Thrift Store Shopping!!

I lovvveee thrift stores, love, love, love em!!! If I don't visit one at least once a week I start to go into a 'thrift store withdraw' mode. I'm blessed enough to have three in my area to shop at, one that is close to my one job so i can stop on the way home and check the goodies out :) below are some of the goodies I've found recently :)

A old old Scrabble game i found! :) gonna use it for an art project

Excuse my dog Dante who decided to sneak into the picture at the last second!

I found this nice sweater that I'm planning to wear with my dress to my brothers graduation on Saturday :)

I'm soooo excited about this one, i have wanted a shadow box for a while now but haven't been able to find one, unfortunately i don't have anywhere to hang it right now so this beauty is going into storage into we find a house :)

Crafty Time

Not too long ago I saw a cool project on a blog (can't remember which one but as soon as I find it, I'll post it) The project was very easy and I thought it would look cute in my place.

To start out with I printed out this:

The black numbers are random numbers, the blue ones are our wedding date :) For some reason my computer didn't place the numbers right in the center, we just got a new computer and only have a sample of Office Word so maybe that is why. I printed this on a cut down piece of 12x12 scrapbooking cardstock.

Simple Right??

So all i needed now was a nice frame for this beauty :)

A friend and I went yard saling the other day and I found this frame for .50 cents, chaaa-ching!

It was a little beat up, but I was liking the distressed look :) Plus it looks like it cost a lot before

I hadn't looked at the back of the frame when I bought it but whenever I went to put my paper in it, I realised the back was a little different then normal frame backs:

But once i took off the thick paper on the back it was looking a little better ^

I took the glass out and cleaned it and decided to distress it a little more with some sand paper:

The end result!! Please excuse the door in the glare and my hand :)

My Favorite Scary Movies

Thought that since its almost Halloween I would make a list of my favorite scary movies, I love scary movies, I especially enjoying watching them with my sister :) we sit there and scream and hold hands ;) my favorites are below, (they are all mostly recent, haven't seen alot of the 'classics')

The Ring

The Ring Two (not as great as the first but seconds never are)

Orphan

Drag me to hell (this one makes me laugh too)

The sixth sense

Case 39

Honorable mentions:

House of wax (Paris Hilton dies, thats all i need to say)

The crazies

The stepfather (the newer one)

The must haves for a scary movie?

Rain/thunder storm

Darkness (of course)

A best friend

A love interest

A basement

A parking garage

A bathtub

Personal camcorder

Freaky animal

Busy busy

Last week was crazy busy, i worked five days at club and three at the craft store. Sunday Nate and I got to spend some time together and time with family, Nate works anywhere from 40-80 hours a week until layoff so we don't always get to spend alot of time together.

Today I have been cleaning like crazy, its amazing how stuff can pile up in one week, actually it might be more like one and a half (shhhhh, don't tell). So far I have cleaned the bedroom, bathroom, done two loads of laundry, cleaned the bulletin board up, gone through bills, and cleaned out my purse.....yayness for things looking clean. My hours have been cut this week so I really want to focus on cleaning more (theres a couple boxes of things i need to find homes for), continue to decorate the house (I have managed to do some, a couple of weeks ago i completed my picture wall which turned out really good), and just try to organize things all around.

I also need to purchase birthday presents and wrap the ones I have, Nate is turning 23 on Nov 4th, my little brother is turning 13 on Nov 7th and my sister 25 on the 9th, so its just one big birthday week :)