Inspired by Sunday

**I'm not sure if we'll change the name (can't decide if we like it.) But for now it'll have to do! Just a simple few ideas, recipes or pictures that will help get the those creative juices flowing and keep feeling inspired throughout the week!**


As the weather starts to cool and things slow down, our weekly-ish craft night will start back up!
Here are some autumn and ALMOST halloween ideas I've been wanting to try!

I really want to make a garland like this but with orange lights in the middle! Nothing screams fall like warm orange glow lights.

When it comes to Halloween I'm more a fan of simple, cute and fun decorations. Think more Hocus Pocus and less of Michael Myers Halloween. So I'm really loving this porch, because of how simple, inexpensive and adorable it looks! Can't wait to try it! Same goes for this it reminds me of something Tim Burton would use as a prop (I guess I have movies on the brain today!) I also really like all the painted and glitter pumpkins I've seen all over and the fact you can leave them up until thanksgiving makes them even better!

Lately, I've been rereading all of the Harry Potter books. I'm guilty of reading them every year or two even when I have a long list of other books I need to get too. I can only imagine what big glass of butter beer would taste like so I turned to Pinterest and found this recipe. If you'd prefer one without the alcohol I've also wanted to try this one.

Brisk fall evenings means soups of all kind! I've been dying to try this recipe.

And since no post is complete without a picture here is one of my pumpkins from the garden a few weeks ago!

xoxo

Molly

diy mason jar lid pumpkin

Wondering where we've been for the last year? Well we got a bit busy... Life you could say. Cara and I are sorry that we kinda quite cold turkey but we are back now!

     So without further ado:

They are cheap inexpensive to make, take under 15 minutes, and look adorable! You could even make these with a kid you trust with hot glue gun... Yes, they are that easy. Even if you have convinced yourself you can't "do Pinterest-y things" you my friend can do this.

Supplies:

15 Mason Jar Lids

Twine

Cinnamon Sticks 

Green Burlap

Hot Glue

Orange Spray Paint (optional) *

*Spray paint before you tie them together 

Step One: String the lids onto the twine facing the same direction 

Step Two: Tie the twine in a double know and spread the lids back out to make a circle 

Step Three Cut a diamond shape out of green burlap for the leaf

Step Four Hot glue a thin line around the cinnamon stick and insert the center of pumpkin 

Step Five Glue on the burlap leaf

Side Note: Every time you move these you will have to readjust the lids to make a perfect looking circular pumpkin!

Boom. 

Super easy pumpkins. Now go make some and let us know what you think!

xoxo,

Molly & Cara

Apple Pumpkin Butter

Canning Season is here once again!
Over the last couple years we have both learned a couple tips and tricks to help get us through this pretty labor intensive time consuming weekends because in the end it's totally worth it! We decided to take a shot at making our own apple pumpkin butter and it does not disappoint. Perfect to spread on toast with a cup of coffee on these foggy mornings we've been having!

We held our first "canning party" at Molly's moms house this weekend (we are starting a tad late this year.)  We packed up our most comfy clothing, grabbed our lists, and were off to the farmers market!

This apple pumpkin butter recipe is so yummy and not too apple-y. We added it because canning pumpkin by itself can be dangerous if you don't plan on refrigerating it. There's very little acid in pumpkin and no acid means potential bacteria, yuck. Apple helps combat that but if your still worried just enjoy the modern age we live in and leave your jars in the fridge after canning. 

Anywhoo here's the recipe:

Apple Pumpkin Butter

This will make 8 1/2 pint mason jars

2 29 oz cans of pumpkin puree 

2 cups sugar

11/4 cups apple juice*

1 tsp. ginger

1 tsp. cinnamon 

1 whole cinnamon stick broke in half 

9 whole cloves (or 2 tsp. ground)

1 whole nutmeg 

 [Don't forget to take out the whole things before canning!]

  

*We used fresh squeezed apple juice from 3 medium apples because we forgot juice at the store but in the long run it made it taste so much better and it was a more mellow apple aftertaste. But it's up to you!

Mix all the ingredients in a crockpot on high. 

Cook for 3-4 hours on high or 5-6 hours on low. You'll just want to watch for it to get thick.

The apple pumpkin butter should be so thick it won't fall off the spoon right away. 

Then go ahead and can it! We will be showing our canning process in a future post coming soon! We just wanted to share this way too yummy recipe ASAP! 

xoxo

Molly & Cara