Happy Halloween

Hello and Happy Halloween! What a great way to celebrate this fun holiday then with a blog hop! Thanks for stopping by... I have a little match box I made using the Raven Collection to share with you.

I made the bow out of the Chevron washi tape by Glitz... What does the fox say? I think this one says Cherrio! I love that giant rhinestone! You could put a little trick Or treat in this box.

Leave a comment on my blog for a chance to win a glitz prize...But dont forget to leave a comment on all the other blogs and THE GLITZ blog too!


Amanda Resende - http://amandaresendescraps.blogspot.com.br/
Donna Espiritu - http://www.scrappydonna.blogspot.com/
Emma Poon - http://amazinglyscrapped.wordpress.com/
Jaime Warren - http://jaimewarren.typepad.com/
Jocelyn Olson - http://redballooncards.blogspot.com/
Karine Cazenave - http://karinecazenave.typepad.com/
Karola Witczak - http://www.karolakraftuje.blogspot.com/
Laura O'Donnell - http://itsallrosie.blogspot.com/
Lea Lawson - http://leascupcakesandsunshine.blogspot.com/
Leica Forrest - http://www.10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/
Lisa Andrews - http://lisaandrews.blogspot.com/
Magda Mizera - http://www.magdamizera.blogspot.com/
Marie Ramirez - http://www.absosweetmarie.blogspot.com/
Mary Martinez - http://www.marnels.blogspot.com/
Mou Saha - http://collagecollagecollage.blogspot.com/
Nina Ostermann - http://ninasblog-scrapmama.blogspot.com/
Noel Culbertson - http://paperpassionpixels.blogspot.com/
Smitha Katti - http://www.smilingcolors.com/
Stephanie Bryan - http://www.stephaniemakes.blogspot.com/
Glitz Design blog - http://glitzitnow.com/blog/





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My hearts a stero, it beats for you

Blog blog blog. So much to blog about but just not into it. You ever get that way? Losing my steam I guess. I wonder if the readers are losing their steam as well? Maybe it will pick back up after the holidays? I know this time of year is stressful for a lot of people. Me especially. I have a full October. A birthday, my graduation, a crop, my sisters baby shower, another crop/sleepover, AND cant forget Halloween! I mean sheesh. BUSY! November and December are no better. I also have deadlines to finish. YIKES. LOL! The whole point of that was, if I am THAT busy then surely you all must be too! *wink*

I am participating in a halloween blog hop.Yay! I really want to make some cute stuff this year. Now to find the time. Haha! Oh don't worry I will squeeze it in somewhere. Have to get my Halloween mantel decorated. That is my favorite part.

I did happen to create something halloween for Scrapjacked. Here is a tiny peek at that.

I got to have a girls weekend-ish with Ashley & Kristi. We had a blast! Laughed, scrapped, ate...Ashley made us dinner from pinterest. OMG the food was delish. I will be making the same thing soon and share the recipes of course. I did a little bit of scrapping. Finished my creative type layout just in time. Love it.


I also planed our dinners for a month! I am sooo proud of myself. I have to thank pinterest for that one. I mean I always spend at least a hour on there and think why am I doing this, what a waste. But seriously its not. It has given me so much inspiration and recipes that I cant stand it! LOL! Seriously, I love that site. I will post the weeks menu in October with recipes (I hope). I have good intentions.

Don't forget to come back soon for the new Scrapjacked and the new Creative Type.

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Hope you find that missing piece

Halloween you say? Why yes. It is never to late to create something fun and spooky! I LOVE Halloween! I of course will be doing my halloween decorating come October 1st and I have a few new things up my sleeve for the mantel. I got my hands on the new Authentique Halloween line, Glowing. It is simply marvelous! I love the colors and elegant shapes. I am a shabby kinda gal and this company screams my name.




I used a michaels wood frame ($1.00) and every bit of paper you see on here is from the Glowing line.


Have you checked out their products yet? They are a new company with years of experince! Seriously.

My big test is Saturday! I have been practicing here and there. I feel confident in it and that has got me scared! All the class 2's and #8's I have made have been passing. Lets just hope it stays that way!

On my journey through this life I have grown in so many ways. The older I get the more I appreciate life. Isnt that how it usually goes? I am always trying to remain positive and tell myself that no matter what, it could be worse. Live by that. In that way I feel truly blessed.

I read an article the other day about a brother and sister who drowned. 7 & 8. I wanted to cry. It hurt my heart so deeply. I could only think of the mother and the pain she must be in. The hole in her heart that will be there forever. I could never imagine losing a child let alone both. My heart aches for her and those children. Things like this happen every day. As terribly sad as it is it makes me hug my children tighter and thank god for the blessings in my life. I am so greatful I have what I have, be it a lot or a little.

