September 30th...WOW!  Where has this year gone?  I am in shock that today is the last day of September.  Now I love fall.  Fall and Spring are my favorite times of the year.  I can still wear long sleeves and turtlenecks without sweating to death.  But boy this year has just flown by way to fast.  

It is time to close up the pool and tear the vegetable garden down.  It was an okay year with our garden.  Lots of tomatoes but my green peppers didn't get very big.  I enjoy making stuffed peppers in the winter and this year my peppers were not even close to being big enough to stuff.  I think we need to get some fresh dirt in our garden next year.  We do miracle grow and fresh horse/cow manure.  Thanks to my brother who has a farm we get the freshest manure you can find.  I do feel bad for my neighbors when the wind blows in their direction after we put down a fresh layer. :)

Hope you have a great last day of September!

Lulu

Treat Package

I've been busy this past week at my crafting desk.  It felt so good to be at it again.  J's lunch group at school decided to have every Friday be a treat day.  Each week a different girl would bring a treat in for everyone.  There are only six girls so it isn't too bad.  Well last Friday was J's turn.  This is what we did...

I picked up Rice Krispie Treats and wrapped them with a fall colored cardstock.  I stamped the cardstock with ink from Stampin Up and the stamps were from My Pink Stamper. 

Have a great day!

Lulu

Homecoming 2013

Isn't this cute?  It's "ask a date to homecoming" time.  And these days it is no simple request.  It seems that the boys have to do something special to ask a girl to homecoming.  This year MJ has a special girl in his life so we went shopping and he found a very nice and simple necklace to give her.  (Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the necklace...oops.)  He asked me if I could put a box together with "Homecoming?" on it.  This is what I came up with.  He wanted it to be very simple.  I found this small gift box at Michael's.  I cut "Homecoming?" at 3/4 inch on my Cricut on brown cardstock. I then used cream color cardstock to go behind it and cut it to look like a gift tag.  I also used brown ribbon (from Michael's) around the box.  I went around the lid taping the ribbon to the inside.  I did the same with the ribbon on the bottom of the box.  I wanted to incorporate his school colors onto the gift since he was asking her to his homecoming dance.  And by the way...she said yes.  

Lulu

Hi Everyone!

I have been MIA because I have been enjoying the end of summer.  Kids are back in school.  Football has started.  Fall travel softball has started.  It keeps us busy but not crazy which I like.  If you read my earlier blogs I am still busy deep cleaning the house.  I finally finished the kitchen.  That room took forever.  I went through every cabinet wiping everything down.  Now it is off to the family room where my craft desk is.  My desk has turned into the drop everything on desk.  So hopefully I will have that room and my desk cleaned off by next week.

I am so excited I finally placed an order with Stampin Up.  I have never used their products before but have heard so many good things. On a sad note I haven't ripped everything open yet because my desk is such a disaster.  But I am looking forward to putting together some Halloween items.  I'm thinking goodie bags for all of our neighbors' kids.  We have quite a few little ones now on our street.  The little ones are so much more cuter than the teenagers. HaHa. :)

Is anyone else putting together anything for Halloween?  Or does anyone have any suggestions for handouts to my neighbors' kids?  Let me know.  

Lulu