Autumn Luminaries

 It's art time in the little house.

  Today we made autumn luminaries.

  I made these way back when, with a different bunch of kids...it was the first time Kim and Luke made luminaries.

 From 2008

 This is a very low cost project with a big payoff.  You just need modge podge  (or watered down white glue...much cheaper than modge podge).  A glass "candle holder". Today we used real glasses that were $.99 each. Tissue paper.  Everyone has tissue paper in the craft closet, and  beautiful leaves from a Central NY autumn. 

 We glued the leaves onto the glass first.  Put a layer of glue onto the glass before placing the leaf on the glass. Once the leaves are set.. begin adding tissue paper. 

 Cover the whole glass with tissue paper. We used three autumn colors, but in the past we have used one color and that also turned out pretty.

 I had to add this photo because I want to remember what Luke thinks of touching the glue!

 We added beaded stickers to the glasses after all the glue had dried.  I found with at Walmart for $2.87,  The stickers were the most expensive part of this project. 

Add a votive candle to the glass...

I hope everyone is having a wonderful fall.

Tomorrow we have a weather forecast predicting 2 inches of snow.....winter is on the way!

Autumn in our little world

 I can't believe we are almost done with the third week of October.  The leaves are falling and the breeze is getting cool. It's too bad that schoolwork isn't getting done like it should, but with the beautiful weather we've had a few unexpected distractions, it couldn't be helped.

 Kimberly caught a picture of our resident hot air balloon between the trees. 

 red, orange and yellow..all in one tree

 Mark the goalie is in fine form.

 The sewn tie business is going well...Luke, modeling Mark's tie. 

 The underside is handsewn on my ties.

 Some of Laura's crocheted dinosaurs.... shoot me an email if you would like to order one..or more.

 We joined the whole of America to say the rosary for peace in this world. Gracie led a decade of the complete rosary... The sun was shining down on us!

 Carson is 2 months now and is over 11 pounds...that's a great achievement when you start out a little over 6 pounds. He loves to have Daddy read to his baby.

 double duty... paci sucking and thumb sucking...

 I love everyone who reads this blog!

 Practicing for trick or treating..

 Cousin It

 Dan turned 24 this week...

Dan received a Dr. Who scarf as a gift...well, acutally, it was a small portion of a scarf, with knitting needles attached and a photo  of the finished product. 

There is sure to be many more leaves to fall before "fall" is over. 

Autumn, Autumn Everywhere.....

A blast from the past....

The Poor Blog--gets a post....

 A yummy, 1 pound honeycrisp, freshly picked apple...as big as Kimberly's face, shared by 2 kids and a mom (with caramel dip!)

 Two thick softer than soft blankets ready to bundle a beautiful set of twins. 

I sell many knit and crochet handcrafts.  You can find me at. J.C.Marie Handcrafts on Facebook.  You can place orders by messaging me here or on my Facebook public page.

 The perfect visitors on yesterday's Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.

 It was too bad my bow hunters were not home. (sorry St. Francis--but we need meat in the freezer)

 I found a wonderful quick and easy craft to honor St. Francis on the Catholic Inspired website.  

(Boy, does my craft--I mean kitchen---need an overhaul)

I love seeing St. Francis rebuilding our Lord's church. 

 Kimmy, Luke and Grace put together this beautiful autumn puzzle...a little modge-podge..and this will stay up until out Christmas puzzle is put together and displayed. 

Hopefully I will keep up with documenting our busy lives here in the "little house".  I may also have some big photo dumps of things that happened over the summer...especially the arrival or our first grandbaby... Carson Matthew...

Kimberly Learning to Walk---Day 4

 Kimberly getting some exercise with Gracie out in the beautiful fall leaves on a beautiful autumn day. 

 The pumpkin pose...

Best buddies~~

Day 4 of Kimberly learning to walk...I don't like how her legs. (both) are turning in...Her recovering leg is her left leg.

An Autumn Day in Central New York

It was the perfect autumn day today in Central New York. The colors are gorgeous!

Mark will do anything for his mother, such as heading into the swampy field to collect 5 cattails.

They grow pretty tall...Mark is 6'3"

Good work, Mark.

Now to hand then out to the kids in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard.

I remember doing this in the house when I was little....

I got in trouble.

Now, that's some fluff....just don't breath in, kids!

Go for it, Kim.

We needed to use the dog lint roller when they were done playing with these.

A cattail fluff angel.

Then the kids raked some leaves.

Luke catching some air.

We dumped Kimberly into the leaves...

Whoops!

Kim was a mess!

You go, Gracie!

I did catch 3 snakes on this beautiful day...they now live on Mark's dresser.