I am determined to stay positive through all my trials and tribulations. No job yet but maybe that is because the right one hasnt come along. Life is good. I am here. Living. I am loved and I love. Now isnt that all we need?

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Wouldnt you like to see something strange

I have lots to blog about but my mind just doesn't know where to begin. Hmph! Well first off I went to a Halloween party thrown by my lovely friend Erika and her family. Hubby and I dressed up.



He was a Dog (wolfman) and I was a kitty. I must say I really love the Internet. I mean anything you can think of is on here. I thought I would look up some cat makeup ideas and well I found one. My makeup is based on that video. Don't have the link right off hand but I like how the makeup turned out.



Hubby's makeup I did also. His was a little harder. As you know we are pretty strapped for funds. We had to improvise on our costumes.



Mine cost .99 in total and his cost 1.50. Pretty good eh? I had the dress,tights, shoes, hair, makeup. I need the ears and it came with a tail. Hubby need fangs. I used my makeup and a black makeup crayon we had from last year. We also had a big jug of blood we bought from Spirit last year the day after Halloween. Got a deal 1/2 off. Tore up some old clothes of his and Viola the wolfman was born.

Our friends Mark and Erika had some really cool costumes. Doesn't Mark look like Zack from Hangover? I think so.




Share the last bit of my Halloween craftiness. I soo wanted to make more but time and me being lazy just didn't allow it.




I love these flowers. Used the dollar store streamers to make these crepe flowers. They are quick and simple to make. You can also make fabric ones. Which I did and will share along with the link soon.

Thanksgiving is fast approaching and I tell myself not to think about Christmas until it is over. Very hard. I totally forget about thanksgiving once Halloween is over. Really they should just move it to like may or maybe august? LOL! I need 2 months for Christmas honestly.

No but I do have some lovely Thanksgiving crafts coming up made with my PSA stamps. Keep a look out for that.

Carved pumpkins, roasted pumpkin seeds, made choco chip cookies, hot apple cider, and finished up some craftiness sat (pics coming soon). Today is Halloween so it is filled with candy, walking, and whining. Yes my kids love to whine about how their feet hurt and their hungry and can they please have one bit of candy?!?!? ACK! Good grief. On that note I must prepare, find a happy place and put my whistle on.

Happy Halloween all!
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I'm gonna be an emo kid for halloween

I have to start out by saying I am super proud of myself. I have been posting quite regularly to this ol blog. Yay me! Ha.


Hubby and I went to the movies this weekend. Haven't been in a while and there was so many wonderfully scary movies out. We choose to go see My Soul To Take. Wes Cravens new nightmare he devised. It really screamed Wes Craven. Think Freddy and Scream mashed together. I liked it tho. Was a little disappointed with having to pay extra for 3-d. Most of the time I had forgot I was watching a 3-d movie. If you can see it do so in 2-d and save the extra money. The ending lacked just a little but all in all a really good movie.

We also watched Case 39. Excellent movie! I loved it. Great story line. Great acting. Must see!

There are a billion pumpkin/Halloween recipes I am going to (or say I am going to) make and will post the end results here along with the recipe. I know one I wont be making (would love to tho) are these really neat dexter inspired lollipops.



Really really cool. Maybe next year.

I haven't made much of a dent in the Halloween craft ideas. They are still sitting in my head waiting to get out. School just seems to take over and I cant get what I want done. Study study study. Made custom acrylic crowns, bridges, and preformed metal crowns. Really fun to make.



As I had stated in previous posts I have some PSA goodies I made to share. Here are a few.





Candy cones.


Halloween style magnets

October has not heard my requests. It is flying by with a vengeance. At least I have the kids costumes taken care of. First for us! Another one to be proud of! Haha!

I have a clown with blood, a scary mask dude (not real sure what it is) and a pirate or vampire or mask wearing 6 year old. Hasn't made up his mind but we have a few extras he can choose from! My oldest is going as a band member from a band I hate. Yes that makes me old-ish. Hahaha but oh well it was bound to come eventually right?

What are the littles in your life going to be? How bout the big ones? :)

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Somedays arent yours at all.

First I would like to share a little banner I made using the PSA stamps. I used my fav little voodoo guy. He is soo freakin cute!




Super quick and easy to make. Used crepe paper streamers from the dollar tree for the ruffles on the sides and the circles.

It is hanging above my fireplace which I will soon share with you all. I have a few more things to make for the mantel deco and it will be complete!



Elvira is back on tv! Loved her as a kid and she still looks smokin hot! She is almost 60!! Her show is freakin funny and I get to watch some scary old ones that I may or may not have seen. Check your local listings for times and channel.

