Beautiful Week-end! And some completed Art Projects.

It really was a beautiful Fall week-end. Actually it had a touch of Indian Summer to it. The temps were in the low 70s and the sun was shining. We really haven't had too many pretty days this Fall but this week-end made up for that. I spent most of the week-end working in the yard.
I planted tulip bulbs and pansys at both my house and Moms. I also mulched leaves with the riding mower. We have so many trees and too many leaves. But I enjoyed the week-end and felt very Thankful for it.
I am in a Christmas pennent swap in my Yahoo group. I had to to make 11 pennants with the letter C and 11 with the letter E. I finished them this week-end. I can't wait to get the completed pennants back, I know they will be so pretty. Here are my letters.

The pictures are not the greatest as I forgot to scan them so I took a picture of them with my cell phone this morning. I also made a little hostess gift for the friend who is hosting the swap. Its a paper mache ornament.
Another wonderful occasion that I am Thankful for is that my Football team, The Titans, beat the 49ers yesterday. They are coming back finally!
I hope every one had a truly wonderful week-end. And have a lovely week too!
XOXOXOXOXO

Halloween Party!

We had a great Halloween Party on friday night. It rained really hard but we were in my garage and under the deck so we all stayed dry. The first picture is of Daniel and I. He was suppose to be Jack Daniels and I am a Hippy!

What a handsome couple, huh? LOL! I dressed Mom up as Maxine(the old lady in the cartoons)
Isn't she a site for sore eyes! For a lady of 80 years old, she certainly know how to have a fun time! And next is my crazy Stepbrother. He is a redneck toothfairy!
Just some more fun pictures! The next ones is of Mom and my stepdad. He was Ratman and you can see his tail hanging out of the chair.
Some of the neighbors and kids dressed up.







And the girls had to dunk for some apples.


We all had a great time and its so nice to have such great neighbors too! I hope every one had a wonderful Halloween Week-end!
xoxox

Scary Halloween deco- Image intense

Lady, the Brat Terrorist, wants you to come see all of our Halloween Decorations. We are having a costume party tomorrow night for a few of our neighbors. One of my neighbor friends, Michele, let me use a lot of her decorations that they didn't put out this year. So we are looking pretty spooky at our place.









I will do some more decorating tonight and tomorrow night. I am taking a personal day off tomorrow to make some goodies for the party. And I will make a lot of pics of the costumes.
I spent yesterday afternoon just wandering around the yard making pictures. I had a lot of things on my mind. Sad for my friend Rosemary at the loss of her Sweet Mother, and some other issues that have been overloading my brain. So just walking around and taking some pictures of Nature and Decorations helped me to relax.
Here is some of the last of my roses for the season. My son gave me this Rose bush for Mother's day this year and I Love it. Its a "knock-out" Rose. Our roses don't grow that well here in the south but these type of Roses do extremely well.
Lately I have been so into playing with Photoshop Elements. So I have been trying to take pictures of things that I can use as Textures in my collages. Here are some I took yesterday.




Also I did some Macro shots of my Mums to use as textures.


Also some shots of other plants that are still lingering. I Love seed pods. My perennial hibiscuses have an tremendous amount of hugh seed pods on it. Some of the host a home to a insect colony.


And some pretty fuchsia!


I could see a little bit of blue sky trying to pop out of the clouds. I Love the look of this almost bare tree with the clouds and blue behind it. Another texture, I do believe.

And last but not least, one of my favorite Maple trees between mine and my Mom's house. Isn't it gorgeous?
Well, I probably won't post again until Saturday or Sunday and hopefully with a lot of fun pics of my party! I hope every has a great Fall day!
xoxoxoxo

Great Sadness!

Its with great sadness that I have to post that my dear friend Rosemary's mother passed away yesterday! Please remember Rosie and her family in your thoughts and prayers today!
Love you Rosie,,,,very much!

More Halloweent ATCs

So yes, I have some more Halloween ATCs. I forgot my flash drive at home yesterday and didn't get to post them. The ones below are by April.


Next ATCS are from Blue Wolf:


Next we have Candy's ATCs:

And next is Carole's ATCs:


Aren't these some Scary works of ART? More tomorrow!
Have a terrific Tuesday!
xoxoxoxoox

Almost Halloween

I had a great time being off this past week. Can't believe its back to work tomorrow. How soon is it till I am off for Thanksgiving? LOL. I hosted a swap in my ATC group on yahoo. It was a Halloween swap and I had 15 great Artists who joined. I am going to post some of their wonderful cards every day this week. So enjoy! The cards above are mine.

Please remember our dear blogger friend Rosemary. Her Mom isn't doing very well and she had to cut her fun girls week-end short to come home and take care of her.
Have a great week Dear friends!

xoxoxox

Fall Break!

Today is the first day of my Fall break this week. And the sun is shining for a change. It turned really cold here this week-end. Daniel and I had to scramble and get all of our house plants inside. We now have a jungle in our basement again. Its not bad as Dan hangs some grow lights and arranges them to where its easy for us to water them and mist them every day. We sure hope to be able to build a greenhouse before next Fall though. It would be nice to have one to start my seeds in too.
The picture above is another Digital Collage that I made this week-end. I must say that the elements that I use in my collages are some that I download off the internet. There are some amazingly generous digital artists out there. I really enjoy making the collages and I am also doing some digital scrapbooking too.
I hosted a Halloween ATC swap this month. I had 15 wonderful artists join up from my ATC group. I swapped them out and sent them out on saturday. But, I scanned them all before I mailed them off. I am going to start posting them every day between now and Halloween. They were all very GOOD!
Yesterday Mom came over to watch the Titans game. Its been a ritual for us to watch it together this year. But oh how awful they have played. Last year we didn't lose a single game this year we haven't won a single game since preseason. And so yesterday they played the New England Patriots in New England. And of course it was snowing like crazy up there. The field was covered with snow and ice. And yes, they slaughtered us. I finally stopped watching it in the second quarter when it was 24-0. And this is what Mom did.
LOL, she got sleepy and cold so I wrapped her up in an afghan and she went sound to sleep.
So the final score of our game was 59-0. It was the largest margin of victory in a NFL game since 1976. Terribly embarrassing. Most every one are saying its time for a new Coach, but I don't know if that will help us or not. Oh well, maybe next year.
I hope every one had a great week-end. And I hope you have a great week ahead.
XOXOXOXO