Crafters & Vendors Wanted: Oct 2 Fall Craft Fair & Flea Market (203 Germantown
Join us at the “world famous” St. Jude & the Nativity Craft Fair & Flea Market! Saturday October 2, 2010 Starts at 9am (vendor set-up starts at 6:30am) Please call 484-231-XXXX for…
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How to make a fall candle ring wreath using pretzels, ribbon, and unique arts and crafts supplies in this free arts and crafts video. Expert: Ginny Larson Bio: Ginny Larson has been creating fun, inexpensive crafts for her own pleasure for the past thirty years. She loves being creative and making charming pieces from ordinary things. Filmmaker: Terry Larson
The dog days of summer have passed but Jack Frost isn’t nipping at your nose just yet! The days may be getting shorter, but there’s still plenty of time to plan a fantastic fall wedding!
Autumn colors are bold, vibrant, warm and inviting making fall time a perfect theme for the beginning of your marriage adventure. By scheduling your wedding at this time of year you’ll reap the benefits of off-season planning and no extreme weather.
Here Are 5 Fall Wedding Ideas I Harvested to Help You Plan for Your Special Day:
1. Customize your Fall Wedding with Polaroid Instant Photo Guest Books
Capture every moment of your wedding day with Polaroid instant pictures and hand-written sentiments from your guests! Instant photo guest books, like Adesso’s Polaroid Instant Photo guest book, buck the digital trend.
When they’re combined with notes from all your friends and family, the instant photo guest book becomes a valued keepsake filled with memories that will last forever! Customize your autumn-themed wedding photo guest book by using pens with gold, brown or rust-colored ink, and for added seasonal pizzazz, you can even trim the cover with ribbons in colorful fall shades.
Fall Wedding Idea: Choose a fall-colored instant photo guest book that will accompany your autumn-themed wedding colors!
2. Autumn in New York? Choose Your Fall Wedding Destination
Frank Sinatra and other singers have immortalized the romantic notion of autumn in the Big Apple. And the vivid changing colors of New England always come to mind when thinking about the season.
Many locations hit the spot just right for an autumn wedding: a country inn, an old church, a vineyard, a local park and that’s just to name a few! Is there a friend or family member whose big backyard has lots of trees? Remember, it’s not the setting itself. It’s the spirit you bring to the setting that makes your fall wedding so memorable you’ll want to capture it both in pictures and in word.
Fall Wedding Idea: If traveling out of town isn’t in your budget, you can transform any venue into a fall fantasy. Look in travel or bridal magazines for fall wedding ideas, and visit your local craft store to find faux flowers, foliage and other items to help with inspiration!
3. Set the Stage for Your Autumn Wedding
Autumn’s trademark colors can be incorporated easily into every part of your wedding décor. Instead of bright white, try a gown in raw silk or a subtle cream shade? Bridesmaids and your maid of honor can wear a bouquet of lush fall shades like gold, burgundy, hunter green or chocolate brown. Select complementary ties or vests for the groom, best man and groomsmen.
If the flower girl is going to sprinkle the aisle with rose petals, use dried flowers or autumn leaves instead. Depending on the time of day, you might be able to have the ceremony by candlelight. And don’t forge to decorate the reception tables with seasonally-colored linens, mini pumpkins, dried flowers, acorns and colorful gourds.
Fall Wedding Idea: Assign someone you can count on to take pictures of the festive table settings before the reception to include in your instant wedding photo guest book!
4. Plan Your Menu with Autumn Foods In Mind
Many delicious foods conjure up images of crisp autumn days and nights. For starters, greet guests with a glass of warmed, mulled cider spiked with something festive like Tuaca liquer from Tuscany! Nuts and dried fruits can be available for nibbling before and after the ceremony.
For your main course, there are the staples like a Thanksgiving dinner theme. Serve the turkey with all the trimmings or try roast chicken or Cornish hen with cranberry garnish. For more hearty fare, there’s prime rib. Or be creative and try a game bird like quail or pheasant. And you can even “spice” up the wedding cake by choosing carrot, pumpkin-flavored or spice cake. If it’s got to be chocolate, added seasonings will give it an extra flair.
