Happy Halloween!

I can't decide if this is funny or obscene-

I'm thinking it's pretty funny...

Happy Birthday Lisa- Sondra- Tia- P.J. & Soleil!

Pumpkin Love

We're not carving pumpkins this year, boo hoo but I have found some interestingly carved pumpkins out here on the inter-web, well actually my MIL sent out a spam mail with these crazy pumpkins carved by Ray Villafane  too bad pumpkins last like a week after they are carved...

Autumn Tree Craft

Whenever I'm over at my moms I go through her huge magazine collection. She has everything from Veranda to Vogue to Elle Decor to Family Fun Magazine. FUN- FUN- FUN- Serious eye candy! I saw this little project that I think would be really fun with your kids. 


All you need to get started is some branches from your back yard- some rope- a piece of tape & some scraps of fleece!  

1. Bend the branch into a loop and use masking tape to join the overlapping ends.

2. Cut the yarn into 15 pieces that are about twice as long as the diameter of the loop. (You can use more or fewer yarn pieces, but you must have an odd number of them.) Tie one end of each yarn piece to the top of the loop.

3. Gather the loose ends of the yarn and tie them with a single knot around the bottom of the loop.

4. Weave the fabric strips into the top half of the tree, tucking under the ends.

5. To create the tree trunk, divide the strands of yarn into two or three unequal bunches and wrap each with brown yarn. As you get closer to the bottom, wrap the bunches into one trunk. Tuck yarn ends into the back of the weaving. Hang your tree from a nail

Tips: For this project, look for a long, thin, straight branch that you can prune from a tree or bush; dead limbs will be too brittle. We used buckthorn for ours. Other good bets: forsythia, willow, and grapevine.

Halloween DIY Club

I thought this months DIY was tons of fun! We got our idea from The Graphics Fairy Karen is super generous with sharing the graphics she finds or creates-  she also turns them into usable PDF's for you. When she did her Halloween hoop art she printed them through her computer. Since we have such a large group for DIY club I decided we should screen print them instead. 

It was still a lot of work but the prints look amazing. We were able to finish up our screen prints that night. Everyone was busy either ironing-  cutting- screen printing or mod podging. I wasn't able to put everything together till the next day. Yes- I should be sewing like a mad woman for The Bijou Market & The Beehive Bazaar but I couldn't pass up having one last week to hang these in my house. {plus quilt club is at my house tonight so I wanted to show them off}

this is another one of the DIY Club projects of the night. You can see a tutorial from Amy here thanks to her my little halloween family got cut out. I screen printed the haunted house onto the striped paper before I put everything together.

Here are a few pics from DIY night that I stole from Amy's blog

I also made a few toddler t-shirts because I love this print so much

These are for sale- but I may be too lazy to put them in the shop- so let me know if you're interested- They are $9 each

1. grey long sleeve t-shirt 9-12 months & 12 - 18 months (I have 2 of these)
2. green long sleeve onesie 12- 18 months
3. white long sleeve girls t-shirt 2T
4. grey & darker grey striped long sleeve t-shirt 12- 18months (I have 2 of these)
5. light blue short sleeve t-shirt 4- 6 yrs

Halloween Decor/ My House

I bought these bats for the bat garland from House of Clouds on etsy. I bought the cheapest version {you score & bend them & put it together yourself} because I felt strange spending money on paper bats-  I really couldn't have made these on my own- without it taking a million years anyways. Also everyone who sees them loves them so go & order yours before it's too late!

I think I bought this big spider at Big Lots about 6 years ago

my mom gave me this orange tinsel tree for a wedding gift {she knows orange is my favorite color} I use it every other year for christmas but this is the first time i've used it for Halloween! Can you believe it- I think it's amazing. The Halloween ornaments are made of chip board. I just painted them black & added a hole at the top to put ornament hangers on. I bought them half off at Smith's Marketplace. The cat is super creepy. Adam's moms gave it to Little Pookie for Christmas last year. It purrrrs & licks it's self...

since we can't put gum balls in our gumball machine {because the girls would go crazy wanting them every minute} I decided to put these vintage cake toppers I bought from Gingerly 88 on etsy in it. It's Hansel & Gretel with a witch & a cat. I couldn't get a better picture. 

Modern Love/ Chairs

I love these furniture pieces by Carlos Motta from his Used and Reused Wood show. He is known for his life long commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.

check out these cool chairs from NuFurn

A Place To Hang Your Shoes

Unfortunately our house doesn't have this beautiful crown molding to rest all of my gold sparkly heels.

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♻ from sfgirlbybay

Concept Holga

What would you think about the Holga going digital? Saikat Biswas is thinking about making this come to life. I love the idea. While I love getting the film back from my Holga I really don't use it very much because I just can't afford it right now. 

Saikat's ideas for the camera would still make it seem pretty true to it's self. {no display on the back so you wouldn't be able to see your images until you downloaded them} plus your pictures would come out looking cross processed like they do when you develop your film. It's a pretty simple design & I absolutely love it.

♻ From Gizmodo