Showing posts with label Halloween crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween crafts. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Pumpkin Patch!

SO I have been super busy this week between working, baby-sitting, and the craziness of life! I have had a great week and a lot of it has to do with my wonderful husband!

On Saturday I had to work my usual shift at the coffee shop and David decided that he would take me out on a date day!.. I LOVE HIM!... I was giddy all morning waiting for the the date to begin!

I made us some coffees and we hit the road... David decided to take me do Red Lodge. For those of you reading who are not familiar with the town.... its a little ski town about an hour out of Billings! IT is really cute and has lots of great shops to look at. I always look forward to our road trips. I think it has something to do with the extended amount of time with my wonderful husband!  We had an amazing hour of uninterrupted time to talk.... Can you guess that one of my lovely languages is "quality time"?  It was a chilly day so I got to sport my black and" p-coat"and boots!

When we got into town we had lunch at Bogarts. Its a cute little restaurant on the main street that is based on the famous actor..Humphrey Bogart.    And while we were waiting on our food we decided to Google Mrs. Bogart and found out some really fun facts about his life! David and I are always wanting to learn new things... We also had a differeance of opinion about what the first Disney Movie ever maid was.... I thought it was BAMBI... I was wrong(I hate having to admit that) and Dave was right..The first Disney film to be produced was Snow White in 1937!

When I was growing up my sister, Arianna, when to that movie in the theater! It had to be one of the times the re-did haha! But my memeory of seeing this movie then was looking over and seeing my sister with Wide Eyes, standing up watching the preview for the" Hocus Pocus" (trailer I couldn't find the same one but her is one anyway) and during one part ... The Red Head Witch gets really big on the screen and says that" BOOK" Thats when my sister (age 2 1/2 or 3) looks really close at the screen and then is so scarred! haha.... looking back now its really a funny memory. And I wish we had a picture of that moment! but we don't...

Anyway... Back to our Date (can anyone say bunny trail?)

After lunch we walked up and down the streets going into the little shops... we went in to the Swanky Fork and I love the color of the stores walls.... They are like a deep blue..almost navy blue but not quite. I hope to paint one of my kitchen walls that color!! If I do I will be sure to post that process!

If you asked us what we did in Red Lodge our answer would have to be..."check out all of the stores bathrooms" hahaha between both of us I am pretty sure we saw most of the public bathrooms there! haha we must have had too much coffee and water..

When we heading home we got in the car and did a U-turn from our parking spot to go the other direction.... Ops! And that U-turn happend to be illegal and a office was there to watch the whole thing... So we had to sit and wait.. but the officer was really understading because we really didn't know it was illegal. And we only got a warning! Thank you Jesus! .... David made a comment about how its fun when you get warrnings because you can talk about it but not feel so upset because of the ticket.. I am not sure if I totally understand that but I do know I was much happier knowing we were only getting a warning!

On our way home we decided to stop at the Laurel Pumpkin Patch!  And I would have to say I had so much fun!  We ran out in the pumpkin patch and looked for the perfect pumpkin to bring home with us!  Here are some pictures of our fun Day!




haha the pinecone on the window looks like its part of my hair!

I love this bench!

We liked how this door was painted!



Look at this one






Look at this little guy!


I can't find the perfect one yet

These ones are cute








 We found our pumpkins and are now all set for our Pumpkin-Mainia on Friday!! Hope everyone had a great week! Please keep praying for our friends in Ethiopia and stay up to date with what they are doing here

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Tuesday FUN

Well its Tuesday Again!! And I am babysitting.  This morning we went on a wonderful fall walk!! look at these beautiful pictures... I love how fall is so colorful and the temperature is mild !! It totally puts me in a crafting mood!



From my earlier post you will remember that I have been Crocheting like crazy this past week and I even was able to make a Puffy Slouch Hat by following this Pattern. It turned out really cute... but I think I used a larger gauge yarn than she did because mine is so BIG! haha and maybe its because I have a small head that it looks so big.... So then I decided to try it again but just decrease it by a few stitches.... Bad Idea ... i can't even get the hat on!! So i think I will stuff it and make it a really cute throw pillow! haha I will update this post with pictures sometime soon So you can all see it.  maybe it will turn into a really fun mess up!

Today while Babysitting I decided we needed to do a cute Halloween Craft...

Earlier this year... sometime around Spring.... I cleaned out all of my craft drawers and put together a bag of "stuff" for the kids I babysit!  It was great... because 1) i got rid of lots of things I never used... and 2) I have a great pile of craft supplies when we are in the mood to make something on Tuesdays! it was a WIN WIN decision.

Back today... I dug through the bag and found some pipe-cleaners, googly eyes, and then some paper cups from my Bridal Shower... hehe..

Because Halloween is right around the corner I decided it would be fun to make "cute" Scary Spiders!

  • First I poked 8 holes around the lip of the cup... 4 on each side for the legs.
    • I wanted to have him decorate the cups with spots or mod podge scraps of paper on the cups to make them cuter... but Jantzen isn't really Big on crafts....
  •   Then I cut 4 pipe cleaners in half to make the legs and inserted one into each hole in the cup. 
    • I twisted the legs together on the inside of the cup so they wouldn't fall out
  • Then I had Jantzen put on the googly eyes and then we drew faces!!
This was a really quick and easy project....HOPE YOU LIKE IT