Porch Pumpkins

I made these pumpkins with some leftover 4x4s that we had. I thought they would be cute on my porch and cheaper than buying real pumpkins too. Pumpkins here are $5 each this year -- a little too spendy for me when I just toss them out when I put out my Christmas stuff. Anyway, Dad made fun of me cuz they are square and pumpkins aren't square in real life but who cares! I think they're cute and tons cheaper than the real thing. Besides, I can use them again and again and again. Men!! What do they know?!

Look what I made!

I decided to make myself a new bag for church. It turned out pretty cute. What do you think? I want to make one for Thanksgiving with a turkey on it. My ambitions don't always lead to finished projects tho! By the way, this bag is made out of a tea towel! Pretty cheap project as I had less than $4.00 into it! It went together really fast as well since there was very little machine sewing cuz all the edges were pre finished. Gotta love those tea towels!

We have...........

SNOW!! We woke up this morning to snow. Yesterday it was 85 degrees and today it is only 47 with rain and snow showers. I like the cooler weather just thought that we would have a little more time to go from hot to cool. Love the snow on the mountains though. When I first saw it this morning, it really took my breath away. We live in such a beautiful part of the world! Check out the orange foliage against the white snow. I LOVE Utah this time of year!

We have a Winner!!!!

And the winner is.........PAISLEY ANN!!! Her choice for a name was Puffy Pickelicious Bearenstein Salamandar. Congratulations Paisley. Grandma will get your prize in the mail to you. Thanks for all your enteries and name suggestions. They were all good and John had to think long and hard about the winning name. By the way, Puffy Pickleicious now lives at Syracuse Junior High in the Science Class of Doug Sill. They kids are treating him well and he is reported to be VERY happy there! Glad he has a good home and is no longer living in the window well of my office.

More Super Saturday Projects.....

Here are the rest of the projects that we are doing for Super Saturday. If you want any, please let me know as quick as possible so I can get the numbers turned in. Anyway, I think the projects are all pretty cute.

We have a Guest!

Hi guys! This morning while Grandma was working on her computer, she saw this little thing moving around in the window well outside my office. Not sure what it is but Grandpa is going to call a friend that knows about lizards and ask him. Soooooo, in the meantime, I thought we could have a contest to name it! Not sure what the prize is but you give a name suggestion and if it is picked (by Uncle John) Grandma will send you a prize in the mail. Hurry and get your suggestions in as the contest will end Sunday, September 20th at midnight (MST for you Japan peoples!). Anyway, have fun and make a suggestion or two. We don't know if it's a boy or girl either. You can decide by the name. A winner will be posted on this blog by Monday, the 21st by 9 pm (MST). Good luck and happy guessing!

Another Project....

Okay, so I didn't really love the project below so came up with these blocks to do for Super Saturday instead. I like these a lot more than I liked the board. I'm getting charged for Super Saturday--I would love it more if I could just hurry and get it all over with! Anyway, still have a couple of projects to get pics of so will post those as I get them. Tell me what ya think of this project, please! By the way, the cost for these blocks is $6.00. Dad is donating the 4x4's (blocks)cuz they are from the building that we tore down in Ioka--(so the stickers cost about $4.00 and then add the paint and modge podge and a brush)--and you have a pretty cute project for not a lot of money! I'm pretty pleased.