Moments in Time

"Hot! Hot! Hot!" to quote Buster Poindexter... This weekend was ridiculously warm. There's something wrong about being at a craft fair, looking at pumpkins and snowmen while sweat literally runs down your back! Still, we managed to put a bit of Autumn in our weekend.

On Saturday, I came home from the Hatton craft show with this gorgeous pumpkin (it's "stuffed"):


Dean had started decorating the mantel with a few of his new Halloween decorations. I added some mini pumpkins that I'd brought home from Hatton:


On Sunday, Ali's Brownie troop went on the annual corn maze trip while Jess and I went to Michael's. While I shopped, Jess made this rather unique pumpkin (note the braces, lol!):


I've also got Christmas on my mind - my crafting space is now overrun with snowmen as I've started cranking out cards for an upcoming craft show. Thankfully, the cooler weather is finally here. I know I'll be complaining about the cold soon enough, but pumpkins and 90 degree weather are an odd mix! I'm ready for it to be FALL!

Awww, he is the cutest little thing, isn't he? (Remind me of that the next time he runs out the back door and squeezes himself under the bottom deck stair!) He misses his Mommy. Jess is spending the night at a friend's house and Tiggy normally sleeps with Jess, often in her bed. Now that she's officially a teenager (and boys are soon to enter the picture), I guess we all better get used to Friday nights without Jess!

Ali took the SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) in school this week and I am dying to find out her score. (She'll get it next week, we think.) She told me it was "a piece of cake" and that "I nailed it". When we mentioned to the teacher at Open House that the class had taken the test, Ms. Dunn told us that both she and the student teacher were amazed at the questions Ali was answering - apparently correctly. I always suspected the little bugger was at least as smart as her big sis - - it's a matter of motivating her to use those smarts!

I've also been really itching to make something this week. I've been visiting SplitCoastStampers.com and various blogs and amassed a bunch of ideas that I'm dying to try out. One of them is a criss cross card (see the tutorial here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/crisscrosscard.php). Here's my first attempt at one:


I made these Christmas gift bags for a swap I'm in:


Tomorrow I'm off to visit a stamp store and scrapbook store with a friend. We're also going to stop by a large annual craft show in Hatton. More inspiration! :-)

and some days you're the hydrant!

Gotta love that quote. :-) I haven't had much creative time these days, but I did create some 8X8 scrapbook pages last Saturday. I really liked how this one came out. The dog in the picture is Bugsy, our foster from last March. (He's almost a dead ringer for the dog on the stamp that is part of this stamp set.)



It's made using Kamalaht, one of my favorite paper lines from The Angel Company. It was perfect with Bugsy's coloring!