I am so happy to be here at Smile and Wave again this month. I run the reworked art blog to keep me inspired to make things and find beautiful things out in the wide crafting world. It's great motivation for me to get creating when I know I can post it and share it with other people.
I also have a little shop to sell some of the jewelry I make on etsy and hope to some day spread my wings and sell other things I make as well. I hope you will stop in and visit my shop and blog and see if anything catches your eye!
The winner can choose one of my vintage style beaded necklaces or your choice of two pairs of earrings from my shop! Also, all Smile and Wave readers can get 20% off their order for the month of October if you mention Smile and Wave in your notes to the seller.To enter this giveaway, leave your favorite Fall memory in the comments below. Winner will be drawn Monday!
xoxo,
Rachel
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My favorite fall memory would have to be...last year about this time I met my dear friend Ryan who has made my life so much brighter! It's an unrequited love as far as I know but he makes me happy just being around him!
It's really hard for me to pick a favorite fall memory, but I have had some really awesome birthday celebrations over the years in this season.
Lovely! Favorite fall memory is when we my grandfather came to visit us for the first time when we had moved to Montana. I was really bummed that no one was gonna be with us that Thanksgiving but he came!! I was so stinkin' happy. :)
my favorite fall memory is when my family and i used to carve pumpkins every Halloween. sounds really generic because everyone does that haha but it was always a random time of the year where we all just had a lot of fun no matter what was going on in life and it never left me disappointed. :)
I remember having to rake leaves .. omigosh we had so many trees! My sister and I would always play in the big piles!
Thanks!
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my favorite fall memory is hard to pick because i have so many. I think it would have to be when my aunt, brother, and I went to Callaway Gardens in Georgia and stumbled upon their fall festival. Totally wansnt planned. We enjoyed things from the general store, pumpkin painting, corn mazes, and a fall picnic! It was a day to be remembered!
My favorite fall memory is walking home from kindergarten in the crunching leaves. The sound, the texture and the smell of the leaves. Love it!
Autumn walks with my husband through crunchy leaves back when we were still dating.
My favorite fall memory is playing in a huge pile of leaves with all my siblings and cousins and getting in trouble with our Grandma about 8 years ago. Those were some good times.
going gem mining with my mister! it was in the mountains and so much fun.
leigh
teaandluv.wordpress.com
Jumping in huge mounds of colorful leaves growing up in PA with my brother. We're still best friends too.
I love starting to wear scarves again. Except it's still in the high 80s here, so no scarves yet!
My favorite fall memory is driving to Amish country and seeing the beautiful scenery. The trees were brilliant colors and the crisp air coming in the car windows was so invigorating. And we always stopped at the orchard for a glass of cider.
Right now my favorite Fall memory is from just last year. I was taking a visual design class and we had to bring in leaves and stuff that we'd found, for a project. One rainy day after my daughter got home from school, we went out in the neighborhood looking for the most beautiful Fall leaves we could find. Just the other day, we were talking about how much we loved that.
~ The Speckled Dog
My favorite fall memory is my first fall in Utah. I grew up in Arizona and you miss out on the beauty of a drive through a canyon of changing leaves there!
My favourite fall memory is playing catch in our back yard admist the leaves with my sisters.
all thanksgiving dinners with my family!
favorite fall memory....
the day i learned i'd be starting chemo treatments the following week, i went to the park with my daughter and husband and spent the PERFECT day together... playing the leaves... hugging... laughing.
My favorite fall memory is my freshman year of college... it was my first time living somewhere with real 'seasons' and I remember looking out my dorm room window at this beautiful tree each day and watching it change...
I loved jumping into leaf piles after my dad slaved away raking them up! It sorta pissed him off, but it was pure bliss to me.
It's hard to choose just one, the birth of my oldest daughter, the day that my husband asked me to marry him and my wedding day!
xoxo~meg
My favorite fall memory is raking leaves with my dad and then jumping in!
My favorite fall memory is of when my Mom and I used to make window decorations out of fall leaves and wax paper. I remember collecting the prettiest leaves for my Mom on my way home from school and then she would always give me a big hug when I gave them to her. Fall is definitely my favorite season. :)
last year... having elsie... :)
xo,
christen
My favorite fall memories are the little things - meeting up for coffee outside with friends, wearing scarves and boots, walking along the river front and admiring the changing leaves.
My favorite fall memory is a couple years ago... It is when I fell madly in love with my husband. : )
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My favorite fall memory was playing in the leaves with my brother when we were little! Such a good time to have an oak tree in the backyard :D
Alyssa
www.adorkablecrafts.blogspot.com
My favorite Fall memory is my little sister getting so excited to be dressed up and taken out, smiling and waving at everyone. It's her favorite holiday and I love watching how happy she gets.
