Meet Sophie Rose!

Meet the newest addition to our family........Sophie Rose. She is the sweetest most cuddly puppy!

Home Sweet Home

All of my herbs in my wonderful new flower boxes.

Spring is here and it's time for front porch rockin'! I love sitting out here in the afternoons. The breeze off of the lake is amazing.

Valentines Swap

Along with the beautifully created heart, she also sent a ton of ephemera!
Wonderful Jullie (Shabbyjules) sent me this beautiful Valentine for the Vintage Ephemera Swap "Sweets for my Sweet". She also designed my new awesome blog. Thank you Jullie!!! I love my new blog.

Moms old house

Moms old house
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While I was visiting all my relatives in Michigan, I took my mom by to see the old farm house she grew up in. Everything was so beautiful covered in snow. I just wanted to move right in. What a wonderful place this must have been to live in.

Part of tree zip tied

Middle section ready to be placed
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The magic of zip ties

Finished
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Last year, as I was trying to figure out how I was going to get this enormous tree in a storage box to store, I came up with an idea. Zip Ties! My husband, the collector of all things junk, had a huge bag of zip ties sitting on his desk. Perfect! So, I carefully straightened each branch as best I could. Then, with the help of my son, took each section starting with at the top, pushed the branches up and inward and zip tied the branched to the center pole. We did this all the way to the bottom. The tree fit perfect in the box.

When it came time to unleash the beast, all I had to do was cut the ties from each section starting at the bottom and fluff the branches. This could not have been any easier. It only took me about an hour to get the tree set up. Now it's time to decorate!

Hugs and Kisses.....

Hugs and Kisses.....
Originally uploaded by the sweet life creations

I just love doing these jars. I found the idea in an old BHG book that I had. They are so easy and quick!

Materials needed:

Clean canning jar or other clear jar with lid
Black acrylic paint
Lime green nail polish (or other spooky color)
Sponge for painting with
Small plastic spiders, bugs and snakes
Black tulle or mesh
Black ribbon
Tag
Hot glue or other clear drying glue
Hershey Kisses

Instructions:

Paint the outside of the jar and the lid with the black paint using a sponging technique. Using the same sponge, splotch the green nail polish over the black paint. Let dry. Cut the tulle or mesh into square to fit between the two pieces of the canning jar lid so that the mesh hangs out of the sides a bit. Fill jar with Hershey Kisses. Glue bugs on outside of jar. You can also add little snakes for the "hisses" part, but I didn't have any on hand. Of course, I did glue rhinestones to the back of the bugs just to give them a little bling. Decorate tag with poem to say "Hugs -n- Kisses, Bugs -n- Hisses" and add ribbon and tie to the outside of the jar.

These are easy enough for the kids to help with.
Happy Halloween!