Finally Halloween Pics / Just Call Me Lady Luck

Oh so much more happened on Halloween than you can see in these photos!

But let's start somewhere! Here is the lunch table for the adults. Finally I can show my friend Junie the table decorations made using her pattern. The witches hats were a hit! Each of the three families we had for lunch took one home as a gift from me! I also made one in a different fabric for my daughter's preschool teacher. Not pictured here is Ella's Halloween "parade" which we and her grandparents attended.



Here's just a sweet picture of Miles spending time with his paternal grandpa!



I had so much fun trick-or-treating with the kids! Here is a fun moment with Miles and I. Not pictured is the dancing he did in front of the house that was playing music.



The kids loved trick-or-treating. It was the first year Miles understood what was going on. What is not pictured is Miles crying his eyes out because he didn't want to put on the costume and me forcing it on him. Don't worry, he was quite happy when he figured out what this was all about!



Finally, this is the third year Ella has helped pass out candy. Not pictured is when she went away to get a treat and Jason and I were busy and Miles took over without us knowing. He just got right in there and did a great job!



So that was our fun Halloween. We let Ella carve (or patch as she calls it) her pumpkin yesterday. We were so busy that we didn't have time before or during Halloween.

I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I cleaned up my craft area. Jason helped get the kids' baby clothes and the rest of the garage sale leftovers ready for charity to pick them up tomorrow. I have ALMOST everything up on EBay. What else? I hope to soon find out if any of my crafts sold in Indiana this weekend at my friend Gail's mother in laws show.

AND FINALLY. I had a rough week, but God is looking down on me and has blessed me with good probabilities this weekend.

1. I won the neighborhood bunco on Friday. Not to mention I had a blast with the gals AND some of them are interested in my bags. They want me to bring them to Nov. bunco.

2. I won one of 2 gift baskets at a vendor show my MOMS club held to raise money for a women's shelter.

3. I won another bloggy giveaway. A cute Hello Kitty necklace to give to my daughter Ella from Co Co Kisses.


Isn't it cute? I might have to borrow it from time to time. ;-)

One thing I have learned lately is why not enter drawings, there is always a CHANCE! Not to mention the more you enter the better your chance of winning something. Not to mention my husband has the best "luck" in the world and it apparently it has rubbed off on me! :-) I never used to win anything.

Halloween Cards!

Card Swap with Junie Moon!

Well I am super busy today and just taking a breather, so pardon me, but I'm going to use a photo from Junie Moon's blog of the card she sent me that arrived yesterday! The moon! How appropriate, don't you think? We agreed to exchange Halloween cards a while back. It was so nice to get such a gorgeous card from my sweet sweet blog friend. :-) You can also go to her blog to see the one I sent to her. I think she is a little too hard on herself for the card she sent. I love it and more than that I love that it came from her, such a special woman! It also feels nice to be referred to in an entire entry on her blog. blush...

Here's how she did it (in her words):

I printed the card front and back on my computer and enhanced with just a touch of glitter and glue from Martha Stewart. The back is all black and has a quote written in white from John Kendrick Bangs:

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts—
Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
Along the moonlit way.

It's still amazing, I don't get how she got the white moon on the black paper, or did she print the black background on white paper? And if so, why doesn't it smear? It's an enigma! :-)

I don't consider myself any kind of expert in paper crafts, but I hope to improve my skills in that area. For now I'm off to sew up some witches hat table decorations from a pattern by Miss June herself!

THANKS JUNE!