I love to decorate for Halloween, but I usually will not put any decorations out until October, I cheated a little bit this year because I had one of my granddaughters here and I let her help me do some of the decorating last week. But I decorated my front porch today and I am excited to share it with you later this week. In the fall, I always seem to do a lot more crafts and sewing and this year has been no different. 
Today I have a fun pillow wrap with a full pattern for you! You might just want to run out a purchase the supplies so that you can make one of these this weekend! They are so easy and so cute.
By making a simple pillow cover and different wraps, you will be able to change the look of ONE pillow for any season of the year. 
I have a fun little idea for you today. Even if you say that you are not crafty, you can do this project! My grand kids love it and I am sure that your kiddos will too!
It’s a Spider Web Door!
I have some exciting news to share with you today! I am going to be showing how to make these candy jars on Good Things Utah
on Monday, Oct. 8th at 10 am. I would love for you to join me and watch the tutorial of how to put these cute little babies together!
But for all my readers, here is the tutorial for you to make an “Eye” Candy Jar like these that we made at our craft retreat. They are so easy to make and yet are so darling! The thing that I love about these jars is that you can eat the candy after the holiday is done and then fill it up again for the next holiday! Apparently they make “Peeps” for most every holiday! Something that I didn’t know because I don’t like to eat them.
Here are a couple of the projects from our retreat… a fun wired frame with covered clothes pins and a darling Haunted House with a bat to boot! I paired them up together to put in my front entry hall and they look just BOOtiful!
So does anyone want to make a fun wired frame?
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We had a fun little craft retreat at our cabin this last weekend. It was kind of fun because I had my sister bring a friend, and my friend brought her sister and I brought another friend. So we all had someone we knew and then we got to make new friends! It was great. Each group was supposed to bring a craft for everyone else to make. We did not put any restrictions on what we would do, we just put a $10 limit on each project. It was so much fun to see what everyone came up with. I decided that since I was hosting that perhaps I should do two crafts, well guess what… so did every one else! So instead of 3 projects, we made 6. Oh what fun we had!
We crafted, ate, went shopping, ate some more, giggled, fed the deer, crafted some more, stayed up late talking, ate again, fed the deer again and crafted some more, then went shopping again on the way home!
Here is my fun little group with one of our projects: How fun is this for Halloween? (a tutorial is coming!)
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This weekend we are doing a Girl’s Craft Retreat and this painted board is one of my projects! I did one of these here and I told you that I would show you how to make one, so here it is! I have a great little trick for you that will help you get clean, crisp lines with no paint seeping under.
I love, love, love to decorate for Halloween but I think that it is still a bit too early for that so I decided that I could at least put out a few fall decorations! This is a pumpkin that I made for my front door. I love that I can put it out now, take it down for Halloween, then put it back up for November!
I am loving the monograms lately for some reason and this one just jumped out at me!
Here is my Thursday’s thought for today! This is for all you great mother’s who will someday be grandmothers. And a tribute to all of you that are now GRANDmothers!
Way to Go! 
This is one of my “Swiss Days” find. It is a magnet block and I put it on my new September calendar board! I am loving it!
I hope that you can all have a good “Thoughtful Thursday” and spend a little bit of time today doing something thoughtful for someone else!
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Labor Day Weekend is one of my favorite weekends of the year! Not because we have some great family traditions that we do, but because I have a personal tradition that I do! I go to Swiss Days in Midway, Utah every year. I have been going for years and I look forward to it every fall! We go up Provo canyon to get there and it is always such a beautiful drive because the leaves have started turning their bright and beautiful colors. There is usually a little bit of coolness in the air and it is perfect for shopping at all the different boutique booths!
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