Keene Pumpkin Festival

Last Saturday, Flat Stanley went to what will probably be the last Keene Pumpkin Festival.  At one point, Keene held the World's Record for most lit jack o'lanterns in one place but as the festival became more popular, it earned some competition.  It's hard for a place like Keene to compete with a giant city like Boston.  I had to work, but Nat took Natalie and Stanley and despite the cold, they had a great time.

This will be our last weekend with Flat Stanley. On Monday, we will get him packed up and sent home to Carlos.  I do want to take him to the State House first, though.

DAB-Sleeping Beauty

Still working on my DAB and I need to pick up the pace. We leave in a month and the only pages that are done are the few I have posted on the blog!  This week's challenge on the cricut circle blog called for pink, glitter, and ribbon and that fit nicely with my idea for Sleeping Beauty, so I jumped ahead and did her, even though I had been working on Toy Story.

  I used Aurora 3 from Happily Ever After,  cut at six inches. The hands were tough, but I knew I would be covering them with the ribbon rose. The ribbon rose is 1/4 in SU pretty in pink grosgrain ribbon with a pink gem in the center (brand unknown).  The dress was cut from DCWV glitter paper.  The flesh tone is vanilla from CM, not sure where the yellow paper came from, or the red lips.  I did cheat on the lips and the center is done with the signo white pen.  The shiny gold is from CM.  I cheated on the eyes, too. What I do is cut out a second face, from white, then use the white pieces to glue in for the eyes and then draw them on.  Her title was cut at 2 inches using the shadow base/icon and the layers:flesh/hair.
For the spot for the autograph and the photo, I used the marquee2 off Storybook, cut at 3 1/4 for the autograph spot and 6 for the photo mat.  I then layered it with the accent/frame.  I did not tack down the frame on the photo one, I will first put my photo down.  Background paper is from the ek success disney princess pack I bought at M's.  Unfortunately, there is a color variation from the first pack I bought and it is pretty obvious in this layout.  Also, the pack comes with only 1 sheet of each pattern, so I needed four packs at 5.99, but I bought them with the 40% off coupons, so it's okay!
Then I had to make one in blue for my niece.  For this, I used Aurora4 at 6 in, with her dress cut from the DCWV Holiday stack from last year, all other paper the same, same cheats for the mouth and eyes.  The background paper is from the DCWV Nursery Boys stack. I skipped the ribbon, since this wasn't for the contest, and just used rectangles sized to mat a 6x4 photo. I used a CM corner shaper.

I didn't put adhesive under the part of Sleeping Beauty that overlaps the photo mat so that when the time comes, I can slip the picture under her dress and hand.
As always, thanks for looking!

Loving the Happy Hauntings Cart!

I absolutely love this cart, especially the font.  I have so many spooky plans.  I started to decorate the treat bags for my daughter's class. There are only twelve kids and I am keeping it simple, but each kid will have a different bag.  My daughter is picking the characters and colors, so that it why there is so much pink.

I put glitter in Mrs Frankenstein's hair and used a jewel to accent the witch's eyes. 

The layers on this cart are like the Create-a-Critter layers so that you don't have to cut out tiny, tiny pieces.  I love the way the eyes look rimmed in black and I am so glad I didn't have to cut out the whites like on the Disney princess carts.

I love the skeleton and I used jewelled eyes on the bag but I think that for a layout I am going to try the glow-in-the dark glitter on the skeleton.  We made some of the glow-in-the-dark ornaments and I loved the way they came out, but my daughter ended up breaking them already because she kept picking them up to take them into the closet so she could see them in the dark.  

At the pumpkin patch with Flat Stanley

Friday the weather was gorgeous-blue skies, nearly seventy degrees.  Just perfect. So we took Flat Stanley to pick out a pumpkin.

Flat Stanley

We are having a great time with Flat Stanley.  He arrived Monday. Tuesday we took him to the mall since Natalie needed a new fall wardrobe (we had summer, we had winter, but nothing perfect for our beautiful fall weather).  We met up with my best friend and took FS out to dinner at the Longhorn.

Then Wednesday, FS got to come to school:



And after school, he went to gymnastics class:

Thursday, he went to dance class and then to college! But I forgot the camera.  Where will he go today?

DAB-Ducks and Dogs

Loving how my autograph books are coming out, but it is slow going!  I need to speed it up if they are going to be done in time for our trip.
Here are the ducks-Donald and Daisy:

Background papers for Donald are from the M's Disney paper pack.  Daisy's papers are from the DCWV glitter stack.

Pluto's papers are from DCWV pet stack.  Characters, names, bone and paw print came from the M&F cart and the signature boxes for the ducks are Nestabilities dies.

I pop-dotted Pluto's ear and nose for added dimension.  Thanks for looking!



Flat Stanley came today!

Flat Stanley came today!  He was accompanied by a sweet note and a great picture from Carlos in Mrs. Butler's class.  Natalie was super excited and posed in front of the house with him.

Then she insisted that we make Flat Stanley his own bed to sleep in.

I think he likes it!
Thank you to the second grade class for sharing Stanley with us.  We have some great adventures planned!