Patio is Finished

The patio is finally finished and it looks great. We finished painting the underside of the deck and around all of the garden beds, the electrical boxes are installed and working. We just need the time to enjoy it. I think the guys, David and Doug, have used it more than us this year.





The pictures were taken just after dusk, I even have the star lights on. I had picked these up for David when he was overseas, but the last batch I sent someone else walked off with them so I kept them until he came home. He helped me hang them up and I will send them with him when he leaves again.





I need to find the pictures of the garden beds before and after. We were really amazed at the difference. Next spring there will be a few places to touch up - such as around the sage and thyme plants.

This last picture was taken from the top of the deck looking down onto the patio. It gives a better look at the lights. Dale had bought a couple of boxes of the battery operated lights last year and I really like the way they look. The company isn't the greatest to deal with if something goes wrong or trying to get battery replacements. Oh well, live and learn.

Thanksgiving Organizer

I found this Holiday Organizer on Stamping and Scrapping with Jen and had to make one for Thanksgiving. It seems that everyone is already onto Christmas projects or are still making Halloween projects and I need to do something for Thanksgiving.

After I scored the folder I painted gold paint around all edges as I wanted my Organizer to have a gold border. Instead of the staple on the front to hold the ribbon on I use two small brads as I have a wider ribbon on this. The ribbon was a wire ribbon that I pulled the wire out of. I used the Bleeding Cowboys font for Thanksgiving on the front. The leaves are stamped on vellum and then embossed.

I'm not sure how everyone else who is making these decorate the inside covers. I kept my front pieces cut to the same size as the inside ones. I stamped the Celebrate, Family, and Friends on vellum and then embossed with clear embossing powder.

I used the Cricut for the T and stamped hanksging in gold a scrap piece of paper and attached it to the T with jute.

Inside the first pocket I have stamped a border on two pieces of vellum. The second pocket is a leaf stamped as a border down the side. The third pocket is a set of recipe cards from See Jane Scrapbook. In the last pocket I have three different sizes of envelopes with a border stamped across the top of two of them and autumn stamped on the last envelope.

Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts - Family, Celebrate, Friends, Wavy Daisy's, Wavy Bluebells, Autumn Border, Leaf from In the Garden Set, Wavy Pinwheels. Skeleton leaf from The Stampin' Place

Ink: Green, Gold, Brown, and Colorbox ink for the leaves, Brown for all edges.

Paper: Autumn Sparkle from Archivers, textured card stock in neutrals, miscellaneous scraps.

Miscellaneous supplies: gold paint, folder, silk leave, Memory Boutique Flowers, embossing powders, brown jute, punched leaves for inside bottom border.

Orchid

My son brought home a surprise for me. Since I'm a plant person this is an extra special surprise.

Halloween Treat Bag

Here is a Halloween treat bag I made for work. I used a sandwich size bag for the treats

Recipe: Black cardstock Orange cardstock stamped with the bats from Halloween 2 - two large bats, and Halloween Boogie - 3 small bats, White cardstock stamped with the pumpkin faces from Halloween 2 then cut out with an oval scalloped punch and tied to the front of the card with orange embroidery floss, and eyes.

Visitors to my garden

The template comes from Seaside Scraps October Template Challenge.

Recipe: Cinsial Beauty paper 1 and 2, LJD Celebrations ribbon, 2 mc shaker flowers and 2 brads.

Weather

We have had rain for on and off for the last couple of weeks. I feel like I'm back in Seattle. When we got up we had fog. I had a few minutes before I had to head out to work so I was able to snap a few shots. The second and third photo are taken from the foot of the steps looking in different directions. The first photo is from the middle of the patio.