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  We have been busy crafting and decorating this Halloween season! We set up our Spooky Town, bought some new decorations, painted and carved pumpkins and did lots of spooky cooking and baking! I bought one new peice for our Spooky Town, Agnes' Greenhouse. It has lots of cool Spooky plants and it lights up purple! Last year I bought a Mrs. Skeleton pillow, this year we found her a Mr. Skeleton!  My favorite Fall book this year was "Falling in Love" by Sophie Jomain a countdown to Halloween book, you open one envelope/chapter a day leading up to Halloween! For Halloween lunches I made a lot of our favorites that I have posted before with the addition of spider pizza, which was a big hit! Hope you all had a good Halloween!

This year at Little Miss' school they had to make all the decorations for their Halloween party with recycled materials! I loved this and I had so many creative ideas. I showed her some ideas and she chose to make an eggcarton ghost garland. We started by cutting up and painting the egg cartons. Little Miss added the faces she wanted cute ghosts with bows, not scary ghosts. I tied a length of twine between two chairs and hot glued the ghosts at even (ish) intervals. Little Miss tied bows with the twine and we glued them on every other ghostie.  Little Miss was happy with how the garland turned out. I liked her idea of adding the bows on them.  Happy Halloween and happy crafting!  

  Today I picked the last harvest from our little backyard garden. I have a feeling that our first frost isn't far off and I wanted to take advantage of the nice weather this weekend to clean out my garden boxes and get them ready for next season. Our havest included the last of our carrots, the rest of the tomatos and peppers. This was our second carrot harvest this summer. I was not used to growing carrots and I think I planted them too close together, some were very small while others were a good size. Nevertheless they were delicious.  Our whole family enjoyed our garden this year even our rabbit. Some of our carrots were too small for us but they were the perfect size for sunny bunny. I have already started thinking about what I want to plant next year! Happy gardening!

let's talk about one if my favorite hobbies, planners! Last year I ended up with too many planners all on the way to finding the one that I like the best and works best for me. I decided to go back to a classic size happy planner. As I am looking back on these photos, I just want to say, I was using my journal by the pool, under a red umbrella, which gave all these pictures a red tinge. This was the second time I took these pictures, the first time they turned out too dark, so red it is! I have stuck with my one planner for the year, one of the reasons that I really like the Happy Planner is the fact that I can add pages and customize my planner how I want. I am so happy with my set up, I have trackers and my reading journals and my daily planning all in one place. The one thing is, it's so bulky, I can't bring it anywhere so I decided to make a smaller planner, notebook that I can bring with me, to work or on vacation. One thing that I really wanted, was to find everything...

I was looking back at my garden posts from years past and I noticed that I always post my garden setup and I always have the best intentions to post some updates but never follow through with it. This year I waited so long to post my garden setup so I thought I would post the update at the same time. This was my early summer setup. This year we planted sweet peas, 3 varieties of tomatoes, carrots, beets, basil and our strawberry plant. One thing that I do every year is over plant my tomatoes, I always think I need more plants, forgetting how fast they grow and we end up with so many tomatoes, luckily I have a tomato monster at home! Part of my summer garden setup this year was giving a my rain moose a make over. I bought this little moose for my dad the first Father's Day after Little Man was born. My dad kept the moose at his cottage for years, when we sold the cottage I took the moose home for my garden. He has lost his umbrella which helped the rain fall into the beaker and he h...

Little Miss turned 9 this year! Each year the kids choose their theme and I run with it! This year she asked for a minecraft party, so far, minecraft is the only theme that my kids have shared. So I wanted to think up some activities that were different than Little Man had at his birthday. We decided to go for a real life minecraft adventure. We thought it would be fun to paint boxes to look like grass blocks and have the kids build their own houses etc.  I also had big plans of the kids making their own masks and weapons. We did that for Little Man's minecraft birthday party a few years ago but this time I got too caught up with painting boxes, oh so many boxes! Instead of making them, I found these inflatable minecraft weapons, so each kid had one as well as a choice of felt masks to create their character. If I were to do this again, I would make more creepers. We only had one and the kids at the birthday party all wanted to play with it. This would be a good activity for summer...

Here it is, I know you've been waiting for it...my new bookcase reveal! Our old bookcases have lasted many years and been through several moves, it's a wonder they have held up but it was time for a refresh.  The original plan was to replace only the tall bookcase but having all three bookcases match feels very polished and like an adult lives here, but I decorated them with ghosts so there goes that idea.  We moved the old bookcases to the basement to organize the kids books and toys so they get to have a new purpose and my basement gets some much needed organization. I spent a lot of time researching my perfect bookcase. I would have loved a bookcase with a ladder but unfortunately I don't have room for that in my library, so not realistic right now but I found a style that made me just as happy! The bookcases I chose have this metal X detal on either side of each shelf. It really helps to lighten up the room. Once the bookcases were built and filled with books, with room...