When my October 2009 Martha Stewart Living Magazine arrived in the mail recently, I immediately knew that my next trip to the local farmers market would include a hunt for varying sizes and colors of squash to create toadstools pictured on the magazine's cover. Then today's craft segment on Martha Stewart's T.V. show featured the toadstools, so it was the inspiration that I needed to make some of my own for an autumn table centerpiece set atop a little carpet of moss.
Martha's directions stated to cut the top off a squash for the toadstool's cap, remove the insides, then press the "cap" down onto the base squash (the toadstools' stem). I simplified the process by just turning the "cap" squash upside down (without cutting the top off and removing the insides), then I poked its woody stem into the base squash. Simple as that... done. Last night, and today on this overcast drizzly mid-October day, I turned on the light inside the tiny house. So cozy...