I am told often that I'm "so creative". I have always felt I'm more of a good copier. Seeing what others are doing I can take apart the pieces of what they have made to see how they make it and then use it in my own way to make something (like using and old dress to make a new pattern). Especially these days with homeschooling 2 high schoolers (Chemistry, World History, Compositions, and the worst Grammar) along with an 8th grader (U.S. history, General Science, Pre-Algebra, etc.), along with volunteering at a free clinic once a week and a husband that is gone for weeks at a time leaves me little time to "create" let alone "think" up new things to do.
Enter a challenge. Donna at Funky Junk Interiors, is one creative person, and she wants to foster that in others, not to be afraid to try new things and just create. How could I refuse? (I never have been good at saying no!)
The assignment was to find something around your home and to use it in a fresh new way. Hmmm, I have to be creative myself. Okay, after reading the blogpost
I happened to see a pile of things my daughter weeded out of her bedroom and set aside to be donated to the thrift store. I spied something kinda furry and spider leggy looking...
It was a vintage ladies hat that I bought at a thrift store for her to play dress up with (sadly she is too old for that now :(. Well, I thought maybe I could do something with this. The spider idea had me thinking...
... of Fall, turn it upside down and it becomes a cradle for a pumpkin.
Add some other fall items, pinecones, gourds, leaves, feathers, and place them all on an old tarnished silver tray that just perfectly fits on the base I took off from a terrarium (or birdcage?).
Just one more thing to make it perfect (well in my eyes) a branch off the oak tree with a bit of Resurrection fern on it. Resurrection fern will turn brown and look dead in dry weather, but with a little rain (we have had lots in the past few days) and it comes alive again.
A nice little Fall welcome for my front porch.
What have you been creative with lately?
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Love the little fall vignette, and I think that 'spidery' think is hilarious for some reason! I would find all kinds of uses for it just for the texture it would add :)
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