Wow... welcome back?

I've been away for a while. Who knew?! Actually, we had a loss in the family {my Poppa (grandpa) passed away} And that was really a lot harder than i expected. I did a lot of "digital" crafting to help with my Poppa's funeral. I made a special video, and a handout for the memorial, and took a few really special pictures.

I just finally sat back down at my sewing machine yesterday and started Christmas sewing. Which felt great. BUT i can't show you what i made for Christmas sewing because the people i sew for read this! haha... so i might be a bit scarce for the next little bit.

Header

So i spent a few HOURS today trying to play around with my header. I want one a la SINML but they are sure harder than they look. I think i have figured it out though.

I assumed it was an animated gif, but it's not, it's a video. A movie. That keeps going. That is why it can be so high quality. {gifs can only be 256 colors} High resolution pictures are a ZILLION more than that usually.

So yes, for now you get the slightly grainy animated gif... a good try, but i will try again soon! I enjoy playing around with the pictures!

Toodles!

First Place

We won a Halloween Costume Contest!!

 I was pretty surprised and amazed! I felt so honored... AND... funny enough... they didn't even think i had made my costumes. :)

And now i am $50 richer... Nice!

Halloween Decorations

Sunday morning i woke up with an itch. An insatiable need to decorate my house for Halloween. It could have been realizing that Halloween was a week away. Or hearing that child predators were forbidden to decorate their houses {yes, where i live i wanted to make sure i was VERY decorated}. It might have been that i was done with costumes and still needed to feed my Halloween hunger.

Whatever it was. I fed the urge. I scratched the itch. I spent ALL MORNING decorating the house. {we get up a 05:30. Yeah. Killer}. I had a blast. I cut everything out with my silhouette machine {Have you seen the new CAMEO? Am i totally coveting it? Of course not... :o|}

We made bats and a web a la Dana @ MADE. Mine are not as plentiful as hers seeing as i have NO black paper. {note to self: buy black paper}. I made pumpkins and ghosts and hung them in the window and a vinyl haunted house with the words "BEWARE" above. It makes me happy. I like hanging out in our little Halloween house now! And since we finished our pumpkins last night {more about that tomorrow} i feel totally Halloweened! :)

I'm in LOVE with Photoshop... i haven;t gotten my official version yet... but my trial is making me happy!

Liebster Award

A few days ago i got a sweet message from a fellow craft blogger Nicole @ Davis Domestications that she had selected me for the "Liebster Blog Award."

It's an award for anyone with 200 or less followers. Liebster is a German word meaning dear, sweet, kinda, nice, good, beloved, valued... etc... Very very nice things! :) Thank you Nicole for being so sweet! Make sure to jump over and check her out!

Pretty sweet, huh? So i figured i would go ahead and give it out too! I won't lie... i don't read too many up and coming blogs. Since my blog is so new, i used to just read the big ones {i know, i need to be better!} But time contrainsts {and i can't figure out that darned RSS feed thing... i actually go to EACH webpage DAILY. Someone want to explain it to me??}

I didn't have to think for more than about 2 seconds on who i WANTED to give my award too... but i was pretty stunned to realize she only had 88 followers. Really?! She is incredible! I have struck up a little blogger friendship {or at least i consider it that} with the fabulous author of this blog. So what blog?

Venus @ Happy Find

Want to see a little of what she has made? I'm seriously obsessed! I found her via Rae one day when she posted a Flickr recap of the Big Butt Baby pant. Omg her bloomers?!... let me say i am dying for a little girl to make some! 

So yes, Venus... You are so talented! So I award you the Liebster Blog Award :) Enjoy! (haha)

Oh yeah... and technically there are rules:
The rules for the Liebster Award are:
1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.
2. Reveal your top five picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog. (i only did one...)
3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love too!

Together

I know, i know, enough Snoopy and Woodstock, but they are sooooooooo cute. And i had to show you this:

Seriously? Can any two kids really be this cute?

They love their costumes. They love each other. It's just downright awesome. Awesome! I'm a darn lucky momma! One week and two days!! 

What are you going to be?

Woodstock

I am proud to reveal my darling youngest son, Eldon, as WOODSTOCK! I think the costume is pretty darling. And Eldon actually likes it. Quite a bit. I'm proud of it.

The fabric is actually a nice, soft minky. I couldn't find a faux fur to save my life. So then i found a nice soft minky and while it was a bit expensive, it is darling darling! And it's super comfy (other than warm) which is desirable in most climates. And maybe in 2 weeks it will be here. But when i was taking the pictures it was a whopping 95 DEGREES. In October. Ay ya ya! Where do i live? {The desert}

The mohawk does fall down and flop a bit, but i couldn't get it to stay up more, and well, i kinda like the floppiness of it! They are too cute together! Jumping around holding hands! They make me smile and are the PERFECT Snoopy and Woodstock pair!

So there you go... Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, and Woodstock.

Look Mom! I can play hoops!