Gorgeous Fall Pictures!!

OMG! I was in awe today as I drove around. I went by myself actually and just drove around for about 3 hours. I went to areas I hadn't been before and let me tell you, that was worth it! I drove up to Mount Mansfield, which I had never been. I drove through Smuggler's Notch and into Stowe. I visited Jericho, Westford, Fairfax, Jeffersonville and everything in between those towns! I plan on going out tomorrow again but to some different areas. The colors this year are amazing! The best I have seen in the 7 years we've lived here. Okay, so here they are. I have a lot of pictures. Not sure what I am going to do; make a slide show, or just post some. Anyway, look at these..... The picture above is just a couple of miles from me, on a side road. I just love water in fall scenes!

This is out in Cambridge I think. I get confused still in Vermont! LOL The sun's a little weird in this picture; sorta hazy, but I love the mountains.The pictures below are heading out to Jeffersonville. The speed limit here is 50 mph, so I had to stop, turn around, and stop several times to get these pictures because there were always cars behind me and I couldn't just pull off the road.Isn't that little steeple so cute? I tried to crop this picture to get the Audi out of it, but everything I tried took too much from the picture, so the car had to stay! LOL This is in Jeffersonville.This picture below, is going up the mountain to Smuggler's Notch/Stowe.
Look you can see the ski slopes in the picture below. Sorry about the power lines; can't avoid them in a lot of the pictures. They mess up the pictures though! I was lucky to be able to pull off to the side of the road a lot or onto side streets. There were many times though I just wanted to stop in the middle of the road! LOL I couldn't believe how many tourists were out on the roads! I saw license plates from all over the place! I even saw one from California!In the picture above, I remember seeing a sign, and I think this is considered Westford, but that doesn't make sense to me. Oh well! It's pretty! LOL

The pictures below are on the mountain near Smuggler's Notch/Stowe/Mt. Mansfield. It was absolutely stunning up there. I had never seen anything like it. I want to take the kids there tomorrow. There were these huge boulders as tall as my house that you could climb on and some of them were situated to make caves. It was really cool. I love the bright yellow in this picture!It sure was a lot cooler up here! And my ears kept popping when I was driving up one side and then down the other, and then I turned around and came back up and down the other side. I was having a ball! LOL

Okay the last 5 pictures are below! Hope I didn't bore you! When I got home, I changed into jammies and took a nap! LOL. But I can't wait to venture out tomorrow! Hope you'll check back and see where I went! Thanks for stopping by and visiting me in Vermont!

Some Fall Foliage!

Today I had some errands to run and just took a few pictures along the way. Tomorrow we are going real leaf peeping and I can get some really amazing pictures! But just wanted to share these; they are really pretty.As I was driving, I would see something that I wanted to take a picture of and I would "ooo and ahhh" at the scenery and my youngest would say to me, "I don't want to go with you when you look at this stuff!" And I would say, "why?" And she would say, "because I don't like your reaction to it; I don't think it's sooooo beautiful!" What a stinker! LOL


These lake pictures are about 5 miles down the road from us and you can boat on it and some people fish from the shore but it's really a dam and so it's not meant for recreation. But it's just beautiful!This one is still in the same area (below). Over to the far right (out of the picture) is the dam. There's a little store and gas station closeby called The Dam Store. LOL
This picture (below) is looking to the far left of the lake. Go up that road about 5 miles and you'll get to my town.
This is a different area (below). This is the area I was stuck in that morning on the way to work and the highway was shut down. Remember that story a little while back? Originally I was on the highway and then I turned around and went down this back road to work. This is alongside the right of the road. So tomorrow, like I said, I will have many more pictures to share. I love this time of year! :) Thanks for checking in! Have a great night!

Leaf Peeping!!!

Oh I can't wait! I am off until next Wednesday and this weekend the weather is going to be gorgeous, so I am going to be like one of those tourists and go leaf peeping! LOL I am even dragging my husband with me! LOL He can't wait! (just kidding). I am going to take a ton of pictures because last year it was overcast when we went driving around (like the picture on my header) and it drove me crazy! Well this year the color is even better because we got so much rain this summer! I will definitely post pictures this weekend! So be on the lookout! Thanks for stopping by. I have to make a ton of stuff on my days off because Katie and I are amping up for the craft fair next weekend. So you'll see plenty of those pictures as well! Have a wonderful day!

