I am not much of a pattern writer and have never actually posted on online, but I figured I'd give this one a go since it is super easy and a great pattern for a beginner.

Every little kid at some point and time has a meet up with something from the Wonderful World of Disney, and now that the pretty much have a monopoly on the entertainment world, you can't help but to be integrated with them somehow! Well, my little man never showed much interested in anything Disney related until recently. Around Halloween he showed a good interest in the animated Robin Hood and before that the only movie he loves was Cars. But yesterday, Eamon watched the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for the very first time and fell in love with it for some reason. It was on the Disney Channel for an hour long spot, and real tears streamed from his face when it was over. He was so sad. He has owned a Mickey Mouse shirt for about a year now and demanded to wear it the rest of the day (for some reason, despite never watching Mickey Mouse he adores this shirt pretty much all the time, too).

Today I took some times to upload a few of my more recent photographs to my Society 6 account, just in time for the holiday season. Anybody who knows me know that I just about always have a camera on my person and am up to photograph just about anything from trees and nature scenes, to family photos, to simply photographing parties for friends. I found out about Society 6 during the early summer and listed a few things, but never really had any sales (mostly because I failed at promoting).

I love how the site takes something timeless like your photos and allows you to customize and display it in alternative means like mugs, throw pillows, and laptop sleeves, giving you the opportunity to truly have a one of a kind item of your own for reasonable prices and allows me to showcase the different aspects of my photography to a new audience.

If you check out the shop now, there are lots of holiday sales going on and FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING TODAY!

Yes, I know... this post is a few days late, but I hope everyone had a fantastically fun filled Halloween out there. Despite the evening getting off on the wrong foot ( E didn't want to wear his costume! ) we got to enjoy a night filled with tricks or treats...well, really just the treats.

I spent the Thursday before baking lots of candy corn cupcakes, making chocolate covered pretzels, and filling treat bags with all kinds of goodies for Eamon's annual school party and putting the finishing touches on his costume. With a child who hates wearing anything on his head, I needed to make a few adjustments to what was to be the chain mail ( I think it is called a coif )and crown in order for it to fit just right. Come Friday morning, however, we chose not to send him to school in his "special" costume for fear of it getting ruined. Instead, he simply revisited his Doctor Who hat an scarf for the day, which was fine because it is still absolutely adorable.

It has been a grueling past two weeks, full of household remodeling, hours at work, and me trying my best to get back into my gym & running routine. And despite the lack of sleep from the anxiety and clutter that are part of "construction," I am slowly getting things done. This includes adding more to E's Halloween costume. The stores are busy with candy and costumes and we have already gone through The Great Pumpkin movie at least a hundred times, so I know I only have a little time to get my act together.

Pintrest, Pinterest, Pinterest! What did we ever do without Pintrest?!

I love searching Pinterest for ideas for almost everything, so when I needed to find some costume ideas for E I got the browsing. I found this blog post online for a Narnia inspired birthday accompanied by an adorable knight costume. The next day I hit the fabric store and grabbed some velvety-maroon fabric, some grey yarn, and felt (along with some other things for myself) and crossed my fingers.  I couldn't wait to have a go. Although Eamon has never actually seen Narnia, both of his parents are big fans.

Here it goes!

It's (finally) fall! ...and with fall comes all of the beautiful colors of the leaves, cool and crisp weather, and lots of home remodeling for me! Some people Spring Clean, well I prefer the fall to complete all of my remodeling projects and spruce ups.

I love getting back into decorating around this time of year, especially because I get to utilize earth tones and textures for the season. I love browns and yellows and oranges all mixed together, so last year I decided to make a burlap wreath for my front door. I coveted the ones on ETSY but knew that I could make something comparable for half of the cost (Thank you AC Moore Coupons!). Although the burlap was about $5 a roll at regular price (and the rolls were on the small size), I simply made a couple of trips for all of my supplies and had the hubby buy some with his own coupon code at the store. In addition to the ring and burlap, I found some adorable little ornaments on clearance for between $.50 to $1 each at the time. In all, I think I spent under $20 for what sells for over $40 (+shipping) online.

I had never made a wreath before, but took the blogosphere for help. I found an easy tutorial at Little Lovely Leaders that had lot of photos to guide me through the process. In all I am proud of how it came out and it held up really well so far (as it was sitting in storage since last year).

This week has been super busy for me (as they usually...eh, always are). A long series of unfortunate circumstances has been forcing me to remodel/refurbish the upstairs bedrooms for the past few weeks and I have been putting in long hours at the office as well with some serious cases. This leaves little time for other things let alone craft work.

I had been working on this long-term project for a friend who became obsessed with a squid scarf she saw online somewhere and wanted to know if I could make it. "Sure!" I said and sent her out to get the yarn in the color she wanted. I didn't know what I was getting into!