Make This Festive Fall Craft!
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I'm 62 yrs young ( will be 63 in 2months) I remember making appleheads in 3rd grade. Every Friday our teacher had art day & we loved it. We made our appleheads before Halloween so they were ready near that day. We inserted sticks in them so she could hang them to dry. When we took them home right before Halloween my mom sewed up a dress for mine & a scarf for it's head. It looked like a old gypsy lady ! I inserted my hand up the dress & held the stick we inserted on carving day and it was like a puppet. My mom liked it so much that my brothers & I & our mother made some more carved appleheads together. 💗
I love that you do appleheads. I do too. I did it 50 years ago and have just recently restarted. Funny, before I was in washington state and it took forever to dry them. Here in arizona I put a fan on them and they are mostly dry in one week. Do you know of others who do this craft too? I would like to figure out how to market them and learn from others. Perhaps they would also learn from me. I carve the whole face, eyebrows, hair etc. I hope you will email me if you can figure a way we can start a club or some such thing. Thanks. Sheryl
Sheryl, I started carving apples apx. 30 years ago. I 've gone about it many ways and find a 45-60 day curing/sculpting process to provide best results. i also live in the desertand sometimes use a humidifier to slow things down.
If you look on instagram at Apeelingapples there are a couple of pictures.
I loved all of the fall information and projects to do fall is my favorite tome of year.
Thank you. I always learn so much from you. And the poems and images that go with them calm me. I like the newsletter.