Fall Pictures

Hi everybody! The craft fair this weekend was "ok". Nothing to brag about that's for sure! It was a disappointment because it wasn't advertised enough and the sign out on the street was so tiny you couldn't see it when you drove by! The craft sale hours weren't condusive to success either. 12pm-3pm. So we made 70 dollars during that time. We have another one coming up this Saturday in another town so we are hoping for better results.


I wanted to share these photos with you......this is a maple tree right outside my bedroom window. It's on the side of the house so you can't see it from the front as you drive by. We have birch and pine in our front yard, so I love this tree! I also changed my header on the blog too. If it were a sunny day, that picture would have been amazing! This week is peak foliage and the weather isn't cooperating on my days off from work! Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny but I am at work all day! My next days off aren't until this weekend. By then the leaves will be falling! So I am going to have to carry my camera with me this week so I will just pull over on the side of the road to take pictures! LOL. Anyway just wanted to share these pics. I am working on an advent calendar and hopefully I will have that done tomorrow night. Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful night!

Tags and Date book for the craft fair

Katie made these tags for the craft fair tomorrow. She used my cricut to cut the tags from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge. She added black stitch marks to the border of each tag and she punched out a snowflake and added crystal effects to each of them. I thought they came out rather cute! This poor guy isn't happy! LOL. I love his grumpy face! LOL. He just cracks me up and I love the sentiment........."wine about it! It'll make you feel better." So true isn't it? LOL The wine glass is colored in with watercolor pencils and blended with my dove blender. The cat is colored with two different color markers and blended with my dove blender. Not my best coloring, but hey, cats come in all different colors, right? LOL This by the way, isn't a card......it's one of those date books from Wal-mart that come in a plastic cover.

Okay that's it for tonight! No more pictures! Gotta get to bed now. I will post tomorrow and let you know how we did. We have a ton of other stuff but I don't have pictures of it. Sorry! LOL Hope you all have a wonderful evening!! Thanks for stopping by!

Calendar Cover

This one isn't a card actually. It's a premade date book that I found at Wal-mart. It is slightly bigger than a checkbook. It came with a plastic cover; pretty cheap! I took the book out of the plastic cover and then covered the book with yellow cardstock. The front and back is made with two separate pieces of cardstock. The back piece is white. I left the staples uncovered that bind the book together.I love this stamp. It's so funny! The mouse is just so pooped from eating all that cheese! LOL. These images are colored with markers and SU blender pens. I love the vivid color!


This is one of the items we are taking to the craft fair tomorrow. Isn't he cute? LOL

Christmas card

Finally some cards that I made. LOL. This layout came from the current Paper Crafts Magazine. It's an easy and fast one to put together! I like that! LOL I used Christmas paper that Katie and I have been accumulating over the last few years! Yeah we are hoarders too! The red paper has glitter around each of the circles. It's really pretty paper! I made that scalloped border with a corner punch I recently bought and you can take off the corner guide so you can punch borders with it. Pretty cool. The stamped image is from a Hero Arts set.

This layout came from the current issue as well. This was fun. I had to figure out a template for the tree and how big to make it and where to cut it into sections. After that part was done, the card went fairly quickly. The star is adhered with a dimensional, and it's inked around the edges with chalk ink. The ornaments are punched from a 5/8" inch circle punch. I then inked the edges and added the copper brad to each of them. I then adhered them to the tree with glue dots. This card is for the business size envelope, so it's a large card.

Halloween Card

Isn't this so cute? Katie made this one too! LOL. I love this new Penny Black stamp I got just the other day. I also got a couple of Martha Stewart punches. I love that border punch! Michaels had her Halloween punches on sale last week, so that's when I got that one and the bat and the scaredy cat (which isn't on this card). Katie used watercolor pencils and the dove blender to color in the image. She used chalk ink to age around the image and the sentiment and the card itself.

Halloween Card

Katie made this one too! This is a standard size card. She used torn strips of white paper which she aged with chalk ink. She had a lot of fun making this one. They are super easy!

Notecards

Here are couple more that Katie made. 3x3 notecard. She used Hero Arts Stamps, the Cricut to cut out the word friends, she used watercolor pencils and the dove blender to color the cupcake and topped it off with a glitter pen.

