four more days until the autumn equinox!!

Okay, yes, I am a big dork. I absolutely countdown the days until I'm actually allowed to put up my decorations. I am that person that gets made fun of because I am literally putting up my tree on Thanksgiving- in the evening, of course. I started making a spell book today as an addition to my Halloween decorations. I'm using Photoshop to make the pages and I am so proud of myself. I've never really used Photoshop before and I am pretty happy with what I've done. I'll post pictures when I'm completely finished, along with the links that inspired the idea. Again, I'd like to mention how much i love Pinterest. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, it! I plan to be doing LOTS of crafts this year. Hopefully, I can get the kids into it more. Yesterday, I tried to do this leaf craft with Ci and even though I enjoyed it way more than making batman and robin save the smurfs, he didn't seem to feel the same way. It was a cool idea though; we collected leaves first. He enjoyed that part quite a bit. Then we hammered the leaves onto textured paper. You put a paper towel over the leaves, first. The color transfers to the paper giving you a really pretty leaf on the paper. I didn't know you could hammer out the color of leaves! I thought it was very cool. But Ci was pretty eager to get back to our block tower and robin. Andi's in school now, and even though it's nice to have time with Ci I almost feel guilty doing fun things without her :/ Makes the idea of homeschooling so much more appealing. BUT, more on that some other time..... tomorrow I will be finishing my string ball decorations, start decoupaging my spell book, and hopefully squeeze in a workout. It's been a good month since I've worked out and I really need to get to it. I'll try to post pictures of at least the string ball decorations. It'll probably be Friday before I can post pictures of my spell book, though. Maybe, even Saturday. There just aren't enough hours in the day.....