Happy Halloween

Well it's finally here and gone. We just turned off our lights abit ago. It was so sweat to see all of the little ones in their costumes again. With some of them being really creative. I love it. And just think, I was thinking about not handing out candy this year. What was I thinking. Thanks to DH and our little one for basically pushing me to do it, I thank them for it. Thanks guys. You are the best!!!!!

Here's a photo of our little one and her friends. Everyone meets back here at our house and we get photos...lol....like they really think they will get away from that, fat chance...and here's a photo of our pumpkin that we carved out today. You can click on the photos to make them bigger if you would like to.

Here's some cards and a tag with Tim Holt as inspiration. I really love his work and products.

Here's a little bag I made for a challenge over at Hallmark Scrapbook on the message board. If you haven't checked us out, pop on over and play along. The challenges are such a fun way to play with your Cricut machine. Or even just to hang out with us.

Well I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween. We are off to the beach again. It's my father in laws 70th birthday.

Hugs from a very worn out Crabbie

It's Sunday

and feeling alot like fall around here in Charm City. We had rain finally yesterday. We needed it so much to. Things here are busy. We are in the middle of selling girl scout cookies with the troop. I love to hate this time of year. Ohhhh the calories...lol...it's so hard not to eat them. So this year I thought I'd only order a few boxes. At which I did really good at. But then I get to sell them at work and that's the hard part. Case after case of cookies just calling my name....lol...

On another note, I haven't done much here in my studio this week. I just switched out my Halloween stamps to Christmas stamps. So I think I'm ready to start making Christmas cards and what'nots....So what are you in the middle of? I would love to see...

Here's a couple of projects that I made a couple weeks back.

This is a light up candy dish I made out of chipboard. I sent this to a friend over on Hallmark Scrapbook site. I think she should have received by now, so I can post it here....I hope she likes it...it's alittle different, but so am I...lol...

Here's a little box I made out of chipboard for a little present at Christmas time. I used a connector from the hardware store for the body and a wooden drawer pull for the head. Isn't she just soo cute? I know, she's different, but I love different...lol....

Well thanks for stopping in. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday.

Hugs from a crisp but wet Charm City

WOW....

twice in one week....that's great for me....I just wanted to make a short post...I forgot to mention yesterday about the sale going on over at Hallmark Scrapbook site in their store...if you haven't gone over lately, stop, drop and roll right on over....lol... Hallmark Scrapbook here's a little fella that I worked on today....still deciding if I'm going to make him into a stand or into a card...each cut was made with chipboard then housed with a layer of material and backed with black cardstock....and the beard and hair I cut from that fun fur stuff you get from the craft store...messy---that stuff is really messy---lots of fur flying everywhere--lol...but it's so fun to play with.... Thanks for stopping by... hugs from Charm City

Hello Blogland

Happy Monday everyone....long time since my last post...things here this past month has been really crazy busy..I cleaned out the spare bedroom...and let me tell you, that was quite a job...not to mention we left and went on vacation...and my BIL and girlfriend got married while we were there...it was such a gorgeous day....I'll post some photos on the next post...but the rest of the week wasn't so good while we were there....maybe next year we can have some good weather.... Here's a project that I made for the ladybug's blog...you can go HERE and see the tutorial...not to mention all of the other tutorials from the awesom ladybugs.... this is a little spells book I made out of chipboard...it was for a challenge over on Hallmark Scrapbook's message board...come on over and play along with all of the challenges with us...we would love to see you... this was for another challenge at Hallmark Scrapbook...I made this bag into a gel window with a stamped scene...and I used the Design Studio to cut the globe out of the center. yet another challenge over on the message board...we were asked to use the cornucopia from the Paper dolls cart...I made it into a fall plaque that I sent to someone...I hope she likes it... I have seen these little frankie bags all over the net and wanted to make one using the Cricut...I used the grass border from the paper dolls cart for the hair.... these are some stamped cards...still trying to play around with stamps and coloring.... I made this one for my BIL that just got married... here's some photos from this past Saturday at the pumpkin patch...the one on the scale is the smallest pumpkin that we had...this was our first visit here to and we loved it....think we will be going back again... I took this photo of the girls before they went into the corn maze...it was 2 1/2 acres of corn that they made into a maze...DH and I opted not to join them and just hung out and looked aroundthe farm.... this is an awesom gift that was waiting for me in my mail when we got back from vacation...a friend over at Hallmark Scrapbook made this for me...isn't is just wonderful...it goes in my kitchen so well....Thanks so much Carole...you are just the sweetest.... Thanks everyone....just a little update of what's been going on this past month... Hugs from a very sunny Charm City

