Potions & Spells

I made some additions to my Halloween display this year. I found these cute ideas from another blog I visit a lot and I decided to adopt some of the ideas for my own house! I went to the DI (Deseret Industries, which is basically like the Salvation Army only it's run by the LDS church here in Utah) and found some cool glass containers and then Chris and I also went to the Antique Show a few weekends ago and found some cool old bottles! I think I'll start trying to collect cool old bottles so my collection will really look old and complete next year!

Anyway, I made the labels and then created each bottle/jar in it's own way. The labels speak for themselves. For the Fur of Werewolf I just cut some of Lady's scruff from her face and put it in the bottle :P Let me know what you think if you like them! I think they're super cute!

New Family Pictures!

So before you ask, yes I'll be sending these out to family - they will probably come along with our Christimas cards. So don't worry about printing them out for yourself, if you are family I will be printing out a lot of these with a professional printing lab. Also, I deliberately saved some of the pictures because I plan to frame some and give them as Christmas gifts. So think of this as a taste of more to come ;) Hope you like!!!

This is Halloween!!

Yay! October is finally here! I love October because I love Fall and I love Halloween! But, we've already had our first snow!! Yesterday, the last day of September is snowed up in the mountains and it even snowed down in the valley (it didn't stick of course). I'm hoping winter doesn't come too soon because I really want to enjoy the fall colors! This weekend we're going to try and do family pictures up in the mountains with the colors everywhere - hopefully the weather will cooperate for us!

Last weekend was crazy busy but super fun! Jill and I headed up to Idaho to do a photo shoot for our friend Niki and her new salon! If you haven't already seen them, visit the Atmina Blog to see how awesome the model portraits turned out! I really hope we can do that some more because it was so much fun! But it was exhausting too - a 3.5 hour drive EACH WAY! But it was well worth it :) We also got to do pictures of Niki's little family as well and lemme tell you, her daughter is SERIOUSLY cute! Hopefully I'll get those pictures posted by Friday evening or something.

Anyway, as is the custom, here are pictures of this year's Halloween decorations. I actually have some new stuff this year!! I didn't buy anything new last year and this year I bought a few things and my mom gave me stuff as well. Super cute!

I also threw in a picture of my blooming delphenium and some pics of Lady and Belle ;)