Picture Time, Halloween Party pics!!!

                             **Special Announcements**

My super sweet friend Ami @ Ali Lilly is having a 30% off sale on all her Halloween Jewelry. Go check out her blog for more info, and also some great giveaways.

Now on to the pictures of the party. I hope you enjoy, and let me know what you all think.
Hope EVERYONE had a wonderful Halloween. We sure did.

ENJOY

My massive bare wall isn't so bare anymore. This turned out better than I could have hoped for.

Food anyone???

More food anyone???

Worms???

Bloodshot Eyeballs???

Sambar, and Fish Parts curry!!!

Post coming up on this amazing dish, yummy, cheese pastry, pie, well whatever you call it in English. Oh well, it was good!!!

My precious darling Princess.

My beautiful sister.

Dino D was completely passed out for most of the party, sleeping through tons of loud noise. I guess all the late nights got to him too, lol. Oh and my office, library, got a super quick makeover, with none other than the DOLLAR store table cloths. Oh yeah, super cheap, and what a huge statement.

My mom, who is the talent behind all the desserts, and AWESOME cake. Love you MOM!!!

Priness, with a pal, who dressed as a werewolf. He was so stinking cute, I just loved it. My daughter must have posed in this spot at least 20 times. I tried to get her with all her friends, with the special backdrop.

Just some bloodsuckers, lol. Love ya girls. !!!

My mom, and auntie.

What a great family shot. Loved all the costumes.

My dear friends, even poor husband went along with the insect theme, it was ADORABLE.

Great picture.

Yeah we had some great looking vampires at the party.

Smile.

Passed out Dino D!

Chatting away!!

My goodwill candle holder.

Say cheese!!

My family. Yeah I know we hosted a Halloween costume party, and luckily we had the wigs. I don't know what happened. Somehow, last minute, nobody wanted to dress up. Husband, and Big B, both had wigs too, that they refused to wear. Oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes. Dino D finally woke up but was cranky, and crying for most of the time, after that, lucky me, lol.

Happy Brithday Sweetheart!!!

My FAMILY, with everyone, only missing my brother.

Beautiful Princess, and her Amazing cake.

The AMAZING cake my mom did. I loved it. !!!

THANK YOU MAMI!!!!

I am pretty sure I took a pic with everyone, lol. I made it a point this time. Since I am usually never in any pics, I said no more. I worked to hard for this party to not be in any pics, lol. Between my princess and myself, we put that wall to use.

Opening presents. So cute!!!

My piano, turned out great!!! I go those big ghords, a few days ago for $3.oo EACH. What a steal!! The little Lanterns were Dollar Smart purchases, and the Skeleton was part of a dollar store 6 pack of pictures. I just colored some newspaper black with a crayon, and shaded it in next to the skull. Love how it turned out.

The NOT so itsy bitsy spider got a new home, where he was happy to scare everyone, lol.

My fireplace mantle, got the brunt of my pumpkin collection, but I was pleased with the way this turned out too. Not bad, for a couple bucks.

A broken lamp shade, and another piece of that dollar store multi pack, how awesome is that? Ok whatever I thought it was cool.

Even the kitch got a bit batty, and the top of the fridge got pumkiny, (is that a word).....

An awesome witch my sister cut out.

Sams Club had this guy marked down to $30 originally $70, yeah he was fun. Glowed and said spooky stuff when the kdis walked past him.

My vase got all the dead stalks from the plants outside. Shoot I forgot the plant, hmmm, but it looked awesome in the corner there.

My specimen jars, and my version of a toilet paper project, lol. Pretty funny hugh???

Well I hope that was not to long for you guys, I took tons of pictures, but just wanted to share some with you. Hope you got a feel for how the party went. Today I was pretty much pooped. I barely changed out of my pajama, only to go trick or treating with the kids, lol, guess I could have just stayed in them for that too, lol.

If you guys have any cool pics from this Halloween, or Halloween past, don't forget to link up to my Special Party (look below for more details) I am leaving the party open for another week, so come link up. :)

**More Special Announcements**
If you are new to my blog, please stay a while and browse. I am host to a weekly party **Amaze me August** and I would love for you to join me. The party starts every Tuesday and only ends when the next one starts.

