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Friday, October 3, 2008

Fall Fun

My family loves fall. Here are a few of their favorite things:

  • Boiled peanuts
  • Cool mornings and nights
  • The way the air smells
  • The cotton fields
  • The slow tractors on the road
  • The pumpkin patch
  • Vegetable soup
  • Fall clothes (My kids wear them even when it's hot!)
  • Bales of hay
  • Fall decorations

    Speaking of fall decorations, my kids have helped to make our dining room very festive. We love to make homemade things here at the Foster-Whiddon house. So... we made chair covers using plain white pillowcases. We used freezer paper to make stencils for their names. I ironed them on and they went to town with the paint! We then glued felt leaves on and these cute little Indian people that we got from Hobby Lobby.



    The centerpiece was made with tissue flowers. We put down a brown runner on the table then we used another white pillowcase. We folded it in half and decorated it with a stencil, felt leaves and cute little birds. We got the idea for the birds from my favorit place, FamilyFun!



    It is so much fun to let your kids be part of the process of decorating. Not all of the things they work on are going to look like Martha Stewart... some my look better! :) lol There is a lot of joy in having a visitor come in and your child say "Hey - come look at what I made!" Fall is full of many great things and many great memories.
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    slow down and just be

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