Happy Halloween

I hope it is all treats and no tricks! Enjoy!! Eat lots of candy and have FUN!!

Non-traditional Halloween Layouts

I wanted to share some of my past "Halloween" LO's. I know that they do not have the traditional orange, black, PURPLE and green papers or embellies. I never buy Halloween papers. Well, I can not say never. I do have Teresa Collins line, but she is the exception to the rule. I like that her color scheme is neutral. Anyways, the costumes that Bryant wears would never match the traditional color scheme. I am ALL about matchy-matchy. LOL! Here are a few of my LO's from the last few years. In 2005 he wanted to be a Lowe's employee:

In 2006 he wanted to be Jeff Gordon:

Last year he wanted to be a Red Sox player. This one scored him tons of extra candy, because we were the champions:

So Halloween gets it's own kind of LO's for now. No vampires, ghosts, ghouls or witches here. This year he will be a Storm Trooper and that too, will get it's own unique LO. TFL

Our Little Pumpkin

After seeing all the amazing pumpkins at the pumpkin festival on Saturday, we decided on Sunday, it was about time to carve ours. We started with this 'lil guy':

I wanted to carve a scary face, Bryant wanted a more traditional look. We settled on this:

Scooping out the guts....fun...

Shaking out those pesky seeds...

And 'Voila'...Bryant trying to look so serious:

and silly:

and Eeeeeevillllll...hahaha...

It really was a beautiful day. I enjoyed the nice warm Fall weather. Happy scrappy Fall and I promise to share festival picks soon.!

I Finally have an Address Book!!!

I wanted to share a project that I have been working on for a while now. A little something for me, that I have been working on in between everything else. I have putting together this binder below as an address book for me. I have never really had an adrress book before. I always knew where all my friends lived, but over the past few years I have made so many new friends. Friends through this great hobby of ours, friends for life. I do not want to lose track of you all and I certainly could never remember everyones addresses. So I created this:

It actually started with a binder that I won from a Studio Calico kit called 'Paris'. Instead of using the Paris map that came with it, I used the beautiful Hometown Collection paper from 'October Afternoon'. I was really drawn to this paper after seeing the great projects created by the DT at Studio Calico. I LOVE the colors. Blue is my favorite color anyways, so I had to have this paper.

I really wanted to use all the patterns, so I decided to make a patchwork cover ala Liz. I always LOVE her creations. So voila, this is my address book. The cover is complete. I painted the whole inside cover black. I am still working on the inside pages. I have a page for each friend. On the front of each page is a picture of the friend and on the back, I have the address, e-mail and phone #. I have contacted some of you for your addresses. I know sometimes more that once, I know, still having some AOL e-mail issues. Sorry! I really LOVE how it is coming along and wanted to share this with all of you. It is still a work in progress...

Hope you all have a great weekend. We are going to a really cool Pumpkin Festival today. Of course, I will share pictures and LO's soon! Happy Scrappy Fall!!

Halloween Preview

Oh yes, we picked up the costume tonight. A Storm Trooper it will be! Gotta make a trip to Walmart this weekend to get a weapon. We can not have an unarmed Storm Trooper. No one will be getting our... (I mean his) candy from him! LOL!!

May the Force be with You!

Some More Birthday Happies and an RAK For Me!!

I LOVE to get mail, especially fun RAK's like this. I won this from Sketchbook Designs. A cool new site that I found out about here. Look at ALL the sweet goodies that they sent. There are two mini chipboard books ( one has a glass cover with bronze leaves on it and the other is round with a mirrored cover), a bunch of acrylic embellies and some chipboard pumpkin embellies. They even have an etsy shop on their site, where you can buy all this great stuff. So COOl, right? I love everything and I can't wait to play. These should make some really AWESOME Fall mini albums:

I really meant it when I said I had a lot of October birthdays coming up. Today was one of my co-workers B-days. I made her this FUN little banner to hang in her new office (I LOVE this bright Junkitz paper!):

Well, my Red Sox did not make it to the World Series, but this fan still LOVES them. I have to say my favorite pitcher (Josh Beckett) did kick some serious A$$ in game 5! Speaking of kicking A$$, how 'bout those Patriots?!! Ya, this girl LOVES her local teams!

Have a wonderful evening! The week is almost half over...WOO HOO!

More Birthday Happies...

I seem to have a lot of friends with birthday's in October. I recently realized that I missed sweet Jonelle's Birthday. So Happy belated Birthday my friend! This will be on it's way to you this week. I hope it was wonderful!!!

I also wanted to share this LO that I finally finished. It started from a card tutorial, by the very creative Nancy. I first learned of Nancy through her Junkitz DT days. She makes the most amazing cards. I took the idea from this one to create the LO below. I used the very yummy new Ambrosia line from Basic Grey and some cool Prima chipboard letters I had left over from a past Studio Calico kit. I also got to play with a couple of my favorite paper punches, my Threading Water punch from Fiskars and my new (Halloween) picket fence punch from Marth Stewart. Add a couple of cute Fall pics of Bryant and voila! Here is the result:

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. I am off now to watch a little baseball...GO RED SOX!!