Fall Festival 2009

Where did the summer go? Autumn begins next week.

Well, Fall is one of the best times of year, anyway. So, let’s make the most of it!

Why not celebrate, plan ahead, exchange great ideas, traditions, and recipes? Join us for a great week of autumn-themed festivities. Five blogs, five days, five great ways to welcome the change of seasons.

Monday - Feathering Your Nest

How will you be feathering your nest for Fall? What do you to get ready? Decorations? Winterizing? Stocking Up? Preserving Fall Produce? Harvesting Said Fall Produce? Cleaning? Organizing? Overhauling your Calendar? Whatever you do to ready your Home and Hearth for the new season, we want to know about it at Hoosier Homemade. And don’t miss the giveaway for a set of pumpkins, great for Fall decorating.

How do you and your family amuse yourselves as the seasons change? Special activities with the kids, movies you watch, crafts, games, field trips, great vacation spots, books to read?

Tell us some great ways to kick up our heels at Daily Dwelling. That’s right here! And I’ll be giving away a copy of Amanda Blake Soule’s book The Creative Family, don’t miss out!

What does your family do every year? A fall vacation? Apple picking? Watching the leaves turn? A visit to the Pumpkin Patch? Special foods? Special events that you always observe? Share your family’s fall traditions at Simply Sugar and Gluten Free Be sure to enter to win a set of 3 Wilton Baking Racks – perfect for cooling all those cookies and breads you’ll be making over the holiday season.

Share your favorite fall recipe at LifeasMOM. All participants will be entered for a chance to win The Autumn Book by Susan Branch.

Friday – Finer Things of Fall
What are the good things you enjoy about Fall? Tell us at AmysFinerThings. Amy is giving away some fall-themed scrapbook stickers and journaling boxes.