happy halloween

*last night ran and I carved pumpkins and this is how they turned out. and I just wanted to ntoe that I managed to clean out my pumpkin without touching any of the goop. I forgot to buy gloves and it makes me sick to my stomach to even think about touching it...ew.

been busy

working on various projects for myself and the store. here are some of the latest:

this is when davey came to visit us after he got from bulgaria and before he left for BYU for school



this is a portfolio style album I did about our week long trip to the tri-cities when davey came home from bulgaria. We have the portfolio die cut at work and the rest was so easy...just like decorating photo mats



this a book I made for a friend from high school who just a baby last week. very simple...all she has to do is add the photos.


did this one last night for the store using karen foster stuff and some of our fun pictures from the pumpkin patch

pumpkin patch

on friday ran and I wanted to go down to seattle to see the dead sea scrolls at the science center, but you know how things go. we slept in, didn't really feel like driving all the way down there, etc. so instead we went to the pumpkin patch by Everson. We had lots of fun. They had cute farm animals, a corn maze, pumpkins everywhere.


this is me with my new friend


this is ran's super duper secret job...randy the international cowboy super star


here is ran with his pumpkin


here I am with mine

together are pumpkins weighed in at 51 lbs. they must be filled with lots of goop-ew.

ah...

let the inspiriation and creativity flow.

so excited when I went in to treas and saw these. two of my favorite magazines. plus my friend alissa is in both of them. very inspiring scrapbooker-love her work. I can't wait to sit and look through these.

so in love...

sometimes I am a little busy. especially during the week. I work 6 days a week and lots of times they are long days. Ran spends his days at school during the week. its suprising how messing and out of control my house can get even when I am not spending much time there.

today I went to work planning on spending my whole day monday getting my house together. My bedroom floor is covered with clothes...I think every piece of clothing I own is on the floor. There are no clean glasses in house- dishes need to be done. one of the toilet seats broke off- I need to replace it. 3 light bulbs are burned out. I am feeling guily that I haven't been able to spend much time with my pup. My living room floor is covered with paper scraps from various projects. the garbage needs to be dumped. floors need to be vacuumed.

I came home tonight and ran had done ALL my laundry- like all 9 loads of it. he did all the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. He replaced the toilet seat. he replaced the light bulbs. he took pup for a long walk to the school and even gave her a bath. he cleaned the living room. he dumped the garbage. and he vacuumed.

he did everything on my list.

I can't even explain how happy I was to come home and see all this done so I don't spend my 1 day off cleaning (I scrapbook instead) and how great it is that he did these things without me asking. He had no idea that I was actually going to do all these things tomarrow. I am so lucky to have him.

some random stuff

sara, tammy, and I had a class on sat. @ treas. here is a layout I created for it:


after the class ran and I went to Seattle: krispy kreme, seattle pottery supply, paper zone (not impressed), and ikea. we got a new bedspread and some new pillows. i'm so excited for them, I'll have to post a picture of it later. Here is a pict. of seattle in the fog.


I am totally loving this fall weather. it makes me so happy. I just want to sip apple cider all day long. and how gorgeous are the leaves? love them.

My mom and step-dad, don, are here. My mom and I took Miss Julies great class @ treas. on tuesday. when we got home my spent like 3 hours decorating all her pages while I took a nap. She had a lot of fun.

Ran is super busy with school. He has a cermaic class and a wood sculpture class. The wood class makes me a little nervous with all those saws.

next friday we are going to the seattle science center to see the dead sea scrolls. I can't wait. I've never been to the science center. Maybe if it is a clear day we can go up in the space needle too.

Mmmmmmm

krispy kreme

a good nights rest...

ran did this project a couple quarters ago and it didn't really turn out like he wanted so he decided to learn from some mistakes and continue playing around with the idea- sleeping on clay. He worked all day to roll out slabs of clay and then laid them out on our kitchen floor:

He carfeully lined up the tiles and "slipped and scored" them together to they essentially were one piece. He then helped me drag our mattress to the scrapbook area so he didn't have to sleep out there by himself.
Here he is laying on the clay:

He slept just how he normallyw ould except with no pillow. He said the clay was very cold until it started to warm up with his body heat and then it was fine.

I am crossing my fingers that this one turns out how he wants it to.