Enjoying the Season

Oh, Fall. Your really are my favorite. 

I know I promised you a Hallween post. And you will have it. Soon. But instead of working on that project this weekend or on anything else I needed to do, Mr. Lovie and I pretended like we didn't have To Do lists that were millions of miles long and visited this gem of a place: Tom's Maze and Pumpkin Farm  in Germantown, Ohio.  Does anybody else do that? Pretend you don't have anything to do on the weekends even though you really do and go do fun stuff? Bad decision for our To-Do lists' sakes, but man oh man, it was worth it, though.

Just look at these beautiful pumpkins. And the weather was perfect. How could I say no?

The warty ones are my favorite.

Oh yeah, fun pumpkins.

Blue pumpkins for real.

Pumpkins bigger than your head! 

And they had a pumpkin launcher.

And we saw this thing shoot a pumpkin at least a 1/2 mile. It was nuts. We counted down and everything.

And we had to go through the maze. Don't forget to follow "The Cornmandments." Or else.

With 12 mazes total, you complete each one when you find the puzzle piece in the hidden mailboxes. We had a lot to go here! 

 :)

How fun would it be to bring friends or your family and race against each other?

 Still going...

 You can't really tell, but that part of the maze makes a butterfly. 

 We Did it!!

 Victory Bridge is now in sight.

 Maze Warriors.

 And I got a warty pumpkin.

Great Fall day. 

What are you doing to get out and celebrate the season and enjoy the weather this Fall?

Thanks for reading my off topic post. Back to crafts soon. :)
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Tiered Eyelet Skirt and Flower Shirt

Some of you may remember that several weeks ago I was competing in Season 9 of So You Think You're Crafty. I was eliminated from the contest the week before Creepy Crafty Halloween started and never had a chance to share! 

This is the project I made for Thrift Store Week for SYTYC. I loved this project, but there were some fabulous crafters with some great projects that beat me out, so it's ok!  Even though I wanted to continue competing, I got eliminated at the right time because my life got crazy this month.  I wanted to take a minute, though, and thank you for voting for me and share these sweet dresses with you. 

Like many crafters/hoarders, I have a growing pile of thrift store finds waiting to be re-vamped, but for this challenge I didn't feel like any of those options were fun enough. I went shopping last minute and got so super lucky! I found an awesome peach eyelet queen-sized bedskirt (top left) and a 4 piece something (bottom right) that may or may have not matched the bedskirt with these really great orange pleats surrounded by a vintage-y lace. SO cute. I didn't know what I'd use them for when I bought them (which is usually what happens to me in thrift stores), but I knew I needed them. 

Finally I knew that precious peach eyelet needed to be a little girl's skirt. 

 And so was born the two-tiered, lined skirt for my friend's little girl, Maycie, with a matching flower shirt. 

 The only way we could get any pictures of her was to play peek-a-boo. How sweet is she?! I made the orange pleating part into a casing and slid wide elastic in to create the waist. I just love how the little skirt turned out. My friend's daughter loved it too. She was super sad when I had to take the outfit home with me to take more pictures. 

The little top is one I found on clearance at Wal-Mart and the American flag on it is completely covered by the flower. It also has the vintage-y lace from the fabric I got at the thrift store sewn to the sleeves and collar. 

Then since my friend is expecting another little girl, I just had to make a little matching onesie dress.  Even though I made this one second, it might be my favorite. So precious. The two little girls are planning on having pictures taken in their new matching outfits after sister #2 makes her appearance! 

I used the tutorials in this post to make the onesie dress and flowers on both outfits. They're a little summery, but I was hoping with that deep orang in there they'd be cute with leggings for fall.
Hope you love them as much as I do!

Hope everyone's having a great weekend. See you again soon for a Halloween post!
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Winner of the Owl Clutch

This darling owl clutch from Mama Bleu Designs has found a home.

Congratulations to Katie who said:

Katie I'm emailing you now to get your address and I'll forward it on to Laura at Mama Bleu Designs for you! Congrats!! 

If you didn't win, be sure to go check out Laura's shop. I just visited this morning and she has a new listing up for a cute new owl pouch in different colors!

Creepy Crafty Halloween Recap

Wow! what a fun event this was!!

Thank you to all the wonderful bloggers who posted and thanks to you for reading! I have a few new followers...welcome!! I had so much fun and I hope you did, too. If you missed any of the posts from the past week or so, here they are! Click on the link below the picture to see the tutorial.

Batty Table Runner by me

Spooky Door Hanger with Naptime Crafters

Halloween Candy Jars with free printable! 

Halloween Subway Art and Display with Oopsey Daisy with free printable!

Magnetic Spiders with Delia Creates

Vintage Book Pumpkin with Simon and Co.

Eek Spider Wreath with Teach.Craft.Love.

PlantsVs.Zombies Attack with Tidbits from the Tremaynes

Halloween Art with A Glimpse Inside

I do have another Halloween project to share with you that was originally going to be part of this series, but it turns out I actually can't do 8 million things in one day. Grad school, teaching, coaching Girls on the Run, and life has got me on overload right now. But don't worry. I can't wait to finish the project and share it with you by the end of the week! 

Happy Halloweeeeeen!

and I'll see you soon.

In the meantime, check out this giveaway! It ends today!