Becoming Crafty!?!

I've always liked the idea of making my own cute decor for the house, but I have a few problems with it....

1.  No time!  I know, I know if I don't have time now I never will.

2.  Lack of ideas....plain and simple.

3.  I hate staying in the house for long periods of time until the dead of winter.

Earlier this month there were a couple cold & windy days including Nascar Sundays.  Kent knew the next few Sunday (which is our hangout day) were going to be pretty boring for me, so he loaded us up along with some lumber and took me to Dana's to cut the wood I needed to make my projects.  Pretty cute because he got me all set so I could make stuff while we watched Nascar...so I had no excuse and I started making stuff. 

In the making... 

Fun ornaments!

 Then came some pumpkins that I have been wanting to make.  I saw a similar idea a few months ago on Pinterest.  Love Pinterest.  Without it, I would have no ideas...well not many.

These are my favorite!

I'm pretty proud to say I made this stuff myself.  I have gotten a lot of ideas from googling pictures and Pinterest too, but I still think they are pretty great and practically free other than the paint and wire.  The pumpkins are 2x4 out of my wood pile :)  Now what else can I make?

Halloween 2011

This year I had no idea what to be for Halloween.  We googled ideas, looked at old clothes we had at home, but nothing was standing out.  I don't like buying a costume from the store and I really don't like being 1 of 27 pirates at a party.  Something original was needed and something that people would really look twice at.  HA! 

Meet Willie and Waylon.....

Lacey came up with the idea and we started this transformation less than 1 week ahead of time with a little shopping, rummaging around the house, a lot of cardboard, and hot glue for our guitars.  We had the best time.  Our first stop was Grandma's house, then on to Virgil's....they loved it!  We toured around town to a few different places and eventually made our way out to Skyline where we landed.  I'm not so sure that Tarbet and Scotty were very thrilled at first to be seen with us, but once the party got started they loosened up.

Look at this cutie I picked up!

The group at Skyline...Waylon's done performing for the night

Acting like he owns the place....

Halloween was a success this year.....we didn't make it home til after 2A.M.

:)

Happy Fall, Ya'll

This year I really slacked off on the gardening and didn't grow any of our own pumpkins.  So we made a run to the patch and picked up a few.  I love going to the pumpkin patch so I enjoyed it for a change.  A few days later we ventured out into a friends corn field and kicked out some to decorate with.  I tied them to the colomns on the front of our house, used my cute red pots but replaced the plants with pumpkins and corn husks, and added a few other decorations including my 4th of July star.  I think it turned out really fun and i love seeing it every night when I drive down the driveway.  Loving Fall!