"I'll Be A June Bride"

 

It's official!

We're engaged!

 

My sweet, sweet Michael proposed in the most memorable way yesterday. He asked me to marry him with orange cupcakes. It was very sweet and cute. Of course I said yes, and I can't wait to be his wife.

 

I love him with all my heart, and I can't believe how lucky I am. Michael is everything I could ever want and more in a man.

 

 

Is It Halloween Yet?

My wonderful lovely and talented Michael Bacon has been staying up all hours of the night to get our new kick-ass Halloween Party Website up and running. There's even some original MB artwork on the site!

All the pictures from the parties past have been uploaded including 2007, and he added a really cool new guest-list feature. Party people can just click on the "get on the guest-list" link from the home page and send me an email requesting a place on the guest-list! Pretty cool, huh? Keep checking back as more fun stuff is added to the website as we get closer to the party.

Thank You Michael Bacon!!

 

 

Halloween party planning has begun. I've been working on my collection of bottles for my Witch's Kitchen. I got the idea from AranaMuerta. I can only hope my Witch's Kitchen will look as cool. I'm planning to transform our everyday white tile kitchen into a creepy witch's lair. Also the skull/christmas tree face merger has begun. But, It's being held up while I try to locate a suitable skeleton. I don't want to continue with the talking head until it has a body.

Elliott's Monkey

Jess and Dex and Elliot are back home!!

My mom had a little family get-together two weekends ago, and the Conrads were coming and bringing Jess and Elliot. I was so excited to see them because they had just moved back home after living in North Carolina for a little over a year. Elliot really is such a happy baby and I love to get to spend time with him and Jess. I wanted to make something other than clothes for Mr. E, so I found Simplicity 5310. They're neck pillows for older kids, but I thought Elliot could use it to snuggle with while he's playing on the floor. I happened to have some swirly orange polar fleece in my stash and some bright yellow craft felt squares. I always have fiberfill and I had safety eyes leftover from some teddy bears I made as Christmas gifts.

Assembling the monkey was pretty simple just a lot of little dart seams. The hardest part for me was making the ears round. Making an outside curve on a little tiny piece of polar fleece at 4am just wasn't as simple as you would think. But the monkey turned out really cute, and I was excited to give it to Elliot. He was much more interested in Mama Sheila's green heart-shaped sun glasses than his monkey, but I'm sure he'll cuddle with it soon.

The best part of this pattern is the nose. All the animals from this pattern have the same basic nose pattern piece. The contrast fabric is doubled and folded over the make real nostrils. This is so great because you can actually put your finger up the nose!