It's pretty quiet around here this weekend and I love that. I still haven't taken all the pictures of the house decorated this year. I enjoy days like this when we don't have much going on. Working on my DD album and hope to post either later this evening or tomorrow. Off to a Christmas party at church. Have a good weekend.
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This is just a small peek at things around our house this year for Halloween. I kept things simple and I didn't go too over the top with the decorations. I grabbed the font on the pics from picnik. Keisha Campbell used the font on her blog and I thought it was a cute idea. There is so much inspiration on pinterest as well as other websites so my decorations are inspired a lot by that. I'll add more pics this weekend.
I love Halloween and I guess I'll be posting about it until the 31st. I love that Aniyah loves seeing it when she comes in. It's pretty cool to me. I still have a few more things around the house I want to snap photos of but it's been raining here so I haven't had a chance to get any pics.
In keeping with my Halloween love right now, I did this layout using Crate Paper's Random collection {supplies: Crate Paper, "Random" graphic, accent cuts Teresa Collins, "Haunted Hallows": poison} I cut the butterflies with the Slice and did some stamping and misting.
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My favorite time of year is slowly approaching. I can smell it in the air that fall is coming. I picked up this issue of Martha Stewart Halloween and these halloween lollie pops.
I took Keisha's idea of her lovely stamped tags and used the new clear stamps from House of 3 Phantom collection to create a few of my own. Love how they turned out.
It's that time again in my home where Aniyah is back to school and my 2nd grader couldn't be more excited. She's fighting allergies and a cough this week but I'm praying I can nurse her back to health without seeing the doc. I took these photos of her after school and as usual, she didn't really want to cooperate.
On a different note, I've been cleaning and getting rid of boxes in my garage that were just cluttering my space and I just couldn't take the clutter any longer. Along with cleaning that up, I am working on re-docorating my home and I've been a pinterest queen lately. I've moved my craft space to now take over the breakfast area . I just felt like I needed to have the natural lighting and a connection to our family area. The challenge with being a renter is that you know you won't always be in the same place forever so that presents very many challenges because you can't be too specific in customizing. The scale of your room may accommodate the pieces you have now but when you move, it may not be so accommodating.
What I'm discovering is to utilize colors and pieces that can transition it time.
The challenge to renting is that you don't know where you are moving to next so it's hard to "customize" windows and treatments and furniture b/c you don't know if the next place will accommodate
I normally always change Aniyah's room each summer that she's gone so I decided to post some before pictures and then I'll post the updates later. Her room changes will be simple but I keep adding/taking away and purging things. Ms. Princess the Frog has been around since last year for Aniyah's birthday. She had a Princess and the Frog party at the bowling ring.
Aniyah is so fascinated with alarm clocks. For some reason she feels its necessary to have one to wake up.
I love Aniyah's butterfly lamp.
Her shelves definitely won't stay the same.
Her desk area will change.
She loves Spongebob
Another layout made with the JBS May kit.
We have finally moved! I painted the entryway and living room a cool grey, thanks Keisha and I left the other dark tan color that was in the house in the kitchen area and hall bathroom. I haven't quite decided whether I'm going to leave it that color or paint it but it will remain for now. I'm looking forward to so many new things in 2011. I just feel like this is going to be the new year for change for a fresh/new me. So excited to see what's in store.
My studio has changed a bit from when I first started scrapping. I started on a card table and now I have an actual studio. I love my space now and there are still a lot of things that I will need to get. I've moved from the small sun room into the room right outside of it. We didn't use the space that much as a den so I decided to make it my space. Our TV is still in the room and the unfortunate thing about living in a condo is that space is limited even though we have three floors. I could move it out but I like having a TV in the room so my plan would be to get something smaller and free up some of the space in the room so I could move my computer and printer out of the sunroom. I'm not happy with how the sunroom looks now but once I come up with some additional storage solutions, I will feel better about it. You can see the sunroom from the reflection on the TV. My display stands holds all of my stamps and some miscellaneous items. My MM embellishment center holds my paints, mists and some buttons. I am cold natured so I keep a heater nearby. I hate that when they built these condos that they are right in back of the neighborhood behind us but this will not be a permanent place for us.
