Almost Halloween Part 1

It's almost Halloween here....actually by the time you read this it will be Halloween! We added a bunch of different Halloween decorations to our house this year and I thought I'd show you.

Here's my new witches shelf....got the idea out of a magazine. Chuck made the shelf and I painted it ....everything else was purchased or found at a thrift store. I thought it was cool....I'm going to make a similar one for Christmas that "Santa" hangs his stuff on.

My new table decorations...if the picture isn't to clear click on it and it will bring up a bigger version (if you view it from my blog)

Shelf accessories from Michaels

Our fun little village....we love the mummies sitting on the bench

This is my eyeball wall....I have eyeballs all over the table too! I also found this idea in a magazine!

Almost Halloween Part 2

I'm going to have to upload my pictures in two segments....blogger isn't cooperating.

****Kinzi drawing her pattern on her pumpkin

**Kinzi with a power tool....yikes!

***Nathan trying to cut through the thickest pumpkin we've ever bought!

****Mackinzi's pumpkin

****Nathan's pumpkin....this shiny stuff on them is Vaseline to keep them fresh for tomorrow night!

Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze

This weekend we visited Buckaloo Farms outside of Tucson. They have a huge pumpkin patch where you take a horse-drawn carriage ride to get to the pumpkins. We each chose a pumpkin we'll be carving for Halloween. We also went through the corn maze. In the corn maze, you have to find 12 check points. The kids lead us to each check point, yeah! We had a lot of fun!

New Blog Look

Sorry for the messed up blog....working on a new look.....it's not going as well or as fast as I wanted it to.

Updated Pages

I've updated the pages some more, I'm happy with the coloring on them. I'm trying them out in black and white and color....that's why there is two of the same thing.

Blending photos.

I've been doing a tutorial on blending modes in Photoshop and here's my pictures so far. I used Taylor Made Designs tutorial, paper and word art for the pictures. Do you like them? I still have to work on the shine and color of the words "simply beautiful" before I'm satisfied but I'm liking it so far.




Kinzi got her first report card Friday and received 7 A's and 2 B's.....were totally in awe of her...she did a great job. Nathan is on a trimester system so he won't get his first report for a while. But he's doing very well, too!

No word yet on getting Nathan's meds so we're starting to pester everyone now.

We have a 4 day weekend next week so we're very excited.

Kinzi had her best friend over this weekend to celebrate her birthday and they had a blast. They don't want to leave each other when it's time to go.