FaveCrafts — 1000s of free craft projects, home decor ideas and DIY tips. Knitting Crochet Sewing Crafts Patterns and Ideas! - the purl bee. Cherry Heart. ZakkaArt. Vintage grey. Shabby-Roses-Cottage. Cherry Heart. Lovely little handmades. Helen Philipps. Stitch Craft Create. V and Co. Torie Jayne. Pretty by Hand - Pretty By Hand. NanaCompany. I almost feel like I should be hiding this bit of my history because it makes me sound dinosaur-old, but... when I was a kid, my friends and I would walk to a little antiques store after school and buy penny candy to stuff into our backpacks.
Then we'd head over to the library to hang out. The beloved store, which we all called the "Red & White," was in a building old as dirt ~ rickety and possibly haunted, just like a lot of the old houses in the small Connecticut town of my childhood. Only recently have I learned the store was actually called, "The Homestead" ~ a sign hanging outside said so, clear as day, but I never noticed it. { Snapped this pic on a visit home in 2012 } "Perhaps built as early as 1815 by Danforth Richmond, the building at 46 Tolland Green in Tolland served as a general store for a century and a half.
Various businesses have occupied space inside over the years and at one time, manufacturer Henry Underwood had a workshop on the second floor. Xo amy. Freebie Friday - A Fall Pumpkin - Two Paper Divas. Fall is almost here so that means it's pumpkin time!! Look how cute this pumpkin is and wouldn't it be perfect to decorate your home, office, desk, etc. This project is made with several sizes of accordion medallions. Gather your supplies: card stock or patterned paper (we used patterned paper), felt, wire, tag, twine and twig First cut your strips of paper. Here are the sizes and number of each: 1" x 12" - one; 1-1/4" x 12" - two; 1-1/2" x 12" - three Score all pieces every 1/4".
Next, create your medallions. Then using the glue gun again, stack the circles in the following order. To create the top of your pumpkin: Once your pumpkin is assembled, we used a paper piercing tool to poke a hole in the top circle only so that the twig fits down in the circle. When you finish, you have a very cute pumpkin. And there you have it. Thanks for stopping by today.