Happy Halloween!

Hi everyone!

 I just waned to come on and wish you all a very happy Halloween! 

We had a great time with our Halloween Bash! It was great fun!!

I wanted to share a bit of it with you all. 

It started off on a bad note, when we woke the ground had been sprinkled with a dusting of snow! But the sun came out, melted it away and dried it all up! Which was awesome since we have a campout. The weather was fair a little windy but not too bad and the temp stayed above 35 degrees I believe the lowest it got was 37 we were lucky! One year we had snow and frost ended up retreating to the house about 5 am chilly!! lol And last year well it was cold and rainy but we braved it and stayed out sleeping beneath a large canopy tent! 

Every year seems to have its quarks, but we wouldn't change the memories for the world! This year the theme was Medieval Time now mind you everyone is very creative and some decided that if the costume had a sword it fit others believed they time travelled and that is how they arrived to be in this time! lol 

Anywhich way it is all in good fun and we all had a great time! Many costumes were hand mand a few were put together from store bought items. I had plenty of pics and vid but can not include it all due to requests of a few to stay out of the posts so pretty much all the work of decorations will not be able to be shown, there are a few that will be though. 

I am also going to post to My YT channel as well! A total of three videos on YT!!!! :0)

I do not know about you and yours, but when we have parties there is always at least one picture of food! lol

A few guests arriving...usually they are late this year they all came 2 hours early!! Yep, so we just rolled with it! lol

I know you all have been curious...yep here I am with Hubby!

This is one of two of our photo op spots!  every year we try to have at least one themed photo spot. We were lucky there was a hanging! lol I wanted to get some night shots but it didn't work out the entire outside was set with strobes it looked pretty cool! flashing creepy tombs and electronic creatures that are sound activated...oooh creepy!

Many like to pose and position the skeleton, some were a little well no matter trying to keep it all ages friendly, so I decided not to post lol Myself included! lol 

Some came as characters from books. Which I thought ws awesome!

The good fryer sharing some wisdom and lending a hand! lol
My family cracks me up!

A shot of Steve from Minecraft guys and a bit of the festival area! and of course the time machine that brought the time travellers lol yep mom had to park there! oh well!  hahaha

The great wise wizard (dad) at the fire, he was eager to start the stories and roast! The best part that everyone looks forward to!

Here is a creepy guy I made. Old clothes a mask some wood, pvc pipe and made his hands from wire and clay.  The ranger looks like she is ready to shoot and Copper her pup is watching! lol

Here is the crazy reaper, we call him charlie! This is part of the quest area! Everyone pics a quest and they have to complete the obstacle course to claim their reward! I had enough prizes for all. It was a blast! I just wish I had pics from it but seeing as I was running the quests it was hard to get them.

 this is part of the graveyard, full of bones tombs, groundbreakers, spider webs, coffin, and strobes as well as some motion sensitive props.

Finally the highlight of the night, the Fire! yep, we are just getting started so some are off grabbing the wood from the pile others are changing out of their costumes, and some getting warm drinks and setting up the food to roast! 

Nothing beats stories around a fire! yep ever seat was filled and so were the benches and some sat on the grass! 

We stayed up really late and woke early to a large southern breakfast and danish, everyone left before lunch, and we broke it all down by supper! 

Why is it always easier to break down then set up? lol

We still have a few decorations but most of it outdoors is gone, we don't have any trick or treaters here and it is sad,That is one thing I miss from our old place! We used to have loads of kids! oh well!

Hope you all Have a Frightfully Happy Halloween!

Cute mini inspired by a friend on YT

I have seen these minis in the past and I have made a few but I have gifted them all away...So when I saw a friend making these I was motivated to get back into making them! They are quick and easy to make!

If you need a quick gift and have little time these babies are the answer! lol I made two of these In one night just a few hours most of which I was picking out the paper and embellies.

