I Made it Monday

This week is more of "We Made it Monday"

I am going to share our Halloween creations with you, as tradition at our house, each year we each get our own pumpkin to carve into a jack-o-lantern.

This is my daughters "frankie"

Cody's ghost

My cat

and Josh's bats

no plain old triangle eyes and noses here, we go all out.

what did you make this week?

Happy Halloween!!

p.s. taking a little break from my link up, since nobody links up. I would love it for you to let me know that you miss the link, and then I would bring it back. I will continue to share what I make.

Pique My Interest #11

Linking up with Kathleen at Simple Silly life





This week my mind seems to be on my bathroom, I have this great space at the end of my tub, that has been waiting for shelves.

This would work great!!, but I would need to hire someone to build it.

I really like these shelves, I think I like the brackets the most, and this we could do ourselves!!

and a few more words for the wise

Happy Thursday!!

I made it Monday

Hey, I guess it is Monday again...already


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Kind of have pumpkins on the brain this last few days, fall is everywhere.

So I whipped up a batch of Pumpkin cupcakes, and even my youngest who won't eat pumpkin pie said these were good

Pumpkin Cupcakes

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon coarse salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin puree
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Line cupcake pans with paper liners; set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice; set aside.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the brown sugar, granulated sugar, butter, and eggs. Beat on medium speed until well combined. Add dry ingredients, and mix on low until smooth. Fold in pumpkin puree.

Divide batter evenly among liners, filling each about halfway. Bake until tops spring back when touched, and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes, rotating pans once if needed. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool completely.

What did you make this week??

We have a Winner!!

Kathleen, from Simple Silly life!!!!

Congratulation Kathleen, I will email you the details and codes you need!!

I Made it Monday and a Giveaway

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A few weeks ago I got the best email! A very nice lady from the My Memories Company, had stopped by my blog, she liked what she seen, and offered me a copy of their software!!! She is also giving me a copy to give away to one of you!!

I have had a busy few weeks and was really only able to play with the software yesterday, so it was really nice that it was so easy to figure out. Just drag and drop your pictures into their already made book templates!! They have all kinds of great digital stuff to go with the program too, and hopefully in the near future I will be able to play some more, and get some great scrapbook pages made!!

I used some pictures I had just taken last week of my girlfriends beautiful daughter, thanks Jen for the permission!! Together with the Baby Girl Template from the "my memories suite", "digital scrapbooking software.

See super easy, took me longer to upload them on my blog, than it did to make them. They have already made books, or you can go ahead and make your own thing.

To enter the giveaway, pop on over to their site, http://www.mymemories.com/, look around and come back and tell me what you liked in a comment. I will be making a random draw on Thursday!! For a second entry, let me know that you have become a follower of my blog!

These great people have also given me a discount code for me to pass on to you, so if you can purchase what ever you liked on their site. As a special for all of my readers, they give me my very own Share the Memories code that provides a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value!)

STMMMS25170 Enter this code in the special offer box in the check out to receive the discount

So what did you make this week??


P.S. you dont have to link up to the "I Made it Monday" to enter the contest, but I would sure love it if you did

Pique my Interest #9

Just my style

Christmas cards I think I will make

I NEED to make this my motto!!


What Piqued your interest this week??


Something else for you to peak at a Sneak peak for Jen

Happy Thursday!!
C

Happy List October 11

hmmmm let's see, I know I am not happy about being up this early this morning, I would much rather be in my nice warm cozy bed!!

I am happy that my family was able to all gather together and have family pictures taken this last weekend!!

I am Happy that while we had the photographer here, we were also able to get my husbands whole family together for more pictures, now we are good for a few years!!

I am happy that my family felt at home in my house, while I was off getting other pictures taken

This is my nieces, up on the area above our front closet!! Interesting to see after everyone had all gone home, lol

This is my Sister-in-law her 2 beautiful daughters (the ones that can jump up on top of a 6 foot closet) and my sister



I am happy that Thanksgiving is over, and I don't have to cook another turkey for at least 3 months, but I am thinking, we might try something different for Christmas

I am happy that we were able to get all of our cows and calves home from the pasture yesterday!!

We have bought the pasture about 4 years ago, and have to haul our cow/calf pairs there every spring, and bring them home every fall, and everything worked with us, the stars aligned, the traffic cooperated, and we were able to get all 80 pairs home in 1 day!!! We have never had that happen before!!

I am happy that our builder is here putting up our new barn, so our cows will have a place to stay warm this winter!!

I am NOT happy, I just heard on the radio, this is supposed to be the coldest winter in 20 years....I don't like cold.....scratch that....I HATE being cold!!







on a side note here, I took a holiday yesterday from I Made it Monday, but stay tuned I will be back next week, with a giveaway!!!!