It's another Sunday

hellooooooooooooooo....sorry it's been awhile since my last post. We are in the middle of cleaning out our storage room/spare bedroom and it's taking forever. We are finding things that we forgot we even had. Or things that having been missing for sometime now. Like a Leapster that we have been wondering what happened to it. WOOHOO...those babies are expensive, and I"m so glad that it's found it's way back home where our little one can play with it again. We got hit with hurricane Hanna yesterday. Flash flooding everywhere. Not to mention the winds. They, once again tore up our tiki bar. I tell ya, we just weren't meant to have a tiki bar in our backyard. But DH will undoubtable screw it back together and try for another season.

On another note, I have been busy making things off and on here in my studio. I'll post them down below if you would like to check them out.

But my best news of this post is that our eldest daughter just told DH and I that she is going to have a baby. Can you believe that? I thought babies were over until a few years down the road. But they are due sometime in April/May. So CONGRATS to Tricia and Ryan!!!!!!!! You go girl!!!!!

Here's some other news that I have been forgetting to share. I entered some photos on HGTV site for an upcoming Christmas special this year. WEll they contacted me and want to use a project that I made. And maybe another one...how AWESOM is that...but it's only a photo thingy...not how to make it on the air or anything. But they are going to put my name and location with the photo....that's ok, I'm still syked....I don't have any dates yet as to when this will air, but I"ll post as soon as I find out when it will be on...

I have been on the look out for a Halloween costume for our little one. She's into these Goth kind of costumes. Does anyone have any web sites that you could share for costumes? I try to make her a costume or even parts of it for her every year. Thanks in advance.

Well, this is it for now. A few more weeks and I"m off to vacation. I soo can't wait...oh wait, I forgot to tell ya. That my BIL is getting married at the beach while we are there. I can't believe it either. So that will be a special time. Our little one is their flower girl to. And DH is best man. It's on the beach at 11 am. If it doesn't rain it should be a great wedding day.

I hope everyone has a great week ahead...

Here's a tutorial that I did for Hallmark Ladybug Blog.

I'm sorry for the photo. With all of the rain yesterday, I just couldn't get a better shot. I will post a better one later once I can go outside in the daylight. Hop on over there and check out the blog. It's filled to the rim with awesom tutorials from the other ladybug team members. They are just the best and most creative ladies I've had the pleasure to work with. Love ya ladybugs.

These other projects I made for challenges over on the Hallmark Scrapbook site Another great place if you haven't checked us out. Right now Jody and Brad have an awesom sale going on the Cricut cartridges. So pop on over and check out what they are offering in the store. You're sure to find something that you need. I just ordered a few of the cartridges myself. And they are just the best when it comes to sending out the orders. I normally receive my orders within a couple of days too... So check them out...

Hugs from a very calm but soggy Charm City

It's a Beautiful Day

It's so pretty outside here in Charm City...not to hot not to cool..the sun is shining, and it's just an overall relaxing day,... finally...I've been up since 2a.m. playing in here...I made this project that was alot of fun. It's going to be a birthday box for a gift/gift card for someone. ..don't know who yet, but someone will get it....what do you think? The face is really strange looking..I can't seem to get a good face on anything I make... I made the face with a ball of newspaper, foli and polymer clay and baked it. I also used newspaper for the inside of the hat to give it some stability. On the backside I used the Basic Grey notch tool to make the notches to thread the twine around to make it look like a corsic (sp?)...This was just a small paper mache box that I had in my stash and I wanted to do something with it. There are hat pins in the hat holding the tag. I also used the Accent Essentials card for the Cricut to make the flowers and the ruffles (scallop). Here are a couple of layouts that I made last week or so. They are our eldest and I and then our eldest and our little niece... Well I hope that everyone has a wonderful week ahead. It's going to be another busy one here for me as I'm getting into our spare room to clean it out. I promised DH that I would since he has been so sweet lately. Not to mention he has been on my butt about getting it done....men, they just don't understand.... Hugs from a sunny Charm City