Craft Night Tonight!

I love our after work craft nights... usually only once a month but this month we are trying to squeeze in two due to the holidays fast approaching. I brought way too much stuff this time but I wasn't sure what I was going to work on. I will have access to the Christmas Solutions cart and the Happily Ever After cart (both of which I don't own) so I may just cut some of those for future use. I also need to take pics of the cards I have been working on. So look for a post later.

More Blog Candy...

I love the scrapbook world... it is filled with the nicest, most talented people. I mentioned earlier winning two prizes this past weekend just by leaving comments on their blogs. Well, I found another one where the talent is amazing and once again... more blog candy. It's over at Crafty Chatter . To enter to win, I just need to leave a comment on her post and link to it from my blog. She is offering a surprise candy package of approx $100 worth of goodies. Please, pick me... pick me! :)

Pumpkins 2009

Before we get too far into November, I guess I should post pictures of our pumpkins. Once again we have grown our own ginormous pumpkins... aww, who am I kiddin'... Jeff grew the pumpkins. He did a real bang-up job this year too. We were able to harvest 12 large ones. We kept one for each of us and gave the other 7 away. We also set a new family record... the largest one weighed in at a whopping 79.8 pounds!!! That will be the Jack Skeleton head in the upcoming pics.

This year though Jeff was busy working overtime and didn't have time to carve them until - gasp! - Halloween day... then he got stuck carving 4 of them by himself... he told me if I wanted one then I needed to carve it.

Here are our masterpieces:

Our record breaker!

Maleficent

The Pirate Fish (see the eyepatch?)

Bat in the Moon


The Wise Old Owl

I Never Win Anything...

But this weekend received notice from two separate contests that I won! The first I found out about was from one of the hostesses of the BBTB (Bitten by the Bug) Blog Hop, Creative Candy... It's a Sweet Thing. How cool is that?!?!? The blog hop did a challenge where they all had to use the tag from Stretch Your Imagination cart and to use it in a Halloween themed idea. Because of this blog hop, I was introduced to a bunch of talented ladies all of whom I have become followers on their respective blogs. It is such a good way for me to learn how to think outside the box for scrappin'. What did I win? Creative Candy mentioned in her blog post that it would be cartoon dimensional stickers... very, very cool!

Tonight I was reading a new post for Bo Bunny blog. And reading it, once again, saw my name. Now Carrie isn't exactly a common name but it's not all that unusual either. So I went back to the comments on their post about "BOO"ing two people... one from Facebook and one who left a comment on the post commenting on their favorite Halloween memory/tradition and linked them to their blog. That was me... my favorite tradition... growing our own pumpkins and carving them Halloween week (but how sad is it that I don't even have pics posted yet). I wasn't sure how I was supposed to be contacted. Had to search my comments from the previous post and there it was.. on the one from August 3... again, very sad that it's been so long since I've blogged. As for the prize... some goodies from their Boo Crew Bo Bunny line... which is pretty dang awesome! Their paper is fantastic. Bo Bunny is a new product line for me but one that I will definitely be looking for.

So right now I am feeling like I should go buy a lottery ticket... aww, but what could be better than winning from 2 scrapbooking sites... guess I'll forget the lottery ticket, save my money and buy some scrapbook products instead... definitely a better investment!