A Day on the Farm

A Few of the Necessties Around Here Lately

Wednesday we tracked down a pharmacy with flu shots since one of our local schools had 180 children out of school due to the flu. The only hitch was they only give flu shots to children 9 years and older so half of our family was ineligible for the shots which I was not to upset about since they had an appointment for today to get the shots. Apparently that was about 19 hours too late!!!!

Halloween Panels for Kitchen

This has been one of the kids favorites thus far. Imagine waking up in the morning and all your cupboards looking like this:




And at night the spiders glow in the dark!!!!

-black poster board
-craft foam spiders(I got mine at the end of the season last year at Michaels)
-tape

Cut the posterboard to fit cupboard or like I did to fit in the panel. Add spiders. Tape to cupboard doors. Tada spooky cupboard doors!!!!!

One More Before and After

I had been wanting to find a six drawer dresser and I recieved a call from my mom saying she found one that was solid cherry with a mirror(I do not have a picture of the mirror but it is done like the rest of the dresser) I love the shape of it hated the top 2 drawers and the stain was to orangy for me so under consrtuction it went and now I have a new dresser for my room.



*sorry I did't get a full picture of the before but this is one of the top drawers






Here is the finished product and is awaiting to have the mirror added!!!

Another Before and After

Besides all of our Halloween decorating I have had a couple of other projects in the works:














Okay when I say this on the side of the road I thought the same thing you are thinking right now what a hideous thing. In later contemplation, I had an idea. Take the the door off, fill in the holes, prime, paint, and seal and add a basket I already had. I didn't fill in the holes from the door because I have an idea that is going to cover is but all in all it turned out great and now I have some more storage in my living room.

AND WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH THESE

There are 100 eyes here that I hot glued to thumbtacks!



I drew bats on lime green, purple, and black craft foam. I had the kids cut them out. As hard as that was for me to let them do(I have a bit of a perfectionist in me) they did a great job!!


What I did with these eyes and bats will be coming soon!!!

ONE MONSTER OF A DOOR

I saw this idea in All For You magazine and loved it. There website is www.allyou.com

SUPPLIES
one black and one red tableclothe(I found mine at the $ store
one white and one yellow posterboard
duct tape and packing tape

-cut the black tableclothe to fit your door

-then cut the red tableclothe to 1/3 its size and tape it with duct tape in the middle of the black table clothe

-cut spooky eyes out of the yellow poster board and adhere with the duct tape

-cut triangles out of the white posterboard and tape to edges of the red tableclothe with duct tape to creat the mouth(don't make the teeth perfect just cut out triangles without measuring)

Now take your creation and tape it with the packing tape to your door(we were able to tape it to the back of our glass door so packing tape worked for us)

*I included the kids by letting them cut out and tape on the teeth

A Ghoully Apothacary

I had been wanting to do something like this for a few years but the cost can become ridiculous and I like to decorate for fall so it has been an idea I liked but was never on my list. Since the Halloween theme came into play this year I had thought about it but again discounted for cost reasons and then I found the labels for free at http://lovemanor.com/blog/ and the containers for a whopping $4.40 at the local thrift store plus a few I had around the house. I printed off the labels in different sizes and glued them onto the containers. Then we began filling them with eyeballs, gummi slugs, bugs, and trantulas, I found the coolest suckers of skeletons and witch fingers and tada my ghoully apothacary!!!

I LOVE FALL

I do love fall and everything about it. I usually am decorating with pumpkins, mums, scarecrows, bails of hay, corn stalks and the whole array of "fall" decor.

Every year though I hear from my children how they would love to have some skeletons and ooh look at that eyeball and the spiders and oo oo bats, I have turned them down flat and have decorated how I like to decorate.

This year is a new story...who is this time a year for anyway and it certainly isn't me, it is for the CHILDREN!!! I have established some rules it can't be gruesome, bloody, or horrific and it all has to be approved by me.

My next few posts will be how we have decorated for Halloween this year(after Halloween though I get to put up my fall stuff through Thanksgiving). I have had an incredibly fun time with it and the kids having been squealing with delight with each new project and that alone has made it all worth it!!!

First Day Of School

She was not happy about going to school even until the night before. I was of course concerned by this. The morning of she said I was just kidding I am ready for school and off she went happy as a clam.







David of course had been waiting all summer to go back to school!!!!

When you know you have a teenage boy!!!!

Yes your eyes are not deceiving you, this is Christian's cereal bowl he fills twice every morning. The bowl is pressed right up next to the Trix box. It is the largest Trix box you buy a the store. It is one huge bowl and along with the two bowls of cereal lets add a half gallon of milk to it!!!

Snow White Deal

If you go to www.snowwhiteoffers.com you can get a $10 off coupon for this movie and this week at Meijers or Kmart you can get this for free......




You could also choose from Mulan, Ariel, Belle, the Princess from princess and the Pea, and Sleeping Beauty.

No Bake Cookies

Today I made no bake cookies. This is usually a mundane activity, mindless and easily accomplished but today as I was stirring the chocolaty mixture, measuring the oatmeal and peanut butter as I was dolloping them out onto wax paper. I began to contemplate the meaning of no bake cookies to me.

It was a young girls 5th birthday party she was so excited. As the planning began all she wanted was a rainbow birthday cake and no bake cookies. Her friends were coming dressed up in their Halloween costumes to celebrate her special day. The day finally arrived and time was running short and the no bake cookies were not made. She was of course sad at first but quickly forgave her mom for the misdeed. The party was great the little girl was so happy her friends could be there and her wish of all wishes was for her friends.

That day is all over but the memory of the no bake cookies, the significance of them will not be lost by me. For you see that was her last birthday.

Our children are here but a moment and we don't know when that moment is going to end. Are we taking the time for them they need, are we taking the time to breathe with them, snuggle with them until their bodies melt into ours, to teach them, do we love them and do they know it, are we remembering the "no bake cookies" in their lives or are they being forgotten in the hustle and bustle of sports, music lessons, TV shows, climbing the never ending ladder, the appearance of perfection and the list goes on and on.

I know if that mother could go back there would be no bake cookies at that birthday party. I know every year on that day there are with no little smiling face to eat them. For myself and all others who might read this never forget the "No Bake Cookies"!

The Votes Are In!!!

The children in David the IV's class voted for one boy and one girl who were being the best good citizens in the class and he was chosen by his class as the best boy good citizen....the prize? STUDENT COUNCIL

I am proud of him for being a good example to those around him! Good Job D4!!!

Before and After

I found this on the side of the road and asked my DH to get for me. He of course wanted to smash in to disrepair, if it wasn't almost there anyway, but I had a vision and he picked it up. It was missing 2 drawers and 1 was broken. I wish I took a picture of it when we first brought it home but this picture is after we fixed it and before the paint.




I was quite nervous to take on such an endeavor but I have great friends that had done it before so why couldn't I. The results FABULOUS!!! Thank you to all my friends advice and all the courage I gained from the past triumphs!