A Quick Pic

Just thought you should see a new picture of Jo and me. We were hanging out at the trunk-or-treat party....in the sunshine...sunburning my nose...Did I mention it's almost Halloween. I do love this Nebraska weather!!

Pumpkin Crafts

Here are 6 of the 7 finished projects. We spent several hours chatting and laughing and painting....They all turned out so different and fun. We will definitely be doing more of these (project days). I wish our church did Super Saturday project days. They are always so much fun. Oh well. We'll just make due. I can hardly wait to put these away and get out my Christmas stuff!!! 

Evolution

It all started with some wooden pumpkins one of my sisters bought at a craft fair. I loved them and wanted all my friends to have them too. Most of you know that I have my own saw. I'll tell you this, it is SO FUN!! Power tools are FUN. It's true. A little intimidating at first but once you get used to them....oh my!! I chopped a couple 4x4 posts into blocks and did the same with a ratty looking 2x2.

Obviously that made more projects than even I could wrap my head around. So what's a girl to do?? Invite a few friends (who are childless during the day because let's face it...crafting with kids is SO much harder!!) over to get their craft on.

I'll post pictures of all of the finished project when ALL of the girls get them done...ahhemmmmm...(slow pokes)

My pumpkins went through a bit of evolution....I like that I can do that. I wanted dots on the yellow pumpkin but the lumpy, asymmetrical dots that happened just weren't doing it for me. At. All. So I sanded them down and gave it another go. Same with the chevron stencil. Didn't match up on the corners. No bueno. So I tried again. 

Much better. I have another set I'm working on. I'll just say it is SUPER CUTE too. I am thinking I need to do this more often. It was so fun to hang out with these women. A few I've not had a lot of time like this with...priceless!! 

Stay tuned...I will show you how different and fabulous they ALL turned out. This was so fun, I'll probably do it again!