HAPPY FALL YA"LL __

Here in the south we are getting a few days of cooler
temperatures . Sunday it was very hot here .
I have been looking at all the fall decorations and
preparations on blogs , but was really not in the spirit
of Fall . Yesterday , as i was continuing with
that- thing -I am still doing (organizing -- with all I have it
is like trying to organize and store - " 10 lbs of taters in
a 5 lb sack " lol ) I found the tag that started this creation
for a Halloween panel . The little girl below was a tag I
made last year at an ARCHIVERS (scrap store ) during a scrap night
tag challenge -- and I won !! amazing ,as I never win anything ,
So I got to choose one of two prizes -- a $5 item or all the tags created
__Of course I took the tags -- will show those when I find which
storage folder they are in . So I started creating -- lots of the words are
stamped and then layered . The little girl in the hat is very serious is very serious .


I think the little sweet girl with candle
-She is searching for the great Punkin '-
is from Kris at http://krislhurst.blogspot.com
and on her halloween c.d. -- She is so talented
and a very special blog friend. I have some great
fun things that I bought from her - as well as several
c.d.'s of pictures and design elements - she is a photoshop
whiz -- That is what I want to be when I grow up
lol -- turned 61 on Aug 25 -- so better get busy .lol



This crazy smiling cat definitely is hers and really
makes me laugh( he is waitin gon the little furry spider in the right upper
corner -- Need to get hub to cut some wispy
branches ,so I can spray them - hmm now do i want
to make them black --or white or silver - have some other cute
tags to hang , some from Kris and some i created .
Opting for the lighter ones means not having to change it
out for a possible Christmas vignette, gotta add some tiny lights .
I am also doing Teresa 's zine and the first days (MONDAY ) halloween
dec ideas
so cute -- so really into it now
Our family never decorated very much
for any holiday except Christmas ( my Dad built a green house
on the side of our house and grew wonderful things
vegetables , banana trees -and beautiful and exotic
flowers he ordered -- once a bean plant and the beans were two feet long --
I think they were some type of rain forest plant
, we never ate them -so I guess I have
certainly made up for the collecting and decorating since.
* (excuse the glare on the kitty -he is stickled )
( stickles -glitter glue -the best -very fine -lovely with a fine tip )
and I added a dimensional finish to him )


I do love to make Halloween items - don't usually do the witchy
stuff -- but some are so cute . As a child we dressed
up in crazy concoctions out of our Mom and
Dad's closet to go Trick R" Treating , and makeup
for our faces was the best part especially being the girly
girl I am . Costumes and decorations
were not in every store at that time -- Our
school would have a Taffy Candy -sale in the fall -to raise
funds -- we sold the huge sized ones - sweet
-taffy pieces -wrapped in
just a waxed paper twist - vanilla , chocolate and
strawberry - so yummy -for .50-- what a
bargain . Needless to say , my parents paid for quite a few
as we got them to sell door to door -none of this
ordering and in a box or shipped - Kinda unsanitary
and crazy to my thinking now -But they were hard
to resist -- nothing tastes like those did -- most ingredients
were the real thing not man made flavorings ,
Thanks for going down memory lane with me . Now
I need to go in the kitchen or to the store -- I have a strange longing
that I do not think my pantry or any store can
fulfill -- but Chocolate is always a good substitution--
you know it should be on the top of the food pyramid
--(any children reading this cover your eyes lol )
It could be one of the food groups -- it could cover three -
3 mind you --- white , dark , and milk chocolate --
Glad to share that little known fact -as I have never seen
a chocolate I didn't like -- even the choc .covered
expresso beans --yumm -- OK _ too- de-loo -
off to shop --Blessings-- Kathy