Hey there! It’s that time of year again when the weather starts cooling off, and that only means one thing! FALL IS COMING!!! Which means CROCHET SEASON IS COMING!!! To kick the Fall/Crochet season off right, I decided to make a crochet pattern that celebrates fall, and what better celebrates fall than fall leaves? I [read more...]

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Okay, I pinkie swear these are the last chalk painted leaves tutorial I’m going to do this year! (However I’m not making any promises for next year!) 😉 You can check out part 1 and part 2 where I went through the transformations to get here. They are each different, but pretty in their own [read more...]

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Hey everyone! Welcome to my Fall Farmhouse Home Tour Part 2! I mentioned in part 1 of this tour that I can’t decorate for Fall until the almond harvest was over and that I’d share the reason in part 2. Well, here’s the reason: This is a part of our backyard during the almond harvest. We [read more...]

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Hey Friends! This one gets filed under “why didn’t I think of doing this in the first place?” In other words, why didn’t I think of doing this when I was doing part 1? Which, by the way, wasn’t a part 1 until I thought of doing this after I posted it. And don’t even [read more...]

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Hey Friends! Time for some more free printables! This is a smaller version of my original rustic banner that’s perfect for stretching across a single window or picture frame. These each measure approximately 2 3/4″ long by 2 1/4″ wide at the widest points. I even included a cute little maple leaf for the middle! [read more...]

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Hey everyone! Welcome to Part 1 of my Fall farmhouse home tour for 2015! The almond harvest is finally over here in my neck of the woods, so now I can get down to some serious Fall decorating! 🙂 Now I’m sure you’re asking yourself: Why does she have to wait for the almond harvest [read more...]

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Happy Friday! Galvanized pitchers are all the rage these days! I love them because they are a great way to add a little farmhouse feel to your décor. But trying to find ones that are halfway reasonably priced is a real challenge… whenever something gets high in popularity, it gets high in price too! So [read more...]

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Hey Friends! Time for another crochet project! I’m really trying keep this blog from being a “one horse wonder” (and that horse being crochet) but it’s really hard for me when I love it so much! I hope that though you obviously love crochet too (or you wouldn’t be reading this right now) that you [read more...]

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Yes, I’m still here! 🙂 It’s been a busy last couple of weeks for me. In mid-August, I started a graduate program for Computer Science at Colorado Technical University. I’ve been thinking about going to graduate school ever since I got my undergraduate degree in Computer Science back in 2008, and I finally got around to looking [read more...]

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Hey Folks! Two of my favorite things about Fall is the leaves changing color and good crochet weather. (Seasoned crocheters (pun intended) know what I mean by good crochet weather.) I decided to combine these two things with this crochet pattern! Fall Maple Leaves Free Crochet Pattern The finished size is approximately 4″ long and wide at [read more...]

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