Kristens Krazies

....Happy Halloween.....

The Scarecrow wins....The Scarecrow wins......the curse of the Sleeping Beauty costume is broken...... The Scarecrow Wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

...Look what I got today......

How awesome is this card??? I love it...One because it is from my friend Karen (Miss Iowa to you !!) and Two it is for Halloween and it had candy in it!! Can it get any better??? It actually had two pencils which although I fought valiantly to hold on to, they seem to have disappeared with Riley, and the Kit Kat that was in there, I foolishly left in to show Riley how it fit into the card and then I had to split it!! UGH! I hate sharing chocolate!!! Although I will expect her to share all her loot tomorrow night with me no questions asked. I mean all that candy will not be good for her!! So with my tummy only half full of Kit Kat I will say thank you again to Karen for such a wonderful card and tasty treat..........

...Not for the faint of heart.......

What I am about to show you can only be described as the scariest pumpkin this side of the Mississippi (according to Riley that is ) She thought and thought for a good 30 minutes on how she was going to carve her bad boy, and then I couldn't help but laugh out loud when she turned the pumpkin around and showed me the evil scary design that she came up with.

I especially love the heart nose, that thing actually terrifies me... LOL .... I know you are all probably quaking in your chairs right now as to whether or not you are quaking in fear or from trying to hold the laughter in I have no idea....

....Showering a little M & M love on you all .......

Here's the Before:

 

And now for your viewing pleasure the After:

These are the favors that I made for Jamie's baby shower this past weekend. I love that we had it in October, because the pink M&M's are actually the breast cancers ones that are only out in October for Breast Cancer awareness month. Thank goodness she is having a girl because it would have been a heck of a time trying to seperate all the blue ones out of the regular bags. I borrowed the idea from a baby shower website online and I must say they are super cute and really easy to make and they were a huge hit at the shower, everyone loved them, then again, get a group of women together, and throw some chocolate in the mix and really is anyone going to complain???

.......If I only had a brain......

Here is an example of the conversation that took place in our house last week.

Me: "Riley what do you want to be for Halloween?"

Riley: " A Scarecrow"

Me: "Are you sure ? "

Riley: "Yes Momma I am sure"

Me: "Are you really sure, because I am going to go out this week and get your costume"

Riley: "Yes"

Items needed for a scarecrow costume

Overalls. Check

Flannel Shirt: Check

Extra Flannel for patches: Check

Big Black floppy hat: Check

Straw for stuffing : Check and Double check

Crow: Check (cause of course you have to carry around a crow right ? )

So I come home tonight, Riley is getting stuff ready for Girl Scouts tomorrow night there is a Halloween party, now its supposed to be 80 tomorrow way to hot for overalls and flannel, so I tell her to find her costume from last year, see if it still fits and she can wear that. She finds it, it fits and then I hear her utter the words that I think every mother cringes when they are spoken outloud, " Momma, I changed my mind, I don't want to be a scarecrow anymore, I think I will just wear this again", I'm sorry, I must have some hearing issues Riley, I thought you just told me you didn't want to be a scarecrow anymore, let me go clean out my ears and we can try that again, nope she is still saying the same thing, Scarecrow out, Sleeping Beauty in. Nice, now if I had taken a minute to think about this, I should have known that it was way too early in October to be comitted to a costume, but here I was trying for once to not be that Mom on Halloween, driving all over everywhere trying to find that costume, but I should have know better, for two reasons. One it was two weeks before Halloween and no kid decides that early, and Secondly it was too easy to find all the things I needed for her to be a scarecrow...........

Well Hello again from the Land of the Lost

Wow.. I feel hmm lets see..how exactly do I feel...a little smushy, a little tired and a whole lot of frustrated. I am finally back online after a week or so of having no internet access on the lap top, my desktop is a pitiful machine,, kind of reminds me of the Commador 64's from way back in the day. I found a job and lost a job all in a 24 hour period (never trust the temp agencies), My Jeep is in the shop getting a new steering rack (nice huh ?? seeing as it is a 06' and it seems a little early for major problems) My sister's shower is this weekend and I feel like there is so much to do, but it's already done and I am still postivie that there should be a cake although no one really agrees with me, I say if it is a party there should be cake, am I wrong? Riley is home "sick" from school today, its amazing how quickly the recovery time is when you hear the bus pass by the house!  When I was younger, I can remember my mother saying, "one day you will have a daughter and she will be just like you" and my 13 year old self saying "yeah right", but here I am today with a seven year old daughter who couldnt be more like me if I spit her out of my mouth...same attitude, same mannerism's..and even the same old "my throat hurts Mommy....I can't go to school today"..and now almost 20 years later... I can imagine myself uttering those same words to Riley...One day you will have a daughter, and God help you if she is just like you.........

....Exclusive Sneek Peek....Shh Don't tell anyone

Ok, so although my new full time "Job" has become searching for a job, I have managed to neglect many things (mostly the dishes and the dusting) I have however manages to remain crafty. I made these for Jamie's baby shower invitations. I love love love them, I had so much fun making them, I am thinking I need to go out and find more pregnant women so that I can make some more. I used green and purple b/c those are the colors of Patience's room and it has a butterfly theme, again Jamie has decorated her room with these awesome butterflies...threw on some ribbon and these really cute "It's a girl" (God I hope they aren't wrong!! LOL) and last but not least I used my Cuttlebug, have I told you how much I love my Cuttlebug? No? Yes?? Well it bears repeating, I heart my Cuttlebug (now if you are not a crafty person that might sound a little perverted trust me , its not... So now that they are arriving in mailboxes all over New England, I can safely post them and not worry about Jamie seeing them before she is supposed to!!!