Pancakes and Corn Husks

I made yummy pumpkin pancakes this morning. My youngest son ate 7 of them! I guess they were good. They were just the right mix of everything and I think they turned out pretty yummy. I left out the ginger and the cloves though cause I didn't have them on hand. This is the Martha Stewart recipe I used:

1 1/4 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar;
2 teaspoons baking powder;
1/2 teaspoon each cinnamon, ground ginger, and salt;
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg; and a pinch of ground cloves.
1 cup milk,
6 tablespoons canned pumpkin puree,
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 egg

Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ground ginger and salt. In a separate bowl blend milk,pumpkin puree, butter and egg. Fold mixture into dry ingredients. Melt some butter in a skillet over medium heat; pour in 1/4 cup batter for each pancake. Cook pancakes about 3 minutes per side; serve with butter and syrup. Makes 8 to 10.

I found the prettiest fall wreath made out of corn husks online a couple months back. Me and my friend fell in love and  we wanted to have a wreath party and make them but it just hasn't happened so I decided to make one this week. Here it is what you need: A hay wreath and a pack of corn husks. I got the wreath at a thrift stores for a $1. Its a small but it was only a buck so who cares:) I got the corn husk at a local grocery store for $3. No tamale making here just wreath making:).

I cut the corn husks in half length wise and soaked them for about 5 mins. This step makes it much easier to deal with. Then I got started pinning them to the wreath. The tutorial I found said fold in half and pin. So that is what I did. I did not have flower pins so I just used sewing pins:) Probably didn't work as well as the others but it did its job. Fold in half pin and then fold another and lap over the existing one till you go all around the wreath. You could also do a couple rows of corn husk then pin and overlap. I just did one cause it was such a small wreath but looking back now I wish I would have done a couple rows of smaller pieces pin then overlap. Next year:).

Here is how it turned out. I thought mine looked a little plain compared to the tutorial I followed so I put my own twist with adding some berries and hanging it from a piece of twisted burlap fabric.

I know it will only be up for a couple weeks but hey who cares right?? It was fun making it and I can save it for next year.