THEY'RE BACK

OMG! I was totally thinking about these the other day and how I wished they still made them. These were the best, back in the day when I was a kid.

So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw them in Target! YES, so excited that I had to buy ALL 3! Luckily they were only $1.99 per box!

Do you remember these? YUM!!

What are you missing from your childhood, that you wish they would bring back?

Spooktacular Pumpkins and Cakes!

This year I decided that I wanted to felt our pumpkins as opposed to carving them. I'm so over the little safety knives that always break and the mess that is carving pumpkins. Then I remembered that if we don't carve our pumpkins then we won't have any pumpkin seeds.

Hey LISA, Why can't you do both?

What a great idea! You are so SMART! So this weekend The Boy and I felted our pumpkins. The BF is going to spray paint his pumpkin once he draws up a "killer" stencil. We will see, if that happens. I think the pumpkins turned out pretty well. It was more time consuming then I was expecting it to be, however I think it was worth it.

Since Halloween is on a Saturday this year, we will carve and bake our pumpkin seeds on Halloween!

Materials needed to FELT your PUMPKINS.

Pumpkins
$.37 felt squares (purchased at Walmart) I forgot to buy Yellow for the windows. Oh well.
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Pencil and Paper

Draw out a stencil of what you would like your pumpkin design to become. Then place the stencil on the felt and cut. Hot glue the felt together if needed and then just hot glue the entire project to the pumpkin. Since we are carving our pumpkins on Halloween, I only glued the corners of the project to the pumpkin. This will make it easier to remove and hopefully we will be able to re-use the felt designs again next year.

The Boy's GREEN BLOB pumpkin. I think it turned out perfect! Reminds me of something out of Monsters, Inc.

My Spooky Ghost house. I really wish I had yellow felt to do the windows instead of white. I really wanted to have ghosts coming out of the windows. OH well, maybe next year!



Now for our SPOOKTACULAR CUPCAKES!

I cheated in making these cupcakes. Hey it's been a long weekend and I can cheat whenever I want to cheat. Don't judge me. I cheated by using STORE BOUGHT ICING, instead of making my own. I'm disappointed in myself but I just didn't want to deal with the mess and time of making my own frosting.



I printed out these wonderful Halloween Cupcake Toppers. I found them on Two Hearts Together's blog. I then used my neighbors circle punch to punch them out. I taped the cutouts to toothpicks so I could stick them in the cupcakes.




The Boy helped me to decorate the cupcakes. I frosted while he put on all the sprinkles.

I packed them up in two separate tins. I'm taking some to work for my co-workers and so is the BF!

What's your key chain say about you?

This is my 2nd post today, scroll down for the Tuesday Football Tracker!

So as per usual I was responding to my hundreds of emails this morning and happened to come across Evonne's blog during Post-it note Tuesday. All You Need is Love . This is what she had posted as one of her post-it notes!

The first thing I thought was, OMG, that is so me! I totally need that as my key chain.

BACKSTORY:

I use to have 2 key chains on my keys, but one somehow fell off. Yes I was very upset when I noticed that I had lost my key chain. Since it's been gone, I've had this feeling of emptiness in the pit of my stomach. I guess after 10 years of having the same key chains you grow an emotional attachment to them.

The current key chain I have says:

"I do what the voices inside my head tell me to"

The one that fell off said:

"I smile because I have no idea what is going on"

Both key chains suit me to a capital "T," and now I totally am on the hunt to find me a key chain that says:

"My mind wanders and sometimes it leaves completely!"

Is it sad that I feel that those 3 key chains best describes me? Oh well I don't give a rats booty, cause that's just me and you either like me or you don't! So what huh?

What's your key chain say about you?

Tuesday Football Tracker - Week SIX

It was a slow football weekend in our household. I think I was just too tired from our long busy weekend to really even care. That and there were a lot of BYE games. The Cowboys being one of them.

I'm not even going to talk about the Seahawks and how bad they played against the Cardinals. When your quarterback doesn't even touch the field in the first quarter, you know there's a problem.

Did you see the Minnesota / Baltimore game? GO FAVRE. They got lucky in the last seconds of the game when Baltimore missed that field goal! I believe Minnesota and Brett are undefeated!

It was snowing during the Tennessee and New England game. I thought that was so cool! It doesn't snow where I live.

SO DID YOU VOTE? We had more votes this week, then we had last week. Thanks to all who voted. It appears that the "WHO CARES THEY BOTH SUCK" received the tied with the Bronco's to win, 11 total. Are you all trying to tell me you don't like my Tuesday Football posts?

And the winner was............................

My choice again!! The BRONCOS!! Sorry Charger fans! I'm on a roll, with my guessing!


So who is going to win WEEK SEVEN?

Philadelphia VS Washington. Playing in Washington

I'm going with THE EAGLES! I don't know why, just am. LOL

Your TUESDAY FOOTBALL COMMERCIAL

This is a test of the BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. I couldn't find a good commercial to post. LAME!! So sorry maybe next week, when I'm not dead tired and lazy!

