All the Trees

A long walk for cinnamon waffles, collecting acorns, leaves and tiny pinecones was how we kicked off our first Fall Craft Sunday of the season.

Our craft was a process art painting on canvas, to create our own birch trees. I did a combo of these tutorials I found on Pinterest. For the paint, I did 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 2 tablespoons of liquid watercolor paint and 3/4 cup of water.

It ended with Goldie drinking vinegar, dumping watercolors on herself and screaming while Flannery continued to make little paint explosions on the canvas. Like a said process painting.

We watched Mulan (not a fall movie) and Caleb made delicious chili and cornbread.

My big idea for the week was to make fall ice cream cookie sandwiches. The cookie recipe were for these snickerdoodles by Sweet Laurel. We used brown sugar instead of date sugar on the outside. While we were making them Flannery had the idea to turn them into pumpkin shapes, this dough is super sticky but with a little extra almond flour we were able to roll it out between two pieces of parchment paper. The ice cream was from our favorite local shop, Frankie & Jo’s. They have this incredible seasonal flavor called, All the Trees and I knew they would be perfect together. I highly recommend both, separate or together.

(I am not a food blogger however this is the only vanilla extract you will ever need!)