Halloween Paint Can!

Happy Halloween!

I found these cute little clear paint cans at a store near my home called "Beverley's." It is a great craft store! Personally, I like it better than Michael's. They were on sale for under $2.00 a piece. I used the Spellbound papers made by Making Memories. The patterns are: Glitter dot black, Polka dot stripe, Argyle and Glitter Crow. You can see them here:http://www.makingmemories.com/Products/detail/spellbound-paper
The ribbons I used for my can are here:http://www.makingmemories.com/Products/detail/spellbound-trims
and also I used some that I had already had on hand. I cut the bird's tail end out with an X-Acto knife so it pop's off the can and crafted a tag behind him. We had some Halloween candy that had bones for the sticks of the Lollipop's. The packages they were in matched the papers. When you are doing a project like this always pull colors from the packaging. It just makes everything look more professional. I believe the monogram metal "H" is also Making Memories. It was something I had already laying around and placed it over the first H on the clear acetate tag that said Happy Halloween.

My Daddy's Card

I'm ba-aaaaack!! I finally went through my stamping boxes and unpacked them. I still do not know where I will put everything but I usually wind up on the floor stamping anyway. Until I get some shelves and a desk that is were I will be for now:o)

My father is turning 73 this month! He loves the fall so I wanted to make him a card that reflects the season. He is not a cutsie birthday card kind of guy:o) Daddy I hope you do not peek! I usually make Halloween cards with this set but wanted to see it in a different way. This is one of my favorite sets! I used iridescent ice on the background paper and the face of the card which I would normally use on winter cards. I really liked it on the fall card. I used chocolate chip and naturals Ivory card stock. Also, a Basic Grey green paper in my stash. I used the water color crayons and colored the pumpkins then glassy glazed them. The little metal leaves I had found at the 100 Yen store while I was living in Japan.

Our Home...

This is the house we are scheduled to move into in a week. We were able to talk to the couple that live there. They were moving their household goods out when we stopped by. They let us take a look around the inside of the house. Very nice. The kids are so excited! No more hotel rooms!

Lover's Point Beach

The Housing in Monterey for military families...

This is the housing for Monterey, California. It is extremely nice! They even edge and mow the front yard for you. The grass is treated so it is so thick and green. In Iwakuni we didn't really have any grass and couldn't grow any either! We are still waiting to get into our home. Living out of hotels gets old fast. It should be soon though... hopefully. We rate a four bedroom home because of the size of our family. When we arrived they looked to see if there were any four bedroom homes available for us but all they had available were three bedrooms. And none of them are vacant yet. They said the soonest three bedroom would be ready by July 4th. I am not sure how that is going to work out for us with four children. Shelby is so much older than Tiffany that they really shouldn't share a room together. We are praying that a four bedroom comes available before we move into the three bedroom on the 4th. We need all the prayers we can get. Please, pray for us. Can't wait to get back to stamping!!! The pictures below are just four of the styles they have here.

Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Carrow's for lunch then off to the Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Monterey Bay Area

View of Lover's Point Beach

Old Fisherman's Wharf

Monterey Harbor

Sea Lions in the water