Notecards

Katie and I are doing a craft fair tomorrow and we took several pictures of what we are bringing with us. I thought I would share them with you! I think I am going to separate them in different posts though and not all in the same one. So here goes... this is one that Katie made. It's a 3x3 card. The image is from Hero Arts and all the paper she used is from scraps. She used watercolor pencils and the dove blender. Then she used my glitter pen to add highlights. Friends is cut out using the cricut on the smallest size setting. She used a white gel pen to add stitch marks. Pretty cute!She loves the cupcake cards! Same techniques as the first one.

I've been tagged!

Okay, little stinker Siobhan, tagged me which means I have to list 7 facts about myself and then tag 7 other people to do the same thing. Here are the rules.

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Okay, so here are my deets....

1. I am deathly afraid of the water; ocean, lakes, pools.......if I can't touch and SEE the bottom then I am not getting in it! That means, no ocean or lake swimming for me! Something about the ocean really freaks me out......the color of the water, I think.......just so dark and scary! LOL Maybe Hawaii or the Caribbean oceans wouldn't scare me with their crystal clear oceans!

2. I don't like the color black especially combined with bugs! LOL Let me explain; when I see a black bug, I can't go near it. This is especially the case with spiders!! I cannot look at spiders on tv or in real life. If I have one in the house, I don't pick it up with tissue, I suck it up with the vacuum and I use the long extension tubes!! I can't look at scorpions, manna rays, or even killer whales on tv. I don't know why they freak me out. Even if they are toys, I can't touch them! I wonder if this fear is related to the water one.....

3. My favorite music is from the 70's and 80's. I love Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross........just look at my playlist! LOL

4. My favorte food is Japanese, since I am half Japanese!

5. I love to re-arrange my furniture; makes me feel like I've moved! LOL

6. I can drive with my knees. LOL. And I like to put makeup on in the car. LOL

7. I can play the piano; my parents bought me one for my 9th birthday, and it's moved with me everywhere I've gone. I love to sing in my car too! LOL

So that's it. That was hard! I struggled for 7 things! LOL Here are my tag-ees: Kathy, Connie, Shell, Tonya, Bonnie, Becki, Julie.

Thanks for stopping by! Off to make some things......

Fall Card.......4th post for today!!!

Starting to get in the Fall mood! The leaves are changing here and I think we are going to have an early "peak" this year! I love this time of year! I just love this stamp from Serendipity Stamps. I used Staedler markers and my SU blender pens to color it in. I stamped it on vanilla cardstock by the way. Then I adhered that to Really Rust and then Ruby Red cardstock. The card is made from Kraft cardstock. I added copper brads to each corner. I really like how it turned out! What do you think? Thanks for stopping by!! Have a wonderful night!

Inkadinkado Sympathy Card

My boss asked me to make her a sympathy card for a friend whose son recently passed away. I looked at sevearl of the sympathy cards on SCS and these two struck me right away. The first one is from stamps4sanity, and the other is from angelladcrockett. I love the nighttime scenes. They are so beautiful. My moon is punched from my 1-1/8" punch. The sky I sponged on with Marvy Matchables Dye based ink pad Prussion Blue. I don't have SU's Night of Navy. I then stamped the birds and then the swirls. I really love how it turned out. I added some clouds in front of the moon because the moon wasn't completely crisp all the way around. This card ended up being 5x7. Luckily I had an envelope that big! Thanks for stopping by!

Purple Haired Witch!

Okay, I couldn't decide which color hair to use, purple or orange. In the end, I chose purple, with an orange bow! :) My husband doesn't think she's a witch. He called her a female gobblin or something and my 6 year old daughter thought she was an alien! LOL. She's got a wart on her nose! And she has one snaggle tooth. Hubby thought she needed a hat. Well if I added a hat then the card wouldn't be standard size! I saw this candy box from Carole and I loved the eyelashes! So I had to add eyelashes to my witch! And the hair was just haphazard cutting! LOL Pretty funny! The eyes were punched with 1-1/8" and 1-3/8" circle punches. The nose is SU's smaller oval punch. And the wart is a 1/4 inch punch. LOL. Then I added those cute little freckles! The ribbon is from Michaels and has little witch hats on it. I wanted to add bats in her hair but it didn't look right. After I assembled her, I added purple stickles in her hair. Isn't she just gorgeous? LOL