An Update on, Well, Nothing

So not much has been going on here in the Carpenter house. I am just putting the finishing touches on our cemetery for the front yard and then I will take pictures of it and post those. I am trying to get ready for all the company that will be here next week. Knowing full well that my house will never be clean enough for a certain Aunt of mine, we like to refer to her as Martha. Belinda has been here this week and we went out to see Ed and Joys new house. So that was fun, The rest of the time has just been spent sitting around the house doing just about nothing but trying to stay warm. It has definetly gotten cold here in the last couple of days. I might actually have to turn on the heat soon. I know, I know that makes most of you sick that I don't have it on yet but I am holding out that I don't have to turn it on for a couple more weeks at least. Well, like I said, not much going on here. I need to get better about posting here, I have just been busy creating my ghoulish scene. Pics will be up soon so check back with me.

Card I Made

This is a card that I made for my baby sis, Jess. I am so proud of her, she decided to go to school and get her degree and become a teacher. The part with the white flower is the envelope, that I also handmade.
I am so proud of this. It is the first card that I have made. I mean other than just folding a piece of construction paper in half and decorating it. I think it turned out pretty good. I just need some more stamps...hint hint hint. I mean christmas is coming up pretty soon. =>

D strikes again!!

So D decided to feed the fish yesterday morning. He ended up feeding them about half the can of food...needless to say the aquarium needed to be cleaned out. I mean it is not the fishes fault that he decided to not listen and feed them, why should they die?
This is what their water looked like in the entire aquarium. Very gross!

Back home! They love it. They can breathe again and it is clean, sparkling clean.
I found this while out curb shopping the evening...I am not sure what it is but it is cool. It was made by Lane but I can't look it up. There used to be some green felt type stuff inside the drawer. If you know what this is let me know. Thanks.

Picture taking in the Cemetery

The boys and I went to some of the local cemeteries to take pictures of some of the headstones today. Here are just a few that we thought were the best. This first one her finger is broke off, but she is still a very cute angel.
This one the harp has real metal tubes in it and Nate thought that it was great he could play music on it.
Not much to say about this one. Just cute
This one is in the old cemetery downtown. We think it is definetly the best.
The cemetery downtown has a lot of headstones that are broken and/or have fallen down. Some of the family plot areas have fences around them and they are falling down, are broken and rusty. There is a wooded area behing this cemetery and all along the tree line is nothing but trash. The boys picked up all the trash they saw as we walked through the cemetery. It is a little disappointing since this is the oldest cemetery in town and is right along the civil war route. The oldest headstone we found was dated 1766, you would think that something with that much history would be taken better care of.

Anyways I am going to take some of these pictures and make them into jewelry. So I will show you those when I get around to making them.

Random

So it has been a relatively quiet couple of days. So I figured I would share a few pictures with you all. This first one is of D cleaning up the toys out of the backyard. He obviously didn't want to do but he figured out a way to make it fun by driving the power wheels around and picked up toys then dumped them off on the patio.



Maggie had just gotten in trouble and I guess she thought that Nate was going to save her. I think this one is especially cute since he rarely lets her come near him.


These next two would be the reason that it has only been a relatively quiet couple of days. It rained some today but the boys wanted to go out so, I told them they could go drive around the back yard and swing. They decided to start a mud fight! Thank gosh I was paying attention and stopped it before anything got thrown.




And this would be my really awesome thrift store find. I believe this is an old metal record holder, but it fits my 12x12 scrapbook paper just right. I can't wait till tomorrow to decorate it and make it beautiful! Hope all of you have a wonderful day!