Success!

The house looks awesome! I wanted to do more but I ran out of time!

The bats turned out great. If I started sooner, it would have been easier. But even with rushing they still turned out awesome. I will definitely be using them again next year.

Super easy and relatively cheap, depending on how many/how big of a space you're working with. I went to Hobby Lobby and got a package of big sheets of black construction paper, which was around $4 for 50 sheets. It was around $2 for the tacky stuff, which worked pretty well for the most part.

We (Joe & I) made these awesome looking vines! We picked up 2 packages of long natural looking rope. We got 5 cans of spray paint (well, 2 we had leftover from last year). We used 3 browns and a dark green. Then we just sprayed the crap out of the rope! The easiest was to spray the dark green and dark brown first, since the colors are overpowering to the lighter ones, and leaving some bare spots. We went back over the rope with the lighter browns. One of the browns was a textured paint that looked great on it. Obviously there is a lot of flipping the rope around and quite a bit of drying time. Looks fantastic! We also grabbed thinner dark brown rope it intertwine  with the one we spray painted. The whole look of it was so cool.

I found an awesome glow ball idea on Pinterest that we tried. We improvised with what was easiest for us to find. We got a package of regular green balloons which we put a green glow stick in, then filled with water. We then got some white stockings (I just picked up girl sized ones), which I cut the legs off of to use, and put the water balloon in that. They weren't huge, maybe softball sized. We hung them from the trees in the backyard. They looked awesome!! I unfortunately did not get pictures of them glowing. :( Everyone said they looked alien like.

I made a super cute witches table as well. I set a skull, a crystal ball, a broom and a bunch of bottles. Some I had and the rest I picked up for really cheap at this science store. I filled a few with water and food coloring. I also set out some witch related books that I had. I loved it.

It was an awesomely fun, crafty Halloween! :)

Even at work we got in the spirit. I decorated the lobby & few of us decorated pumpkins to look like some of our doggy clients! :)

Halloween love!!

October!

Oh, I'm such a slacker with posting on here. I really have to work on that. :)
I have gotten another pet portrait done, Theodore. I love how this one turned out. I think it's my favorite portrait that I have done. And it's a cat, not a dog!
I'm in the process of working on a few more right now, the husky is still in progress, Spencer and Autumn. Along with my dad's tattoo sketch, which he was giving me a little shit for. I'm sorry dad, but I have a very limited  amount of free time! Especially last month and this one now, with the Halloween party & such.
I'm working on some awesome Halloween projects right now too. This year our decoration theme is a haunted forest. :) I just need to get paid so I can go get some supplies!
On another, unrelated to my art, note..I got a promotion at work. I am now a manager at the doggie daycare. :) so happy. Last month I got the opportunity to work at an animal shelter, which I loved! But then it got my bosses at the daycare to see how valuable I was there I guess. I talked with them about a manager position, which one boss was like maybe eventually. So I said, ok keep me in mind but I'm going somewhere I can advance. Next day-I'm manager! Bam. So I sadly had to leave the shelter. But I do plan on volunteering! Just have to get through this month. 

Nothing like seeing good friends :)

Yesterday I hosted a Lia Sophia jewelry party for my mom, she sells it. There was some awesome jewelry. I got a bunch of stuff :)

I got to see [almost] everyone I used to work with at Petit Bateau: Katie, Hillary, Beth, Ameelia, Natalya. It was great. I miss them all so much! It was so much fun too, I haven't laughed that much in a long time. :) And I don't think I've enjoyed a night so much in a long time. And the time just flew by. We started at 7pm and before you knew it, it was already 10pm! At least I have a reason to see all of them again, to give them their jewelry!

Dinah didn't show, she said she would. I don't know why. I'm going to give her a call a little later to see if everything is ok. Everyone was disappointed.

Mom was telling me I should try selling Lia Sophia jewelry. I am considering it. I planned on getting a second job anyway and it would be a hell of a lot more awesome to do jewelry parties than work retail again! The only thing I'm worried about is actually getting parties. I don't know a ton of people or anything. I work with a woman who can't even pay me, so obviously there's no chance of getting a party there. [sorry, there's a little anger lingering in that.. :/] The other co-workers wouldn't be interested. That just leaves my friends. I invited them all to two parties for my mom so far...I wonder if they'd get sick of it or something...I don't know. I'm going to an opportunity meeting with her next month to learn more. We'll see how it goes.

Today has been an ok day I guess. Did some dishes, walked the dogs - Heidi would not stop barking after getting spooked by a much bigger dog, it was kind of funny. She's such a cutie. I'll have to put a picture up of them. They're both amazingly cute :)