Terry Ricioli Designs

 Hi Crafty Friends! I love fall and I love to create items to decorate my house for the season.  This month I created a little scarecrow shelf sitter. This easy scarecrow can sit among the pumpkins and other fall decorations. He's easy enough for any age to make with adult supervision on the glue gun. Scarecrow Shelf Sitter This scarecrow uses a plaid burlap ribbon from Gwen Studios, which is perfect for fall designs. Here are the materials I used: 3" terra cotta pot 1 3/4" wood ball knob (this has a flat side) Gwen Studios 1" burlap ribbon 4" circle of burlap for the hat Twine Sewing needle and tan thread Hot glue, white glue Wiggle eyes Acrylic paint for the pot and features (or permanent pens for face), paintbrush Craft wire (optional) Instructions: Paint the pot and let dry.  Cut lengths of ribbon for legs and arms (4 - 6" pieces and 4 - 3" pieces).  Cut twine to be glued between the ribbon lengths (12 - 7" pieces for the legs and 12 - 4...

 Hi folks! Fall is one of my favorite times of year and I love to design in fall colors.  Here are a couple of fall and harvest designs that I created for Herrschners . This is another porch board: Happy Fall Porch Board And, here is a view through a window of an apple orchard and an old red pickup: Apple Harvest Wall Hanging You can find these kits now on the Herrschners website under plastic canvas .

 Welcome! For the Back to School theme for Gwen Studios , I've chosen to make a wreath. They make great gifts and I'm sure the kids would have fun creating a special one for their teacher. I chose a black canvas from a dollar store for my background and some wood letters to spell "Back to School". You could spell the teacher's name or welcome also. I painted the letters with rainbow colors.  The number of letters for Back to School worked perfectly.  You could also paint them white. I glued lengths of paint sticks around the edges of the canvas to make it look like a blackboard.  A wire wreath form from the dollar store and Decorative Mesh from Joann's will form the base wreath. I made deco mesh bows from 12" lengths of mesh by overlapping the ends, scrunching up the mesh across the overlap and tying them with black craft wire. Since I'd never worked with deco mesh, I watched a video to learn the technique. I used one roll of deco mesh, which was 30 ...