Jeannie Marie & Company

Watch the process of doing this journal page! This is the double page spread so far.  I haven't embellished the Houdini page much yet but did get it painted and "napkined"  Haha! The 1 ply napkin I added over the other pumpkins is like a ghost pumpkin! I love how that turned out!!  This is a sneak peek at my newest junk journal! I have decided, and most journals do this as you work on them, that it is going to be my  holiday and vacation journal.  I love the randomness of the other journals that I'm pasting everything under the sun into, but this one is going to have a bit of structure.  It will be my go-to place as holidays approach.  I already know I'll have a blast working in it!  

Happy Halloween!   Gracie dressed up as Snow White!   Here in Florida with the weather so balmy it was beautiful for Trick or Treating.  We live on a street with only two other houses  and only three children in the neighborhood so we do not get visitors here on Halloween.  Our Gracie lasted just a few minutes in her costume, enough for me to get a picture and share it.   Mr. Me and I watched Darby O'Gill and the Little People and I remember why the Banshee scared me to death when I was nine!  A perfect night to watch this!  Hope all of you, my readers, my friends, had wonderful fun  Halloween this year! Show and Tell Friday Shadow Shot Sunday

Mr. Me has managed to evade all baby showers until this past weekend when he was brought, into the todays world where husbands share everything, including participating in the baby shower!   Fortunately it was not a shower in the traditional sense where diaper pins appear on clothing, prizes are awarded for winning quizzes about the habits of babies or unscrambling words like receiving blanket, onesie and nipple.   This shower was very elegant! A storybook theme where all guests dressed as their favorite storybook character was very fun!   We were Huck Finn and The Fifth Chinese Brother The honorees dressed as Snow White and Prince Charming!   Photo credit:  Karan McCaughey Out on the patio!   My nephew Rob and his lovely wife Lauren. The shower was held at her parents beautiful home. To the left the fireplace area...to the right  the pool A close up of the decorated mantel out on the patio Seated , yo...

I was happy to find this basket for my shelves.  I'm storing everything loose in baskets that used to be in the drawers of furniture I no longer have.  Photos, cards, scarves, smalls and such, things I want to keep but have no room to display.   Of course I would rather fill my new shelves with books, but when I moved without any shelving hardly, I also had to leave hundreds of books behind with friends, family, yard sale customers and so forth.  Now I am very practical read mostly on my Kindle and from the library.  Needs must when you scale back!   I only brought along a few hundred of my very, very favorites.   But back to my basket When I took off the liner to wash it, behold!   A second liner was under it!   Perhaps this is the basket to store my Halloween small decorations in instead of mixed in with the bin marked Fall Decorations. Oh wait.  I didn't bring any Halloween decorations.  Zero, zip.  ...