GreenChicken31

The night before my little Moose's Halloween party I decided that I needed some more Halloween decorations.  So I looked through my scrapbooking paper and made some flags and cut out some bats out of paper.  I would post my template up, but I can't seem find my cord to my scanner...oh the joys of moving.  I do hope to make this again with some felt so that I can have a more durable flag banner that I can use year after year. But this year they will just have to do! Doesn't it look cute on that wall?

  So somehow I ended up hosting a Halloween party for little Moose's friends and I ended up making these graham cracker owls. They are so easy to make.  Just stick two marshmallows on your gramcraker square and stick it in the microwave for 8-12 seconds.  For me 11 seconds was perfect. Then really quickly stick a chocolate chip in each eye and a candy corn for the nose and your little owl is complete. Now doesn't he look yummy!  You could always add some cheese wings or something along those lines too.  These make for a simple last minute snack. Little Moose didn't realize they were edible. Ya, she mostly just played with it. Tasty marshmallow... 

I'm always trying to find crafty things I can do with my little Moose and finding things you can do with a baby or young toddler is almost impossible.  Luckily this one was simple enough we  could make six!  The grandparents were thrilled when these came in their mailboxes.

This is the companion page to the other page I did the other day.  It reminds me a lot like a quilt.  I have so many little scraps of paper and embellishments and this kind of layout lets me use them up.  I hate being wasteful.  I've never really been one for much journaling on pages.  I've always liked to let the pictures speak for themselves. While there isn't a lot of words on the page, the one word I put on it sums everything I wanted to say.  And I've just been dying to use that little pink elephant!

I wish I had more time to scrapbook, as I should have made this page a year ago!  Oh well, I'll just have to scrapbook away!  The benefit to waiting a year is that I'm much better at editing what photos to scrap.  I'm printing off a lot less and that makes for a happy wallet.  Since my time to scrapbook is limited to when Moose is sleeping (and only on days when laundry, vacuuming, and whatnot doesn't have to get done during that time), I have to force myself to keep them simple or they would never get done!

This cute little water color used to hang in our bathroom back when we lived in an apartment, but it no longer matches our bathroom since we moved.  Both bathrooms in our house actually feature real stone and have nice neutral color scheme.  This picture matched my brightly colored shower curtain and helped hide the cheap and very white apartment bathroom, but now it would clash soooooo bad with the marble, so it is time to put this little frame to better use. Back on Valentines day I made this little hand print of my Moose's hand and never did anything with it.  I found some scrapbook paper and placed it in the frame.  It isn't anything earth shattering, but it will go great in our family room once I finish painting it.

It seams like it came out of nowhere, but we just moved.  We didn't move far, but the move was kind of last minute and that has made things hectic and stressful.  I had less than a week to get everything packed. We moved from a small two bedroom apartment on the third floor (I was so sick of climbing all those steps) into a cute three bedroom ranch house with plenty of room for crafty projects. So now I don't have a clue where any of my crafting supplies are and I really want to scrapbook and make some fall decorations that I have in my head that is just waiting to be made. I guess I'll just have to wait.