the results are in ...

Today I went to the school to see the halloween parade in the gym. Asha was totally cute in her little "princess witch" costume and Carter was a blue "ninja".
They announced the winners of the Pumpkin Decorating contest: Carter received a prize for 3rd place; and Asha got a 2nd place prize. Yeah!!!!! They were really excited & so were their mom & dad. I never did see the winning pumpkin -- apparently it was a little porcupine & her baby(ies) created by a fellow Kindergarten child??? Wish I could have seen it.
Anyway....that's all I have for today. Tomorrow we veg until the evening events of treating (no tricking). Did I ever mention the story about the Halloween night when one of our sheep got spray-painted green. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the barn that night. A few neighbours decided to play a little trick on us; stack some bales on the lane, move some machinery, spray-paint a sheep. All in a night's work {lol}.
Ron mentioned we might tackle our kitchen backsplash tomorrow -- yikes!!!! Now, that's alittle over-the-top for a Saturday, don'tcha think?!? Better rest up.
later {from the farm},
j.

any guesses...

...as to how many little packages of blue jello will fill a large pumpkin? Only I would ask such a question {lol}.
Well, we found out. We made 6 packs and didn't even come close to filling Asha's pumpkin to the top. So, we sawed off the top and created fabulous "Pumpkin Beach". Some cardboard sand, a few shells, a plastic turtle & a starfish in the jello, felt little towels & some Polly Pockets in bikinis -- you got yourself an entry for the Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest at school.

We had so much fun!!!

happy carving to you {from the farm},

j.

altered pumpkin

The kids' school is holding its Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest. This what Carter (age 8) came up with. Talk about your Geography enthusiast!!! The title is "The Pumpkin of Places". Very suiting, isn't it?
He will bring it to school tomorrow for the judging that happens on Thursday.


I will share Asha's creation on Wednesday -- we have to finish tonight. I'll leave you with a hint though:

It involves blue jello & bikinis.

Interesting for a 5 year old?!?

in my element {from the farm},
j.

Hard choice

Daria's school photos didn't quite turn out the way she imagined, so yesterday after school we ventured off around our farm to take a few photos. This is what we came up with.

Couldn't decide on ONE favourite so, of course, I had to post a few.

Now she has to decide her favourites and we'll print them out for her friends.

Comment on your favourite so you can help her decide.

I am a mom to a beautiful girl .

{from the farm},

j.

weird things happy in October

So....last week I thought I would get all prepared with some draft posts so that I could just simply post them for you from day to day. Well.......they ARE posted -- they are just not posting in the place I want them.
Lesson learned? Don't be too prepared!!!!!
Scroll down alittle .......






............. to see all the details on the cards I created last week.
sorry, folks.
hope you find them.
later {from the farm},
j.

Going Horizontal

Here's the 6x12" layouts that i just finished creating. loving this size. because i print almost everything in 4x6" size, this is a fantastic size for me. :) i created these layouts in a morning -- seriously {lol}. they are such a great size to make a whole album out of. i may create my own using my Zutter Bind-It-All and some 6x12 page protectors.

this one was totally created using scraps from my desk. love that!!!!

love this transparent one. so many possibilites.love the Hambly paper here. and i just purchased the jenni bowlin bingo cards at this store. i splurged the other day and picked up some great finds for the crop i'm attending in November.

hey......three layouts created with every one of my kids on them. yeah!!!! that doesn't happen often.

all for now {from the farm},

j.

She practically darned me.

so, i was chatting with my great friend, Leica the other day on the phone (or maybe i read her comment on my blog)......totally forget, but it doesn't matter. anyway, she was commenting on me finally scrappin' some 6x12" vertical layouts. she had seen this post the day before on my blog. She made some comment about if i had tried some horizontal and i had a light-bulb moment. "NOoooooo, but i'm gonna". thanks, Leica.

so, here's some little sneak peeks at some horizontal 6x12 layouts that are laying on my desk, waiting to be blogged. can't wait to share 'em with you, Leica!!!! love ya'!!!!

'til then {from the farm},

j.