Halloween Part 2

Sunday night we finally got a free moment to put up our exterior decorations! I hadn't had a moment to snaps some photos. I wanted to while Henry is up on the latter installing some tulle on the front of the house and our GIANT spider web, but its kinda hard to take pictures and hold a latter at the same time. I would have loved to get those action shots to scrapbook to tell a bit more of a story to our Halloween Scrapbook pages! There is always next year!

So, I tried taking some pictures last night; Halloween Night of the outside of our house. I managed to get one and the battery died. I think its maybe time to invest in another battery for our Canon Rebel! Some days I just wish I had a camera that just took plain old AA Batteries.

Here is the outside of our home at Halloween 2011!

My only photo I got! I'll be snapping some more before we take all down!

Anyways tonight is another night and I won't have the cute little distractions of last night coming knocking on our door trick or treat'n, and I now have a fully charged battery to get snapping photos of some Halloween Layouts.

If you have kids, hope your Little Trick or Treaters' had a blast last night!

It's Halloween! PART 1

Hope you are all ready for the fun night tonight!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

To be honest, I was never a fan of Halloween until I meant Henry! It's his favourite time of year, so now I really like it too! We enjoy going all out on decorating the front of our home and inside too for Halloween and taking a drive around the neighbourhood to see how others have decorated the fronts of their homes! I too enjoy getting inspired by others.

Halloween Decorations at the Store...

It's always fun decorating the store and being inspired with some paper lines that comes in. This year I was inspired by the My Mind's Eye Mischievous Collection of papers for my decorating palette at the store. I wanted to keep with a simple colour palette of Orange and Black against the blue wall above our Fireplace in the front of the store. I thought it worked out perfectly with the colours from that paper line.

I created a 12X12 Collage of paper with a couple of bats for inside my Bella Blvd Wood Handpainted Frame using the paper collection inspired from a layout I had created previously. Who knows I might even work this collage of papers into a layout later with the photos from the store this year!

The bats on the blue wall were found at another craft store and are reusable. The package came with a lot of them on the sheet. I was able to use them in the store as well as at home! I have cut these types of things out of vinyl before with my Silhouette, but wasn't able to reuse them! So I was excited to find these this year! And I just love using Paper Lanterns (these ones are by Martha Stewart and came with the little accessories to make them look like pumpkins!) They are an easy way to accessorize any decor!

I put together a wee little pumpkin from cardstock using the Silhouette Digital Cutter 3D Pumpkin download! Just had to download this 3D Pumpkin onto my Silhouette as soon as I saw it to put together this year for my display! It's just too cute! It would be easy to make if you didn't have a Silhouette too! Instead of using the stem in the Silhouette design, we put some green ribbon it it!

Pictures of my tiny pumpkin made from paper and ribbon and a couple snap shots of the front entrance Halloween Display at Scrapbook Memories - London, Ontario (our store)

Decorating for Halloween in our Home...

I love seeing all the excited little and sometimes scared little faces. We don't mean to scare away the kids with the fog and scary sounds that surrounds our home, just us big kids having fun! I love seeing all the costumes coming to our door to get some candy.

Henry and I really enjoy decorating our home for Halloween, just as much as I enjoy decorating for Christmas! Just wait til you see that! From the outside of our home, right down to our bathroom, the entire main floor of our home is decked out in Halloween. I wanted to share a couple photos I've taken so far of the Foyer of our home... and our dining room table! I wish I had a chance to take photos of everything, but when I am home its late at night and not the greatest light for taking photos! So I'm creating this blog post into two!

Well, that's all the blogging I can do for today! I have a task ahead of me tonight to snaps some photos of the outside of our home and a sampling of Halloween Scrapbooking Layouts through out the years! Looking forward to completing that tonight, and putting together Part 2 of this Halloween Post hopefully tomorrow! Stay Tuned!

So it begins today!

Well, I have been sitting on fence about doing my own personal blog, and I have had this blog address for YEARS waiting to do it. Well today is the day! This blog is just about me, and what I do. My goal is to inspire everyone to CREATE!

Crafting has always been my thing. Ever since I was little, I have enjoyed "crafting" and hoarding my craft supplies. Santa always used to bring me the coolest craft kits. If you ask my cousins, they used to ask to use my craft things, but I just couldn't let them. My excuse was they might of wrecked it and it had to stay perfect! It just couldn't be used! I didn't learn to share very well, but I am much better now. Where I am originally from, NO ONE is called by their given name, just all nicknames, well mine is "Marda" aka Martha Stewart. I like it, it suits me!

I'm still a hoarder of crafting stuff, but I sure do a lot more crafting then when I was little and had to keep it all PERFECT and not used! Scrapbooking is my thing! This blog is going to hopefully inspire so many people to preserve their memories through scrapbooking and that show you that handmade things are COOL!

Alright well thanks for reading my first blog post, I am now excited about it! See you all VERY soon!