A round up of autumn crafts this year

A lot of creativity this autumn! Acorns seemed to be the theme this year. A round up of all the crafty stuff at our house, or send or received in the mail.
A cute little matchbox with a gold glitter acorn cap.

Oh deer!

Tiny wooden leafs (received)

Drawn bird on wood.

Halloween!

Let's have some tea! I just love this acorn tea cutlery. Such fun in making!

Drawn plants on wooden hanger.

Pumpkin made by my daughter (8 years old) at her art class.

Also made by my daughter at art class, the theme was: Indian summer. She makes me proud!

Acorn caps with colourful tiny felt balls.

Dried apples from the apples of our own tree. First time I had tried this! It smelled lovely!

This ever so cute little hedgehog! It's so sweet! From Bianca's mail. I can never crochet anything like that unfortunately. The kids were fighting over it, but I didn't want it to get lost in their rooms somewhere. Therefore we compromised, we had a bowl of autumn stuff on our table (pineapples, acorns, leafs and branches) and it had its own place on top of a leaf!

A real classy acorn!

The acorn people, made by my daughter and me. She wanted to do something crafty with our new gluegun, looked at my Pinterest board and found something like this. She went of to collect everything she needed and all I had to do was glue it all together.

And some more classy acorns. They catch the light so beautifully!

Craftfair

Last week I've been to big craftfair. I'd never been to a craftfair so I was quite excited! Well this craftfair is once a year and lasts a couple of days, but I always figured it was for the "not so crafty" crafters. For the old women with nothing better to do then make really stupid cards from really stupid books. The thing that bothers me about that is that is all predesigned. Just follow the instructions and make exactly the same as the book says. Well, that's just totally not me! First of all I'm way to stubborn for that, and second, when I'm starting a project, it usually turns out rather different as when I first started. Most of the time I let my imagination give me instructions, and that's all the instructions I need. Let go, daring to try and see possibilities. What a life lesson! Well, in creativity I live by that rule, as a mom I should do more of that.... Oh, I'm drifting off.... Craftfair. I couldn't find anyone to come with me, so I went alone. I always find that a bit nerve wrecking, will I find it? Will I be okay on my own? Well, first of all I ended in a massive traffic jam, as if all the dutch people decided to go to that same craftfair. I finally arrived, and nerves gone! I thought I was really cool! Once inside I was overwhelmed! It was huge! Where to start? I just decided to start left and follow left all the time. That seemed as sort of a plan anyway. And yes, there were a lot, and a mean a lot, of old women. Where they were all crowding in front of a stall, I knew I could skip that one. At the end of the day I found myself with lots and lots of bags. Paper, stickers, stamps, ink and what you not! I just bought way to much. And my muscles really hurt from carrying all the lovely craftstuff. I even felt really brave and did a origami workshop! It took me about three days to recuperate, but damn! It was worth it!

Postcard and snailmail

When I thought that there was no mail on monday, surprise! A snailmail packet and a postcard from Taiwan! The postcard has a lovely old cardboard feel to it, it's not shiny or something, but the print stands out great on that paper. You have to feel it to get it I suppose. A definite favourite on my postcrossing profile!
The snailmail packet was a bit, well, how do I put it, ehh, allright. Seems that crafting is not everyone's talent, but it's from a good heart, that's the important bit.