Have a Ghoulishly Happy Halloween!

 
I just thought I'd drop by and wish all my friends, family and followers a Happy Halloween! I really feel for those of you in the Northeast that do not have power.  Actually I am hoping that by now you do have power and that your Halloween activities are back on again!

My son Mitch works as a cashier at Goodwill.  Of course as such he is able to dress up for Halloween.  He also gets to dress/decorate the mannequins (which are just wire) weekly.  He had them pink for Breast Cancer Awareness, 80's for Footloose and now of course for Halloween.  As I'm sure you know well, Goodwill stores get very busy this time of the year.  Here are a few pix of his creativity.  

 I asked him how he got so talented when he was getting ready one morning.  He's like umm you!

Of course, I can't leave you without pix of the other child.  He didn't get dressed up, but he and his girlfriend are proud parents of a mouse. So here is baby Cotton.  

 

And just for fun and old times sake here is a pic of me from 30+ yrs ago. I was maybe 18?? I recently found some long lost friends on Facebook.  Really am enjoying catching up after all these years!  Hi Dan, Hi Scott.

That's it for now!  I'll be back to post some creations soon, I promise.  Hope you have a wonderful Halloween night and a great rest of the week!!

Is it Halloween Yet?

I've been trying to create cards for Halloween. For whatever reason, I've been struggling. It's not like I haven't seen a ton of great inspiration out there. Through blogs, SCS and scrapbook.com I've seen a lot and maybe that's part of the problem. I guess I want my creations to be a little different. Well yesterday while on scrapbook.com I went to the forums and saw a post for card of the week. Michelle who goes by the name of melissadam on sb.com posts a new card challenge every week with a video she has found. I definitely want to do a few more of these purse cards in different printed papers of course. I watched the video and was inspired, but of course I took a day to think about it and here's what I came up with.



I'm entering the above card for these challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - Challenge #69 Halloween

Charisma Cardz Challenges - Challenge #40 Black and Orange

Just Add Ink - JAI #88 Just Add...A Diecut

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Fall or Halloween


Of course I couldn't just post one Halloween card, here's one I came up with a couple of weeks ago. I wanted a card that looked less cutesy and more vintage. Also, it's the first time I inked up an embossing folder before embossing. So what do you think did I do it?



Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to come visit! I hope you have a fabulous fall weekend.

Happy Halloween! And Here Comes the Bride

First of all I want to wish all of you a very Happy Halloween! Hope you get lots of ghosts, goblins and princesses in your neighborhood or that you're out with your trick or treaters enjoying the night. Busy Beauties design team members challenged each other to post a Halloween creation using the Here Comes the Bride image. Please be aware this is not a Wedding card, but a Halloween one, so think Bride of Frankenstein. I had started coloring her the other night and trying to come up with a card design as well. I knew the paper I wanted to use so I colored her accordingly. The hard part for me turned out putting the card together. The first way I wanted to go would made the Bride disappear into the printed paper and I didn't want that. So with more futsing around I came up with this. I love this Reminisce paper, it's glossy and I love the eyeball all over it. It's double sided and I wanted to use the multi colored side, but that would've detracted from the image so I used the purple side and added a strip of the multi-colored side. I used a See-D's stamp to stamp goodies on her loot bag. I used another See D's set to stamp What a Costume on the negative of the word window punch. Then added a bow and voila!
Please stop by the other Busy Beauties Brigade members and check out their awesome Here Comes the Bride creations!!! Their links are on the right under Busy Beauties Brigade.

Thought I'd post our Jack O' Lanterns too. Mitch and I carved ours the other afternoon and Noah carved his Weds night while I was at class. Mitch carved Tinkerbell although you can hardly tell now, because the squirrels got at it. I think since Tim feeds them they think everything on our porch is for them. I had a spider carved in mine and now it's just a round circle.

Tim and Ian were going to do a spider web and found out how time consuming it was so then they worked on a face but Ian must've made a boo-boo because it's just big hole now. So here's our pumpkins!


Mitch working on his jack o'lantern Remember you can click on the photos to make them larger :D


Here's Tink! She doesn't have the part that separates her bun from the rest of her hair (darn squirrels)!


My spider thats now just a circle :(


Noah's peace sign

Ian carving his pumpkin Ian's carved pumpkinThe lit jack o' lanterns Thurs night


Sorry for the long post but I wanted to get all the pix in. Hope you enjoyed them. I hope you like the Busy Beauties too! Please join us on PCP at the Busy Beauties group! Have a FABULOUS Halloween and weekend!!!

Halloween and Creative Storage

Okay I think I will add the photos after. I just lost the blog I was typing! I found a cool way to store stickles while browsing on scrapbook.com. I posted it to the Yahoo group I belong to. Then another member posted another way to store stickles. This way is more portable and it's what I ended up copying. At first I thought it would be better to get the stuff off my desk, but the portability factor won out. I couldn't find a large acrylic photo frame (holder). I tried the dollar store and JoAnn Fabrics, since it was nearly 7pm already and the streets roll up pretty early compared to Milwaukee on a Saturday night. I stuck with what I found at JoAnn's. They had their frames on sale for 50% off. I found 7x5 frames and thought those should work for two rows. The first one I put the first row of velcro about 3/4" from the top. So only the DB sugar coating fit on the bottom row. The other frame I put it up at about 3/8" from the top and was able to fit more stickles below. These will work until I find a 11x14" acrylic frame on sale or at a garage sale.

















Here are some pix of Halloween. Noah and his
friends getting their scary faces on to go scare people. No, they're not going trick or treating. Hmmm how come Noah had some candy today huh?


Tim and Ian handing out candy.











A pic of the Halloween banner/garland and a photo of the 1/2 eaten pumpkin.




Yes, the squirrel did not give up! Once this week I went to check mail and peeked out the window on the front door. There he/she was with mitts full of seeds stuffing their little mouth full! I said you little monster and off he/she scampered!

Have a great weekend everyone!