you have to see this!

Girls.... Look at what my friend Amy Powers has been up too! Clickie right on the piccy! and away you'll go to a super cute and inspirational place!!!

have fun!

WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!

We spent the weekend at my aunts lake house creating sweet halloweenies! And we had an awesome time~ I'll just let the pictures tell the story~

THE CREATORS

THE MESS

THE CREATED...

THE PLACE

THE SKELLY PAJAMA PANTS!

Oh what fun it is to hang out and create with such like minded people!!

fun weekend ahead!

yeah! its friday. I have to go to work for most of the day, but then I'm off for the weekend! these three friends of mine and I are headed off to my aunties cottage on beautiful seneca lake for a weekend of halloween crafting. I'm sooo excited to go. I'm pretty much packed my whole craft room lol!

not really, but everything remotely halloweenish is packed.

One of the girls going (above) is a flickr friend of mine. We have been swapping creations for over a year now on every holiday! And have been wanting to get together to create stuff.. and what better time then for halloween!

yay! Kelly cant wait to meet you in person.

You may recognize her as Kelbug from flickr.

And this raving beauty is a dear dear friend of mine.. we are like kindred spirits.. we both love to make things and understand each others obsessions related to creating. Wanda.. oops.. I mean Brenda, is very creative and makes gorgeous quilts.. you should see them all.. hell.. you should see her house at halloween time.. she has a HUGE wonderful collection of halloween decorations.. alot of very vintage pieces.. And her house is perfect for displaying them all.

Then this friend Sandy, has been one of my besties for many years as well. I just loves her to death. Our families spend holidays together and our hubbys are good friends. Sandy likes to create too, but isnt obsessed by it. She is probably a little more balanced then most of us, and has other more realistic priorities!

any ways.. so off we go! I'll be back sunday night (hopefully) with lots of pictures to share of halloweenies created!

til then..

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

i WILL BE!

so long summer....

Hope everyone enjoyed Labor day today. We had a great afternoon of picnicing with family. All the kids and their boyfriends, girlfriends and a few extras came over for a nice cookout.

We had burgers and hotdogs, cheesy potatos, pasta salad and corn on the cob..
followed by brownies, choc cake and ice cream!
(hey, try not to notice that house in the background.. its been vacant and uncared for for about 20 years! I would rather have it like that though then to have some one live there! lol!)

The kids tossed the football around and dug out skateboards and skated in the street.
lol! I say kids, but the youngest one is 21! not really kids anymore! Anyways it turned out to be a nice day. Was supposed to rain, but all we ever got were a few sprinkles.

Saturday, my daughter jen and I met up with Jenny (be cheery)

and Natalea (Kandeland) for lunch and a little craft supply shopping! it was great to see them. I'm so glad that I was able to meet these girls. If it werent for blogging I may never had known them! Natalea brought her crazy daughter Scarlet with her. She is a character!! I know she keeps Natalea in stitches!

So that was today and saturday, then there was yesterday.
I dont know what got into me, but all of a sudden I realized that the next 4 or 5 weekends are totally filled and that I wasnt gonna have time to get my halloweenies out! so I decided to get everything out and get busy with halloween decorating. I decided when you have so many cute things, you need to get it all out and set up early so you have time to enjoy it all.. whats the sense of having it out for a couple weeks?? So YUP! its Halloween time at my house. I had such a great time opening up all those sweet halloweenies that I havent seen since last year.

This picture above was after unpacking the first of 6 bins. It took me from 1:00 in the afternoon until 11:30 last night to get everything out and set up. When I get a new holiday or season out.. I have to put the old one away! so I had to pack up the stuff thats been out all summer. A lot of work! but now other then the front porch, Im pretty much done!
Look at these sweet Lori mitchell dolls! I had put them on layaway months ago and forgotten them. I finally picked them up last week. Arent they cute?! Ha.. but I have no where to put them!

I have a busy week in store.. need to get caught up at work first of all.
but also, I'll be going away this coming weekend to my aunts cottage with a few girlfriends for a weekend of crafting! I am so looking forward to going! But I have a lot to do to get ready to go.
I hope all of you had a great weekend. I'm pooped! (sort of like figgy and frannie)
I hope you all know that I've been blog hopping but not leaving comments this week. NO time! but I have been trying to keep up!
also.. I'm about to hit 500 posts in a couple weeks. I'm gonna try to think up something special to celebrate! 500 posts.. and I'll be 50 years old very soon... eiy yie yie! Where does the time go?
Okeedokie.. I have to get off this crazy computer. I have things to do!
have a good night everyone!

woohooo! bathing beauties!!

(I had to post this small or it would cut me off! of all the nerve!
I think if you click on it you can see it larger!)
ARe we hot or what! ? LOL!!! When we went to ocean city this summer, I dont know if I told ya's or not, but it was Senior week.. as in just out of high school, not as in senior citizen! anyways, we were surrounded with beautiful young bodies.. and yes.. I will admit it, we were feeling a little jealous!

We made "friends" with a bunch of the kids that were staying in the same place we were. They were there to have a good time and a good time they had! We had a theme song for them and we spent the week singing the Whos ♪Teenage waste land.. its only teenage waste land♪ the kids would stop to see us everyday, sometimes sober, sometimes not! We were the minority for sure that week. They called us the cougars! lol. I wasnt sure I liked being called that, but they meant it in fun. The guys stopped to see us more often then the girls, (yeah, thats cause were so hot! not!) we reminded them of their mothers and they just liked to check in with us! lol!
Anyways, one day on the beach, the girls asked me to snap their picture. so I had them doing all kinds of fun poses, and they were all adorable and had the cutest freaken little bikinis on! I ended up telling them we thought they were all adorable and that we were really jealous because we used to be them! Then I asked them if we could take their pic, and then have them take our pic in the same pose so we could photoshop off their heads and put ours on instead. They loved the idea... and this picture is the end result!
Thank you God for photoshop!
LOL!
Thats all for tonight guys, just wanted to share this picture! hope you get a good chuckle out of it! see yas later!
OH yeah.. you know it.. we are hot! LOL!! What a blast!