Happy Halloween

from our Family to yours .

 This is our Pirate Family .

Miss. Serious Pirate 
you may have to walk the plank if she's in charge.

 And this one may put the sword to your throat .

The jacket was not part of the costume but went well together for a chilly Halloween Evening . 

 sitting on my treasure keeping bad guys away !

My hubby whom wore brown nail polish cause his girlies told him he had too .To look like he had dirty finger nails. 
hope you all had a safe and happy Halloween too. 

Crafty Goodie bags

the girl's made these cute ghost by using Kleenex, sharpies , twine & alittle help from mom .We put these in our goodie bags for the party .

 Are they not cute ?

I remember making them as a girl too.
 

SO MUCH SPOOKY

I have thought and talked about having a Family Halloween party since well when I was a Saskatchewan girl and only had one child . Now I have four children and live in Manitoba . I have been inspired to do things now TODAY .
First of all I can say I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween and that probably easily comes from my mom . THANKS mom . ONE disadvantage of being on the farm is we get NO tricker  or  treaters , which on the bonus end of that means both hubby and I can dress up and go out with the kids . So we make sure every chance we get we make special treats for special people around us too . So we will share those crafty ideas with you all too .
 PARTY details .
THE Bones Family will be hosting their FIRST (hopefully annual ) Halloween Party .
I have obliviously had ideas in my head for a very long time .I really have not been sleeping the last few nights . Planning all the details to the food , decorations , family costumes (god forbid we wear what we will be wearing on the BIG night ) , goodie bags , the games and entertainment . I have been up real late getting all my FINE details hammered out. I will be HAPPY :) to share all my details of the party this weekend . Last night I have been trying to get the house all decorated so I will leave you with a sneak peek of this .

                                                          (This is my creepy Wreath )
 Our Party is Friday evening and I will be gone for the weekend but plan at this point to do some pre posts on my blog while I am gone , unless of course the ZOMBIES take me away before I can do that and if that is the case well .......
I guess you will have to wait until Monday .

Craft Weekend PART 2

I have finally posted PART 2 of CW .

As mentioned before this was a outstanding weekend .

Much needed .

Much deserved .

Helpful

Learned

Dreamed

RElaxed

Embraced

ENJOYED!

 EAT .Well that's what we exactly did . I think that is the BEST part of any crafty weekend . All women know the appreciation of GOOD food. So any crafty weekend I go to MUST have good food. I have even been known to go to crafty retreat for the food.

 Apple pie that was still warm from the oven . YUMMO !

 Breakfast Tea , yogurt , granola and doughnut.

 The "FAMOUS "  CW meal : chicken enchiladas , corn salad , & margaritas. It did get a little WILD this night we had balls flying into the margaritas. Pompoms to be exact .

Breakfast last day .
I must of been so hungry and forgot to take pictures of supper night 1 and cheesecake night 2 .
The food was oh so delicious .
THANK YOU very much to this lovely lady .

The another highlight would be the antique hunting .

 Look at that pile of "junk " some may say . But if I had a truck there instead of flying I could of cleaned that up a bit.

 Meg  took this beauty home.

 I love love these chairs .

 I need one of these too .

My sis  and me @ the barn . Aren't we all cute .

Bird eye view of all our goodies together  . I am thinking we cleaned up in the barn for sure .

well going to leave you all with this for now.Desperate for more.....
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TO BE CONTINUED again................

Thoughtful

             {LOVED}
Getting a random thoughtful gift from a friend for no reason but because she misses me 
Extra special because its hand made . 
That's the way to my heart . 

Happy Mail

We are sending some extra special happy mail today .I love sending mail( the old fashion way I guess my US crafting friends would tell me ) even more when I know little people are going to be receiving it.

 Here is our invite to Our Halloween Party . I

Jimmy turns 7

Jimmy really worked this photo shoot for me like a rock star . Loved that he was willing to do anything that I asked of him .  

 He brought along his hockey stick with him .

 Jimmy had a special request to take picture with his grandpas old car which was a pleasure of mine to do that for him . 

 Hope he will enjoy his sneak peek of his pictures. 
& 
Happy 7th Birthday buddy . 

My crazy kids.......

 Vann may look terrified in this picture . Maybe being squeezed too tight..

 These are some silly pictures of them . I do not think this boy ever has a day that he does not have a scratch , bump or bruise on his face . Must be a BOY thing.

 This was a crazy silly face but whatever tickles your fancy I guess.

 I crazy little girl loves crawling in her brothers crib with him .

 Just hanging out .

 I think she's about to get her hair pulled . HEHEHEE..

Izzy dressed her self this morning . What a outfit !
It was nice taking in these pictures in our green room . As it will be getting a paint job very soon.

Happy Birthday JImmy

I was lucky enough to be apart of this fun party . Jimmy turned 7 and to celebrate his mom planned him a plane party .

 LOVE the hat and glasses .Look forward to using these during his photo shoot this weekend.

 The cake  with flying planes above.

 The goodie bags everyone went home with paper and more directions to make more paper airplanes .

                           HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY !

Wreath {LOVE}

I have some major wreath love and then all the amazing ideas off Pinterest are amazing inspiration . I had this idea for a while now and decided to just do it . It was either going to be great success or FAILURE . I love it ! Some may want to add a bow to it but I like it simple. I actually got this idea from a Halloween Crafty book I have had for years.
***NOTE ****
Terrible picture it was late at night and I have really terrible lighting in my mudroom . But you can at least get the idea of it .

I had made this yummy pieroge lasagna today too . Very good , and easy to make .
RATED 5***** from my family.

CRAFT WEEKEND { Part 1 }

I still cannot believe it ! That I have attended Craft weekend . It was everything I hoped for and so needed too.

 A lovely package from Bake it Pretty and a Craft magazine sat on our bed waiting for us . The goodies inside were awesome. Four XL icing tips & a bag ,Halloween picks , & cupcake liners as well as my fave paper straws.

Some of the beautiful decor. that was in the rooms. Most of it was a thrifty find too which is always my favorite things too .

It was all crafty , inspiring , put together  and just so darn cute .

 Lovely working stations and look at our SWAG .

 Close up of the swag !

Munchies and vintage type writer . BEAUTIFUL . WANT ONE . please.
still wandering .......how Ginger made out with her antique typewriter in her carry on bag.

 We were oh so Creative . {love} this banner hanging on the mantle .

 FRESH Flowers  wrapped in burlap with lace trim . This is so my style .

 THE chalkboard that hold all the memories of past CW .

These boots were made for picking antiques on a rainy Kansas day . So sweet and she even made those sweet lace top knee socks or a least did the DIY . Send me some Jamie and Jill . LOVE me some lace socks.

My sis and I standing at a door that was screaming to have its picture taken . Conveniently my sis and I were color coordinated and only by chance . This was at the antique barn . Well I am going to leave you all here with this with more to come .
{TO BE CONTINUED }