I'm Back!!! Its Halloween Time!!

Yeah!  I'm back.  I hopefully am forever done with radiation.  That...kicked my rear end.  I do not wish that on anyone.  But, I am ok now, just trying to get my thyroid meds regulated.  It looks like that may take a while, but meantime..
Halloween is coming!!  My favorite time of the year.  Everyone is making these cute little princess shoes, well, I made my own pattern and made Halloween Witch's Boots!  You like??

 I made 12...I am going to a scrapbook crop the end of this month and these are going on the tables for centerpieces.   Going to fill them with candy.

 Here is my first one I made for me.  I added an extra toe piece to make it point up.

 For the same crop, I made these tags that are going to be attached to a brown paper bag and filled with popcorn.

 And witch's brooms!  These are made with purple licorice.

 Here's a closeup of the broom.  I made a total of 75 of them!!

Hope you like!!

Monthly Journal and Goofy Kid!

This would be my youngest.  Those were the hats they wore to go down to the water front at Treasure Mountain Scout Camp.  He had a wonderful time and earned 11 merit badges.

 So, I was able to finish my three next months of monthly journal.  Its the second installment.  I totally redid July.  I thought it should be with stars and stripes, so here is my version.

 Here's my August.  The blue is the pocket and the other blue is a photo place.  Mine of course is still different than the original.

 Here's September.  The back of the paper had these cool glasses and sneakers.  Just what you want for school, so I redid this layout also.  The original layouts are at ETM.  You can check hers out if you want to.  the open space on the right, is for a photo too.

Hope you like!

Hello.  I've been gone for a while.  With good reason though.  I have been busy though.  I made these little boxes of chocolates for my neighbors who have been bringing my family food...

 I copied the design of the little flowers from the SU catalog.  It was just too dang cute not to.

 So here you can see the box before I get the chocolates in them...

When I'm done, I am going to stamp a saying that says, So Grateful in the centers.... just no pic yet...

 a few more...

 I've been making these when I get a chance.  You see, earlier this summer, I got diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer.  The good thing is that it is totally treatable.  You just have moments when you don't think that it is.  I have learned that it is going to take a good while before I feel like me again.  Shoot.  But first I had to have surgery to remove the dang cancer.

 Here's my new neck smile.  I am so swollen, that I have wrinkles in my neck.  The doc said that the incision was only 1.5 inches long.... um, I think I am taking a ruler to the doc appointment to show him what 4+ inches looks like.

I'm very tired...not sleepy, tired.  But its because I don't have the right meds for my thyroid yet.  I am on a low iodine diet for several weeks, awaiting my iodine radiation therapy.  So, we shall see what happens next in this adventure...
On a funny note, my friend told me that after I am radiated, that I need to go to the airport through security so I turn on the alarms.  He said I should just run through them a couple of times.  Yeah.  I'm thinking about it!

Birdie recipe binder with rose ribbon

I made a new recipe binder.  This one just has pockets in it, and I decorated the pockets.  That way you can put in recipes you print off of the internet or ones that people give to you.  It also gives you the option of making 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch recipes and putting them in the clips.

I didn't label them, I left that for the owner to do...

Here's page one..

 page 2

 page 3

 page 4

 page 5

 page 6

 Here is the front of the binder

 the side seam

 and the back of the binder...

hope you like!

Finding Good Journal

Over at Express the Moment, they have a new kit. It is a Finding Good Journal. Each quarter you receive 3 two page layouts, each having a pocket in them. For the first time you sign up you also get a scrapbook, and a finding good journaling notebook to use.

So, I journal every Sunday. It helps me to remember what when on during the week and it is helpful to use if you need it to figure out when exactly something happened. So I thought this project would be a great one for me to do. (plus, I asked her to do them! :P)

I went ahead and got the kit. It started with the book, the front page and then April, May and June. The next installment isn't until July of course. It was really nice, it came with color copies of what the layouts looked like and instructions.

I threw those away. :)

I love the challenge of using what I get, and coming up with my own idea. So here's mine!

This is the cover page...

This is April...
May's
June's
Hope you like mine!! Hop over to ETM and check out what they have!

Hershey's Nugget Tins

I found me some tins the other day, and so I got busy doing a project for Easter, I thought I would share with you!

Hershey's Nugget Tins. Here is my favorite one, I love the bright orange color.

These tins hold 12 nuggets. I cut coordinating paper and wrap them around each chocolate and put them in the tin.
I made 15, but I'll only show you a few of them...



Hope you like!!

Umbrella Card

My friend Joani sent me the most beautiful card the other day. I didn't have the same supplies she did, so I used what I had. Not as pretty as her card, but not bad.

I used the new umbrella set from the mini... I colored the umbrella with chalks. The paper is from the sellabration catalog.

So here is mine...

And here is Joani's. She used the paper that went with the set. I love the dark brown on the card and the die cut she used. Don't have the die cut...shoot! But I loved her card.
Hope you like!