Made it Monday..........

Little zip purse made from what I started in the last post. 
Sorry about the photo. iphones can be handy but they don't always take the best photo!!

Happy Halloween everyone and look here for some cute crafty ornaments.

Happy Halloween!..........

Mosaic Monday........

1. Pumpkins, 2. pumpkin peepers, 3. Trick or treat!, 4. Gourds and Pumpkins, 5. Untitled, 6. Dollhouse Miniature - Baskets of Fruits and Veggies

All this talk of Halloween by the kids has made me think of pumpkins so that is what I searched flickr for today. As you can see there is also a couple of lovely dollies in there too!

Day 29- My creative space............

We are getting ready for Halloween here all very exciting for the young ones in the house. The past few days has been spent making decorations and finding funny Halloween recipes for a party we are holding here tomorrow night. I need to finish all this stuff so i can think about a costume for myself. What should I be this year? While I am thinking about it I am going over to Kirsty's and checking in on others creative space.

Halloween 2.........

Django made this fab centre piece for our table. An old shoe box with some paint and imagination can go along way.
He is very clever my boy!

Halloween .........

Well the night has come and gone with too many kids running around scaring one another and far too many sweets being eaten. I know this for a fact as Juliette had to go to bed with a bucket. Just in case! We had a small gathering at our place and everybody( I think) had a good time. We decorated the house and had a few games for the kids. Later on in the evening they went off for their first time trick or treating experience and returned with bags full of goodies. We all stumbled into bed at the end of the night exhausted and happy.
That sugar rush does make one feel very good!

On my desk.........

Patch of people eating pom-pom pumpkins.

Watch out kids there coming your way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween...I think not!

Over the last couple of weeks I have been getting ready for Halloween . This was to be our first real Halloween experience. Kids were getting excited I was getting excited we had a early picnic to got too and then there was to be trick or treating but alas I was not meant to experience it. I ended up being sick earlier this week and that put all excitement related activities to bed(and me to for that matter). At the point at which I got sick I still hadn't completed the kids trick or treat bags so Wednesday morning I dragged myself out of bed to finish them off. They could have been better but they did the job. They held the stash and that was the most important thing. Being sick at this particular time leads me onto another point for discussion and that is I always seem to get sick when I have alots of things to do. As well as Halloween to get ready for I also had to get my place ship shape for my mum and mother-in-law to come for a visit. I don't have a overly big place here but it still gets very messy and dusty and things need to be done. I'm sure they wouldn't have given two hoots whether the place was not clean when they arrived but I like to have a tidy place for guests.Am I crazy or do others think like me?
Anyway they are here now, I am better and the place was clean but it has gone back to being it's normal self. Untidy!!!!!
A good weekend to all.

No Husband and Halloween.................

Well everybody I am husbandless for the next 8 days. What am I going to do with myself in that time? To name but a few things. I am going to keep the sewing machine set up on the kitchen table for the whole time( unfortunately I don't have a designated sewing area here),have a reasonably tidy house(I always find it easier to keep the house under control when he isn't here) and not have to worry too much about what I cook. In that area I don't have a complaining husband but I do feel I need to put a bit of variety on the dining table but when it is just the kids and myself we slack off a bit. They don't mind to eat a lot of pasta and I don't mind making myself a big pot of soup and having that a few nights in a row.

I do have a few tasks I would like to complete this week though. The kids are celebrating Halloween for the first time this year. They are doing stuff about it at school and there is a few people here who get together on the night for some 'trick or treating'. They are pretty excited about that. I am on the job with costumes. That is the easy part in this household but if anybody can tell me if there is anything special made and eaten at Halloween that would be good. If we are going start this tradition we may as well do it properly. I am waiting for this zine to turn up in my post box. Maybe it might have some ideas in it that can help.

Everybody out there have a good week I know I will.