Happy Tuesday,
C

Friday Confessional October 7

I Confess, I am a little frustrated, I DO NOT speak Spanish

I Confess, I got a new cell phone this summer, and I was really on the fence for quite some time, I could no decide between the Iphone and the Black Berry.

I Confess I held on to my old phone because of this, even though the send button did not always work.

I decided to go with the Black Berry, after all, I already had an Ipod touch, did I really need 2 of them??

I Confess I am not very technically inclined, it really took some getting used to. I have come to like my Black Berry, I will not say love because we are not there yet

BUT

this last week it has come to my attention, that I DO NOT speak Spanish, or I guess I should say, I DO NOT read Spanish

This World Wide Web is a wonderful thing, man if you need to know something in a matter seconds, you can be full of knowledge!! That being said, if someone enters something on the internet, in a matter of minutes, tons of people can be sending Black Berry Messenger Requests!!

I Confess I would NEVER put my PIN number out on the internet, I see others doing it all of the time on Facebook, Why they do this is beyond me!!

All it takes is 1 number or letter entered incorrectly, and bang, little old me in Canada is getting tons of BBM requests in Spanish

I Confess, I am frustrated, it started on Monday. I phoned the store where I had purchased the phone, only to be told "they had never heard of this before"

After 4 days of this, I phone my Wireless Provider, their answer "Completely remove Black Berry Messenger from you phone". Does not matter if you use this app, the only way to stop this is to remove it

So I do this. and think well at least I have stopped it from happening, I will just have to text my hubby rather than with the BBM, no big deal

DING



DING

DING

what the heck!!

I am still getting alerts, these people are still trying to send requests, and now they cant, so I get failed alerts!!!!!

I Confess, I did consider meeting some Spanish folks, I mean never hurts to have new friends right???

I Confess I sent a nicely worded email to the customer service center at the store where I purchased the phone, to see what they could do to help me

Their answer "just ignore them""

Thanks for that!!!!


That is all I have to say about that!!!



Happy Friday, and Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!!!

Pique my interest

So lets see what interested my this week, shall we

Some great fall fashion

cute scarves and necklaces, I am off to the city today for Thanksgiving groceries, may have to make a stop at the fabric store

and some great words of wisdom!!

Happy Thursday!!

My Style

Hi, I'm Conni

This is my style!
Day in the City grocery shopping

Tee-Joe Fresh Style
Sweater-Marks Work Warehouse
Jeans-Bootlegger
Rosie Necklace-Allora Handmade


At home

Tee-Gap
Pink top-Suzy Sheir
Jeans-Bootlegger

Slippers-Walmart


Shopping with the kids

Sweater Dress-Marks Work Warehouse
Leggings and Scarf-Rickis
Flower Pin-Whippy Cakes
Boots-Spring Shoes

Running around town

tank top-??
Sweater-Wholesale Sports (my hubby bought it for me, not bad huh??)
jeans-bootlegger (yes they are my favorite!!





Happy Wednesday

Happy List October 5

Happy, Happy, Happy

Linking up with Mammarazzi, she has moved her Happy List Link up from the weekend to Tuesdays, might make it easier for a few more people to link up




-We are finished harvest!!! Happy, the weather cooperated with us, the crops were great, and there were no major hiccups along the way. It has been about 10years since we finished this early, good thing because we still have barn to build and the cows to bring home from pasture.

-I signed up to sell Scentsy!! I am so excited for my box of goodies to arrive.

-I spent the day with my hubby yesterday, we bought a new manure spreader, and had to pick it up. We went to the city first and did a little shopping. I went to Pier 1 and the dishes I have around my kitchen were on clearance, Happy!! When we got home, my hubby noticed that I was using rocks on my cabinet tops to lean the dishes on, so out to the garage he went, and built special little things for the dishes to lean on!!!

-My whole family is coming this weekend for Thanksgiving!! We are getting family pictures taken here on the farm, first time on over 11 years. They are so needed, my youngest son was not even born when the last set was taken

-I love to read, and man am I reading a great book right now, Barbra Delinsky- More than Friends, it is awesome, very hard to put the book down

What are you Happy about, jump on over to mammarazzi and let us all know

Happy Tuesday

I Made it Monday

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I seen this idea a while back on Pinterest, and thought it would look great on my table.

When my husbands grandfather passed away he left us his table. Grandpa & Grandma bought this table after they got married, over 60 years ago, and it was used when they bought it, so it could be over 100 years old. We refinished it and bought new chairs, this set is now in our dining area, and we use it every night for supper (yes we actually sit together every night as a family)

When I seen the idea of the doily runner, I started asking around for old doilys, some of them were even grandmas, so maybe they have been on this table in the past.

I gently sewed the doilys together by hand at the spots where they touch, no worries, no doilys were harmed in the making of this runner

What did you make this week??



Happy Monday