Lucy in the Sky with Dimonds....

Welcome back lovely readers! Happy Halloween! It has been a couple of crazy weeks. The hubs is healing well (only two more weeks of crutches!) and is back to work. And we just added a new member to our family! Meet Lucy!

Isn't she beautiful! We are crazy about her and she seems pretty found of us. We came up with her name from two of my absolute loves: The Beatles and Lucille Ball. She is spunky and has quite the sence of humor so she fits her name well. She is a doll and we are so happy to have her. We are working on an uber awesome project for her (I say we because the hubs had to help me with the power tools. Oh yeah.... it's THAT awesome!) that I am hoping to post the results to very soon. 

Since it the week of Halloween, I wanted to post some of the litte decorations that I have completed other than the pumpkins that you can see in my last post. Sorry, this time there really aren't any before-and-afters or how-tos but they are still cute and I still want to show them off. If you want anymore information on any of the crafts let me know. Oh, and a couple of these aren't really Halloween. They were the crafty part of the gifts for my M.I.L and S.I.L. I was pretty proud of these too so of course, I'm posting them. Enjoy!

I am so proud of this wreath because it's my first non-traditional circular wreath. This was a wood frame-thingy that I found at the DI and just knew that it could be something beautiful (Yes, I really did just use the word thingy, and it will likely not be the last time). It has that shabby chic Halloween look with I love. It makes me smile everytime.



Yep, I even decorate at work. This is at on the top of one of my cabnets. I still have more coming but I love how simple but still adorable it is. The best part, I got all of this, with the exception of the labels, at the Dollar Store. The hidden jewels that place holds! It can be dangerous. Oh, and the labels came from the Martha website- also a dangerous place.

At Old Navy they are clearancing all their flip flops. I picked these up for my MIL for .75 cents. They are going on a tropical trip soon so I thought I would make her something fun to wear on the beach. I used a cheap tshirt, felt, and hot glue to create these. I just love how they turned out!

They were so cute that I just had to try them on myself! I'm going to make a pair for mye and when I do I will take some how-to pictures. This is such an easy project you will want to transform all of your flipflops!

At Down East Outfitters this month any pink shirt is $5 with half of the proceeds going to breast cancer research. My SIL is a darling gal that just turned sweet 16 so I wanted to get her a shirt that was as fun as bubbly as she is. The $5 shirt was far more tempting than the $20 super cute ones but it was just so....plain. To fix this, I added a flower to the shoulder. This really turned out better than I thought it would. Here is a shot of the flower up close (sorry it's kind of fuzzy... one day I will have a real camera...):

Well folks, there is what I have been working on as of late. I hope that you all have a fun and safe weekend. TTFN!

You are so BOOtiful... to me!

  Happy Sunday all! It's been a while since I posted anything but it's because I have been taking care of my poor broken hubs. He had some orthopedic surgery on his hip and has needed a little extra TLC. I know- all of these surgeries would make you think that we are in our mid 60's rather than our mid 20's but we just hope this means we are getting all the yucky stuff out of the way now so we can play hard later on.

  I am so excited that it is finally beginning to feel like fall in our corner of the world. I adore the changing of the leaves, the cooler weather ( I love sweaters) and, of course, crafting and decorating for the holidays. Since its October, I am of course working on Christmas decorations. I'm just kidding ya (even though there are already decorations out at Target, Walmart, Michaels, etc.); I am working on Halloween decorations. For a long list of reasons, Halloween is not my favorite holiday. I know, I'm weird. But I do love crafting for Halloween. And I'm thrilled to have any reason to decorate so I am learning to embrace the holiday one baby step at a time. To start of the Halloween season at our apartment, I created this darling little center piece for our table. And because I was smart enough to think ahead, I even took pictures. Yeah me!

BOOtiful pumpkins

Supplies:

-3 Pumpkins (mine are fake, but this would work on real ones as well)

-Sticker letters: 1 B and 2 O's

-Modge Podge

-Black Paint

-Paint brush

Ok, so I said that I thought ahead, but I admit that I did not take a picture of step one. I modge podged one letter on each pumpkin. You can hand paint this or hand draw it with a sharpie, but I had the stickers on hand so I opted to go that route. I also used some of the extra punctuation stickers to frame the top and bottom because the letters looked so plain by themselves. Then I let the modge podge dry. (Sorry, I didn't realize how fuzzy the pictures were)

Once that is all nice and dry, get out our paint and paint brush. Using the non-bristled side of the brush, dip the end of the brush in the paint like so: 

Once you have the paint, start painting dots on your pumpkin. I free-handed my design but it might be more time effective to stencil out your design first. Here is side one of my pumpkin:

Now complete on the opposite side. Repeat on the other two pumpkins and tada!

With some creepy candles and some leaves, this little center piece almost makes me like Halloween.... almost.