Throw 'Em

We did it! We finally made new throw pillows! You can't even imagine the torture I've been through since we got our couches more than a year ago with throw pillows that didn't go with the room. Torture! I tell you! Yesterday Jake and I were both feeling rather productive yesterday (Saturday) so I suggested we finally make throw pillows and because we didn't have a sewing machine I would hand sew them. He agreed so we headed to Joanns (because Roberts abandoned us good loyal crafters of Cedar City.) We got some cute fabric and as we wandered the aisles I could see Jake getting into the project too. I love it when he gets into my projects because that means he'll wanna help and then my project will turn out more amazing than I could've done on my own. In our wanderings we came upon some iron on adhesive which made me remember a tutorial I saw on All Things Thrifty that involved making no sew pillows with iron on adhesive. I told Jake this and I also told him that tutorial disappeared which I interpreted as "It didn't work that great." But Jake said, "Let's try it, We have nothing to lose and it will be way easier." We did it! And our pillows are so cute! I even made some fabric flowers out of the scraps we had to put on some other pillows.
Before The Makeover

They were ok pillows. But our room colors are Red, Blue, Antique White, Brown, and Black. We have old newspapers and pictures, the bold geometric designs were in a word Clashers.

 After

I heart them

Trunk or Treat

I love Trunk or Treat! I think it's one of the cutest ideas for some cheap Halloween fun. I wanted to dress up our trunk in accordance to Dax's costume. So I grabbed my handy dandy black sharpie and some cardboard and spent the afternoon creating a castle. I named it the Dragon's Keep. I was going to be Dax's Princess but by the time I got the castle together it was 10 minutes before showtime and I was covered in sharpie which isn't very princess like. So I put those sharpie fumes to work and created a Dragon Trainer's T-Shirt. I ripped it in some places and charred it in others. Perfect!

Dax probably had already ate his way through one bag of candy before we got to Trunk or Treat and was in the wonderful world on a Candy induced adrenaline rush. I left him in the car as I set up (Jake had school so I was solo) left a bowl of candy in front of the trunk and then took Dax around to the other Trunks. He hasn't figured out why he has to say "Trick or Treat" to get candy but he did say thank you to everyone. He couldn't stop giggling to himself, I blame all the candy. We went back to our trunk and spent the remainder of the time passing out candy. Dax stayed in the "Dragon's Keep" eating his candy and talking to people walking by.

Dax was Go! Go! Go! Then we got home, he sat on the coach, and then was gone, passed out in less than a minute. I watched the whole thing. Haha! It was awesome!

Pumpkin Time

Where I grew up we didn't have a Autumn really. We never really got to see a change of the seasons. We would always come to Utah for Christmas and yes the snow was exciting, but it was really cold. Really really cold to us desert rats. I never knew leaves could turn such brilliant colors and pumpkins get so big! Until I moved to Cedar and live through the fall. I've now have seen many Autumns and even a little bit of some Indian Summers and I love it! I love the festivities, the leaves, the smells, the crafts, the corn mazes, the pumpkin patches, the crisp air, and most of all the Colors!

 Being from a place where there is no fall we really don't have fantastic looking pumpkins either so.....my pumpkin carving skills lack.....Jake's are awesome! But he has been too busy and I wanted some decorated pumpkins. So I saw on a blog how you can use cake doilies as a pattern to paint on pumpkins. Mine turned out terrible. No picture because it was so terrible. So I just painted the whole thing black and thought I would paint white polka dots. The Dots ran :( Found out later that all the women who did polka dot pumpkins used their handy dandy vinyl cutters to cut out circles. Note to self: Get Handy Dandy Silhouette or cricut, would make crafts a whole lot less embarrassing. In the end, I gave that pumpkin to Dax to paint and he had a blast which was worth that whole fiasco. The other two I just did the thing I was good at. Back in the day when I use to babysit I would entertain the kiddies by drawing cartoon characters. So I painted Bruce from Finding Nemo (Dax is really into sharks right now) and Mike from Monsters, Inc. because he fits in really well in a Halloween motiff.