A Bit East-coast

Fostering Toby

Fostering...thanks to Amira-who has been volunteering with a sweet lady who saves animals from kill shelters for the past few months.
Amira helps handle the dogs on adoption day, and she loves it. This adorable puppy needed a place to stay until he can be adopted, and how could I refuse that face. Lulu isn't happy-she's not used to sharing her space...and she is still feeling him out. Thank goodness Lulu isn't aggressive and this puppy named Casper(we call him Toby-I figured that the girls would love that name since they are big Toby Turner fans) is really sweet-a tad food aggressive. He really wanted Lulu's bone and I had to put him is his place!

Today I will be working with teaching him some basic commands-he seems really easy to train. We have not heard him bark yet-he is like a ghost! I forget he is here and I can't get over how calm he has been. I snapped a few iPad photos this morning, he's wet from running through the grass!

let the haunting begin.

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Last week I was thrilled to start pulling out all the crows, Fred the skeleton(I made him a sign), and his buddies for Halloween 2012! I am still working on placing things and need to stop at the local farmers stands for a few white pumpkins. I was so excited to see that this year two of the stands I pass have loads of white pumpkins-love the competition between the two farmers!

I also have ideas swirling around in my head of stuff I want to make-but where is the time? This weekend I felt like I was all over the place-drove to Cindy's house for her Thirty-One party on Saturday. Sunday I took Mira and a couple of her friends to the mall for Homecoming dress shopping-by the way, did I ever mention she now has her driver's permit...and she has a certain amount of driving hours to achieve before getting her license. The 20 mins we spent driving through the neighborhood was super fun;-)

Today-I am staying HOME! In my studio...I hope to finish a couple of layouts I started last week and doing some Halloween stuff. And maybe do some cleaning-Lulu's hair is everywhere!

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Q & A

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D said:

I have been wanting to leave a comment for the last month or two when I came across your blog through Making Memories. Quickly I added you to my "favorites". I simply love your blog and style. Everything you post from crafts to photography is chic, elegant, simple and beautiful. It not only shows in your craft but design, decorating and home. I LOVE popping in to see what other marvelous project has been posted. This is truely one sight I never get tired of looking through and spend sooo much time looking at photographs for ideas, inspiration or to simply look at pretty things like I would a favorite magazine. Your so blessed to be very talented. Thank you for taking the time to post all these pictures and share all the lovely things in your life. Looking forward to all your future post. -Jasmin : >

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Hi Jasmin...well, I just don't know how to thank you enough for taking the time to leave such great compliments. It's always wonderful to hear what people think and I always hope that everyone enjoys each visit. I love it when I go to a site and it makes me want to make something right away...or makes me go rearrange the decorations in a better way somewhere in my house-a site that makes me feel inspired makes my day...and then makes me want to also inspire those who come here to my blog. I am thankful when I read a comment like yours(or any comment left)-thank you Jasmine & all others who may feel the same way!!

Melinda Wharton said:

Keisha, I love this - it's beautiful. Just love how your photography blends so nicely with the album. Good work! I have the same questionsas those above! Melinda Wharton at scrapkit studio

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Melinda, I'll answer below for you!!!

Heaven said:

Awesome!! This is fabulous! How big is this album? :)

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Hey Heaven...it's a 4x4-perfectly mini mini, lol!!

Tammie Eberhart said:

You are so darn creative!!! Patty said it best - "SPOOKTACULAR"! What adhesive do you prefer for adhering the pages of your mini album?

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Tammie, I really like to stock up on Tombow permanent tape or Scotch double stick tape.

Joan Fowler said:

Keisha, I love this mini album. I recognise the skeleton stamp from My Mind's Eye but what company or companies is the paper from? Also those labels (Spider Fangs, Deadly morsels)are amazing but have no idea what line they are from either. I would love to use something similar for a mini album for my granddaughter if you could provide some company names for me.

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Joan...Lots of old stash stuff with a bit of new stuff! Ok, the Deadly Morsels is Martha Stewart from 2 or 3 seasons ago-look on Ebay for those stickers. All the other stickers( SpiderFangs, Hemlock, Trick or Treat and Oct 31) are new K&Co sticker set I grabbed from Michaels-the witch sticker too. The papers are all from My Minds Eye-a mix of two lines. One is their Halloween line and a line of black & white papers called Meadow Lark...I love doing Halloween in blk/wht with bits of orange. Yep, the stamps are My Minds Eye...and the skeleton at the end(or the first photo on black cardstock) is a Michael's stamp. Lots of old Making Memories stickers(letters/numbers and word stickers) & some Jenni Bowlin bingo cards and journaling cards. Studio Calico stamps(2006)...te glittery spider might be Jolee's...some black sequence...OMGosh, I am just noticing that there are a couple pages missing, lol. 

 

halloween mini.

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Finally, done! I have been working on this just about everyday for the past month?! Last week LaVaughn & I think we had a bit of the flu-I am just now really feeling better. This album is really simple-and the simplest of things seem to take me forever! 

This album has photos of the girls from past Halloween 06-09. I want to do another mini for 2010-11 soon. Right now I am just glad that this one is done!! I posted it from end to beginning and I am to ticked to reload the photos!!

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clay addict.

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I have to first give a big  thanks to Kim Archer & Etzcetera online magazine for including me is the latest issue. It is such a beautiful & fun magazine, and I was thrilled to see the finished article.

What is Etzcetera-"Don’t dismiss us as JUST a craft or scrapbook magazine.

 Etzcetera is SO much more.  Etzcetera is a fresh, fun lifestyle magazine for creative people who love family life, home decorating, food, craft, ideas + pretty pictures."

I hope that you take some time and visit Etzcetera and buy an issue or two!! I don't make any profits-I just think it is a magazine full of great creativity!

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Hi, I am Keisha and I am a clay addict! In between finishing up the Halloween album I have been doing-I have also been fooling around more (and more) clay. These mini pumpkins are my latest creations-the ones with the funky noses were inspired by some carved pumpkins on the Martha Stewart website. I wanted to carve my real pumpkins like this last year, making them in clay was so much easier-and will last forever! I also made a few black butterflies on sticks I'll post soon.  

Sorry for the lag in blogging-my husband was gone overseas for a month. It is so nice to have him home again, I wished I would have taken a video of him scaring the girls when they came home from school-he scared the crap out of Kiela!! It gets hard to stay on top of everything when he is gone.

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Amy Smith said:

What lie is this? I love it! I can't believe how excited I am for Halloween.

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Hey Amy...I am using a mix of things for my Halloween album-My Minds Eye papers and the stickers are K & Co/Martha Stewart.

 

patty said:

O . M . G ! love this! you are inspiring on so many levels! k... could you please tell me where that delish yellow ribbon tied around your mini is from? thanks for always sharing your creativity...

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Patty, that ribbon is from Michael's or maybe JoAnn's;-)

 

Stacey said:

Lovely! I've been coming to your blog for quite some time now and this is my first comment. I to and a "big fan" of yours. I love everything you make. You are very talented.

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Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment Stacey!