Thursday, August 28, 2008


Look where our coin is... somewhere in Belgium :) It's kinda cool. The funny part is, now I have to use babelfish to translate the comments people use. How exciting, I hope it stays over there for awhile before coming back to the states.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Your ordinary average rectangle cake...

Turned into a pirate chest cake of goodness!

Monday is my HB's birthday (although she did change it to October 13th but that's another blog). This girl loves her some Halloween, Pirates and Faery's. I know, quite a combo, a girl after my own heart really. LOL I saw this cake in one of my many fantabulous books and knew at some point I had to make it for Jenn. So hope you had a very merry unbirthday HB (Halloween Buddy for those of you that don't know).

Friday, August 22, 2008

This is Jack. As in "I'm gonna Jack you up!" I'm glad I opted for Converse today and not bare feet like yesterday.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Here is my 1st project for Halloween-- Giant Spider Sacks YAY!!!

Here is a closer view of the bricks.

This is the platter near completion... I have to carve bricks on the far right and the top red strip. YES I said carve, I'm using a small metal tool to carve them out by hand.
Sadly, for the most part, people really suck.

I'm not sure why that title makes me smile. Well I have a sorta idea, I mean, afterall, I did come up with it. The trick is to read the blog and see if you can figure out why. Dear blog followers, this does not necessarily pertain to you because for the most part, you are my friends whom I associate with daily, some by email only and then there are the rest of you that may just find me on a blog roll. I'll just leave it at that.

How many of you can say you have a friend who will jab their plastic fork in someone's eye for you or throw chewed gum in a mean persons' path or write checks their asses most certainly can't cash or make a voodoo doll that, if you knew this girl, you'd know that shit would work OR someone who would love you so deep that you finally see you shouldn't put so much stock in people who don't really care about you at all? Any of you... just one true friend that in your time of need would know this kind of humor/love is what you needed most?

I walk around this world and people are mean. They treat one anothers partners badly, I'm not just saying Gay people or Straight people, it's equal opportunity shittiness all around here kids. Never in my life have I been more firm of a believer in surrounding myself with good people... in heart, body, mind and soul. It rubs your soul and if you've surrounded yourself with liars, malicious intentioned, selfish people what do you think you'll become... how long before you don't even realize you are a horrible person that... sucks. And if you read this and you're getting mad or angry, you know what that feeling means? You're guilty and the truth hurts people, deal with it and don't blame others.

There is some bad bad juju out there people...

Makes me feel so lucky to realize I can confidiently look at my framily and know that I am surrounded by good intentions.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Polly wants to help us look at Halloween Magazines :)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Monday, August 11, 2008

You handed me an Olive Branch but I wanted a Forest.

Hours later, things are put into a completely different perspective. There is some major truth behind the sayings take some time before you say what's on your mind (at the time) because things said in haste can NOT be taken back. Nor are they forgotten. We all have our times of selfishness. We may not realize it at the time but it is what it is and when you get to a point where you can reflect at yourself and say, "wow, I just made that completely about me and that really wasn't the point at all." Own it, say your sorry and you can probably say you are growing in a good direction. When you stop blaming people around you, stop dwelling on what others are doing, with true, deep, heart felt intentions of being a better person, this is when you can feel better about yourself as a person. The rest will naturally fall into place within a short time. I guess the major problem is like most everything else in life, we want results now, we want it fixed yesterday, we just want it better with as little work as possible. But are you really going to value it if it's just handed to you? *food for thought*

Last night I took a very generous, heartfelt gesture and turned it into something it wasn't. Maybe I was tired or maybe I was just being selfish... I'm weighing heavily toward the latter of the two. The point is, sometimes when something is presented to you try not to overanalyize what was just handed to you but go with it. Welcome what it is, a geniune offer on a compromise that is a step toward things falling into place. Otherwise, you may find that the short time it could take to help things along just gets further and further away and the olive branch is burned into a pile of ashes.

Thank you for my Olive Branch, I promise not to disregard it in such a manner again.