Fall Wedding Idea: In addition to serving a traditional wedding cake, you can also offer your guests dessert treats like apple, pecan or pumpkin pie.
5. Pick Your Autumn Wedding Favors
Send your guests home with some of the “flavor” of your wedding by favoring them with autumn wedding favors such as sachets and potpourri in seasonal scents. If there’s a farm stand or local specialty shop in the area, give a jar of homemade jam, preserves or chutney. Scented fall-colored candles are sure to be appreciated and enjoyed.
And since your wedding is all about the future, you can give your guests something to look forward to: flower bulbs that will bloom next spring. When it’s time to wrap it all up, package the autumn-themed wedding favors in a fabric bag (muslin, burlap, calico-designed cotton) tied with a raffia bow.
Fall Wedding Idea: How about an autumn wedding favor that’s good enough to eat? Thanks to the Internet, it’s easy to order unique, custom-made sweets, like jelly beans in fall colors or personalized M&Ms.
About the Author:
Lesley Mattos, Founder of Adesso Albums helps brides and grooms all over the world capture their autumn wedding memories forever. Her Adesso Instant Wedding Photo Guest Book is the only guest book alternative that provides an instant memory of your wedding event in both pictures and words. Shop the complete photo guest book package – including Polaroid camera and film at: http://www.adessoalbums.com/shop.html
Thanksgiving is a great time to pull out the crayons, construction paper, glue, and scissors and get to work on some cute crafts. Homeschoolers will love the traditional turkey hand tracing, but why stop there? Why not go wild with popsicle sticks to make a turkey greeter? Do you have any spare felt lying around? You could turn those scraps into some neat turkey gloves! Create a fun fall-themed leafy bouquet of thanks? Head on over to Kaboose to check out dozens of creative craft ideas for this Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving List
There are many different ways for homeschoolers to create a Thanksgiving list. Cover the refrigerator with paper and lay out crayons nearby. Have your homeschoolers write out something that they are thankful for each day, leading up to thanksgiving. You can assign specific colors to different children so they can easily find which ones for which they’d like to give thanks. You could do this with a chalkboard or even a simple notebook.
Leafy Fun
Got a yard full of leaves? Have the homeschoolers help out this fall. If you give them a chance to run and jump in the leaves, they’ll be happy to lend a helping hand! That night, be sure to host a bonfire during which you can burn all the leaves and share hot cocoa or cider.
Family Football
Why spend Thanksgiving sitting around watching football on TV when we can get out and play a pick-up game of touch football ourselves? Invite some other families over for a tournament. The exercise you get will offset the pounds of turkey you’re about to eat!
Play a Thanksgiving Party Game
You can put a Thanksgiving twist on just about any party game. Consider Mayflower Memory:
Everyone sits in a circle. The first player says, “I am sailing on the Mayflower and I am taking Apples. The next player repeats the phrase, only instead of apples, thinks of something that begins with the letter “B”. The game continues this way until players can no longer think of words. If a player can’t contribute an item, he or she must leave the circle. The last person in the circle wins!
Be creative! Try out Duck, Duck Turkey!
Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, author, children’s rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of almost 3 decades reside with their 8 children in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. because “our current system of education has broken its promise…” Learning By Grace, Inc. delivers Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children in the United States and throughout the world.
Rothschild has authored a number of books about education published by McGraw Hill and others. Her Daily Education News Blog contains feature stories on alternatives in education.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5?Twenty-nine craft projects with autumn themes, including a school bus picture frame, a fall tree lapel pin, a soft sculpture pumpkin, a leaf-print banner, and a tree puppet that changes color. Two projects can also be used for Jewish holidays. Some of the activities are easy, but others may take several tries before catching on to the techniques or getting the right effect. A few of the crafts, specifically the Columbus Day and Thanksgiving part…
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