How I made the sign: *If you had a cricut or something like it, this would be a lot faster to make.
-I bought some textured scrapbooking paper that had these raised polkadots ( in mustard, a camouflage brown, and a nice autumn red).
- I traced a cd onto the paper to make the circles, then hand cut them.
-I also hand cut the lettering like my other sign (from computer generated lettering) and printed it on an off white cardstock. The off white went a lot better with the colors I chose.
-Then, I found leaf templates online, printed on cardstock, then traced them onto the fall colored paper, then cut those out.
-Then I glued everything together (using elmer's glue)
-I bought a burlap ribbon from Ben Franklin and decided to use that to hang the letters on. I hot glued the circles onto the burlap ribbon. That worked great.
Below: My daughter and I made these adorable and yummy acorns! Pinterest inspired. I saw a pic of these on pinterest, but no instructions. I assumed they used frosting or melted chocolate to stick the Hershey kisses to the MINI nilla wafers (don't use the bigger ones, it won't look good), but I thought Nutella would be delicious, so that's what we did. We used Nutella as the glue and used a toothpick to make the "stem" of the acorn. These were a hit. Thanks Pinterest and whoever came up with these!
Below: I used the burlap ribbon I used for my "Give Thanks" sign to decorate vases I had around the house. I filled the 1st vase pictured below with tangerines because I couldn't find little pumpkins but it still added that pop of color I was going for. If I could find small lemons, I could have used those also. I filled the 2nd vase below with pomegranate seeds as an appetizer. The 3rd vase is just for decoration purposes and I filled that with macadamia nuts that I had laying around the house that I didn't get around to roasting. They looked fall-ish, so I filled a vase with them!
I also tried this pumpkin pie cupcake recipe (this is not my picture, mine didn't look this nice) that I made for dessert at my Thanksgiving dinner. I found the recipe on Pinterest. I made the mistake of filling cupcake liners 1/3 way full instead of 1/3 cup like the recipe said. Which made my cupcakes pretty shallow, but it still tasted great.
*Critique: 4 Stars
Here is the link :
http://bakingbites.com/2009/10/impossible-pumpkin-pie-cupcakes/