Also I just finished up my Special Party **6 weeks 2 Spook** all things Halloween. It was a huge sucess thanks to all the wonderful talent out there. THANK YOU to all who participated and I am leaving it open for another week, so everyone can get a chance to share, if they haven't already. I have yet to link up all my projects to my own party, lol.

Once again, thank you for being so patient while I was hectic and busy with all this. I am so happy to be back to my blog. I missed it and all of you. I have much to catch up on. Can't wait to see what you all have been up too.

As always ENJOY!

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It' FINALLY over

Throwing a party is hard work, throwing a Halloween party, is even harder. The hardest party I ever threw. I worked at decorations for over a week, and in the end, I learned alot. I am not super woman, can't decorate, cook, take care of kids, clean, shower, and blog, at the same time. Neither can I stay up all night, without suffering for it the next day, lol. I also learned many things about decorating, and can say I could have spent half the time, had I done just a few things, rather than trying to do it all.

In the end, I didn't finish everything I thought of doing. In fact not even close, but instead did other things. In the end, like always, I prepared 3 times the amount of food necessary, and stressed everyone out along the way (sorry everyone). In the end, I can say I have enough Halloween decorations, to last me the next 30 years, lol.

But most importantly, in the end, everyone had a good time, and my daughter had so much fun. There were tons of kids there, and the night was a lot of fun. I would do it all again, in a heartbeat. Just hopefully apply the things I learned, and hopefully it will be easier next time.

I missed my blog, these past 2 weeks, and am so happy to be back. Of course now I must clean up, lol, so again, don't expect to much for a few more days, lol. Just checking in with you guys, and letting you know, Im still here, and I will post pics of everything as soon as I get a few hours, lol.

I want to thank everyone for beign so awesome, and still coming to party here, even though I have not been the best host, I APPRECIATE all of you so much. I have been looking at all the link ups, but just have not had enough time to comment on all of them. I have much catching up to do, so please forgive me.

I can't wait to share the party with all of you, and Im already planning my next SPECIAL party....**6 weeks 2 Jingle**, should be TONS of fun. This will strictly be an online party, lol, but regardless, it will be fun.

Thanks again to all my wonderful followers, and of course ALL my WONDERFUL FAMILY, for helping with the preparations, and hard work. I love all of you!!!
As always ENJOY!

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Amaze me August #8~~2 weeks of Features

Can you guys believe this will be my 8th week of hosting Amaze me August? I am amazed that I have been able to remember to set it up every Monday night, lol. I'm telling you guys, blogging keeps you regular. I hope everyone enjoys coming here, and slowly but surely it is growing every week. I am constantly getting new people joining, and I appreciate all of you who come back on a regular basis.

Last week I didn't do any features, and even tonight I'm pushing midnight right now, so this may be a bit quick, but here are some of my favorite link ups from last week, and this week.



Jenn @ This Mommy Lovesmade these amazing Elmo cupcakes. I just love them. Thank You Jenn for linking up!!



Megan @ Fowl Single File made these adorable turtle breads. What kid would not LOVE to eat this, yeah OK me too.
Thank You Megan for linking up!!

Lindy @ Cottage Hill did the craziest planter out of old books. Seriously she took a drill and tore those books up, and now look at  them, all pretty with a plant, and all. Oh man, I want to try this so bad. Thank You Lindy for linking up!!

This weeks favorites are....

Leah @ Living Life Crafty showed us how to organize out bags out of a pringles container. Oh yeah, its super cool. Thank You Leah for linking up!!!



Kendall @ Songbirds and Buttons did an awesome table makeover. Check out that beautiful color, and fun pattern she did. Yeah I love it. Thank You Kendall for linking up!!!

Michelle @ The Real Life Mom showed us how to make this great, super easy, hair bow holder. Thank you Michelle for linking up!!!

Ladies PLEASE grab a FEATURED button and display it proudly!

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As always ENJOY!

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