Lucy

Here she is.....with her crooked nose. I attempted to fix the nose by recutting the piece and sticking it together with a pin, I don't think the end result was all that successful. Oh well, lesson learnt! The patterns are from pumpkinglow.com, a great site. I was thrilled to carve lucy's portrait, I've been a fan since I was 14 years old.

ps. trying to upload pictures tonight has been one problem after another. So the images look all off centered and weird. I'll try and fix that later!

Happy Halloween!!!

A couple more pics!

So last night I started pumpkin carving. I took my time and carved what I thought would be a great pumpkin. Unfortunately my moment of being completely satisfied with my work was VERY short lived when I illuminated my pumpkin. I had accidently cut off a very important part of Lucille Ball's nose :O So I've recut part of the nose and stuck it in with a pin. It ain't pretty, kids. If I have the courage to post pictures I will. My sister said she looks like Gilda Radner,ahaha

Little Vanilla Vanilla Dreams.....

Here they are.....yummy :D

Billy's Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes

I'm SO exhausted, my legs actually ache. And it's not like I was exercising, I was making cupcakes!! Let me tell you, it was no easy feat, two and a half hours later........pretty little white cakes with a beautiful creamy vanilla icing sat before me. They really are cute. I'm too tired to take pictures right now but I will tomorrow. And I may be tired by I really did mean to write vanilla twice,ahaha

Pumpkin Carving

This one is from last year. It was the second time I've had done any sort of scrapping, it was tedious and took forever, as I did not have the proper tool. So this year I will be heading to Home Depot to find a lenolium cutter. We've been carving pumpkins for the past seven years or so. It all started when my sister and I found a site called "Keith's Pumpkin Portraits" and were astounded at the pumpkins he had carved. And as luck had it, he had a few patterns on his site as well. Luckily the patterns were of the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz, one of my favorite movies :D that was it, I was hooked! and now look forward to Halloween every year.
The patterns are relatively easy to do bit take a fair bit of time and LOTS and LOTS of patience. You can't rush them, as I have tried in the past and something always seems to break. It's important to do a lot of scrapping inside the pumpkin before beginning. If the pumpkin walls is too thick, it makes it incredibly difficult to poke the pattern as well as to cut the pieces out. Don't be discouraged if your pumpkin looks like absolutely nothing while carving, the magic begins when you light it up and finally all those pieces you've been slaving over, come apparent.

Abraham Lincoln:

I finally remembered my password and username for this blog, I can't believe I forgot it :O I was starting to worry I'd never again be able to update. So I've been so slack in posting anything. I had a wonderful dinner party a month or so ago. I can't wait to do it again. Here's some pictures from the soiree.


I started decorating the night before, I couldn't wait. In some ways, the only downfall was that the summer days are so long and as such, the sun sets much later. The room looks better when the sun has gone down, creates much more ambience.


I made these paper flowers out of tissue for about 50 cents a piece. Martha, darling Martha Stewart wanted $32.99 for a package of 4, I think not.


yah see, daylight isn't quite the same.


Flowers from the garden :O Which turned out a million times more beautiful that I had counted on. When things turn out in design, I find it's from playing rather than planning.


The table all set, pictures never give it justice. It felt so warm and nice. I couldn't have been happier with how everything turned out.

Yellow/Brown

Photoshop has been trouble lately, as I'm loosing some of the beautiful saturation which only seems to exist in pds form and not jpg, oh what to do?! The image below is FAR paler than it should be, which makes me sad because the colors are quite brilliant in psd form. Any suggestions?!

Color is an incredibly important element in design and by far my favorite. I've always been attracted to bright, lively colors. I think I was the only girl in grade 5 to have bright green runners, I quickly learnt that they were far from cool but couldn't have cared less because I loved them!
So I created this tonight, I would like to do a series of color variations. Here is, Yellow and Brown!