My favorite fall memory is getting dressed up for Halloween and going trick or treating! Now that i am older though, I would have to say coffee dates!
-Christine
ckscribbles.gmail.com
the first time I went to the corn maize!
one halloween, i made a lego costume for myself. i spray painted it and everything. i couldn't have been older than 12.
crunching leaves with my siblings and making big piles of leaves and then jumping in them. So fun.
My favorite fall memory would have to be our annual Halloween party! I love to get together with friends and what better way to do it than at the pumpkin patch followed by yummy food and haunted houses!!
fly fishing with my dad, watching the elk bugle - totally being outside and away
love the colors in these pieces!
Katie
My younger brother and sister and I would rake all the leaves in the backyard into a figure eight race track and then race around it on our bikes for hours. The best part was crashing! :)
fall is the best season for falling in love, and the best season for cuddling up with a fresh book from the library and something great-smelling to drink or eat. i don't have one particular favorite memory from this season, just a mash of accumulated loveliness. best season ever...and beautiful jewelery, too!
i loved trick or treating when i was little...getting home with my brother and friends to compare candy and do some trading.
jumping in leaves after my parents raked the front yard.
-Kelly Elizabeth
When we were kids, my brother and sisters and I would play our "catching money" game. You had to catch as many blowing leaves as possible. So much fun! I realize now it must have been entertaining for our mom too, all of us running in crazy circles, looking up, with our arms out-stretched!
That one year I made apple pie for the first time in the basement of my college dorm. That was over 5 years ago, but we went apple picking and baked the afternoon away.
Unlike most people I mourn the passing of summer each fall, but hugely look forward to winter and the Holidays. That said, I really enjoyed apple picking with my family as a kid. I loved the hay rides, hot apple cider, and eating so many apples my belly felt like it would rupture.
My favorite fall memory is picking apples with my mom and brothers and canning apple sauce and butter.
My brother and I always went trick or treating together when I was little. So it's not a single memory, but a chunk of years spending time as siblings =]
Fave fall memory is taking my hubby on a surprise trip to monticello and vineyard visiting. Then we went apple picking in an orchard on a mountain.
There is a farm near our house, and every year we take our son there to feed the horses and get apple cider donuts.
I have great memories of jumping in piles of leaves with my sister. My dad would help us rake up a massive pile and then we would jump in them and roll around. Fall is the best.
A local nature preserve near where I grew up has apple and maple festivals every year and I used to LOVE going and checking out the booths and delicious goodies!
I used to park on the other side of a small bird sanctuary when I was in college so every morning I could walk across the grass and admire the colorful leaves and the japanese lilies that would spontaneously pop up.
My favorite fall memory is taking my son to a Halloween carnival last year. It was sooo fun! Great giveaway! :o)
I love to remember the childhood trips to our local apple orchard and eating honey sticks of all flavors.
My favourite fall memory is going to the beach with my fam. The Monarch butterflies were migrating so they were EVERYWHERE. Also someone took the dog of his leash and he suddenly has this burst of energy and ran, like with dust flying, away... then he got to the end of trail turned around and look at us like "hmmmm, that wasn't a great plan"
one of my favorite Fall memories is when my husband and I went Horseback riding through mountain trails during our honeymoon.
As a kid, we didn't live in much of a neighborhood, so we didn't trick-or-treat. Instead, my mom would put together a bunch of fall games, invite a bunch of friends over and we'd dress up and eat candy together.
My favorite fall memory is riding bikes in the neighborhood.
painting pumpkins as a family growing up!
my dad used to pull me on top of the pile of leaves tarp out into the woods. someday he'll do that with his grandaughter.
favorite fall memory! getting engaged last fall of course :)
to my bestfriend.
Trick-or-treating in my Grandma's neighborhood. Those old ladies gave out full size bars of candy and were so sweet ♥
New fav memories are made every year with my family at Thanksgiving. We get together and everyone plays different instruments and we sing old folk songs and dance. Most fun ever!
-Ashley
I got married in the fall!! so hard to believe that was 5 years ago!
I began dating my high school boyfriend in October of 2001. He's dead now, after a suicide in 2005 - but the times we spent together that fall have kept me going every fall since then. Drinking hot chocolate, passing out candy to trick-or-treaters, exploring the woods near our hometown... Fall will always remind me of him.
i love rolling down the hill in a bed of crunchy leaves
my favorite fall memory would have to be playing in the leaves with my sisters when we were little :) still love doing that now! awesome jewelry by the way!
