Recycle A Little Bit Of Fall

Despite the snow outside and three hours without power, my excitement for fall is still strong.

With my halloween birthday order canceled due to the weather, I got the itch to bring a little bit 

more fall into my home.

I have loads of candle jars with wicks burnt down to the metal, so I thought something quick and simple will make me fill the void for those gorgeous fall colors. OH! Excuse the picture quality.

Dead camera + No Power = iPhone to the rescue!

What you need:

Empty Candle Jar or Votive Holder

Felt

Embroidery Thread

Needle

Fabric Glue

Blow Dryer

Cotton Ball

Vodka (you'll see)

Step 1: Remove label from jar

Bring out your blow dryer and on hi heat aim the air to the label. 

BE CAREFUL THE JAR DOES GET HOT! 

  

Step 2: Vodka time!

Go ahead, take a shot! No? Ok, than just soak the cotton ball with it and rub on the glue residue from the label, or you can use goo gone. I prefer vodka (no oily residue). 

Step 3: Measure and Cut Felt

Very simple, trace the jar to make a circle. Trace straight down from the outside, not at an angle. You want the circle to be a tiny bit bigger. Measure all around the jar and the hight, add 1/4 inch to the hight. When you're done with tracing and measuring, put the jar in the freezer. 

Step 4: Straight stitch rectangle ends together to form a tube, than stitch the circle to the tube, I used a blanket stitch. If you're not familiar with a blanket stitch, here's a GREAT tutorial.

Step 5: Cut out leaf

You can print out this pattern I made to cut out leaf. Stitch detail on it and glue to your jar cozy.

Step 6: Pop out the wax.

Take a butter knife and gently wedge it into the edge of the wax and it pops right off. Be Gentle, the last thing you want is to break the jar and hurt yourself. Use a kitchen towel to get a good grip ... When removing the label, the heat melted a bit of the wax and formed an opening along the edge, wedge knife there. 

Step 7: VOILA! 

Slip the sparkling clean jar to it's cozy and do whatever your little heart desires with it. I'm using mine as an accessories holder, mainly my hair clips and ties. I always seem to loose those, don't know why...

Hope you enjoyed this quick and incredibly easy jar cozy tutorial =]

It's a great way to use up some of that extra felt you may have lying around. Recycle those jars, lovies!

Fall Sundays

I don't know what sundays consist of in your homes, but in mine I'm unfortunate to have a football obsessed fiance. Not that I'm knocking football, it just doesn't float my boat. To satisfy the hungry endless pit of my fiance's stomach, on sundays I resort to quick meals. What's quicker than sandwich? When you find something, let me know.
The other day I tried a sandwich worthy of withstanding sunday football, plus it's like fall between two slices of bread and even said slices of bread are like a walkway covered with leafs in all of the pretty fall colors... Alright enough with the analogies and on to the "sammich"!

What you'll need: Brie, butter, pear, honey and cranberry walnut bread.

Step 1: Slice the pair. With an average sized pear you can cut a total of 8 slices, 4 per sandwich.

Step 2: Cut a slice of brie. To expand your slice I spread it out on the cutting board and

place on bread.

Step 3 & 4: Assemble pears like shown, drizzle with honey (a little goes a long way)

                                      

Step 5: Place other slice of delicious bread over pears and spread butter. 

I use Earth Balance, I've come to find it doesn't burn and it's tastier. win,win!

Step 6: Grill on a skillet over medium heat 1 minute each side. I'm sorry no picture here, the fiance ran up to his room for his game and I was not about to try and burn myself with butter fingers, le sigh.

Here's your sammich! Perfect for a fall lunch, perfect for sunday football.