I already gifted them away but I was able to get my daughter to lend me hers so I could take pics for you all! I used scrap papers all DCWV I believe and colored Cheshire and Alice bean with my spectrum noir markers!

The stickers were from my stash I have had them awhile so not sure of the company. I crochet so I made a flower with a river pebble in gren for the closure with velcro and the ribbon is from walmart.

I made all the tags with various studio g basic gray stamps and miscellaneous stickers. Die cuts are from my cricut carts. I used my distress inks to add some depth.

My daughter loves it ad I hope you all do too!

The front

one side open

The opposite side open

Some of the tags

The back

Simple quick and sweet, this mini can hold a good amount of pics and journal spots. great for a event!

Happy Crafting!

Congrats!!

Hi everyone!

I hope you all are having a great Monday! I usually do not like mondays but this one is an exception!!
As you all know I have been hosting a challenge here on the blog and I had eleven entries and I am super excited to say that three of them went as far as to go the whole nine yards and do all the requirements to get a total of 14 entries each! Thank you ladies for that!

I want to say thank you to all my subbies and followers for joining in the fun and subbing and reading and watching all my crazy posts and videos! You all mean so much to me and I appreciate each and every one of you!

I made a Youtube video announcing the winners! I had two winners One for just commenting and one for going all out! So please check that out and winners please contact me with your email and what digi (S) you would like for your prize!

I am also releasing the November digi's today so they will be available to pic from as well! Please check the retiring section also all those listed there will be pulled off and no longer available on the 30th of this month!!!! so if you want them run and grab them while you still can!

Happy Crafting!

Material and lace flowers

It has been a long time since I have made flowers like these. I used to make these for hair clips for my daughter when she was little...That was quite awhile ago. lol 

I used up the scraps from making the pin cushion for my sister, a few posts back. I cut it into strips and did a running stitch then I layered gathered lace on top and hot glued it together with a button and some bling. 

I got three flowers from a tiny bit of scraps, I think that is awesome. Now I have three new flowers to add to my stash, for future projects.

I used a different button on each one but other than that they are exactly the same. Hope you like them!

This button is more star like I love the added detail it gives.

This button has almost a animal print (scaly ridges) along the edge.

last but not least this one is just a raised rolled edge, simple and sweet.

Hope you liked them! Thanks for stopping by! Happy crafting.

Challenge Giveaway closes today!

Hi every one I just wanted to let you know that the challenge giveaway closes today! Be sure to enter before time runs out!

Today and Tomorrow I will be away from the crafty community because of my huge Halloween party! So excited I have lots going on and I will be back with the winner/s and hopefully back in the craft room blaring to go in a few days!

I also will be working on getting up Novembers new digi's! I am so excited to share them with you all!

I also am hoping to have a few projects cued up to release to keep the creative flow going on my blogs.

As requested, I am going to try to get some footage of the party if not I will have pics to post! I hope you all have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

My first tea cup Pin cushion

I made this for my sisters Birthday! 

I was trying to figure out what to get her and she didn't want anything so I thought well, she is making the kids Halloween costumes for my party so Maybe a pin cushion would be nice.

I have always had trouble with store bought ones! when I would go to insert the pin when I was sewing it would tip over or the pin wouldn't go in and it would slow me down...I'm a mom on a mission Like many of you my day is filled and I have little me time to go slow I can sew very quick I have pretty steady hands and my machine could hold its own in Nascar..lol So when the pin cushion is crappy it slows me down.

I had a cup sitting around that does not get used so I figured it would be prefect it is heavy and very sturdy. I made a firm cushion and glued it inside the cup them added some black lace, tear drop trim, some gold trim and burgundy satin ribbon with bling around the top rim of the cup. The bottom I added the gold trim with bling.

My sister loves utilitarian items so I thought this to be the perfect gift and I kept it simple so there is no worry that the decorations will get in the way or pop off.

I hope you all like it! I had a great time making it.

My sister loved it! Thanks for stopping by!