There's still time!

Hi Bloggie Friends! There's still time to add MORE Halloween splendor to your home, and so I'm still trying to make a few more goodies for, not mine, but my daughter Megan's home!
I am for no reason not really into decorating my home this year for Halloween so much, but being a young mother and with Grandbaby's first Halloween, Megan is excited to decorate, so it's fun to make surprises for her!
I am a troller (in a good way!) on blogs and came across this fabulous blog with directions and templates to make bats and Halloween masks over at A Little of my Life
and I added my own flair to the projects and this is what I came up with...

My flair included jewels, feathers and glitter!

It was a relaxing Sunday crafting these!

I also made the wall cutouts that I had featured a couple posts ago, but mine are cut out of stiff felt so they can be used year after year!

OOHHH, mice running along the baseboards!

Keep your craftin' on!

What do you see?

I received an email with these wonderful ink blot stamps and realized I see a beautiful dress there in that black ink, how about you?

Quite interesting! You can see more over at Stampington
So then I thought about the famous ink blot tests that I suppose determine your sanity (or not?) depending what you see in them! That's a scary prospect, isn't it?!
What do you see?
This iRorschach card and certainly the most colorful, consisting of blue, gray, pink, green, orange and yellow inks. It's a very complex mish-mash of shapes with lots of "activity" and plenty of places to "see" things. Possible Sexual Imagery: Male sex organs at the top center of the card

A very colorful card with blue, orange, pink, and gray ink. A roughly diamond-shaped image with lots of places to see things- a mask, animals climbing up the outsides, a moth or butterfly, a person with their arms akimbo, etc etc. Possible Sexual Imagery: Female sex organs, usually seen at the bottom of the card.

Just continuing on with ways to see things and to connect, but this time with word challenges, I was lying in bed listening to NPR radio ( i know! NPR?!) Well, my husband turns this on during the daily morning ritual of getting dressed. This morning they were going over word games and the challenge was this:

The challenge is to find a chain of "C" words to connect "carbon" to "circuit." The chain has seven words between "carbon" and "circuit." The answer doesn't have to match Will's (the host), but each word has to start with "C," and each has to combine with the words before and after to make a compound word or familiar two-word phrase.

So I'll start you out with the first one, and you fill in the blanks to the last one...

Carbon...copy..........................circuit

I love things like this! The answer can be
found at NPR.org

There is also a new challenge for this week up! I think I'll have to keep up with this puzzle site now, it's Fun!

Happy Pink Saturday, Friends!

Hi, Friends! I hope this Pink Saturday with Beverly at How Sweet the Sound is finding you happy and well!
I love Fridays at my house, it is my one day off per week and I get to spend a lot of FUN loving time with my grandbaby, Madison, so I treasure my day off! She's now six months old and so adorable, a sense of humor and mischeiviousness in her eyes and a desire to try to figure out how to purse those lips to try to talk, which is hilarious! So I thought I'd show not just her getting bigger today, but also to show you an adorable playmat pattern I purchase over at One Girl..

Isn't it just CUTE and adorable?!! Now if I can just find the time to make it! The pattern is available in her Etsy shop, just click on her link and also you can find the link to her blog there.
And I shared a couple months or so ago the photos that are part of a year long process that my daughter Megan and I are doing to document Madison's first year by taking photos of her each month in a basket (whose liner I made and embroidered on for her!) and the same one year size outfit each month...
Month One

Month Two

Month Three


Now I'm MISSING month four here! That picture somehow ended up on my daughter's computer and I have to see if she'll send it to me to sneak in here, but you can still see the progression...
Month Five

She's our sweetie pie! Happy Pink Saturday!
ATTENTION: I wanted to let you know too there is a lovely giveaway going on right now at Pink and Pretty Designs You might win!

Fabulous Friday!

I just wanted to add...

One: I LOVE downloadable FREEBIES, don't you?!!
And HOLIDAY inspired freebies are EVEN BETTER! Yoo-hoo!!!
I found a new website with just this very wonderful Download category over at Paper Crave and I had to print me out some! Oh, yeah!
TWO: Get your craftin' on!

A bit more Halloween!

I wanted to share just a bit more of my Halloween crafting fun with you today...

This is a framed 8 by 10 framed picture on black felt.
And a close up for you...

