Man it feels good to be back

Im Baaaacckkkk!!

My deepest appologizes for not posting for so long.  I sorta dropped off the face of the earth for a while.  Things got a little hectic in my world so blogging to a back seat, more like a trunk seat. 

What have I been up to, you ask?

Oh man, lots.

A few months back I mentioned that my hubby and I decided for me to work part time for a little while.  Well that lasted about a month and a half.  It proved to be too much for me with there only being 24 hours in one day.  Ha!  By the time I would lay down in bed at night, I was already dreading the next morning.  Since I wake up at 6:30 every morning anyways, there just wasnt enough time in the day to get everything done.  My husband said I had all the emotions of a pregnant woman and wasnt even pregnant.  So, I quit today.  No hard feeling with the company at all, which is great.  They have been great to me and they said I could come back anytime I wanted.

Plus, if you can remember, right before I stopped blogging, I had a brand new puppy come into the picture.  That was a rough first month with him.  He was peeing and pooping all over the place.  I think I had a little seperation anxiety too. 

Here are some pictures of us over the past two months.

My postings should be a little more often now that I have more time on my hands. 

It feels great to be back!!

This was us at the park a few weeks back

A family trip to the pumpkin patch

Some pictures of Bentley

 

Guest post from Handy Man, Crafty Woman

Hello, I'm Laurie from Handy Man, Crafty Woman. My husband Rob is the Handy Man around here. We do lots of home renovations. Our first two homes were built in the 1800s, and we gutted them and fixed them up. We always tried to keep our renovations "true" to the period of the homes. Our current house is newish (1995), but still needed a lot of work! While this house is about 90% complete, we still have plenty of home and yard projects to keep us busy.

We have a nine year old boy (aka Handy Boy) who also keeps us very busy. I am an avid scrapbooker as well; I used to teach scrapbook classes, and I still attend scrapbook workshops. Some of the other crafts I do are simple ones that Handy Boy can do with me. Many of my crafts involve scrapbook papers and/or tools.

Handy Boy has been hounding me lately, asking "When's Halloween?!?!" He is 9 and has a better sense of time than younger kids, but a month still seems like ages to him.

I decided to make him a Halloween Countdown chain. I have made Christmas countdown chains for him in the past, so why not Halloween? This was very easy to do. You could also make a countdown chain for a birthday, or a big trip, using different paper.

I used 12x12" scrapbook paper. I chose Halloween colors, and cut them into 1 inch wide strips, using my Making Memories trimmer. You can buy this trimmer at craft stores. I LOVE THIS TRIMMER! I highly recommend it for any kind of scrapbooking or paper crafting.

Here are all of the Halloween colors I used. Different shades of orange, gray, brown, black, etc.

I stapled all of the rings together. After, I noticed that some of my scrapbook paper was white on one side, but Handy Boy won't care. He'll take one ring off every night before he goes to bed.

Here it is! I decided to make enough rings for the rest of September. Why not? Handy Boy loved it. I was going to work on this when he came home from school today, but I couldn't wait. ;-)

Thanks Laurie for Guest Posting!!