Halloween is hand's down my most favorite holiday! You get to dress up, eat candy, get to have scary fun, and there's not as much pressure as Christmas or even Easter. And I LOVE some of my Halloween decorations, especially the Lori Mitchell and Bethany Lowe, their vintage-inspired whimsicalness makes me smile.
I made this All Hallow's Eve banner a few weeks ago. I think it was a Making Memories kit...
As some of you know we are moving to Mexico in a couple months (right after Xmas when my Hub's Visa is complete) and we'll be keeping our house here in Philly, renting an apartment in Mexico. I'm excited to learn Spanish better, and my girls I'm sure will become fluent in the 2 years we'll be there. We'll be coming home (to the west coast) more I think, just because I'm pretty sure I'll be needing a dose of my American roots more than living here on the east coast. I'll miss my grand ol' house, but we're keeping it and we'll have it to come back to later.
This last weekend I scrapbooked a bit with my mom. I loved it just being the girls hanging out, crafting and laughing. McKaylah was crafting secretly under the table making me a birthday present (it's coming up November 5th, but I'll be excepting presents thereafter as well...) I love having my mom here. I hope I always have the special bond that I have with my girls now, and the way I always had it and still do with my mom.
here's the two layouts I finished (x3).
The Amish Country, from our trip out to Lancaster a couple weeks ago.
Lady Liberty, from our trip up to see the Little Lady a couple weeks ago.
Then Saturday night I went out with Ana and Sarah to a benefit Urban Outfitters hosted again. An Autumn Carnival theme and it was beautiful! They had a huge big top and booths like ring toss, darts, skee ball, caricatures, photo booths (yay!), bucking bull rides (go Sarah, she kicks a*# on it!) and the food was so delish! The pumpkin mousse was divine! Here's some of our photo-booth shenanigans...
Ana walked us through the Free People design offices (Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters are next door.) It's like a girls' dream...pretty freakin' rad! I can't wait to be her personal assistant one day ;)
My mom leaves tomorrow, I'm bummed. I'll see her in a couple months, but the 4 1/2 weeks she's been here has been AWESOME! I'm so lucky to have her. But Halloween is this Friday and we'll have a small trick-or-treating shin-dig here with Ana and fam and Sarah and fam, then it's election day (so exciting) and then my b-day (mucho excellante!) and then my BF Lainie comes for a week visit! Fantastico! (see, I'm practically fully bilingual!)
That's all folks! Have a tubular week!
