Lately - Dernièrement

lots of walks in the woods

and on the beach

We were sorting through our fall woollens the other day and the kids (youngest) couldn't wait to try them on again. They bundled themselves up to go to the beach, though it was totally unnecessary!

It's wild lingonberry time! I made lots of jam over the weekend. There is nothing like freshly baked bread with (still warm) lingonberry jam! Heaven!

Making progress on S's blue sweater and just finished reading a very powerful and beautifully written book by Beth Powning.

Keep Calm Craft On: Sweater and Christmas

Joining Nicole at Frontier Dreams for Keep Calm Craft On…

my Campside card, coming along well

scrappy gnome hats and still working on some more (they are addictive to knit!)

knitting up a bunch of hearts for Christmas (another addictive knitting project!)

making marmalade for Christmas gifts

Happy crafting on!

This Week

wild lingonberry and cranberry jam

a pumpkin that grew on it's own and to our surprise out of our compost heap!

roasting pumpkin seeds

our nature table

Happy Halloween!

October

my little pumpkins

pumpkins and felted acorns made by the girls, instructions found in an old issue of Living Crafts

It's my favourite time of the year. The colours, the crisp air, the woollens, apples and pumpkin everything and lots of crafting with treasures found in nature. The kiddos (including Sacha) have been making some lovely transparency collages using leaves as well as fall lanterns (leaves glued with mod podge on glass). The girls have been creating wool gnomes, strange mushrooms and trolls and collecting unusual pumpkins and squash to decorate the house for Halloween. I started canning applesauce and most of our baking involves apples or pumpkins these days (yum!).

Happy fall friends!