So how did your team do? How's your fantasy league going?

For those of you who don't watch football, how was your weekend?

Please ease the pains of blogging

I stole this word for word from Hormones, Headaches and Hotflashes. I totally agree with her and don't understand why it took me so long to fix these blogger annoyances.

PLEASE READ

You will save thousands of us bloggers, many, many, many hours of blogging time! Not to mention thousands in therapy bills!

Now for a word from Lee the hotflash queen.

**Disclosure. I am citing my own opinions and no other irritated bloggers encouraged or gave me sexual or monetary favors for the writing of this post. I am not responsible for any offended egos in the writing of this post.**

NO REPLY AT BLOGGER DOT COM

How I hate seeing this!! First of all, I can't tell you how many times I have responded to comments from my email, because truly, some of the comments make me laugh so hard I snort, and then hit send only to realize that my email will be floating in never never land for eternity.

Where do these emails go?? Seriously. Where do they go??

I am not the type of gal who is going to respond to a comment in the post. I'm just not. I like to streamline. I like to hit reply on my email and then respond and hit send. Instead, I go to the respective blog to comment...which I do anyway...and then comment on the post they have written, thus not giving me an opportunity to respond to the numerous fabulous and hysterical comments I receive.

PEOPLE THIS MUST STOP! I am sure the blogger fairies are tired of trying to catch all my emails that are sent out there with no home!! So, I am going to teach you all how to change this, and I am going to do it in a way that there will be no more excuses!!

1. Go to your Dashboard on Blogger dot com.

2. Hit your edit profile, right next to your picture, avatar or whatever else you have showing.

3. Scroll down to the line that says : Show my email address and CHECK THE BOX.

4. Hit save.

Now, for those of you who do not want a regular email address to show, go to Gmail, Yahoo or any other number of places and get a FREE, yes FREE, email account and set it up.

I would so like to respond to the funniness that is sent my way.

WORD VERIFICATION

I have attempted to tute you all on how to change this, and apparently, although many of you said you would change it, some of you didn't listen the first time. I have enough issues spelling "verification", much less typing in those dang words after I leave a comment.

I have thought of boycotting those that refuse to change the word verification and have it turned off, but I love all of you too much and the guilt that my mother instilled in me at such a young tender age would eat me alive and I would no longer be able to function and blog, and that would not do, now would it??

The answer....TURN OFF THE WORD VERIFICATION!

1. Go to your Dashboard at blogger dot com.

2. Click on Settings, which is under the name of your blog.

3. Click on Comments, which is on the top of the page.

4. Scroll down until you see this: Show word verification for comments?

5. Click the box that says NO.

6. Click Save settings at the bottom of the page. Please do not leave this page until you have saved settings.

Now, just an FYI...you do NOT get more spam if you do not have word verification. Word verification is a torture device that some moron thought up to annoy and irritate all bloggers.

Thank you all for your immediate attention to both the above matters. And if this pisses you off, please note my disclaimer on top. For those of you that want to thank me, ass kissing works nicely.

Vampire on the loose!

It was another busy weekend in our household. We visited the pumpkin patch, felted our pumpkins, made yummy Spooktacular Cupcakes and watched the scary movie, Drag Me to Hell.

We visited the Smith Family Farm and for $9 you got to do the following:

1) Visit the Petting zoo. Only there were signs up that said, please do not pet the animals, they bite. HMMMMMM
2) Visit and learn about the Indians
3) Barnyard Ho Down (You sit in a barn and sing songs, we skipped this one. It was way to hot and muggy to be in a small crowded barn.)
4) Corn Maze (We skipped this one, It was way too muddy.) We did do the kiddy hay maze though.
5) Hay Ride out to the pumpkin patch
6) Pick a pumpkin of your choosing. It can be any size, but you have to carry it yourself

Our first stop after taking a picture at the entrance, was the so called petting zoo.

I wanna ride the pony!

There was a Vampire on the loose. He was first spotted running on top of the Hay Barrels used to make the kiddy hay maze.


He tried to scare me, but he was just to cute. So during the Hay ride out to the pumpkin patch I asked him to take a picture with me.

He Happily obliged.

There were rows upon rows, upon rows and rows of Pumpkins. We even saw some of these beauties!

Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the Vampire. Looks like he found himself a big one!

It was a really great fun day at the Pumpkin Patch. The Vampire decided he wanted to go home with us, so The BF and I figured, sure, why not!

And the winner is......

Lucky NUMBER SEVEN!!

LIFE OF A TATER TOT MOM, you are the lucky winner of one of my FABULOUS, handmade chalkboards!

Email me by clicking on the "contact me" button on my left side bar and provide me with your mailing address.

I also need to know which FABULOUS chalkboard, you would like to redeem! The Ladybug, The Frog or the Dragon Fly. Click the link below to view the boards.

http://smellthecoffeelisa.blogspot.com/2009/10/swap-your-crafts-october-edition.html

Thank you to everyone who visited and commented on my 100TH post.

Here is to 100 more!