Pretty things! :)
My favorite fall memory would have to be my son's first halloween...I dressed him up as a banana! ;)
xo, Jamie
My favorite fall memory is driving through a small Pennsylvanian town that I used to live in for the first time in fall. I loved all of the colors on the trees. In Las Vegas we don't really get seasons so it kinda weirded me out haha
My favorite fall memory is jumping rope with my dad and sister. My dad is tall, so he would swing the rope and all three of us would be able to jump at the same time - lots of fun :)
Gosh, makes me happy just thinking about it! We are all toooo big to do that now!
playing in the leaves with my dog and hubbie
My favorite Fall memory is my wedding - 10/21/06. Fall is my favorite season, and getting married in October was a dream come true!
Evening strolls with my fiance. We've been taking them since my first year of high school, and we always say fall is our season.
It's always been raking up leaves to see how big we can make the pile, and then jumping in it over and over. I still do it with my kids!
It's definetely two years ago (Fall '08) when I got pregnant for my first baby. We were so happy and nervous at the same time ^_^
PS: Baby Owen was born on June 2009
When I took my husband home to meet my family, before he was my husband, and we stood out under the stars...which are bright at home because my parents live in the country.
I looove those green earrings!
My favorite fall memory was 4 years ago at a halloween party where I was dressed as robin(batmans sidekick) & this guy I had a crush on for a year told me he'd come. well he dressed up as a mexican construction worker(crazy fake mustache & all) & late in the evening he confessed his "like" for me. It was so cute. We began seeing each other after that & we got married 3 years later almost to the day! Our first anniversary is coming up & I can not wait to celebrate it(& fall) with pumkin ales & pumpkin cheesecakes galore & of course a halloween party!
Last fall, I was getting ready for the birth of my baby. I decorated his bedroom and painted every room in our house. He was born December 9!
my favorite fall memory is that in 2008, my hubby & i were not coming home (AR & LA) for the holiday & on the spur of the moment, we decided to drive to phoenix because we've never been, but had to be back in albuquerque by 2 pm to eat thanksgiving lunch with friends. we drove to phoenix, drove around the town, grabbed some jack in the box & drove right back to ABQ just in time to get ready for lunch. then the following day, we found out we were expecting a baby! heehee!
raking leaves in the early morning.
Going to the pumpkin patch with my six month old son. He kept biting the tiny pumpkins and then making a funny face. Super cute.
giving birth to my son, Max, two nights after my birthday. My last meal was from my favorite restaurant (Noble Rot)in Portland, OR...that next morning my water broke.
Fall (or Autumn as we call it in Australia) reminds me of the annual camping trips my family took when I was a child. Campfires, easter eggs and cool weather. Perfect :-)
My favorite fall memory is from a few years ago. My husband and I went camping in The Smokey Mountains during the peak of fall. It was beautiful and I will never forget it.
Fritzi Marie
Collecting chesnuts as a child. I love them! And I still want to go out and collect them. (And colourful leaves too!)
xx
my fav fall memory would have to be walking through a lovely park that my boyfriend took me to and I was wrapped up all nice and warm :)
Roughing through the piles of leaves on the way to school...those were the days!
My favorite fall memory is apple picking!
jumping in piles of leaves!
My favorite fall memory would have to be when I was little and my grandfather would rake the fallen leaves into a huge pile for my brother and I to jump into!
making pumpkin cranberry bread and apple sauce
My favorite fall memories revolve around carving pumpkins, jumping into huge piles or leaves and coming inside for warm cups of hot cocoa! :)
Making apple crisp with my mom. Now that I live far away from my mom- i tried to make it yesterday and it was good of course, but not the same.
Miss you mom!!
In college, we would drive to a small town's Corn Fest every fall. So much fun!
My family has a campground, so as a result we have MANY leaves that need to raked. As kids we used to get to jump into the leaf pile we had that was 15 feet high, dumped over the edge of a bank! So much fun.
My favorite fall memory is carving pumpkins every year with my husband (ever since we started dating 12 years ago)
My favourite fall memory would have to be playing in piles of pretty coloured leaves when I was a child...so much fun!
My favourite fall memory happened my my little boy had his first autumn. He was 11 months old and played in a pile of leaves for the first time. It was awesome!
My fav. fall memory is our annual trip to Maine (from Jersey) to visit my French Canadian relatives. Those days are long gone, but I hold the memories close to my heart.
My fav. fall memory is our annual trip to Maine (from Jersey) to visit my French Canadian relatives. Those days are long gone, but I hold the memories close to my heart.
My favorite fall memory is chasing my 2 year old last year around in the leafs while he chased the leafs
So so many lovely fall memories...but, last year, on this exact day, I married my best friend! Changing leaves, golden corn, a cool breeze, caramel apples, and dancin in a barn all night long. Ahhh, it doesn't get any better than that!
(Or maybe, it's that time when I was small and my sisters were too old to go Trick or Treating with me, so I dressed my stuffed animals up and lugged them around all night....yeah, maybe not.)
