaf reliefs made with real leafs and aluminium foil.

07 Make a really beautiful wreath of Christmas baubles - just use browns, oranges, copper, brass, gold, yellow, red... perhaps purple too, and decorate with silk autumn leaves and autumn colored ribbon.

08 Make a banner of leaf rubbings. You don't need to wait until the leaves change colors. And use better crayons, or pastels.

09 Make caramel apple cider in crock pot, it apparently taste like the one one gets from a certain coffee house chain. I wouldn't know.

10 Make a mobile of thanks.

11 Write an illustrated journal of thanks.

12 Make fall leaf cookies

13 hollow apples and "osage oranges" (hedge apples) into candle holders

14 Make candle cozies

15 Make a beautiful wreath of apples and berries

16 Nice cards for September

17 How to wax leaves

18 make fall felt leaves

19 very simple but beautiful quilt

20 Very autumnal salad; mizuna, pomegranates and persimmons.

21 Make an apple head doll. You can also make "shrunken heads" for Samhain from apples.

22 Make autumn pillows. Here's some made of autumn leaf placemats, but if you can't find any, don't despair. It really isn't more difficult than to cut two pieces of a shape, of any material, and sew them together, leaving an opening (10 cm / 4 inches), turn it inside out and stuff - et voila, you have a pillow.

In my mind fabrics like corduroy, fleece, wool and tweed are very nice for this.

23 Make a fall leaf crown.

24 Make a leaf wreath.

25 Make stenciled votives from inexpensive glasses.
(She had very pretty votives that spelled Thanks on her mantelpiece, you might have seen the photo. But not anymore. :-( I don't know what has happened. But, here's etched mason jars/glasses to replace this tutorial. It's basically the same, except that you'll use glass paint in stead of etching paste.)

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