DIY Fall Festival and an Autumn craft so easy your cat can do it!

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Roeshel

Looking for some fall inspiration? Share your autumn related do-it-yourself projects in the DIY Fall Festival.

If you’re looking for a quick, easy and cute fall decorating idea, these easy DIY yarn pumpkins are the perfect project…

I’m still in apartment reno mode (although making progress and getting to the fun stuff!) but I do have a SUPER EASY DIY pumpkin tutorial to share. Takes just minutes and the result is cute, don’t you think?

Materials:

Yarn
Pinecones
Optional: hot glue

My yarn is a thrift store find, already wound into a ball. But if yours isn’t, you can use this technique with a dowel rod or other similar sized rod (how to use a nostepinne). And yea, I just had to Google that – new word of the day “nostepinne”.

I found some squirrel nibbled pinecones in the driveaway that will work for me. Aren’t they funny?! Pretty though too! But since you may not have squirrels who love to DIY on hand, mini pinecones work too.

Tutorial

Stuff a pinecone into the top of a yarn ball. You could hot glue it in place, but since my nibbled pinecones push down into the center, I didn’t glue mine.

Isn’t that about the easiest DIY project ever? Winding a ball of yarn and adding a pinecone. I love them!

So easy and so fun, even your cat can do it. Balls of yarn + squirrel scented pinecones = irresistible! It’s definitely Lalka’s favorite DIY project. Although rather than helping put them together, she’s more interested in taking them apart. Cats are so helpful. 😉

Disclaimer: These are not recommended for cat toys.

See MORE DIYShowOff fall decorating and DIY in the Fall DIY Project Gallery.

Sharing at the Primp Your Pumpkin Party.

There is some beautiful fall inspiration from last week.

More creative pumpkins:

Taryn from Design, Dining + Diapers created these super cute industrial decorative pumpkins and shares the easy tutorial. A great project for using up those wood scraps and lots of options for the letters.

Who doesn’t love a fun monogrammed project? Pumpkins are the perfect canvas! I love the pretty monogrammed pumpkin topped with a bow by Jessica at Mom4Real created, don’t you?

WOW! Did you see the knock off Country Living pumpkins at Confessions of a Plate Addict? Debbie shares her decoupaged pumpkin tutorial. Beautiful!

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Link YOUR NEW FALL DO-IT-YOURSELF projects only please! If linking an old project, please reintroduce in a Fall 2012 post to share.
Please link back to this party in some way.
By linking up you give permission to be a favorite fall DIY feature {with a link back your site}.
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DIY Fall Festival linky party

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Roeshel

DIY FALL FESTIVAL

It’s that time of year {already?!}. Wait! Where did summer go so fast? I can’t believe it, but it’s time for the 3rd annual weekly FALL linky party open Wednesdays through Fridays starting today and ending…well, somewhere around Thanksgiving.

I thought I’d kick off this year by sharing a few of my favorite of my own past fall projects…and maybe a review because I’m day and night up to my eyeballs in an apartment renovation so about the only fall project I’ve completed is falling into bed each night. But, previous years, here is what I did and this year. I have some fun ideas that I can’t wait to get to. Might even take a few hours off from apartment decorating to get to an autumn inspired DIY. Ahem…in the meantime, I present to you, Fall….

Fall fabric wreath tutorial

Last year’s autumn with a touch of blue…

Dress up a candle with twine and faux leaf…

Decoupaged Pumpkins

and letters…

Baby girl’s first day of college is today. I swear she just started kindergarten not too long ago. So while the summer flew by for me, so did the past YEARS! She celebrates with an end of fall birthday and last year, I put together a small

fall themed dinner party…

I’m not sure where summer went but I’m still holding on for a few more weeks of summer myself even though I notice chilly mornings and shorter days. I just wasn’t in mom’s pool nearly enough {apartment renovation take #1078}. Are you getting ready? Are you ready?! My favorite things about fall? Spicy fall scents like cinnamon and pumpkin. Wearing sweaters and boots. Warm and cozy throws. I just need another few weeks to work up to it. 😉

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Link YOUR NEW FALL DO-IT-YOURSELF projects only please! If linking an old project, please reintroduce in a Fall 2012 post to share.
Please link back to the party in your post using the coded button above or the link to this post.
By linking up you give permission to be a favorite fall DIY feature {with a link back your site}.
I will share links to your post on Facebook, Twitter, G+ and Pinterest. Feel free to do the same!

DIY Fall Festival

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Roeshel

I‘m still loving the beautiful fall inspired DIY projects linked up every week. Thank you so much for sharing! Here are some highlights from last week’s party with some beautiful DIY ideas:

Whimsical Autumn Nature Tablescape

It’s Overflowing!

Gorgeous!

Fun Fall Table Runner

The Autocrat

Beautiful fall colors…

MORE fabulously festive printables at

Balancing Home…

Natural, vintage mantel

at A Diamond in the Stuff…

{my style – neutral and so pretty}

Warm and welcoming fall decor

at Moore Minutes

This new to me site that I’m loving…
Tablescapes by Diane
Click above to see oodles of tablescape inspiration!

And lastly, visit Leasa at

to see a beautiful chair transformation and a sweet pillow reminder, perfect for this time of year…

Let’s see what you’ve got for FALL!

Rules: FALL ONLY (Autumn, Halloween and Thanksgiving)! Regular DIY Project Parade HERE and Christmas HERE.

•Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that YOU HAVE CREATED. Feel free to include a past link, however please make a note on a recent post about the DIY Fall Festival to invite everyone over to join in or to search the collection of fall inspired ideas.

•Add your project title to Linky party below. (example: House # Pumpkins)

•Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)

•Please add the DIY button or link to the party in your post to share the party with your readers.

•Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. It just must be your project. Please only link up same project once to one party.

•If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!
• By adding your link, you give the DIY Show Off permission to highlight your project in a future post. Enjoy and be inspired!

HAPPY FALL! (oops! sorry for the delay in opening the party!)

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DIY Fall Festival and an Autumn craft so easy your cat can do it!

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