Quick Leave of Absence

Hey folks, I'm sorry to say that I have been under the weather and need to take a short leave of absence from SSB.  Nothing serious I hope, but I'm planning on picking up again next Monday with a new Mad Skills Monday and a fresh bunch of crafts!

I haven't actually been able to craft for a while now and I'll tell you the truth...I'm really starting to have with-drawls!!!  So please don't give up on me, I'm ready to shake this and get back to my old craft'n self!

In the meantime, feel free to post a comment with some inspiration for me or browse thru some of SSB's archives for old favs!

"see" you all soon!

Ginger

SSB

Whatever Wednesday #11

Here is Sam enjoying a monster cupcake...

Love chocolate much...?

In the end, he had chocolate icing all in his hair.  That was fun to clean up!

Ginger

SSB

Mad Skills Monday Link Party #31

Hey ladies, sorry I'm late but I got sick over the weekend and just needed a break.  Been going to long without a real rest!

Welcome to Mad Skills Monday...even though I'm a little behind (yikes!)

Here are some show stoppers from last week...

LOVING this cute Halloween towel from Diary of e Preppy Mom

And this pumpkin vase from Little Miss Momma is too easy!

And lastly, this batty art from Can't Stop Making Things is very cool...

Thanks so much everyone for all your awesome projects!  All the creativity is just too much!

Due to time constraints, I was not able to post comments to each and every link.  I will try my very best in future parties to post to every link, but may not be able to.

If you were featured today, please feel free to snag the featured button for you blog!

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This week I'm linking up my Monster cupcakes!

Now its your turn to share!  Here's what you do:

1. Link up something crafty, creative, or fun that you wanna share! 

2. Please link to the blog post and not your main page.

3. No shopping pages please.  An offer to buy your item at the end of a tut is welcomed!

4. Snag the Mad Skills button and include it on your tut post so others can see where you've linked!  (PS- this button was designed from my sons art work....if you are interested in a custom button, please contact me!)

5. PLEASE VISIT AT LEAST 2 OTHER LINKS IN THE PARTY AND LEAVE SOME COMMENT LOVE!

This linky party will end on Friday the 29th at midnight.

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A Rainy Day Score!!!

So we decided to make a quick trip to the grocery store and alas, it started raining...HEAVILY!

We get totally soaked loading up the kids and the groceries into the van and then heading thru our neighborhood, I see a driveway FULL of goodies with a big FREE sign on the garage door!!!

Now normally, I would just look longingly at all the goods but not stop...especially with my husband.  But since I was already drenched and couldn't get any wetter...I said what the hell!  

I got out and snagged one of those Little Tikes push cars.  The door is missing and its dirty but once cleaned up, Jack will dig it!

And I got this!  I'm so excited!

The pics don't do it justice.  I just love this 50's look!

Not sure what I plan to do with it, but hey!  It was FREE!!!

There was a bunch of other stuff I wanted to snag, but of course, hubby reminded me that Christmas was coming...

...and the tornado sirens were going off.  With that, we boogied home!

Ginger

SSB

Halloween is Gett'n Closer!

So here is a shot of our front porch so far!!!

Not bad...of course, everything looks scarier at night with a strobe light going.

Any hoo...time for The Halloween Scene!

I'm sad.  Really...3 link ups last week?? 
Due to things slowing down, I think we'll go ahead and close The Halloween Scene a week early.

This weeks winner for the final 30 days of free advertising is 

Super QT on the Hill

Check out this cute little tote!

Be sure to head on over and congratulate her!

Ginger

SSB

Whatever Wednesday #10

So we finally got a chance to decorate the front porch for Halloween!  I got to put up my new goodies, but didn't get to take a pic!  Got too dark :(

So I'll post that tomorrow!

But we did make some scary monster Halloween cupcakes!

Look at this little guy!

Not as fab as some other monster cupcakes I've seen floating around bloggy land, but we had a blast making them!  Jack's face got covered in chocolate icing...I think more icing ended up on him than on the cupcake itself!

Here's the whole spooky clan!

All it took was some foil wrapped eyeballs and candy corns to make cute, quick little Halloween monsters!

But we had fun!  Enjoy!

Ginger

SSB

A $20 Halloween!

So I noticed that a lot of our Halloween decorations were missing this year...?

Hmmm.....I think hubby may have misplaced a few boxes.  I can find all my fall decor, but only one box of Halloween stuff!?  Grrr...

Oh well, an excuse to pick up a few new things!  And I was thinking about pulling off an awesome Halloween under $20!

(not including candy...candy is WICKED EXPENSIVE!!!)

So I stopped by my $1 store and picked up these things.

Nothing too scary...Jack is starting to decide for himself whether something is too spooky or not...most often, it's too spooky.

And I've been wanting to pick up some of these for the past few years...finally got some for my front garden!

HALLOWEEN LIGHTS!!!

Anyways, so far my total is $9.00.  And since I just can't wait...I'm gonna go ahead and put up what I got so far...just for the fun of it.  I'll post pics soon!

Ginger

SSB