Halloween tv time! I have watched a few scary movies (none worth mentioning). The kids and I watched Beetlejuice and spookley the square pumpkin (very cute). I have the Halloween Towns on DVR and Hocus Pocus somewhere watiting. Sweeney Todd, Nightmare before christmas, Corpse Bride, Halloween and many others are on the list of must watch. Do you have one you must watch every year?

I have a life lesson to share with you all. Yes I feel like an idiot, but we all make mistakes and maybe I can share my stupidity with you all and you can learn a thing or two lol!
LIFE LESSON

Well we had a nice learning experience this weekend. My son's birthday was sat. Fri night we took him to go pick out his super cool bike that he wanted. He was so very excited and couldn't wait to ride it. Wal mart didn't have a proper helmet for him so we were gonna go after the part and buy him one. Uh yeah. Anyway getting ready for the party son asked to ride his bike a min. We figured it was ok right in front of the house as when WE were kids we NEVER wore helmets and he wasn't going only about 40 feet.

I went to the store to pick up his ice cream for the sundaes and as I am heading back I get a call. My husband " we have a serious situation." Me "What?" My husband "Rowan apparently fell off his bike and now has a concussion and needs to be taken to the hospital and he is a street over." Me "WTH?!?! I will be right there!"

I find the house my son is at and immediately wanna cry and scream. I try to compose myself. He is crying and has a ice pack on his head but he is conscious talking and walking. I ask him WHY he thought it was ok to ride so far and WHY he did not listen to us and WHAT it was that he was doing to hit his eye/head.



I really thought I was going to have to cancel his bday and take him to the ER. I got the boy home cleaned his scraped knuckles and assessed the damage. He says " I really wish this day was over. This is the worst day ever!" Felt really really bad. I asked him the questions you would ask someone if they had a concussion and he had no signs. I told him to sit relax keep the ice on his head and we shall see how he is doing. Every 5 mins I asked if he felt tired and how his head felt. He was ok.



I am glad to say the party went on and he now has a nice shiner to brag about to all the kids. I and hubby have learned a valuable lesson...None of the children will ride a bike (not even 1 foot) without a helmet! LOL! We all make mistakes and sometimes we learn a few good points from them. Oh and we got him a helmet that same day. Aria asked to ride his bike. I asked her if she had a helmet (because all the kids did at one point) and she sheepishly answered no. Well there is your answer kido! ha!


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I've gone away don't call me don't write

Yay it is October 1st. I have only one request. Please please please linger a little October. Don't leave in such a hurry like September did. Take it slow and easy. Oh and lets have some really cool fallish days. At least 90% of the month. Ok?

Now that I got that out of the way...I have some really cool news to share. I am a member of the PSA dt! I was contacted in August by Libby to make some things with their stamps and if they liked what I made then they would invite me to be on their dt. Well I couldn't pass it up because they were sending me their hole Halloween line for free! Even if I didn't make the dt I still got some really killer stamps.


A little sneak.

I am sooo thrilled that I DID make it and am now going to be working with ALL the stamp sets making some really neat stuff! Can't wait to get started. I have lots of Halloween stuff to share with you but that has to wait till next week. The stamps are truly cute and easy to use so you must check them out. :)

Also the new prompt is up over at simply ArTistiC. Here is my little ATC.



Handmade those flowers out of book pages. I love how they look and they are super easy to make. Go check out what the other girls made! Lovely.

I am doing good in school. I coronal polished my husband and my daughter the other day! So fun. My son is next. Really weird to think I could be doing this to your teeth someday! LOL! Well if any of you come to my dentist that is. I really am looking forward to this career. It isn't my first choice (because like everyone else here I wish I could open up my own business(a scrap store) and be creative for a living) but it is really really cool.




Eeeee love these pics my hubby snapped of me. Makes it feel more real. ;)

Tmw is the Boy-o's 10th birthday! I am off to get ready for that and (hopefully) start decorating for Halloween outside. Have a lovely weekend all!

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My fake plastic love

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF FALL!

Last weekend ended up making these freakin awesome cookies.


They are one of the BEST peanut butter cookies ever! Yum.



Went to see "Devil" Sunday with my hubby. I was really expecting it to be bad. I didn't want to waste the tickets on it really. I mean the preview looked really good but so many movies have disappointed me lately. I am so glad we did go. It was really good. Not my typical horror movie. I really enjoyed it tho. I don't like elevators and this elevator made me wanna hyperventilate lol! Oh and I will never get in a nbr 6 elevator again. Just FYI.

I started a new MOD last Monday. This mod is the longest and it is a lot of hands on lab work. I have learned how to do a Rubber Dam, Calcium Hydroxide cavity prep,& Toffelmeyer matrix band. All interesting but a little hard. Good challenge.

