Craftiness

[mothwing]

In my search for autumn-related arts & crafts projects I came across some very worthwhile-sounding things, like the leaf lantern, the idea to stick colourful dried leaves to your windows with self-adhesive book covers (not sure if I'd be looking forward to scraping the glue off the windows afterwards, though), a leaf mobile (or, as in this case, leaf gratitude mobile). 

I'm thinking about doing a leaf mobile now, and I kinda want to do it with dried leaves instead of paper or clay leaves. Let's see, maybe I can find some maples somewhere today. 

EDIT: also, if I was still in kindergarten, I'd totally want to do a leaf crown. This looks SO much easier and more convenient than the stupid daisy chains I tried to make over and over at that age. 

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[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Good point about the air pockets in a laminated sheet, I hadn't thought of that. So far, I made some paper leaves and put those up on the window with string, but they do look rather forlorn because I didn't make enough of them.

That flower press looks really easy to make! I planned on using my trusted Oxford English Dictionary, as always. :D

The star sounds really pretty, I'll attempt that once the season changes towards the more Christmasy - in spite of the supermarkets' insisting the season is almost upon us I'm not willing to take out my Christmas decoration just yet, seeing as how the geese haven't even quite left yet. <_<

[ysilme]

I'm so with you on Christmas decoration! And sweets. And stuff. *sighs*

I have pressed my leaves and tried to stick them to the windows. But since I'm using sticky tape from a eco mailbusiness (Memo Versand), there seems to be a difference: my tape used to stick well enough (plain 'ole Tesa), but the current one doesn't on dried leaves. *pouts* So once again I took out my Window Color and made me some leaves which look nice enough - let me know if you like a photo. (I'm not going to show them around since I stuck them on my rather dirty windows *g* ).
I'm now unsure what to do with my dried leaves, but perhaps some idea will hit sooner or later.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

By now, the shops are overrun with the stuff, though now it makes more sense than at the beginning of October. <_< As I said before, I'd very much like a picture of the WiCo leaves! Our own endeavours don't look as nice as I had imagined. They're all yellow leaves, and given that there are trees in front of the house whose leaves are also yellow, it looks as though they're stuck on from the outside.

[ysilme]

Poor you! :o) After our endeavours to the Botanical Gardens last week and the lovely pictures (yet to come) I took there, I'd suggest going to a park/botanical garden next time for collecting leaves... but I have my own stack still here, too, and no idea what to make with it.
I'll give you the leaves images privately in a mo.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

There are always leaf lamps. I've been thinking of making paper maché lanterns and sticking the remaining leaves on those. But I haven't made anything out of paper maché after primary school, so that'd be quite an adventure!