My House Fall decorations....

I love all Holidays - I love to decorate my house for each & every one.  My kids love it.  It's fun plus a good reason to shop to find cute things for my house.  So here is what my house looks like

Mantel

Mantel up close - I found most of this stuff at Marshall's - they still have a great selection.  Hubby says he can't find 2 of my Halloween boxes in the attic.  I think he just gave up it was too hot up there.  Fall has yet to hit TX!

Here is my entry way

Up close of the items on my table the 3 pumpkin guy that says "boo' lights up it's super cute at night.  The other pumpkin lights up too but I forget to turn him on a lot

These guys sit on the landing of our steps.  I made the topiary last year there are even purple light inside. 

Next to the TV

The Outside

 And a Spider climbing the side of the house

Thanks for checking out my house

Pinterest Thursday - Halloween Bottle

There are many free printables off of Pinterest. So I searched out a few.  I took an old Bailey's bottle that I got from my parents house last weekend.  It had expired in 2008 - WHAT - They don't even drink no idea why they had it but in trying to make room for something in the fridge I came across the black bottle - SCORE! 

Here is the before -

I printed the label, cut it out, a little bit of Modge Podge and it was done and it looks pretty cool on my mantel. 

Pinterest Thursday - Monsters Jars

It's time for another Pinterest Project.  I found this project here.  So we went to town with our tissue paper & mason jars. 

I had hot pink & blue paper so well that would work Lolly loves pink & Tater loves blue really I could not go wrong here. 

Supplies:
Any jars
tissue paper
modge podge (MP)
black sharpie

So paint your MP on to your jar just a thin coat really - also don't do what I did...I stuck my hand in the jar and painted the whole thing with the MP - well you really need 2 hands to lay the tissue paper on to the jar to make a flat surface. Not funny at the time now very funny.

Once you have a good coat then lay your tissue paper onto the jar.  Again don't follow my foot steps and try to move the tissue paper around ... it tears..where you place it is where you place it.  Which is fine you can go back and add more paper.  I ripped the blue paper I can not tell you how many times because I was all I can do this and would try to move it - DON'T move it.  I pre-did this part for my kids.  While Caden is old enough to do this (8) he doesn't like it when his hands get sticky and it throws him into a tail spin so I just did all this ahead of time. 

Then cover the bottom and the lip of the jar.

Once you have the jar covered in the tissue paper do one more coat of the MP all over the jar just to be safe.  

I gave my jars like 3 days to dry it was a very humid week here.  As you can see I have notime to wait I want to go, go, go and was having to come up with ways to get them to dry....

Get your sharpie in hand a paint on your faces. The kids got to pick their faces & got to color them on all by them selves. 

It was a fun project and both kids loved it so a huge success!!!



JBF Sale Fort Worth

Today is drop off for JBF Fort Worth from 4-10 tonight.  I am going to be brave and take both kids with me to drop off.  This one is HUGE.  It's at Will Rogers you have to pay to park big deal.  HUGE - BIG awesome stuff.  Great deals.  I always shop the half price sell at Ft Worth.  Such good deals.  It runs 2 full weekends.  I'm also working inspection & breakdown.  Yeah I'm craxy. 

I have not consigned here is years.  The last time I did it was a horrible mess so I just stuck with Grapevine.  I love Grapevine but hey the fall sale was in July - so all my stuff was ready to go still packed from pick up so I went though my stuff that didn't sell in Grapevine, sprayed it all with Downy Wrinkle Release. I let it all dry & did a repack - 1 suitcase, 1 laundry basket & 1 diaper box - not too much stuff. Unlike the Grapevine sell that was 2 XL suitcases, 4 laundry baskets 4 diaper boxs plus Mr. Workaholic's truck completly full. 

Here is my trunk all full & there is still room -

I have my fingers crossed for $100 I am working 12 hours so I get a better commission rate to make that $100.  Go buy my stuff so I don't have to do pick up. 

Pinterest project Wednesday

Today I embarked on an easy pintrest project. As I am trying to make/do something I have found on Pinterest at least once a week so today is Squishy bag day

I wanted to make something for Tater. So I did some searching and found one that I though might work for him and his spelling homework. The idea originally came from here.

Things you need:
Gallon size bag
Hair gel
Glitter
Glue Gun

How to make it:
Dump the hair gel into the bag. I used about 90% of the hair gel. I bought blue since it's his favorite color. Sprinkled some glitter inside and mix around to distribute the glitter and then seal it closed with your glue gun and there you go. Can you see my "J".  We will see how he likes it....

UPDATE: Tater didn't like it at all for spelling he just liked squishing it...until it popped a hole - so not so fun. 

Sell by date vs use by date....

In my world the sell by date = the use by date... plain and simple.  I don't go by that the item is still good 5 days after said date.  It is bad come midnight on said date no ifs, ans or buts.  It is BAD!  This rule was set in stone in my mind when growing up all the food in our fridge would be bad.  It's just my mom - she doesn't toss stuff until it's W A Y past the date.  And yeah there have been some McNasty things in that fridge. 

So I have these school bus cookies that we bought at back to school time they came with 2 box tops - dude that is big time.  So I think hey I need to make those cookies this week - what a good afternoon treat on Friday.  Nope not gonna happen they go bad today 9/21/11 - so what am I doing right now - backing a whole bunch of school bus cookies that Tater & Lolly can have after school today.  But I promise you one thing come bedtime tonight those cookies will be going in the trash because they turn into trash come midnight tonight. 

Oh Pinterest - What a place to spend H O U R S & hours

I like most women in the US am on Pinterest - I love it.  I spend many an hour on there finding all sorts of goodies.  I have made a few things too.  Which is the point right. 
BUT
and I have to be honest here - dude if you pin something link it to where you found it not the just the picture.  Drives me nuts to find something super cute and then it's just the image really now I have to go to google and search it out - I'm lazy so yeah I don't google. I just whine to the dogs - why oh why only link to the photo.  Then also don't get me started on the websites that you really can't pin from - why block - I hate the no large images found here error - I get that a lot.  I'm not a fan of that error not at all.  Makes me twitchy. 

AND

label your pin with what the photo actual is I need a description just 'oh cute' doesn't cut it for me.  Yeah I can make my own opinions I wanna know what it is you don't have to get all wordy but just a few words plus when I decide at 4am to do some searching on Pinterest because the Lolly got up for the 5th time and my mind is running when I search I wanna be able to find your cute find.  If it is a photo of food tell me what it is so I don't have to click the links.  I wanna know I want quick easy information.  Yeah I'm a dork like that. 

Ok rant over but really I have much love for Pinterest.  Find me here