Decorate Plain Craft Pumpkins Using Washi Tape ♥ Decora Calabazas Sencillas Con Cinta Washi

Last year I bought on clearance these plain little pumkins.  They were rather sad lookingI wanted to make them smile.

El año pasado compre en oferta estas sencillas calabazitas.  Se veían muy triste y quería hacerlas sonreír. 

I love how they turned out.  And if you look really close, I swear you can see them smile. 

Me encanta como me quedaron.  Y le juro que cuando las veo de cerca hasta las puedo ver sonreír.  

To make all you need is a craft pumpkin, washi tape, and some creativity.

Para hacerlas lo único que necesitas unas calabazitas sencillas, cinta tipo washi, y tu creatividad. 

Happy Spooky Crafting!

i smell apples in the air

 Oh yes indeed!

Though a little late in the season, we finally went apple picking.  A must in our family, since it is a must to make apple sauce every year.  Yum.  So we packed up a lunch and headed out to the beautiful mountains ready to pick and pick and pick.  And pick we did, now I have bags and bags of apples waiting for me to slowly simmer into apples sauce.  Yikes!  So far I've made apple crisp, and added apples chunks to everything! I don't want the apples to go to waste you know. 

While there we also enjoyed the most beautiful views.

Breathtaking I tell ya.  Don't you agree?  How I love the colors!

And really how can one be up in the mountains and not roll down the hills and do a bit of exploring?  A must, I say.

So off I go now to make us some apple sauce.  

its all about the colors :: esta en los colores

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather"

"El sol es delicioso, la lluvia refrescante, el viento te abraza, la nieve es estimulante, no hay tal cosa como le mal tiempo, solo diferente tipo de buen tiempo."
(disculpen la traducción no es muy buena)

-John Ruskin

Ever since I moved to the east coast I have learned to truly appreciate those words. Before I did, I would swear I would never live in a place that snowed or was too cold. Luckily the cold has become bearable and the snow? well, now that I have little ones I really enjoy it! (Its also nice it snows only a few times a winter. Just enough to really enjoy it and not drive you crazy because you are stuck indoors for days.) I've also learned to appreciate every season, and what each one brings with it. From the way we do things to what we eat. Fall is my second favorite (after summer). It is full of color! The air feels fresh and new, the sky is a beautiful blue and at times covered with rain clouds and the fact that there are hardly any bugs makes it that much better. And so fall is the time were we take more nature walks, have picnics and explore the outdoors. Yesterday we did just that...
Desde que vivo en la costa Este de los Estados Unidos he aprendido a verdaderamente apreciar el significado de esas palabras. Antes de vivir acá, juraba nunca viviría en un lugar frió y que nevara. Afortunadamente, he aprendido a tolerar el frió y la nieve? pues ahora que tengo nenes la disfruto mas! (También me gusta que nieva lo suficiente para disfrutarla y no volver a uno loco por tener que quedarse encerrado en casa por días). También he aprendido a apreciar cada temporada, y lo que cada una trae con ella. Desde a manera de hacer las cosas hasta lo que comemos. Después de el verano, el otoño es mi segunda temporada favorita. Esta lleno de colores! El aire se siente fresco y nuevo, el cielo es un color azul hermoso, y el echo de que casi no hay bichos por todas partes lo hace mucho mejor. Es que en el otoño es cuando mas salimos a pasear, a comer al aire fresco y a explorar. Ayer hicimos exactamente eso...

We had a little picnic...
Comimos al aire fresco...
Did a little swinging...
Jugamos en los columpios un poco...

Explored...
Exploramos...






And took lots and lots of photos...
Y tome muchas, pero muchas fotos...











Fall. It is all about the colors!
Otoño. Esta en los colores!

fall :: otoño

It is really starting to feel like fall around here. You can see and feel it everywhere. In the leaves spread trough out our lawn, in the some-times bitter cold days (though we still have had some odd warm days), in the events we have attended and in the nice-warm-yummy food we have been eating. Ah, fall! Although summer is by far my favorite season, there is just something about fall. I especially love the colors. The beautiful, beautiful colors of red, orange green, yellow, brown. All so lovely.
:: La verdad que ya se esta sintiendo como otoño por acá. Se puede ver y sentir por todas partes. En las hojas que cubren nuestro jardín, en los días fríos (aunque raramente hemos tenido unos cuantos cálidos), en los tipos de eventos que hemos asistido y en la comida rica de temporada que estamos disfrutando.

Here are some of the things we have been doing in celebration of fall:
:: Aquí unas cuantas cosas de las que hemos disfrutado hasta ahorita:

**A nice trip to the local county fair near my father-in-law's farm. :: Un agradable viaje a la feria local, cerca del rancho de mi suegro.

















**Enjoying fall nature walks. I love that there are NO (or very little) bugs out. Love nature, hate bugs! :: Disfrutando de nuestros paseos de naturaleza. Me encanta que durante esta temporada casi no hay (o hay muy pocos) mosquitos o bichos. Amo la naturaleza, pero odio los bichos!




**Savoring the seasons fruits. (more on that later) :: Saboreando las deliciosas frutas de la temporada. (después mas acerca de esto)




What have you been up to this fall?
:: Cuéntame últimamente que has echo para disfrutar la temporada?