Happy Birthday Zoe!

So hard to believe she is one year older! Time flies when you have more than one little one to keep up with. I seriously feel like the days are zooming past too quickly. Sometimes I just wish they could slow down, just a bit. Today we all went to the pumpkin patch & got our pumpkins for carving. Then we took the girls to a lovely little park near the river. It was a day filled with special family time. Just what Zoe requested. Tomorrow we will have her birthday dinner and I am making a yummy Scotch Chocolate cake. It's an old family favorite. Of course she will get to open her gifts & then blow out the candles. I just found out tonight that Zoe shares her birthday with not only her uncle Isaac, but a few of my cousins too. Kind of a fun little fact. Hope you all had a great weekend.

P.S. SALE!!!!! SALE!!!!! SALE!!!!!

In the shop!

For every $75 you spend you get a $25 dollar discount!

So head on over and pick up a few things for you or that special someone in your life. Don't see what you want? Let me know. I love commissions!

Lots of Work

Found via flicker (Halloween in the time of cholera)

I figured I'd drop a quick little hello & share the above photo. How creepy & cool is that? Love these old Halloween photos of kids in costumes. There is something so haunting about the masks. Masks are super weird to me. Since the eyes are the window to the soul it bothers me when I am unable to see them. Gives me kind of an uneasy feeling. For some reason I'm super hooked on these old images. You can find old Halloween photos for sale on ebay but be forewarned they are a bit pricey. The least expensive one's I found started at $8 & went up in price pretty quickly. I am going to keep my eyes open for some of these lost memories of the past. Always makes me a little sad to think that no one wanted these old photos. They are someones memories. Somehow this makes me feel a little better about giving them a new home.

So I'm off to get the little munchkins into bed then work on some art. I will have a shop update on Monday along with a Fall Sale! So be sure to drop back by. I promise you won't want to miss it!

Weight Loss Wednesdays

Hey you guys! weighed myself last week and the results were unkind! Ugh! gained 2 pounds. So that's the bad news. The good news.....I started running in the mornings! Melanie & I walk the first mile to warm up (our walk is a fast walk). Then we do fartleks. They are really great for building muscles. When I ran cross country in high school we did them at most practices.

The running has given me the renewed energy that I needed. I look forward to workouts. There is something so relaxing about running. I look forward to the day I can run the WHOLE 3 miles & then some.

Hugs to you all! Look forward to visiting your blogs later tonight. Happy Wednesday!

Spooky Spider & A Witch Hat

"Spider"

"Mrs. Witch's hat"

Both in the ::shop::

I'm heading out the door in a while to teach my very first scrapbook illustration class. I'm a little nervous, but more excited than anything. Wish me luck!

P.S. Speaking of luck, I won two other giveaways in the past week! I won the darling Halloween giveaway from Sweet B & some amazing fabric from Sarah Fielke of the blog The Last Piece. It is so pretty & I can't wait to make a quilt out of it. I will post pictures as soon as they come in the mail.

Giveaways

How cute are these adorable fall baskets? You can win them ::here::

Go ::here:: for this cutie pie snow slug from the talented Hine Mizushima

Go ::here:: for your chance to win this adorable handmade lion from the talented Nicole.