...not blogging but still crafty.

Here's a quick update of the week in crafty pictures...

...the wheel of fortune our family donated to my son's middle school for their Fallfest...

the nice woodshop teacher at my hubby's school cut it out on his machine, hubby made the base and I painted

...and painted...and painted it...

the painting alone took probably close to 12 hours...those numbers were a nightmare!!

Halloween cookies I decorated at my mom's house

she made the cookies and I came over and made up the frosting and then we got busy 

this is my favorite set...it belongs to a very artsy, fashion forward witch ;)

a cute polka dot set....I completely copied the double dot idea from a picture my mom had...

I love it and will definitely do it again!

It was red ribbon week at Connor's school and one day was CraZy HaiR day.

I think this qualifies!

This picture was taken AFTER a full day of school...we use some SERIOUS product!

but the big time sucker this week was book club hosted at my house...

I'll blog some pictures of that tomorrow.

Today I'm off to the pumpkin patch with the daycare kidlets :)

It is such a blast!  I love the tractor ride and watching them run through the field of pumpkins.

They come home filthy and tired but happy.

Have a great weekend!

jen

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...GoOd GoLLy...

... am I a blogging slacker!

I'm hoping now that the tree is up, the gifts are bought and wrapped, and the cookies are baked I'll be a little better :)

Here's a tiny bit of what's been going on here...of course, part of being a blogging slacker is NOT taking pictures of things you're doing/making :)  ...I did a lot more...honest...but sadly have no photographic proof...


Enough excuses... here's some of the cookies I decorated last weekend...I made a bag for each of the kids who's mom is a primary carpool driver...I try to suck up wherever I can :)

While I'm  ReaLLy grateful that I'm not driving at all this year...I feel like a total sLaCkEr in that department too....

Here's a few quick photos of the living room decorations...the mantle and the table by the entry way...

The $2 Santa boot ornaments  sitting on fake snow in the apothecary jar have been a huge hit with everyone who's seen them...kinda funny since the boots were a last minute home depot purchase while I was buying new outdoor Christmas lights...

Here's the mantle..it's the one thing that looks the same in this room after my husband got a WILD hair this Saturday and decided we needed a ReaL, LaRgE, space sucking, evergreen in our front window...had to buy a stand and a tree skirt too...HaPPy HoLiDaYs!!!  

Ca-Ching! 

 Then we got it home and I LITERALLY had to move EVERY piece of furniture in my living room to make it fit and not look horrible...then the hubby and the boy went to watch TV and i spent an hour and a half decorating it alone....hence the LARGE Scrooge factor!!

Here's the boy at his 5th Grade Band concert...it was AwESoMe!!!  He did great!  We were soooo proud! :)  (notice his Santa hat says ~Bah Humbug~...I totaLLy should have been wearing that Saturday night while I hung ornaments on the piney monstrosity in my front window!) 

ok...before you get too impressed., the bottom tier is from the freezer section at Trader Joe's :)  and man were they TASTY!!

 I did make the top section...brownie bites with peanut butter mousse drizzled with chocolate ganache...mmmmm.....

and I made these gingerbread eggnog trifles in itty bitty individual parfait glasses from Pier One...they were sooooo cute...and everyone knows that anything you eat with a doll sized spoon has ZERO calories! :)

Okay...off to finish the last of the homemade gifties and clean the upstairs MaN CaVe...the boys are BeYoNd pigs during break!!

Thanks for looking...

Have an AmaZinG Monday!

jen

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JuSt iN cAse...

...you thought all I did was collect and organize supplies...here are a few pictures of some of the things I've made in the last month...

Here's a cake I made for 4th of July...totally stolen from Glorious Treats...red, white, and blue (very, very blue) inside...I'm a slacker...no pic of that...to busy eating it! :)

Cookies I made for the CMRLL All-Star team...my first paying cookie gig...

24 sets bagged like this and over a dozen small balls bagged up individually for the player's siblings...

It was a lot of cookies!...I was really happy with the packaging though...detailed enough without being fussy...don't know why I bothered though...you know 13 year old boys weren't critiquing my headers! LOL! 

I got the Copic air gun...the background paper here was the first thing I made with it...just layered lots of colors.  That stamp set is from PTI...I'm not generally a flower person..but I LOVE this set...it's called Daydreamer...

Same piece of paper...just higher up...and same stamp set...

Here's the thank you card Connor sent his Aunt Shirley for his bd gift.  We always make her a special card because she appreciates them...I usually get a call after she receives them asking about different products or techniques I used...I love sending cards to people like that!!   aMuse stamp and sentiment...told you they were funny!!

Okay...and here's the random bits that were floating in the lower left corner of the desktop...all PTI...but nothing else in common...

Enjoy the ride set...

Blooming button bits....

another button bits image and polka dot basics with an aMuse sentiment... 

all PTI...stamp, ink, paper, envelope...ummmm...I think the ribbon is from someone else...

OK...there's a little proof that I actually use the stuff in the cubbyhole :)

Off to use some more stuff now...

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