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Ready for Fall!

Lately I have been trying to be a "good" little crafter and getting all my unfinished projects done that I have bought and never started!  Today I finished a wooden pumpkin that literally been unfinished for 2 years.  I know, I am terrible, and with all the things I should accomplish I only really accomplish about half of them. 

I went and purchased an unfinished wooden pumpkin sign from Jo-Ann's for about $2 (on sale of course!) and decided that I could do something with it for that price.  So I decided to paint it, which I used some old craft paints that I found laying around in my pile of stuff and used the artist chalks to add the lines on the pumpkin.

WELCOME and made a Scarecrow using my "Paper Doll Dressup" cartridge. The end result was really cute! The pumpkin came with some straw ribbon which was kind of ugly, so I had some

leftover scrapbook ribbon and added that instead!

The end result was really cute! The pumpkin came with some straw ribbon which was kind of ugly, so I had some leftover scrapbook ribbon and added that instead!

When life gives you lemons...

Today as I was browsing my favorite crafty blogs I came across this SUPER cute sign at The Crafty Scientist made with an artist's canvas and some free printable and templates.  I have had an artist canvas laying around from a previous project that I was going to make and nixed, so to re-purpose it I thought about trying out this fund project.  Now, I need to perfect my painting (which is not my best, since I am by far no artist), but I do have plans to make another one to see if I can do better than my first and add some additional ideas that I had!  After I painted the the canvas I painted the quote over with Modge Podge and then continued to cover the entire canvas as well.