Our New Fence!

Yesterday we (my husband) finished building/replacing our fence that was falling down. This one is so sturdy, it'll probably last longer than our house! It looks great!

Circle Halloween Quilts!

Last year our quilt group exchanged Halloween circles and made Halloween quilts... I went a little crazy... I made three!!! The first I made for a friend who loves Halloween. This is the first quilt I've given away, which is quite a compliment! It's smaller so it can be a display quilt or wall quilt. I love it... and the binding is actually glow in the dark!

The next one I made for myself and I love it! The jack-o-lantern border is especially fun! I put it on my couch from September 1 until Thanksgiving!

This last one is totally different, but I love it too. I have it on our love seat from September 1 until Thanksgiving! I have been tucking it under since I didn't have the binding done. I bought this fancy tool to help me do the binding quicker and I couldn't figure it out. A friend came by this week and helped me with it and we got it done! I love the striped borders and binding!


And I had to share the back of this quilt... I had so much Halloween fabric from making all those circles, that I decided I couldn't buy more... so I pieced this together and I think it turned out pretty cute!



Now can you believe I still have Halloween fabric left over? What am I going to do with it all?

Fondant

On Friday, I went to Fabulous Friday! It's a night of crafts & fun! One class I took was cake decorating! How fun! We each got a 2-layer cake to decorate. Lots of tips on how to ice it smooth and then we got to try some fondant! We were supposed to be making a Halloween cake, but since my icing turned out kinda pink I used the candy corn cookie cutters to make flower petals instead. I think it turned out pretty cute!

Birthday Banner!

A good friend asked me to cut some letters and scalloped rectangles to make a banner. She purchased this banner from MyEmmyCakes. A friend of hers really liked it, so she wanted to make one that said Welcome for her birthday. Here's what I made for her. She going to decorate with ribbons, etc.



I used Mini Monograms & Storybook Cricut Cartridges to cut these.

SPOOKY!

I met with a group of girlfriends last night and we made this banner & cute Frankenstein bag! The banner looks fabulous. The picture doesn't even do it justice!


Isn't this bag cute! I absolutely love it!

Here are the 3 cards I made for our swap. Our challenge this month was difficult for me. We had to follow these card template challenges:


This is my favorite. Here's the sketch challenge for it.



This card was the first I made of the three. It's not my usual style, but I still like it. Here's the sketch challenge.

Here's the last one and the sketch challenge for it.

I finished my pinwheel blocks!

Here are the last four blocks I made for the pinwheel trade. My favorite is the one with the light blue background and pink flowers. I'm so excited to get the rest from the others so I can start my quilt!

Blackberry Pie

My absolute favorite pie is blackberry. My grandmother & father made the best blackberry pies, but of course I don't have the recipe. And even if I did, mine wouldn't be as good! I remember asking my dad for recipes. He would always say, oh just a little of this and a bit of that, until it tastes/looks right. Grandma & dad didn't use recipes... they cooked from skill. Something I just didn't inherit. But I try!

I was coerced into going blackberry picking the other day... even though the season is all but over. About an hour later I had several scratches, dark purple hands and about 1/2 flat of blackberries... it was hard picking.



I'm used to the blackberry picking of my youth where if you couldn't get a flat in 10 minutes it wasn't worth your time. But I was happy we ended up with enough for a pie.



And since I was making a pie anyway I decided to make more and use up some of the 48 pounds of peaches I have... I made a full size and three mini size blueberry peach pies.



I feel very domestic!