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Our Jack O'Lantern Happy Halloween! We have been carving our pumpkin for this evening trick or treating. We have discovered over the past few years that there is quite an art to carving a pumpkin, for those of you new to the procedure, here are our tips!                                         How to carve a Pumpkin. .STEP 1:  Select the perfect pumpkin with a good base.   STEP 2:  Cut out a circular shape at the bottom of the pumpkin.  STEP 3:  Use an ice cream scoop to remove the inner flesh and seeds of the pumpkin.  STEP 4:  Select a free template from the internet and tape onto your pumpkin.  STEP 5:  Using a pin or tracing wheel to trace around the template.  STEP 6:  Remove template and cut around the traced shape.  STEP 7:  Insert candle or light. If using a candle allow the flame to burn displaying a                 brown area on the inside of the pumpkin, cut a small hole at the rear of the pumpkin                  in this scorched area to form a chimney.  STEP 8:  Add cinnamon and nutmeg to the top of the pumpkin to create a festive perfume.  STEP 9:  Apply petroleum jelly to the cut edges to stop shrivelling.  STEP10:  Light and enjoy!  Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Ceterpiece

Candle and Acorns

Seed pods

I decided that my green apples could add an interesting dimension to the dining table, which by the time I had finished had a distinctly seasonal feel to it.

Apple votives

Here in Sydney we may not have the gorgeous orange and red fall leaves to compliment our Halloween decorating, but our nightly sunsets are certainly making up for it!

Sydney Sunset

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Our Book Art Pages

We are a family of book lovers and always looking for new uses for old books, rather than throw out one of our "treasured but torn' books my daughter and I decided that we would create some book art.
So we scoured the internet for silhouettes that we liked and printed them directly onto the pages of our old book. They have such a lovely nostalgic feel about them. Now all we have to decide is how to display them.  We plan to either place them in matching frames as a set or hang them from little clips amongst a photo display.

New use for Old books What I love about this idea is you can run with any theme you want, coastal, nature, literature or even children's book illustrations.

Domesblisity With the remaining pages we plan to make gift tag labels like these we found on pinterest. But that's a project for another day!   Linking with Sorted with Style ,Tatertots and Jello, Romantic Home and Feathered nest Friday