Christmas Fun

I am so excited! I found all the boxes of Christmas crafting fun and swap stuff from last year! I unpacked everything and layed it across the eight foot table in my craft room just so I could look at all the pretty Christmas items and I left it there for about a week.



I'm loving all the bright lime greens and vibrant reds. That gives me an idea for decorating one of my trees! I'm thinking pixies, vintage santas, silver tinsel and those wonderful Christmas lights that were so popular when I was a kid. I think they are called C9 lights. I have boxes of those I have never even used! So now it's craftin' time! So much do do, where do I start?

Wonderful Holiday Giveaway!

Hey everyone! Castle and Cottage Blog has a fantastic giveaway and it's really easy to enter. The winner will receive a $40 gift certificate to her Etsy shop. She has some pretty amazing items there! The drawing will be November 14th at noon, so don't wait!

Joli Paquet trick or treat swap

My partner Wendy told me she likes the traditional colors of orange and black for her Halloween decorating, but she is really getting into purple and green too. So with that in mind, I created some goodies using those colors I was sure she would love.

I also included some supplies she can use for her own creations.



Of course, I couldn't forget some sweet treats for her to snack on!

Joli Paquet Trick or Treat Swap

I only joined 2 Halloween swaps this year since I was so busy with some other work projects. I joined the Joli Paquet swap which was a lot of fun. My partner Wendy made a really cute bag and filled it with some wonderful treats!
I can't wait to get started on the cute little mini tag kits she included. And the shimmery material gives me a great excuse to get out my sewing machine and make something special for next year. Thanks Wendy for all the wonderful Halloween goodies!

Goodbye Halloween 2009...

Once again, Halloween has come and gone leaving behind tired little ones with belly aches from the buckets of yummy candy and sweet treats devoured throughout the evening.The creepers have left the building, having done their jobs of lurking, crawling and spooking.It's time to say goodbye to Halloween 2009....

This ole' witch is tired.

Sophie's ready for Halloween!

Sophie
Originally uploaded by the sweet life creations

Ok, so trying to put a witches hat on a 7 month old Lab was not the easiest (nor smartest) thing to do, let alone keep it on her. Lab's are notorious for chewing and eating anything in sight. So why would I think that mine would be any different? She was a good sport about it though. Maybe because she was tired from running in the yard and decided not to put up a fight. Maybe she just decided to surrender thinking to herself "my idiot human has her camera out again and if I don't give up now and just wear the damn hat, then she is going to make me do some stupid trick.....sigh."
Good news is, we both survived and she only tried to eat the hat twice!

Halloween 2009

Once again, Halloween has crept up on me. So many things to do! It's is a race against the clock to get everything done that I had planned. The problem....I get distracted easily.......I will start to decorate a corner of the house, need some tape, glue, wire, etc., wonder up to the craft room, and 2 hours later come down and tell my husband "look what I made!" Completely forgetting about the project that I started down stairs. So what am I to do? I guess I will have to make Halloween year 'round!