This one is adorable from Not So Idle Hands http://notsoidlehands.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-mothers-day-gift.html
This work of art is from Meet the Dubiens: http://www.meetthedubiens.com/2011/10/handprint-turkeys.html
40 Fun Ideas for Your Fall Bucket List
Here is my Bucket List for Fall
(I have copied quite a few of her's because they are great ideas!)
DONE 1. Take time to witness the leaves turning brilliant colors -notice the golds, russets, and browns. (Apparently this activity is called leaf peeping.)
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~Albert Camus
2. Jump into a pile of freshly-raked leaves.
3. Go for a walk and take in the clean, crisp autumn air.
4. Wear a funky hat. Chase it when the wind blows it off your head.
5. Enjoy the sound of leaves crinkling and crackling underneath your shoes.
DONE 6. Make caramel apples.
DONE -7. Decorate my house for fall
DONE -8. Collect golden autumn leaves and use them to decorate your dinner table, windowsills, or any other surface you choose.
DONE 9 - Buy some autmn lights and string them with garland around my windows.
DONE 10 - Make a fall cloche
DONE 11 - Be a part of the fall party blog carnivals
DONE 12. Go to your nearest apple orchard and look for the best apples to take home. (This will be in my own yard!!!)
13. Bake an apple pie–with a flaky, light, delicious crust–from scratch.
DONE 14. Get a large tub of water, fill it with apples, gather a fun group of people, and go bobbing for apples.
DONE 15. Build a bonfire and roast marshmallows. Make S’mores.
DONE 16. Select your favorite park, arboretum, or nature preserve and go on an autumn hike.
“It was one of those perfect English autumn days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” ~ P.D. James.
17. Go on a hayride. Choose between horse and buggy or a truck-driven hayride.
DONE 18. Visit a pumpkin patch and choose several pumpkins to take home. (In my garden)
19. Make pumpkin cupcakes.
DONE 20. Roast pumpkin seeds.
DONE 21. Carve your own Jack-0-Lantern.
DONE 22. Attend a Fall Festival.
DONE 23. Make a Fall Wreath and hang it from your front door.
24. Enjoy some apple cider. Get yourself a warm mug of cider and sit out on the porch or balcony when it’s cool out.
25. Get some nutmeg, cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, and cloves, and make Fall potpourri. Add pine cones, twigs, and dried flowers.
26. Smear peanut butter over a plain unpainted pine cone and roll it in bird seeds. Hang it in a tree with a bit of yarn and watch to see what birds it attracts.
DONE 27 - Decorate my front porch for fall and halloween
DONE 28. Decorate your home for Halloween.
DONE 29. Organize a Halloween party.
30. Go trick-or-treating.
31. Watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.
DONE 32 - Gather seeds from garden for next spring
DONE 33. Listen to your favorite Halloween songs:
DONE 34. Get a big bag of fresh Brach candy corn - make some treat bags and gtive them away .
DONE 35 - Make 13 days before Halloween for our grandsons
DONE 36. Make a scarecrow (here’s a good tutorial).
37 - Dress up for Halloween
38. Have a Fall movie night marathon.
39. Set an elegant harvest table of Thanksgiving. Make a classic Thanksgiving meal. Remember to go around the table and have each person give thanks for at least one blessing they’ve received this year.
40. Watch “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”, in which Charlie Brown hosts a Thanksgiving meal in which he serves each of his friends the following:
http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com/2010/09/08/autumn-bucket-list/
Here is another resource:
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