halloweeeeeeeeeen

boo!

 I've been itching to decorate for Christmas, honestly...since I moved into our apartment back in January.  I've been able to hold off because I knew it was too early in January, then I was busy with wedding planning.  As Christmas draws closer the only thing keeping me from covering the place in red and green is decorating for other holidays first.  Oh, and David would disown me.  I've had some of these decorations for over a month but I knew it was too early for even Halloween.  I didn't even mean to put everything up yesterday, it just sort of happened.

The above ghost is from Target and I just couldn't pass him up.  I'm not into creepy decor but I love cute.  Plus, I grew up with snowmen made of the same clear rubbery stuff and he made me feel all nostalgic :)

The below spider has been painted and ready to hang for at least a month.

handpainted spider

 Here's a basic shot of our mantle.  The lighting in the morning is weird so all you get right now is an instagram pic from my phone.  There are also orange, purple, and green lights above this that go down each side of our mantle.  The lower garland is made of felt polka dots I cut out and sewed together.  The garland above the wreath is just glittery purple pom poms strung on black yarn.  The wreath is covered with more of the same purple glitz and some orange and black ornaments.

mantle decor

Finally having my own mantle to decorate should keep my holiday whims from barfing all over the apartment, ha.  I hope to get some better pics later, but we'll see. :)

halloween knits!

Here are those pumpkin pics I promised...and I think someone else snuck in there as well. 

 

plumpy pumpkin

who is that hiding back there??

shy little thing

a bat!

love this new little friend

bat hug :)

pictures galore

Ok so I took a bunch of pictures...here we go!

headband I knit with sparkly gray yarn, love it!

Projects for our dining room wall:

glittery W

close up of the glitz

first part of this embroidery project. I plan to embroider our names in black over the &

Kitchen art:

red & aqua art

my favorite print and little aqua flower

magnets

Chuy tried to eat one...

Guest bathroom:

pom-pom and felt flowers & watercolor print

blue, lime & teal

wedding pom-poms

more wedding pom-poms

Craft/music room:

my side of our crafting room...this is clean compared to what it was

made these curtains and more wedding pom-poms

my fave part of the crafting area

buttons!

Our bathroom:

finally hung our medicine cabinet and my hair flowers

birdy music print

ha, more wedding pom-poms and flowers

Halloween sneak peek:

spider

garland

Christmas sneak peek:

future stockings

monsters

Chuy says hi :)

snap snap snap

who is that?

i can't believe it's november! and it's not even cold outside...makes me miss northern BC a lot.
halloween was fun. spent the night on a double costume date as a beatnik with my boy(i knit that scarf and beret!) and one of our fave couples...

fred and wilma!

i shopped all day for supplies for a custom order then spent the early evening making a pattern for a teddy bear.

you can kind of see my foxxy pattern behind the bear. not sure what to name my bear yet, hopefully it'll come to me. anyways...i introduce to you mr.bear.
i finished him today after a women's brunch at church. i actually made him as a prototype for a little bear i'm going to include in a baby gift. she'll be light pink and chocolate brown. hope to have her done this week :)