Mini Album

Here's the mini album I made for my next door neighbor. They went on a cruise to Cozumel and Progresso. She's giving it to her room mate for Christmas. I have added binder rings and some ribbon as a final touch.

Stupid HTML

I spent the better part of 2 days trying to change my blog, but I have no idea how to keep my widgets when I change the layout. So I've been browsing the web and I have found how to change the column size (sorta) and the background and the header (good to know!!). But not how to change the color of the columns (because I hate a white background) or how to use a premade blogger layout (from somewhere like pyzam) without losing all of my links. Grrrrr

Can anyone out there help me?

Harvest Crop

This past week was the first ever online crop at Noel Mignon. There were daily challenges, games and prizes. I got 3 out of 6 layouts done, and I won a RAK and a prize! I also preordered Noel's latest kit, Winter Weather...which are now sold out! Here are the LO's that I did, and I'll post the kit and prizes once I get them.

Festival

The first weekend in November is the Peter Anderson Festival, and its another one that I love and wait all year for. Like Cruisin the Coast, each year it gets bigger and bigger. Martye and I took the babies and stayed for the whole day. I was sooooo tired by the time we went back to the car. But we had such a good time.

For lunch we took our food to Marshall Park and let the babies out of the strollers.


Dylan and AbbyEli

Checking out something beyond the fence.


Eli wants to see it too...


Abby doesn't want to be left out...



Here's some of the goodies that I got...and now I'm broke! lol

Marlin Miller is an artist who has been carving some of the trees that Hurricane Katrina damaged along Biloxi beach.
I got one of his carvings and talked with him some. He and his wife are very nice. Lauren and Marlin gave each other a hard time. She asked him about doing a little bitty owl carving and he showed her a twig snake that he "carved". He even signed the bottom of the Egert.
Ocean Springs Harbor by Linda Theobald. We already have one of her prints with the Barrier Islands. And Craig and I love just about any artwork that is about OS Harbor.


This is a photograph by Steve White. It's the buoy on Horn Island. Isn't it gorgeous?? I believe its the same buoy that we saw on the island after Katrina. I got a t-shirt from him as well, and we already own a print of the Golden Fisherman from him.


I got Lauren a tie-dyed bag and a pair of earrings that I can wear with my scrubs at work. Oh and I got hanging made of driftwood and a ceramic fish. Now I have to get all these framed and figure out where to hang them all!

Busy, Busy, Busy

Between my job and Craig working out of town, I have been going non-stop. Me and the kids have been doing so much, especially on the weekends. The first week in October is Cruisin' the Coast. I looooove Cruisin'. I can't wait for it to come around each year. I really enjoy the muscle cars of the 60's and 70's...Cameros, Corvettes, Mustangs...and especially this Nova which reminds me of the one my dad had when I was a kid.



Lauren likes the older cars of the 40's and 50's (?) Especially the ones with flames painted on them.





And we all love the burnouts that they do...



The last couple of years Mom and I have been taking Lauren over to the Mobile Fair, but this year it just wasn't possible. So we tool both the kids to the Church of the Redeemer fall festival and pumpkin patch. Lauren got her face painted.



Both of the kids played games like feed the pumpkin eater and cake walk (mom won a cake on that one, YAY mom!) And they got to walk around the patch and pick out pumpkins.







And of course, there's Halloween. Lauren and I painted the pumpkins while Ethan was napping. It was nice to have a little bit of time with just the two of us.





Here's the finished products...The little pumpkins have faces on both sides of them.



Lauren dressed up as a pirate...Think Elizabeth Swann from the first POTC movie when she stowed away on the ship.

Big Boy here was Superman. I went with something not too hot (do you know how hard that is??!!) and something that didn't require a headpiece.



We piled up and went up to my mom's church this year and did Hallelujah night. We usually go downtown, but with Craig gone this year, I was not carting two kids around that many people by myself. I think they had fun...Lauren gushed "This is the best trick or treat ev-er!!" She's so dramatic.





Lauren bobbed for apples but I didn't get any pictures of it. She came up to me twice dripping wet and dashed off again before I could even think to get the camera. So here's the bucket...



She had so much fun playing all the games. She was trying for 50 tickets so she could get a slingshot, of all things!

I won!!

I entered a giveaway at Funky Finds and won this wonderful print by Jessica Doyle. I am so excited to get this, not only is it cool as shit but it will eventually match my living room. Or maybe my living room will eventually match the print, if I can ever get started painting. She has so many one of a kind pieces of artwork that she sells on etsy. She seems really nice, communicated often with me thru emails, and shipped it fast too. Please go check her out.

Birthday Cards

This is a birthday card that I made for my next door neighbor, Kathy, to give to her roommate, Robin. Kathy came over and picked out things to put on the card and sat with me while I made it. She was so excited and happy to give Robin this card. I am going to be making a mini album of their cruise that they just went on, too. Yay!



This is a birthday card for my mom. Her birthday is in a couple of days and she loves the "cake batter" yellow color, so I chose that for the cardstock. The flower trim in the ribbon came from a nightgown that she just made for Lauren. She gave me the leftovers and I thought it would be cute to put some on her card. I just kinda tied it into the ribbon.