Thanksgiving

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

We sure did. The food and time with family and friends was great.

I also made these:

You can find the 'recipe' here.

Hope you enjoy a nice, long, relaxing weekend!

Pumpkin... and more pumpkin

After Halloween was over we still had 2 extra pumpkins around. So, we did this...

{We put the 2 pumpkin halves and the seeds in at the same time. You just add 1 cup of water to the bottom of the pumpkin pans, and we sprayed the seed sheet and sprinkled salt on them.

Set the oven for 350 degrees.

The seeds only take about 15-20 minutes.

The pumpkin halves take 90 minutes though!

{We pulled out the halves and took the skin off}

{the pumpkin pulp}

{Mashing the pumpkin, then made mixtures for a pie, bread loaf and muffins.}

The pumpkin loaf recipe I had I just substituted whole wheat flour for 1 cup and still

did 3/4 cup of regular flour.

I also used raw sugar instead of processed sugar.}

{pumpkin pie. I found out that the smaller pumpkins give the pumpkin pie

more of an orange color, and we used a large pumpkin.... hence the light color}

{pumpkin muffins}

Halloween

Well, as long as I'm behind on things... why not go ahead and post them anyway, huh?

Here are some fun (and funny) snapshots of our small halloween party.

{Snow white this year}

{This picture cracks me up. All of the guys dressed up like rockers of some sort... here they are acting like they're ready to trick or treat :) }

Invitation Design

I just finished a looong project :) It was designing the following invitations (along with the RSVP card and doing inner envelope names). It was fun to design something this classy and simple.

{and...all by hand, no printing!}

Happy Birthday Val!

Friday was my sister's birthday... so, this is a little late.

We had a great weekend going up North to visit her and her husband, as well as my parents! My sister is a blessing in my life and though we didn't always get along so great (like fighting over clothes in high school :) I'm grateful for more time and conversations that we're able to have now as we get older.

{Val with her husband, Shawn}

Invitation Give- Away

Happy Friday!

I have great news for any of you planning brides out there. Aimee from Creative Montage is offering a give-away.

Here's information from Aimee herself:

"The prize is a $150 gift certificate towards custom invitations and to enter, readers just simply have to comment on the post regarding the giveaway. You can read details of the giveaway here: http://creativeoddsnends.blogspot.com/2009/11/up-for-grabs.html

My hope is that this giveaway will really help one lucky couple have the invitations that they REALLY want versus invites that they are just settling for"

So go over and check out the give-away today!

Fabulous Finds

How do you creatively design your life or your living spaces?

It's been fun and challenging for me to try to add just enough to make our current space a bit of our personalities, while not bringing too much into it to make it too crowded- but still useful.

Here are my current favorite finds from this Etsy shop (a friend, of a friend, of a friend :) seriously):

{New Coral Sunburst Ring: $12.00}

This designer's name is Whitney and she says in her Etsy shop "10% of the proceeds that come from sales will go to the International Justice Mission, which works to secure justice for victims of modern-day slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. To learn more, visit their website: www.ijm.org. It is my hope that through this little shop, women around the world may experience a 'brighter day.' "

{Spring Blossoms Ring in Turquois: $10.00}

{Spring Blossoms Ring in White: $10.00}

{Sunset Pink Ring: $10.00}