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Year end review (in lots of pictures)

January
 
My uncle made some awesomeness for my bedroom!

I turned 26 and sheldon got me Hello Kitty Cupcakes - thus proving that I would marry him one day ;)

February

I made meat cupcakes!


Sheldon and I celebrated our first Valentine's Day together.

March

I made a pretty baby blanket in awesome colors for an awesome person.

 
 I got my first tattoos!

April

We went to Vegas for Viva Las Vegas... Yeah that's pretty much all I did.

May
 
I made a lot of these in preparation for the May Deluxe.
 
 
Sheldon moved in.

 June

Sheldon's dog Dewey moved in.


I made some family silhouettes for our bedroom. 

July
 
We spent a lot of time with Sheldon's family in Muskogee, OK where we found this awesome cabinet that now holds, dvds, cds, and ps2 and 3 games.

 
 We had our first dinner party as a couple.

August

I decided I needed to embroider more, and I started by adding embroidered animals to my knitted baby blankets.

 
I started my next big embroidery project/tattoo design

September
 
Sheldon proposed! We'll be getting married September 18, 2010.

 
I decided to try my hand at quilting.

October
 
 I crafted this awesome costume!


We had a family pumpkin carving party!

November
 
Amy and I taught an embroidery class together. We had a great time!

 
Sheldon and I started our own Thanksgiving traditions. Including friendsgiving with my friends.

December
 
I participated in my 3rd Deluxe Indie Bazaar.


Most recently, we had our first family ordeal. Dewey bit Bella on the 28th, resulting in a freaked out mama and 7 stitches to Bella's noggin. She's doing great now. I'm sure it was an accident, where he snapped and accidentally made contact. If it was on purpose he would have done a lot more damage.

Anyways, thanks for reading this year and next year will be full of more crafting, and definitely more wedding planning! Come back tomorrow to see my 2010 goals!

A month of Halloween

I am soo glad Sheldon loves Halloween as much as I do. It is our favorite holiday!

We've been getting the house ready since the beginning of October.

      

Sheldon has also been making sure we only get horror movies from Netflix. Some of them (Trailer Park of Terror) were awful. Others (Drag me to Hell) were great. I've never been much of a horror movie fan so i think I've seen more this month than any other time in my life!

Last night was the Ghouls Gone Wild Parade downtown. We weren't in the parade but we still wore our costumes. I made all of my costume (except the wig) and Sheldon found the perfect suit at a thrift store.

We had a lot of people comment on our awesome costumes and we even had a little photo shoot with a camera club that was there. It was pretty cool. The parade was a blast!! Sadly, my camera battery died 3 floats in so I don't have pictures. My favorites were the Edward Scissorhands float and the Stepford wives float they were all so cute! We stayed for the after party to see the Collins Kids, but we ended up leaving early because they ran out of beer, we were tired, and the music was too loud. We sound like old people. haha!

Tonight, we had Sheldon's family over for a pumpkin carving party. It was tons of fun! Here are the fruits of our labor...

Yes, mine is the Hello Kitty Pumpkin, how'd you guess??

There are more pictures in my Halloween 2009 set on flickr. 

Everyone have a spooky-fun Halloween!

Also, Don't forget about the Embroidery class coming to Oklahoma City November 15th! Sign up today, the class is already filling up! http://www.craftyminx.com/embroidery_class.html

Mrs. Lovett

I finished my costume just in time to wear it to the parade on Saturday.

I haven't done this much sewing in years. It helps that I have a new sewing machine. Technically, I've had it since May and it has been in a box since then. I know, I dare to call myself a craftyminx.

I think Bella's meat pie costume is my favorite.

She was definitely the one that people stopped to oogle at. I have a cute little girl.

The parade was great fun and I was glad to see that so many crafty types were out there making their own costumes and what not. My favorite by far were the Tornado Alley Rollergirls and their circus oddities float.

Genius! And this is only a few of them. They had every oddity present. Very cute.

All in all it was a great night. I wish I had decided to be in the parade with the library, but I figured for my first year going, it would be fun to watch. Next year though... watch out.

Costumes...

I've been working on Bella's and my costume for a few weeks now. It is coming along quite nicely. I'm trying to finish it in time to wear it to the Ghouls Gone Wild Parade this Saturday. That is when you will get full pictures. As of now, Bella's costume is pretty much finished. It still needs some fingers glued in.

She only kind of hates it.

I had to come home sick today (damn allergies and sinuses) and I've been hand sewing on trim for my shirt for about an hour. I'm going to have to stop for the day though, because my head started hurting again.

Other bits and pieces of my costume...

Have you guessed what we are going to be yet?? If you haven't, you'll have to wait for pictures from Saturday.... insert evil laugh here...