halloween tree part 2

Last year, I made this really cute Halloween Tree for my table. I pulled it out this year and have been adding to it...we've had a lot of really cute new Halloween stamps so my tree needed an update!

Here are some of the new ornaments...


This one features our Mummy single.









These three images are from the Hallow's Eve stamp set...





This crow image is from the September Monthly Mix set...Something to Crow About.


I love Halloween decorations!

mummified

I played with our little Mummy stamp yesterday and can I just say that I think he's one of my favorite Little People to date? We are debating weather he is technically a "Little People" or not because you can't see his face. I think he is. He's just been mummified! Poor guy. I also used the tree/graveyard image from Hallow's Eve and I stamped it right on top of my patterned paper.



Another thing I discovered is that it looks cool when you put clear buttons over patterned paper. See how the words show through? It's a cool effect.



Supplies:
Stamps: Mummy and Hallow's Eve (tree/graveyard image)
Patterned Paper: Making Memories Halloween Large Dot
Buttons...orange and clear


My family keeps asking me to post photos of my newly decorated living room...so here they are. I told you I love Fall colors! It's so nice to have a fireplace again too. I feel like a fireplace really warms up a room....in more ways than one. :) This is one of those cool electric fireplaces...it has a remote control!








See that adorable daisy chair in the corner? That is MY chair. Mommy's chair, Tricia's chair, Lizzie's chair, and all the ways I am called. NOT the kiddies chair. I LOVE my chair...it's so me. I bought it at Pier 1. Pier 1 has so many fall-colored things in the store right now I could spend all day in there. Dangerous I tell you (the other chair is from Pier 1 too!) But look how cute my room turned out! Things left to do...1) paint crown moulding, 2) paint the leaves on the tree that is sitting on my fireplace gold. That is a metal tree that we bought for CHA one year when we were exhibiting...we hung little stamped samples all over it!

it's the most wonderful time of the year

...typically when you hear these words, a song plays in your head and you think of Christmas. But for me, Fall is the most wonderful time of the year! Especially this Fall...we are having an Indian Summer here in Seattle and it's been just lovely. The leaves are turning colors and there is that Fall smell in the air but it's still warm enough to BBQ and eat dinner ouside on the patio. Brilliant!

The other thing I love about Fall is Halloween. I just love Halloween decorations, they are so fun...I got stuck in the Halloween aisle in the grocery store today for about 30 minutes. I picked up a copy of Martha Stewarts Halloween magazine and bought ingredients for pumpkin spice cookies. Mmmmm. And -- even better -- I stamped a Halloween card today with one of my favorite images from the October Monthly Mix! I drew this image awhile ago but didn't really have a place for it to live, until we created our eclectic Monthly Mix and now my cute little pumpkin guy is in rubber where he belongs! I used a glitter pen on the spider web to make it spider-webby (that's a word, isn't it?!)



I finally have a bit of breather...we've been getting ready for our Fall stamp release! Plus my son started school and I've been helping design the PTSA website, I've been helping a friend launch a purse biz (there is a little blog banner for her store, Purseonality, over there on the right if you want to check it out) AND I just finished decorating my living room, something I've been wanting to do for the past year. It looks so awesome, I'll take photos soon and post them...I still need to paint the crown mouldings and then it's done.

I decorated my new living room in Fall colors, of course. :)