Archives for October 2012

Happy Halloween!! We Share Wednesday #5

October 31, 2012 By JulieK

Another HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has submitted links to the new We Share Wednesday Link Party!! I’m so glad to see everyone, and LOVE seeing what everyone has been making!!

We in the northeast certainly got our share of “tricks” for Halloween this year!! Hurricane Sandy, then “Superstorm” Sandy left the kids (and me) with no school for the past 2 days… We still have no power, but thankfully our house is fine… We actually made it through the whole storm with just a couple of flickers but the power stayed on for all of Monday, and was on when my alarm went off this morning (but then didn’t have school). But at about 7:15am it went out, and hasn’t even considered coming back :) According to National Grid, there are no crews assigned, and no sense of when they will be… It’s not cold outside, and we’re safe… What’s a little power? (I’m totally being sarcastic there… we love power… but we can’t make it fixed any faster, so we’re hanging out with what we have :)

In the mean time, let’s take a peek at some beautiful projects from last week!! I honestly love them all!!

Ok, Who can resist Salted Caramel Sauce? Doesn’t this look so yummy?? I NEED to make some!!

and… Since it’s Halloween!! How great is this pumpkin??

I hope you all have a wonderful safe Halloween, and come and join the Link Party!!!Now, let’s link up!! There’s only a couple of “rules” for everyone…

Please only link up to projects that you’ve made and photos you’ve taken, and link directly to the post, not just to your homepage.
Please visit other links. We all love to have our projects seen, that’s why we link them up!
Please follow me on Twitter, Pinterest and/or Facebook.
I’d love it if you could spread the word, the more the merrier!!
Please post the We Share Wednesday button in your post, in your sidebar, or on a separate link party page.

Project Life

October 25, 2012 By JulieK

Ok, I know I’m late to the “Project Life” party… I loved the idea of Becky Higgins’ Project Life albums, but there was so much hype, and they were so difficult to get (they’d sell out so quickly) that I just avoided it… But, then one day I saw one of my favorite bloggers, Kayla Aimee was showing her pages and the “Clementine” kit… Well, my favorite color is orange, and a kit called Clementine with shades of orange in it called my name!! BUT, I looked, and it was sold out, then back in stock, and then sold out again before I saw it was back… One day my friend Ryan saw it in stock and I now have it!! YEAH!! The fall was so crazy though, that I just finally got going!! This past weekend I finally had time to open the box and look at all the prettiness!! I’m starting my album with October 1 (I may at some point add to the beginning of the album, but I don’t want to start out the project feeling like I’m already behind!! October is a perfectly fine time to start!). My weeks will go from Monday-Sunday ’cause that’s the way I “see” my weeks, I like both of my weekend days together.

Here’s my title page… Starting out simple, Project Life Clementine Core Kit, the “Kelley” title is the QuicKutz Katie Alphabet. Little bit of twine too… and a couple of photos…

October 1-7 This week we went to Vermont, so I added an insert page to handle some of the excess pictures :)

Here’s the left side… I don’t have my date stamps here at home, which I’ll add to the journal box…

Here’s the front of the insert

the back side of the insert

and the right side of the page… Journaling with details about the trip will be added soon…

And… My week 2

October 8-15 More travel this week as we went to the Cape with my Brother in Law and Sister in Law

Left Side…

Right side…

Thanks so much for taking a peek at my “new” project!! I’m hoping to get some more done this weekend… I don’t have a lot of pictures from the last 2 weeks, but we’ll figure something out!

I’m sharing this post at The Mom Creative’s Project Life Tuesday…

Yeah! It’s Yarn Season!!

October 22, 2012 By JulieK

I’ve often talked about my seasonal craftiness :) I sew in the summer when I can leave my sewing machine out on the kitchen table and sew… But, in the fall and winter, it’s all about the yarn!! Last winter was my season of “knit” but my heart has always been a crocheter!! Here’s my first crochet project of the yarn season… I saw the pattern and had to have it, the pattern is the Collette Poncho pattern by Jenny King Designs. I loved the pattern, and realized when I got about half way through that I didn’t actually follow the pattern… The pattern calls for SC, and I used DC throughout… but I LOVE it :) In fact, I’m almost done with one in blues as well!! The pics are from my phone, so not super crisp… I love the cowl neck, it’s so very comfy!! This one uses 4 balls of Red Heart Boutique Treasure yarn in the Abstract colorway… Oh, the fall colors!!!

And here’s a pic of the back