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This past halloween was the second year that we have let the children go trick or treating. I had a few simple rules for their costumes, 1 They had to be creative and 2 They had to be cheap or homemade. This is what the end result was. Treanna as a Jedi Knight. She originally wanted to be Shaak Ti but struggled with the time to get my help making ...

This seems almost like a dream. Especially when just this last week I took this: While I am excited about November, Summer seemed just like yesterday. Tomorrow I shall post Halloween costumes!

The children both seemed to enjoy the Bento lunch. Honestly in some ways I found it easier to make and get ready than the standard lunch. I think part of that was just that it was fun and I had stuff for Bento. I did not have everything needed for the standard sandwich, cookie, carrots, and some sort of cracker/chip lunch. Treanna has Hello ...

I don't know that I talked about the release of Harry Potter 7 and events surrounding that. First off we did go down late to the big Borders store in the Redmond Town Center. I was amazed at the sheer amount of people there! The children wanted everyone to get dressed up. Devin and I went as muggle parents of a young witch and wizard. The ...

Ok I have had several requests for a picture of my newest haircut. This was taken by Devin yesterday morning just after I did my hair. You cant really tell just how curly it is either. I had put my hair up in pin curls and just lightly fluffed it and this was the result. I love the shorter hair and am loving the curls I can get.

I took some pictures of the back garden on the 15th. It is still pretty weed filled but I liked a lot of the flowers. Granted these are not in their prime most of these are a bit on the spent side of blooming. Anyway here goes: The above picture is a photo of my Malva along the back fence. I was really pleased at how well it did this year. ...

So today's blog post will feature 2 different pictures. The above is the picture from a few months ago of the new windshield going into the Ford Focus. It was really cool to watch it. It has also made the Focus much nicer to drive. Besides the Focus is all our now! The next pictures is one of the chairs from the dreaded chair project. This ...

Yesterday afternoon I had a hair appointment to get my hair trimmed. It was getting pretty long and fried. See:   My hairdresser cut a good 5-6 inches off since the bottom 4 inches were shredding and splitting terribly. We then decided to cut a few more inches off for good measure as I really wanted some a bit different. Not too short but ...

It was really a wonderful evening. It was nice to be dressed up and spending some time with my husband. I got to meet a lot of the people who talks about and has worked with. Many of them live all over the world. He told me there were people from 90 different countries there! That was pretty impressive. So was dinner and drinks among the ...

Yeah! Alaric is feeling better so went back to school yesterday! It is so nice to see him better since he was pretty sick. Just Saturday morning all of the sudden he seemed to breathe easier and everything. He still tires easily but not as bad as he was. Friday night my brother Jon and sister Becca came to visit and spent the night. It was ...

My Mother was up last week as she had a craft show. Remembering that I had been to the Flower and Garden show she brought me an awesome present. A HUGE bag of bulbs. At least 14 different kinds. I am going to plant them in pots and try either forcing them indoors or seeing if they will bloom outside. Either way they need to get planted soon ...

Well after a nice rest and decent night of sleep I am ready to start the second part of the show. After resting Friday and doing my work at homewe got ready for Saturday. We were up rather early for us on a Saturday but didn't really get there until 10-11 a.m. We parked and then went up to the convention floor. We took an unconventional ...

First off as I was getting over being sick I had to rest before and after each day I went. I was lucky enough to go 2 different days. Once with my friend S on Thursday where we left early and came back before the kids got out of school. Then I went on Saturday with Devin and the children. I spent most of Friday recovering from Thursday as that was ...

This week has been a bit busy. I ended up picking up 2 lovely medium blue armchairs for Devin's office. I still need to head over and give them a good cleaning before he can use them but they will look very nice in his office. Treanna had a choir concert last night which was quite lovely. I could tell that the kids have been working very ...

I am just currently kind of proud of myself and amazed. Not only have I been able to do more crafting but the house has not suffered from neglect while I have been doing so. Even after some company I only need to do a few dishes. Granted the kitchen and bathroom could use a sweeping but they could almost always use a sweeping so no big deal. I am ...

Today was a good day. I got to go shopping all by myself and take as much time as I wanted. I went to a little gift shop in Redmond I keep meaning to check out called the RoseTree cottage. I then went to Borders where I picked up 2 books I didn't have as well as the new UK Country Living. For lunch I went to the British Pantry in Redmond and ...

I have been working on long neglected tasks in the last 2 days. My entire goal for the weekend was to clear off the top of my craft table. It took quite a lot of work and I am not finished with the area but I hit my goal yesterday. See!!! I don't think it has been that empty for months. That bright glow is the lights reflecting off a clean ...

Unfortunately it has been slightly crazy. I forgot to post a picture of the yummy dessert my girlfriend S brought me for my birthday. It is a mousse filled chocolate teacup! Plus she had a gorgeous little teacup wall pocket for my dining room wall as well! Here is the teacup, it was yummy and very rich! The cup part was dark chocolate. ...

Today did turn out to be a wonderful day even if I did discover that my turn signals were not functioning that well on my little mazda. I ended up going into the office with Devin. Partly so I could have lunch at the Olive Garden with him but also so I could help him put up his office decorations in his new office. We had a wonderful lunch where ...

I normally don't actually post about my own birthday, however for some odd reason I am feeling really good and just want too. Today I am 34 years old. I don't feel old and am actually very happy. It was a bit strange hearing on the radio this morning about how the highschool I graduated from had a shooting. Like I said I am just feeling ...

Devin linked to a free image manipulation called paint.net on his work blog (e)mail insecurity. Well I discovered that I do not have photoshop on my computer like I thought I did. As I was helping clean up some pictures for my friend S I needed it. Since I remembered Devin talking about paint.net I went to the blog post and followed the series ...

A couple of weeks ago I picked up some magazines from Freecycle. I am not one to normally just go pick them up but I saw that special keyword of "Victoria" so off to Sammamish I went to get them. It was a nice drive and when I got there the piles were huge! I ended up picking up all the Victoria magazines hoping to fill in the last 4 ...

I have added pictures of my tea party, the kitchen window with my repotted plants, and my new China Cabinet to my photo gallery. You can view these pictures here. If you go here you can get the recipe for the lemon lavender cake. If there was other information you wanted about my tea party or china cabinet just drop me a note and ask! In other ...

After working on it a while I finally managed to get my camera to sync up with the computer so I could upload all of the photos. The one I am going to link to below is the children this past Sunday which was Pentecost. They both got dressed up a bit in some of the new clothes they were given. The kids all dressed up! I figured the ...