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all hallow's eve

just wanted to share some of our halloween decor on this fun day. the kids are SO excited to get out trick or treating tonight after we hit a neighbor's house for a pre-candy spree party.

we had a party on friday night with all of our adult friends and can you believe i completely forgot to take any pics other than a few on my phone. doh! guess that means i was having way to much fun to worry about pulling out that big black monster camera.

i know a few of our friends snapped a few pics though, so i'll post some when i get some copies. ;)

i also realized, when my friend gingie made a comment on my facebook page {after seeing a preview of our decor on friday} that i hadn't shown the 7gypsies receipt holder i had created with tons of halloween scraps and the remnants of my jbs halloween kit from oct. all of the cards were created with scraps that i keep in a box marked "halloween". i just pull it out each year and find i reuse alot of the left overs from the years before. some of these pieces were from last year's kR halloween kit too.

hope you have a wonderful night!
xoxo

ps : jbs goes live tonight! here's a sneak peek of one of my pages :

kenner road : april

happiness. that's about all i can say with regards to the april kR kits, they are print happiness. Tons of October Afternoon & American Crafts Dear Lizzy & We R Memory Keepers and more. I have plans to spend tomorrow with a sweet friend who is coming to visit that i haven't seen in ages and i'm hoping we get some paper cutting in because i want to make so much more. i don't think i have felt this way about a group of kits since dorothea, although i have to admit i still have one of her in the bag because i loved her so much.

The journal above i made for ali's week in the life which starts next week and i'll also be showing how to create the journal in the nine patch class that comes with the add-on kit. lots of paper quilting and layering on the portfolio pages that are inside, which i love.

my sweet baby boy.

yes.

i cut the sticker sheet like paper.

i'm daring. lol

i have four of these vintage tin canisters. two of them are larger and say flour & sugar. and i found them at a flea market in georgetown in washington dc about 10 years ago, i think i paid about $10 for the pair. the other two, one of which you see here, i found at the alameda flea market a few years ago for $5. i was so giddy when i spotted them {both times} because they are the perfect turquoise blue and the little bakelite nobs are so sweet.

the flower is just four accordion pleated flowers layered one on top of the other. simple.

my girl. and the lace sticker. and the rose ribbon. and the paper tape. yum.

i love this stamp in the nine patch add-on. love. love. love. love. i mean, what is better than button candies in an apothecary jar? nothing. ;)

and.... there is the cutest project with this in the class. so cute. so easy. so perfect.

and just another sneak of the banner project in the class. i am a HUGE japanese zakka craft fan and this one is dripping with linen and loveliness.

happy thursday my friends!
xo

Kenner Road : April Sneak Peeks

I have adored working with the kR April kits, especially planning out the four projects for the Nine Patch add-on & class pass which you can see in the first two pictures. This kit is so me and so fresh and clean feeling, gotta love some good design thanks to October Afternoon & American Crafts. ;)

Remember, kits go on sale tomorrow night at 9pm pacific but we begin the laughing and games at 8pm during the reveal night chat. Come and join us!

And yes, I did just cut that alpha sheet to use as pattern paper cause i'm risky like that. ;)

Happy Tuesday!
xo

i got ya!

Ok, so we're not moving to Norway, but I seriously have to laugh at all of the comments and private emails and phone calls {I'm sorry I made you cry Robin!} and facebook messages you all sent me. I was feeling so wicked when i posted that because I knew my Norge girls were going to either jump for joy & believe it or know that I was fooling ya because they know that I left half of my heart in Norway two years ago. *sigh*

**snicker**snicker**

It WAS april fools you know!!

But I have to share that I was fooled yesterday too. After posting yesterday I started going through my blog reader and saw Kal's post about her new house. I seriously believed her until I was going to leave a comment and read that one of readers lives on the same street as the rundown house she posted... geez the internet makes this a small world! lol. Seeeeee... even I got fooled yesterday. lol

In other news I downloaded this flower tutorial the other day {see the pic above} and I am completely infatuated with making them. I have about 5 completed and cannot wait til my project is finished so I can hang it on the front door for spring. I'm making mine with my the incredibly enormous and somewhat embarrassing ribbon stash. Hopefully I'll have it finished by tomorrow so I can share the finished project with you. I highly suggest you support rebecca and download her tutorial, you won't regret it, it's the best use of your scrap pile I've seen in a long time. ;)

 

In other news today is the first day for our Alameda class at kR and I am really happy with how the projects turned out. I have been getting back into adding more sewing to my projects and the class is full of snippets of quilts, linen and stitching. It just makes me so happy.

Happy Good Friday my friends!
xo

ps : the Workshop pics are up on the Silver Bella blog and look so divine and there are several classes I'm going to have to try to figure out how to crash. lol ;)

kenner road march

i managed somehow, in between various doctor appointments at stanford for the bean and a birthday party and some other birthday parties and the typical crazy mama & business duties to create all four of these projects for the march kenner road reveal. whew. this past month has been a whirlwind for me. lol, thank goodness i made myself sit down and create for a while. it saved me, it truly did.

i adore the layout above. i printed that picture about 6 months ago and it's been sitting in my to do pile for that long. i've grabbed it each month trying to figure out exactly how to get my thoughts on the page and each month it went right back. i couldn't figure it out, it wasn't "coming across right" in my head.

but this month i knew. it's not so much about the pic, although good grapes don't you just adore his little peeking tummy? squish!!

no, this one is all about what we used to do, and that pic captures it all. the lazy mama days when i thought life was crazy {but truly wasn't} and we would make forts out of my great grandmothers quilts and play and laugh and giggle. those really were the simple days.

he was hiding from me in this one. the mind of a 2 year old. ;)

this one was super quick for me, 20 minutes, and that is very rare! we have a new niece in the family and i wanted to document these pics i stole from my sil's blog so i could have a pic of big & little for my pile {i really need to start getting albums so i can say album... lol}. isn't it the sweetest? and i don't even care that it's low resolution from the blog. not at all.

this one is probably one of my most special of all. that is my bama in the middle on her 87th birthday surrounded by four generations, including her three of her great-grandchildren {she has 8 total !!}. we had a lovely afternoon tea, girls only, and it was so nice, especially since we generally only see my aunt's half twice a year.

 

and this is for the alameda project kit and class pass. we'll be crating the loveliest three projects using a cutting quilt that i have had forever mixed in with some beautiful vintage style buttons and dear lizzy. it's quite a beautiful mini and the other two projects are just as sweet and filled with more vintage charm. there's a few left if you want to join us. :)

i'll show more of it when the class is over.

also, i wanted to announce the winner of my destash box :

send me your information amber and i'll get it out to you asap!
kl {at!} kenner road {dot!!} com

and i will have another one to giveaway later this week. i tell you, i am destashing like crazy right now!!
happy monday!