Sunday, November 3, 2013

Halloween

Hello blog! Long time no see!

I've been crafting like crazy, but have not taken the time to photograph things. Most of it has been for work, but eventually I'll get it photographed and on here. I've been quilting a lot lately. The quilting took a back seat, though, while we created our Halloween costumes.

Haven wanted to be Sonic the hedgehog, but that proved a little out of reach. So she decided to be Pikachu and she had her boyfriend, Marius, dress up as Ash, the player from the TV show. We ordered Haven's costume, which is basically giant fleece pajamas. We ordered the hat for "Ash" and Haven made his jacket by taking the sleeves off of a blue hoodie and layering it with a white shirt. It worked perfectly!
 Ethan wanted to be Steve from Minecraft. If you aren't familiar with the game then you probably don't have a young boy living in your house. It's an 8-bit video game that has a crazy following. I can't say I truly understand it's popularity, but whatever. We couldn't walk two feet without someone yelling "STEVE!" all night long!
 I had decided back in the summer that I wanted to be Merida from "Brave." I bought the bow and arrows at the Medieval market months ago. I know the picture doesn't show the elbows, but I got the poofy bits of fabric in there. The cape was a last minute decision, and I'm really glad I made it because it ended up being COLD. Oh, I even wore hair extensions to get the long red curly locks. I couldn't get my hair quite as full as hers... that's computer magic. But the kids knew who I was.
I've been trying something new with scrapbooking. I'm intrigued by the Project Life products we've been selling in our store. They aren't a new concept, but they've really gained in popularity the last couple of years. They are little pockets where you slip in cards or pictures instead of doing a detailed scrapbook page. They come in digital form too. So here are two pages I made using this style.



I kind of like the clean, simple look of it. And it's for sure easier than doing all the fancy layering and all. I haven't done much scrapbooking in the last year, so I guess if this helps me start working with my photos again then it's a good thing.

4 comments:

  1. I love them all!!! You look very cute!!

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  2. LOVE them all Kelly! (what Corinnea said..) All the girls in Jenny B's family wore those fleece onesies for Halloween! I wish we cloud see more of your costume and Haven has a boyfriend?? Is his dad military? Just curious about the leaving thing...

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  3. Great costumes!! I really would love to see more of your Merida costume, what little we can see looks amazing!! The "new" scrapbook style is interesting...I've kind of stagnated with my digi scrapping, maybe I'll try doing a LO or two like this?

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  4. I'm giving the Project Life thing a try, too-- I figured that way I could just print photos and throw them in the pockets and add filler cards as needed and it would be a lot faster! I still have a couple of "normal" scrapbook pages that I'm throwing in here and there, but so far, I'm a lot less behind on things than usual. Hoping that when I get a little more free time, I can get a bit more caught up on some older pages, too!

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