Celebrating!

I hope that everyone had a fantastic Halloween weekend.  We trick or treated Friday night and then enjoyed a soup potluck with our neighbors.  Heres my little Cowgirl and Princess.  They had a wonderful time TorT with their friends.

Today is a very special anniversary for me.  Today is my one year anniversary as a non-smoker!!!  Do I still want one?  Oh my goodness yes!  Will I ever smoke one again?  No,  because I know that I'd never be able to stop at one. 

I also have a card celebrating Clara's friend, Trey's, birthday. I used a Scooby coloring page since he's having a Scooby Doo party.  The paper is from my scrap drawer.

I also wanted to share with you my contrubution to our neighborhood potluck on Saturday.  I have to say that I have some fabulous neighbors!!  I made my own version of What's New Cupcake's The house that boo built.  I love this cook book!!  I can't wait to try more of the cute cupcakes.

It looked better in person than in this picture.  Since my camera is still messed up I had to use my Playsport.

Have a wonderful Monday!!

Melissa

Orange Halloween tags

I've got the last  of my Halloween tags for you.  There isn't much difference from the others except they are orange. 

So my camera is officially broken.  I've tried several different memory cards and none work.  I can still take 5 pictures with the internal memory.  I have been able to take pics with my playsport video camera but they aren't fantastic.  I'll be shopping for a new digital camera soon but I still have another dentist appointment to pay the co-pay for.  Cross your fingers that I find an outstanding camera for a really fantastic price!!

Ingredients:

Manilla Shipping tags

Craftsmart Black acrylic paint

Target $ spot - paper, chipboard, ribbon

Stamp - Studio G

Walmart 3D stickers

I love Friday!

I'm so happy that its Friday. Tonight my friend Beth is having a Tastefully Simple party. So I get to have yummy dips and soups tonight! Yea!!

But on a sad note my camera won't work and I have no idea why :( Every time I turn it on it tells me that the card need formatting but when I format the card the screen reads "can not read card". The card works in my Kodak play spot, so I don't think its the card. I'm pretty sure Anthony is going to have kittens when I tell him that my camera that I've had less than a year doesn't work anymore. Not really a conversation I'm looking forward to.

I have some more Halloween tags to show you. I painted these citron green. Then added stickers, rub-ons, chip board and ribbon.

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Ingredients:

Manilla Shipping tags

Craftsmart Black acrylic paint

Target $ spot - paper, chipboard, ribbon, rub-ons

Stamp - Studio G

Walmart 3D stickers

Jolee stickers

Everyone have a fabulous Friday and weekend! If you're in the area we'll be cooking smores over our firepit this evening about 8 o'clock, just bring graham crackers (I forgot to buy them).

Melissa

Halloween tags

Well Happy Wednesday!  So Gleeks how was Glee last night.  I wasn't able to watch since I had laundry to put away and bathrooms to clean.  Actually Anthony bought a new game and he was so excited about it I didn't want him to have to stop playing it so I could watch my show.  So I'll be watching it this evening

Today I have two sets of Halloween tags to show you.  I painted manilla shipping tags black, added a bit of paper to each and try to use up my stash of Halloween embellishments.

Ingridents:

Manilla Shipping tags

Craftsmart Black acrylic paint

Target $ spot - paper, chipboard, ribbon

Stamp - Studio G

Walmart 3D stickers

Scalloped Circle Nestie

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!  Thanks for stopping by!

Melissa

Trick or Treat bags

First off I want to tell you that the pictures are pretty bad since I had to take them in my dinning room.  The lighting really bites in there.

I made these cute Trick or Treat bags for my girls with the Poochie Bag Tutorial from Happy Zombie.  I actually made 4 bags but the ones that I made for my friend, Rachel's, kids I forgot to take pictures of.  Basically they were all the same shape and size just different variations of fabric and ribbon.  I love how easy these were.  I've now made four things with my sewing machine and 4 of those things were the TorT bags.  The other was my test bag  that I made for myself (I'll post another time.)

I let the girls each pick their favorite Halloween fabric from Joann's and I chose the interior to match both of their choices.

This is Clara's, she had to have pumpkins on hers.

This is Rhalynn's.  I think she just picked the first thing that caught her eye.  Rhalynn simply loathes going into Joanns or any other crafty store.  I'm pretty sure she won't be that interested in crafting later on in life.  Which is fine with me since I won't have to share my stuff with her or fight over the fun tools.

(its purple)

We'll I'm off to the dentist in about an hour....say a prayer.....I have serious anxieties about the dentist.

Melissa

I'm a bad blogger :(

I'm sorry that I've been such a bad blogger and blog follower.  I've been hard working on stuff in the evening just haven't really been on the computer much.  I hope that you are all having a wonderful fall so far. 

This is a wonderful Halloween wreath made with burlap from Craftaholics Anonymous.  Instead of using wooden letters I cut mine twice with my Expression using the Alphalicious cartridge on chipboard. I used some random papers I had in my Halloween drawer and then covered them with Glossy Accent to make them shiny.  I love how it turned out and ended up making several of them since I had the burlap.  It only took me about an hour to tie all the burlap and add the letters.  However I spent two days cutting the burlap into strips.  I probably won't ever make one again.

I just wanted to share that my Rhalynn got her ears pierced yesterday.  She's been wanting them done for awhile but I was holding off.  She was a champ, not even a whimper.  She's just growing up so fast.  Its hard to see the earing in her ear since they are so tiny but she is so proud of them.

Melissa