I finished some Halloween fun stuff.

(inspo found on google from rawbone etsy)

I have so much more to make. Many Ideas floating in my head.

Halloween coasters
Haunted houses
tree ornaments
Door hangings
and the list goes on and on...

Now I just need the time to make them.

Taught the girls how to "sew" this weekend. We made voodoo dolls. Very fun. They really had a good time creating. I was not feeling great at the time but they really wanted to learn. Here are our finished products.

(Ravens;left Mine;right)

My son's and my little girl want me to teach them now. It was hard enough teaching the 14 yr olds! LOL! I am not sure if I will be conquering that with the lil ones.



Think I am gonna have to find a different Halloween goodie to make with them.

Last but not least I think I will be making this sweet lil one soon. How cute is he or she!


I really love Halloween. I love fall. I am going to start decorating today. When do you start?

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They do the mash, it was the monster mash.

Man I have been an updating fool lately. It is all because of facebook. Instead of watching tv I am on this damn puter and to pass the time while waiting for my garden to grow or my food to cook or someone to rob/kill I create and or post blog msgs lol! I have many a scary movie to watch tho so this may have to wait.

On to the Halloween goodies that I said I would post. This one is a super easy and quick banner I made. Just newspaper and c.s. Great recycle project and it looks fab. Love it! (pay no attention to the ugo mantel and paint job...It is currently under construction lol!)



Then I made these other Halloween decos. I was so inspired by Tara Anderson yet again and made this Halloween door hanger.

It made the catwalk over on sis...Yay me!

I kept thinking I REALLY need to use up my Halloween stuff because I know if it sits here I wont use it next year. I decided to make anything and everything I could think of...Here are those things.

For you door knob.

I made an extra one for a special friend.

Just lil things to put on your mantel or shelf.


An atc.


A special Halloween page for scrapjacked.

I loved the girls photos on there so I decided I need a costume photo too. Hence the devil girl pics. I think they turned out pretty ok. My hubs sure liked them lol!

I have soooo much Halloween paper left. Time is running out. Once Halloween is over I am one of those ones who does not scrap it. Only 4 more days till Halloween!!!! Not even enough time to do what I should. Ah well.

Went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. So much fun! I will share pics soon. Oh and my OLW page made the favs. I am so totally bummed they are shutting down. Didn't see that one by a mile. Boowhoo!

I will be making time for the Girls Night Out crop on nov 13Th so if you can join me let me know! I would love to scrap with ya!

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P.S. For those of you who care or believe...Pls keep our family in prayer. Husband is still without a job and Unemployment has run out. We are hoping for that 13 week extension to be passed. Thanks!

I have no wallet, I keep my cards together with a blue rubberband.

I guess yesterday the craft bug finally crawled up my butt because I have been creating and haven't stopped. I made a TON of Halloween stuff. I will share those soon. I wanted to make sure I got this one posted on time for once. I have played the last 3 times and each time I forget to post my creation. Boy I made this one just by the hair of my chiny chin chin.


Used the new sass for this. Man is that the best co ever? I think so.

And this one I just made because I was trying to use my new stuff from sb.com...

My hubby was making her let me take the pic of her. Playing of course.

Cropin tmw with my cousin, Kristi and Beth. Should be a great time. There is a few spots left if anyone wants to join us. I really need to get what I am going to work on ready because if I dont I will sit there and talk the whole time and not do a damn thing.

Ohhh my kittens are getting so big. Anyone want one? Come on they are soooo cute. See...





Hehehe. Those little buggers are quick so it was hard to get a good pic of them. This one is mine and his name is either Charlie or Edward. I have 2 girl kitties named Bella and Lola. So both those names go with them lol. Kittens kittens everywhere!

On the cooking front hubs and I made a most delish stew. We used gravey packs to make it a nice thick one. MMMMMMMMM! Then my daughter Aria and I made Halloween Cinamon rolls.




She enjoyed herself.

Then we watched Hocus Pocus and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Man I love those movies. Sadly I havent seen any new scary movies as of yet T but I will be sure to report them when I do. T is my scary movie buddy.

We had a wonderful storm here the other day. Now it is gone and I am left with sun and warm weather yet again. BOOOO! LOL! It would be nice if it was at least 60 ish outside. Not 80! Oh well. Since there are many many pudles I decided it's time to pack in the flip flops and bust out the polka dotted Vans. Ahhh yes fall is here.



Last but not least over the weekend Beth did this wicked cool ZombieLand app on facebook and I HAD to copy her. Hehehehe I love it! Thanks Beth!


Next friday pumpkin patch! YAY! Halloween is fast approaching.

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