It's about time....

Thought it was about time to show you all my Halloween/Fall table decoration since Halloween in on Monday.  I also thought it would be fun to see the difference in my decorations for Halloween/Fall from last year (2010) to this year (2011.) 

So here is last years table Harvest table scape.  Simple but nice.  I still really like it.  But this year I thought I would go a little spookier for Halloween.  So take a peek...

 I still is simple and I like it.  If you have not noticed yet...  The cloche is the one I made back in March of 2010.  You can see it here.
 

                                     I put a glittery skull in the cloche and L.O.V.E. it in there so much.

         
               Isn't he cute.  I hope you have a wonderful Halloween weekend. Until next time.  :O)

Getting ready for next year...

At the beginning of the month I started on a project that I have wanted to do for...  Well, since we moved into this house 7 years ago.  I know, why do today when you can do it tomorrow or 7 years from now.  Well here it is 7 years later and this is what I have done.

 I know it is not that big of a deal right now but come next Spring it will be BEAUTIFUL!!!  See, I have this wonderful neighbor that wanted to thin out his "weeds" as he calls them.  The the rest of the world they would be called "flowers."  Now I have a very hard time turning down anything FREE so off I went to his house and helped dig them all up.  I already had the iris from my father (he came down last year and planted the bulbs he had to thin out from his house into the front of mine.  They are right there in between the windows. 

 This same neighbor also gave me the cutest garden stakes that he made.  What do you think of them.

 Meet my new mosquito.  I do not mind him staying around.  No swatting at him will be happening in my presence.

And here is Miss Dragon fly.  I am thinking I might have to paint them to really make them stand out.  We shall wait and see how the flower garden looks next Spring to determine the colors.  Hope you have a great week.  :O)

Book page wreath

So I have been loving all the book page wreaths in blog land and knew I needed to make one some time.  We have decided to be on a very strict budget and cut down on a lot of things.  You see every General Conference weekend I come up with some type of home project to work on while listening to the Saturday sessions.  Well, this last Conference I had no project to work on.  The April conference I redid my bedroom and did not spend much $$ at all so the challenge was on to make something and NOT SPEND ANY $$$ at all.  Enter  the book page wreath. 

 I used what I had here at home.  I was getting a large box ready to send to the DI and had put a book in it so I took it out and went to town.  I marked and  cut a circle from another box I had using a paper plate as my guide.  Then ripped out the pages of the book and started to roll.

 I cut a smaller circle out of card board and wrapped it with some of the book pages and glued it on.  The whole wreath was hot glued together.  The large "B" was one I got a Hobby Lobby about a year and a half ago while living in Michigan.  I just painted it black then added black Martha Stewart glitter to the top. Then glued it on the wreath.  It turned out so pretty I think. 

 I hung it in the hallway over the cabinet I painted earlier this summer.  But more on that later.  What do you think?

 On another note,  I have been playing with my new camera.  So much fun. Here are a couple pics I took while at my sons flag football game. 

 Is she not just the cutest?  It helps that she is so sassy.  AND loves to have her picture taken.

Hope you enjoyed the wreath.  Have a great week.  :O)  Until next time...

It's Football Season!

It is that time of year again.  Football is in full swing. We have been practicing and playing in games since July.  It is fun to watch our oldest play.  He is doing great.  He plays running back among other positions.  He is very quick. 

 So this is what we have been doing the last couple months.  So fun. :O)

 We start the playoff this week.  The boys are soooo excited to be in them.  While the game is being played this is what our other kids are doing.

 Well, you do what to stay warm and comfortable while watching the game.  :O)

 A little game of peek-a-boo is always fun. 

And we are always ready for the next game.  :O)  Have a great day and enjoy the football season as much as we do.  :O)

Back from the Dead...

Wow,  not having a camera sure puts a damper on blogging.  It has been over 2 months since my last post.  So sorry.   Well I finally got a new camera and am in L.O.V.E. with it.  It is a Sony something something or other.  The hubs picked it out.  His father is a wedding photographer and the hubs has been talking to him for the last 2 years about cameras.  So I let him pick it out.  It only took him 2 hours in the store to finally decide which one.  But that is alright.  I GOT A CAMERA!!  :O)


Well, remember this picture I showed you all last year after going shopping at the case lot sales?This cold storage room needed some serious help.  It was semi organized.  I wanted shelves so bad.  The hubs said he would do them and here we were a year later and it still looked like this.  Until... Today...  :O)  When the hubs got up today ( he had the day off) I told him to get to work so I could get all the canning from this year in there.  It was ALOT!  So, I took everything out and here is the final result....

Now it is super organized.  I did not ask for pretty, just functional and sturdy.  And that is what I got.

Oops, need to restock the cereal.  I have 2 bins empty..  I learned how to use the pressure cooker this year.   I canned green beans.  :O) They are right above the bins.  Hope they last us till next summer.

The tomato's are canned in quarts for my favorite tomato soup.  I will have to share that with you all another time.  It is DE-LISH!  Then pints are all salsa.  YUMM-O!!  It is my friends recipe.

It is a good start on our food storage.    Wish the room was bigger.  I would love to have look like a store like you see on TLC's Extreme Couponing.

Well, thanks for coming to visit.  Again sorry for the long break in posts.   I do have a lot of projects  that I did during the summer break.  Can not wait to share them with you.  Until then have a great weekend..  We get to go to the groundbreaking for the Payson Temple.  So excited.  :O)