October Craft-mania

At the beginning of the month I got to go over to one of my best friends house and do crafts with another one of my best friends. We went out to dinner before and then went back to Katie's house to get our craft on. We may have planned a lot to do and not all of it got done that night but it was a BLAST! This is the one activity that did get completed that night.

This is little Tom Turkey

Isn't that adorable. All he is made from is:

2x 4 cut to 3 1/2 inches

5 gallon paint stirrer

7 Popsicle sticks cut in half 

scrapbook paper

for the complete break down on how to complete this adorable turkey go here.

We also started the pumpkins and the mummy that night. We spray painted the pumpkin pieces and the mummy pieces. I finished of the pumpkins later on by sanding them down and tying the ribbon. Then I finished the mummy by tying the linen and adding the eyes.

I got this idea from Brown Paper Packages. All you need is 4 pieces of 2x4 cut to 7 inches.

My friend Emilee cut these pieces for us so I am not sure the measurements. I do know that she found this cute guy on Pinterest.

Later in the month we had our Super Saturday at my church. Super Saturday is a day when all of the women get together and make crafts. There are certain crafts that you can purchase or even get for free. I made these pumpkins which were free because I provided an old book and one of the husbands brought his jigsaw and cut the books down. 

This was a very easy craft but quite time consuming. All you do is:

trace the shape of your pumpkin on the cover of the book

cut the book with a jigsaw to match the shape

tear the covers and binding off the book

steep tea bags in water and dab the edges of the book with the tea bag to get a dark color

blow dry the edges of the book after you soak them with the tea

crumple each individual page (yes one page at a time)

get a stick and glue it to the center of the binding

glue around the stick and fold the book around the stick

tie decorative ribbon to the stick

This last picture is not something that I made...I wish I were that awesome! I go to the Farmer's Market at Pioneer Park every year and there is this one booth that I always go to and end up spending a lot of money at (not because it is expensive but because I LOVE everything there and I end up buying a ton of stuff). They pride themselves on not just using a laser cutter to complete their projects but doing a lot of it by hand. He also sells all of his stuff for cheaper than the booths that sell the laser cut items. There are certain parts that he does use his cutter for but you can tell the amount of craftsmanship that went into this piece alone. 

If you ask my husband he might agree with this sign;)