I bought a downloadable kit from Angry Chicken that made classy but simple crafts to spice up the Halloween season!
And you always need a Halloween garland!

Happy Halloween Crafting!

Halloween is in the Air!

It's a wet and grey day here, perfect for a little Halloween crafting inside my toasty warm home!
I have been finishing up the final touches on my Halloween Swap and will share that in a minute, but, first, here's a little web-inspired Halloween crafting to inspire you to pull out the black paper and ephemera and close off yourself in your craft room to create!
All of the crafts can be found at Better Homes and Gardens website

Just by copying Halloween designs on paper and wrapping them around candle globes you've already spiced up your home for the season!
This craft is for the rodents running along the baseboard, but I LOVE the chair too, how easy if you have that type of chair already in your home!
You can buy precut felt shapes and turn them into delightful napkin rings to accent the Halloween table too!
Just one more and then onto MY Halloween crafting!
Here's an easy way to spice up those pumpkins without having to carve into them, I'll do this one next week myself!

I went to the First Monday Trade Days in Canton, TX, on Friday with the specific purpose of finding inspiration for my Halloween Swap, and, oh, boy, did I!

I found an old metal bank safe deposit box and instantly knew that THIS was my inspiration (even though I could see the DOUBT in my daughter's eyes!)

I think my daughter Megan thought oh, no, Mom's buying JUNK again! No, sir, I had a VISION!
So I immediately starting searching for the details to create it...

A scary room to enter on a wet, grey night!

There are even bottles of witchy brews awaiting those who dare enter!

Pink Paper Saturday!

Hi, friends! It's another beautiful Pink Saturday with our lovely host Beverly at How Sweet the Sound and I have something really special to share today!
I've had this BEAUTIFUL set of vintage 1943 Wedding Day Paper Dolls in a drawer for probably over a year and, honestly, forgot about them!
The reason my eye was caught when I saw them at the flea market was because I collect vintage bride and groom cake toppers and the wedding theme hit me right across the head when I saw the main cardboard picture inside the bag...

Isn't it JUST GORGEOUS! And, yes, there's pink there on one of the bridesmaids!
So I wanted to show you the paper dolls themselves, the little girl who must have had this set wrote their names and "bride" "groomsman" etc on the back of each one...

(Left to right: Charles Miller, the usher/Dick the ring bearer/Lieuteant Roger Williams, the groom/Sue the flower girl/Marilyn the Bride)
And the rest of the wedding party...

(Linda the flower girl/Darlene, the bridesmaid/Lieutenant John Clark, the Best Man)
There is also another bridesmaid, but I used her just the other day in a very special card that is the post below, she seemed perfect right on that card!
I couldn't leave them in their undergarments, oh, my! That would be sacreligous with tomorrow being Sunday and all!

Isn't Marilyn a beautiful blushing Bride?!

Just in case my picture cuts off Marilyn, let's have another look!
And there are SO many clothes! And they're all just fabuously vintage and very brittle too! The names of each person are printed on the little tabs in a sweet cursive too, look close...


Look at that pantsuit! Wow!

And there's even a purse to match the green dress!
Happy Pink Saturday!

Sending out Well Wishes!

I've shared with you about a fellow blogger Tina who is fighting colon cancer a few posts ago. Well, she has lots of fellow bloggers, including myself, who pray for her and want to send her our love. So two cowgirl friends, Lisa and Mendy, came up with an idea to make her a book of inspiration and so I let the Spirit move me last night as I made my contribution...

The paper doll is VERY vintage and part of a wedding party paper doll set I bought a couple years ago and had forgot about as it lay in a drawer. Well, this was the perfect time to pull it out!

And on the backside, I wanted to encourage her by using photos of her loved ones. That's what we all want the most when we're ill, isn't it.

My prayers are with you, Tina!

A Fall Scene

Hi,Friends. Welcome to Hump Day, as my son Daniel calls it!
I wanted to share with you the gorgeous tin I received in my Tin Swap...

It's a gorgeous Fall mini scene! The details are beautiful! My swap partner and artist extraordinaire was Sherry from If I could set my Soul Free
Look inside at the whimsical fairies!

And it SMELLS wonderful too with the cinnamon stick! Just like Fall!
Thanks, Sherry! I love it!