Yay! It’s the first day of autumn here. My favourite time of year, where our grapevine starts sporting those beautiful autumn colours. When our grapevine gets too long I just trim it all back but, genius of all genius, I’ve realised I can make wreaths from the vines. I feel proud that in this area I am quite literally millennia behind the times.
I’ve always wanted to decorate my house with seasonal crafts, mostly nature crafts. The problem is I lack the creativity gene. My sewing is as basic as you can get. I lack patience too when I’m learning a new skill because I want to know it all NOW. I want the autumn colours NOW but everything is still green. And it makes me hop around all annoyed like and thinking chlorophyll is totally overrated.
DeeW was feeling a little bummed out because Arthur was off at a birthday party, so we made some gingerbread in autumn shapes. I used the gingerbread cut-outs recipe from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. I love my leaf cutter shapes but some of them are rather small and better suited to things like dough craft or cutting out pastry shapes for a pie:
I have other larger cutters so now we have acorns, apples, teddy bears and a squirrel from an Ikea set. No icing, there’s enough sugar as it is:
So many north American blogs I read feature autumn and woodland crafts. People decorate their homes inside and out with autumnal displays and I sit there reading the blogs all happy like. I love it and wish things were the same here. Because autumn ROCKS and I love acorns, though I lack patience to do something lovely like this. I don’t know about you guys but I just wanna wear this as a sash when I walk down to the shops:
The park near us has some oak trees so DeeW and I went and looked for acorns on the ground, along with other treasures. Argh, flash!
I googled for autumn nature crafts and was all stunned at the cute stuff one can make with leaves and acorns. Remember folks, MILLENNIA behind the times here at ziggurat Veganopoulous. Look at this sweet little fairy tea set! I used air drying clay for the saucers, handles and spouts, then used a hot glue gun to stick all the bits together… badly, as the coffee pot will attest:
I have some more autumn crafts coming up (I hope). Check back and see how someone totally useless at crafts and sewing fares. And I foresee some apple pies in my near future with pastry leaf cutouts! And lots of crafty disasters.
oh that all looks gorgeous – last autumn we made leaf crowns out of autumn leaves but I love the teapot idea best of all – and the gingerbread shapes are so cute too. I love autumn as well – such a relief after the heat of summer – and such gorgeous colours
autumn is truly ace, this year I want to go on a proper picnic with the fam. Wicker basket and all, even though I don’t have one.
The cookies are so cute…and the fairy tea set, oh my gosh, how adorable! I don’t do much in terms of autumn decorating, besides putting some potted mums on the porch. I think about doing stuff more than I actually do stuff!
putting flowers out is much more than I do! I want to make a little autumn display by my front door but I guess I should sweep the area first…
OMG the gingerbread squirrel! Upstaged only by that adorable little tea set!
aren’t they awesome?! I saw the tea set on various pages when I searched for acorn nature crafts. I’d never have thought of it!
I used to make gingerbread a lot, but I haven’t made any since we went vegan. I must give it a go again. At our house, H has been dancing around, loving the start of Autumn too. She hates heat. The weather is so lovely now, and there’s comfort knowing there’s no chance of a 44 degree day at this time of year. Our garden is just a huge pile of apple tree branches and chopped up ivy at the moment. It’s lovely that it’s cool enough to get into the garden.
I’m loving the weather, I’m just stoked to see the end of the horrible hot weather!