My favorite fall memory was when my dad would rake up a huge pile of leaves and my sister and I would spend hours playing and jumping around in them.
Ah - my mom did a photo shoot of my sister & I all decked out in corduroy overalls & '80's sweatshirts back in the day - best fall memory, for sure!
Halloween with my fam and grandparents - Katie
Favorite fall memory? Getting engaged! September 21, 2005. It was a good day. :)
I went to college in chicago and my favorite memories are running through Lincoln Park with my girlfriends, the changing of the colors and that crisp feel in the air. I love fall!
It was a few years ago my house was decoarted to the nines and my bitty cousins came unexpectedly. They then began the cutest inspection/question evening ever. We even had an impromptu costume party. It was the cutest thing to see. It will be the best pre holiday gathering ever.
sitting on logs around the fire in my back yard, listening to music and talking with my friends.
they're all wonderful and each one gets better!
Walking through the woods with our former dog which had the same colours as the fallen leafs. Beautiful!
What beautiful jewellery. My favourite autumn memory would have to be sitting on the beach on bonfire night, eating jacket potatoes out of tin foil with good friends. Cold, but lovely!
My favorite memory is that september 3 years ago I met my boyfriend Matt at a rough time in his life where he lost his brother. We like to think that he brought us together. We've both changed each others life for the better... not to mention fall has HALLOWEEN & hay rides!!!!!
We live in Albuquerque, & every October, we try to attend the balloon fiesta. wake up early, drop by starbucks for a warm cup, & then watch hundreds of hot air balloons go up in the air...it's wonderful!
Boston in the fall. We lived there for two years and I'll never forget it...
throwing a smashing Halloween party with my favorite partner-in-crime and bff since college, Suzy at her place in Tennessee. My hubby loved me so much, he wore the costume that was supposed to be the cowardly lion and let me be the scarecrow. It really looked more like winnie the pooh! serious love!
My favorite fall memory was my first date with my love this time last year!
jumping in a pile of leaves with my brother!
I loved collecting buckeyes and fallen acorns as a kid. I had cheese boxes full of them!
Favorite fall memory has got to be playing in the leaves as a kid!
Favorite fall memory has got to be playing in the leaves as a kid!
My favorite fall memories are of crunching the fallen leaves and bundling up in my favorite clothes for walks in the crisp air!
10 years ago I was a sophomore in college. I used to browse our university bookstore after class sometimes and look at their cute housewares section. I had told my roommates about a cute acorn salt and pepper shaker at the start of September and I was shocked when they remembered it and went and bought it for my birthday in November. We were poor and it was so entirely thoughtful.
I guess it's a great gift if it still warms my heart 10 years later.
i married my best friend in the fall, then played in nyc with him for a week. best fall memory EVER.
One of my fav fall memories is raking leaves with my dad when I was really young. I didn't help at all but he was so sweet and patient. I love those everyday moments that we look back so fondly.
Trying to decide what to be for Halloween! My mom sewed all our costumes which was so much fun :) I remember reading my dad's old comic books and wanted to be Automic Mouse from the 50s. Everyone thought I was Mighty Mouse. I corrected them of course. I was 7 :)
We used to go to the apple orchard every year as a family to pick apples! That is my favorite fall memory!
How lovely! Thank you! My fave fall memory is the fall party my dearest friends have in Portland, OR every year! Luckily I'll be there just in time to join! Corn maze, pumpkin patch, frenchpress coffee...amazing.
--laura elizabeth
Probably being engaged and doing engagement photos with my hubby 3 yrs ago! I LOVE FALL!
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This is a reoccurring fall memory. For people in Sacramento, CA we have a place called Apple Hill about 35 min north. It's a magical place. Apple everything you can think of! In the fall it's pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins too. My favorite fall memory is going up there with my mom and having cider and a pony ride and a hay bail maze. Now my and the boy go wine tasting!
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Carving pumpkins at the kitchen table with my dad. So fun.
Emily
last year i was walking into work and i found a beautiful leaf. it inspired the color of my kitchen. a quick moment but a special one.
I don't have a specific memory, but autumn/fall is my favorite season, so it is the perfect time to make new memories. :)
so pretty! I remember as children, we would rake our leaves into a big pile and then jump and play in it with the dogs. so much fun!
Dancing in the rain with my best friend.
I loved to rake up leaves under Big Red (the old maple tree by our house) into huge piles & then jump in them with my sisters when we were little girls. This is my favorite Fall memory.
picking out the perfect pumpkin to make pumpkin Shepard's pie... you bake it inside the pumpkin :) seriously delicious!
the annual pumpkin carving contest is so much fun!
those are gorgeous!
My favorite fall memory is our first bonfire of each season. I love gathering around in our backyard with our closest friends...bundled up...and eating marshmellows! Yum!
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