Happy Halloween...a little late

Better late than never!! Well here is my cupcake in all its glory...okay not really.

 I had planned on making these for my daughters Fall Festival, but my oven had other ideas. It broke the night before!! :( Oh well, now I have the best oven I've ever owned and probably no more excuses that I cannot cook. Darn! I dyed the mix orange which I thought was a great idea at the time. However it made it a little harder to cover up with the white icing. Note to self for next years festival!!

Give Thanks

Give Thanks Gratitude Board

Cookies?

Espresso Cookies!!!

Cupcakes

My daughters school has an upcoming Halloween Carnival. The parents are supposed to bring cupcakes for the cake walk! Remember the cake walk?? My fav!! Ah, to be a kid again.  I finally found these:

 So creative!! I cannot wait to try them out! Try out the tutorial yourself! If any of mine actually workout, I'll post a few photos!

FOUR!!!

Thought this idea was too cute to pass up. I'll never have the space in my house, but maybe someone else could use it!

Calzone anyone??

You Craft Me Up has this easy recipe for a calzone! I think I'll try it this weekend, looks good!

Do-It-Yourself Tutu

I had wanted to buy a tutu for my daughter's Halloween costume until I found this tutorial. It's really easy and takes a LOT of tulle! Mine took 75 yards...yes that YARDS. I think tutus are so cute! This tutu will be perfect for her cat costume.

Halloween Door Decor

I especially love reading blogs during the holidays for do it yourself holiday projects. I thought I'd take this time to showcase some great ideas.

Halloween Silhouettes by Shabby 2 Sweet

Mini Pumpkin Cakes

Candy Corn Ideas

Halloween Pillows

We're getting there...

Well the form boards came off today. You can see a few of them still lying around our yard...its been a long day. The pipes sticking up in the back are for electricity. The corner one will be for lighting up the gazebo and the right side will be for a built in BBQ. Please excuse my dogs, they insist on being in photos. This has been a long time in the making and we are still in the process phase.

It's too bad we didn't start this project before summer so we could enjoy our new patio already! Although buying patio furniture in October has paid off big time!

Here is our patio set, yet to be set up.

Here is our gazebo, you guessed it, still in the box. I've had a rug and lights for a year in waiting!! It's okay, little by little we will get it all set up. I need to do some bargain shopping for all the "extras." As soon as its all set up, I'll get a photo up.

We mean business

You know when this truck shows up at my house, we mean business!!!

For the past 5 years, home improvement projects have been our lives!! This was the largest amount of space we've concreted in to date. I LOVE concrete. Its clean, no weeds to pull, no water to waste, and it looks nice when done right. 

 Here is a "before" photo of half the space we poured. 

 It sure goes in fast, its the finishing that takes the longest. So that "after" photo is still to come since its still drying.