Hats and Skirts and Ruffles, OH MY!

So this year I wanted to make the kids costumes, as usual and not have it be the same costume that someone else does. So I decided to do a witch for Morgie and Coey wanted to be a pirate. Although they are pretty generic characters I decided to make them myself so no one else would have it. I got the idea for Morgan's skirt from a tutorial on how to make ruffle tier dresses. I thought it would be pretty cute to use Halloween material to make the skirt so she could use it for her costume. I couldn't find a hat to go with it so I thought maybe I would make one with scraps I had. So after the purchase of a 48 cent posterboard here is the finished product. I usually don't brag about things I make because they usually aren't that brag worthy, don't believe me, well then you never saw the dead sock froggy. Anyways this hat took me about 3 hours to make but I think it was worth it. I just plugged in a movie and my glue gun and went to town. This is the finished product. I hope you think it's as cute as I do.

Not sure if you can tell but I also put little clear and purple gem stones on it to make it extra girly.

Notice the purple flower in the middle, well yes I did make that by hand. They are super duper easy.

I love this skirt and when I first had Morgan try it on she would not take it off. I had to let her wear it the rest of the day and hope she wouldn't get it dirty. The only thing I wish I had done differently was waiting until I bought black thread to make this. I got so excited to make it I had to use the cream color thread I already had.

Anyways I am so excited for Halloween this year for some reason. I can't wait for you to see the finished product and hopefully they will turn out as cute as I am imagining.

From Trash to Treasure?

Okay so I finished my little project. I am not quite sure what to think of it. It's cute and has a lot of style to it but I am not 100% sure it's my taste. Anyways for now I think I will keep it and eventually maybe redo it again, maybe this time in red. It's so hard to redo things when you have no idea what yours colors are going to be or if it will go right with stuff you already have. Anyways at least this project gave me a newfound respect for spray paint. We are now friends but got off to a rocky start. This has me going crazy now thinking of what else I can change. I guess I will just wait and see what kind of good deal I can get at D.I.

Best $100 I ever spent.

So yesterday Bryce mentioned to me that he found a great second car for us at a great price. His boss asked him if he knew anyone who needed a car and Bryce started asking questions. The car in question is this beauty below. It's a 1995 Toyota Corolla with 250,000 miles. There is a ding on the passenger door and the hood is kind of smashed. The interior is awesome though and it runs great. They lights didn't work so you couldn't drive it at night. I laughed when I saw this car but what the heck Bryce thought it was a good deal. The best part was his boss only wanted $100. That's right $100 for this beauty. I looked it up on kelly blue book and it's surprisingly worth around $2,000. We have been wondering what to do about a second car since the scooter has gone into hibernation for the winter. When Bryce got out of the car from driving it home the first words out of his mouth were "Best $100 I ever spent." He is going to do a couple of things to it to make sure it will run longer so hopefully it will give us a good year or two. So even though this car isn't the prettiest one I've ever seen I sure am proud to own it!

Embarrassing Confession

So I have a confession to make. I am a stalker. Not like a crazy I'm going to kill you stalker. But a blog stalker. There are some girls out there who I religiously read because they are so creative and have the cutest ideas. Well I have decided to venture out and become like them. They are, after all, my idols. Okay now that you know I am officially a geek I want to show you my first project. I bought these tables before me and Bryce were married when I thought I was going to get a place with my friend. Well they have been used and abused over the years by the kiddos so I decided I wanted to do something new and exciting with them. They are in great shape physically, just cosmetically they have some flaws. I have big plans for these so stay tuned to see what they end up looking like. Below is just one of them but they are identical, except I think the other one has more damage on top!

Amateur Photography

The other day when I got back home from taking Coey to school even though he wasn't supposed to go (oops!) I started thinking about what we could do for the day. I have a really nice camera and never really use it but always intend to. Anyways I decided take the kids to this park I love to see if the leaves had fallen off the trees yet. Every year it is INSANE at how many leaves there are. Well they hadn't fallen yet but I decided to take pics of the kids anyways since they were looking so cute. We went to a few places just so I could get a lot of different shots but many of the pics didn't turn out that well because they were looking in all different directions. These are my favorite of the bunch. I am still planning on going back to the park once the leaves had fallen because it's going to be too cute of an opportunity to pass up. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Picking

Every year we go to the same place to get our pumpkins. This year we did it for part of our family home evening. There is a little cabin not too far from our house and the guy that owns it sells pumpkins in the fall. He harvests them and then sets them out in his yard for you to come get. What I like most about this place is that the pumpkins are not expensive at all. We got four good size pumpkins for only $4.00. Also you can go there and get bails of hay and cornstocks for decorating. This guy is never there so you just take the pumpkins and leave the money. We plan on carving them for another FHE once it gets closer to Halloween. Anyways here are a few pics of the kiddos.

And I'm Back in the Game

So I am completely aware that I am quite possibly the worst blogger ever. On my old website my last blog was Halloween so we are coming up on a year of inactivity. Well I forgot the password to my old website and can't log in so I created this one to give it another go at the exciting world of blogging. I promise to keep this one more updated than the other one. So sorry this is so short but just wanted to give say a little bit before I jump back in with both feet!

Juleigh