Yup, I almost wet my pants with sheer glee! Although we'd already decided on Maren's costume I was sorely tempted to make her into the cutest little toadstool our neighborhood would ever see. Maybe next year! Don't you think a little boy baby would make the most darling chubby garden gnome? The patterns don't seem to be available on the FF website, so if you want to make a last-minute toadstool you'll have to find a copy of the magazine itself. Those pages go into my keeper file for sure!
Saturday morning Maren and I made a thrift store run. We were looking for some items for our party that night and for a few more pieces for my Halloween costume. We found neither, but did find that they've already begun putting out the Christmas items and they were all 50% off! I scored some great vintage stuff that I'll share later, and also bought a whole bag of other ugly wooden ornaments just to get these little sweeties:
I love them SO much, I can hardly stand it! I'm half considering keeping my silver tree & vintage glass ornaments in storage this year in favor of buying a green tree and doing it up in red & white, toadstools, and a general sort of German/Swiss/Austrian theme with lots of wooden ornaments and such. It would be a total departure from my usual sparkly tree, but it sounds so charming! I thought about it last Christmas too and had meant to look for an inexpensive green artificial tree while yard sale-ing this summer, but that never happened. Maybe I'll just keep collecting toadstools for another year and shoot for 2009 instead!
I LOVE those costumes too. Although I think they are on that website somewhere, I saw them linked from CRAFT or something a month or so back? I almost considered ditching our costume too.
ReplyDeleteWe wont talk about my love for those mushrooms. Holy smokes they are cute. Last year Martha had some woodsy stuff at Kmart that had me pondering a woodsy tree too, and I am still thinking about it for this year. Maybe in a really small version? Lord knows I have plenty of trees, even green ones.
P.S. Are they marked? They look sorta like these rather pricey ones on Ebay
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those mushrooms are steinbach. i have the mushroom too but mine doesn't have the tree attached. i also have a few other steinbach which you can see at the bottom of this post. I paid $1 for each one. when i get back to the States i'm doing a wood tree for my sewing room
ReplyDeleteThose mushrooms are adorable. What a great find!
ReplyDeleteHeidi - I'll bet your daughter would looks SO CUTE in that costume :) Hannah's excited to be a "cowgirl" this year - not quite sure why....but thank goodness I have a leftover costume from my sister because I have NO sewing ability! Hugs!
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