Happy Halloween!

Here are a couple of scenes from Halloween night. We carved pumpkins last night. Aren't they scary. Allison drew the cat and the "boo". The puking pumpkin in courtesy of Clay. I'm sure you all have seen the puking pumpkin picture circling in your inbox this month. Who would think that a puking pumpkin could be soooo darn cute?

Allie was Mr. Potato Head this year. As Mr. Potato head, she had a variety of faces to choose from (3 mouths, 3 noses, a moustache and a tongue). All unused parts were stored safely in the flap on her....well....butt.

She had a friend come over to go trick-or-treating. We are lucky enough to live in a subdivision in the country, but her friend isn't quite so fortunate so she likes to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood. Of course, we only had 4 trick-or-treaters....and 2 of them were Allie and Brooke. But the girls sure did clean up. Our neighbors are more then generous with their offerings. Check out the loot. She got treat bags, a giant Symphony chocolate bar, stickers, a backpack with a bottle of coke, a yo-yo and loads of candy. Not a bad take considering there are fewer than 25 homes in our subdivision (and not all of those had people home to pass out candy).

And we got nearly that much candy at last week's Trunk or Treat at school. We have chocolate coming out the ears!

Baby Gift

Some friends of our adopted a baby girl a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few things I made for her. The album has a couple more pages in it....but you get the idea. Not traditional baby colors I know, but I love them (though they do look a little bright in these pictures).

Been Busy Finishing Up Projects Today

Today was Work-On-Unfinished-Projects-Day. Well, at least the projects that need to be done ASAP. I finished a baby gift and card, I finished up recipe pages for a recipe swap I'm in and I made a wall plaque for our church bazaar tomorrow.

Countdown to Halloween

I made this Countdown to Halloween for a contest at Create My Keepsake. I intended to make this on a cookie sheet and use magnets to hold the "days" in place. But I didn't have a cookie sheet on had, so I dug through my stash to see what I could find. This frame was the best thing I could find, and really it turned out perfectly....once I figured out how to make the letters/shapes stick to the glass....yet still be removable. The wonders of 2-way glue was my answer. I just covered the back of the chipboard pieces with the glue and let it dry. This particular glue dries tacky...and it's just tacky enough to hold the chipboard to the glass. I love this project and it was all created with supplies I had on hand (even better) and Allie just loves to add pieces to it every single day.

October class at Captured Memories

My October class sample is finally complete. Less then 2 weeks before the class (yikes....I was waiting on the paper to arrive).

This class is a 2006 Holiday Planner. Chock full of the new Daisy D's Christmas line. Such a cute planner. Due to the construction of this, I will be doing much of the cover and the back page for the students (since there is sewing involved). It's going to take a bit of prep work to get it all done!

Arboretum Photo Shoot

My boss generously lent me his digital camera for the weekend. Over the course of the weekend, I took over 300 pictures (Allie's soccer game, her birthday party and the above photo shoot). On Sunday we went to the Arboretum forthis photo shoot. These pictures are my favorites of that trip, but there are many more good ones. Apparently it was a popular day for photography because I saw several photo shoots taking place. But it's the perfect setting. It's where I go if I want beautiful shots.

Vacation Photo

Here is a layout I created a while back ago. The photo was taken on our trip to Wisconsin in early August. I think it is just such a beautiful photo.

Really the reason I am posting this now is because my boss let me borrow his Nikon D70 camera for the weekend and I just wanted to see how good it would do photographing layouts. So far, I haven't found anything (other than the price) that I don't like about it. I love it! And I am pleased with the results of photographing layouts too!