All posts tagged halloween

Only 4 more days!

by Erin on August 27, 2010 in holidays, pure prattle with Comments Off

Spider Cupcake Holder

Not until school… but until September 1st—the day I put my summer stuff away and pull my fall stuff out. Of course, I’m jumping the gun a bit with Halloween stuff, I can’t help it. I went to Home Goods and bought some new stuff {not that I needed it}. Then, at the boardwalk last night, my mom bought the above adorable cupcake holder. The top comes off and you can put stuff in it. LOVE it! I’m keeping it out; no sense in putting it away only to be taken out in a couple more weeks. Right?

We’re sick again

by Erin on October 22, 2009 in trials & tribulations with Comments Off

Ugh. The kiddo stayed home again today. It started yesterday afternoon—sneezing. Then later in the night he said his throat started to hurt. :( He was up all night, and then finally fell back asleep at 7am. Obviously I can’t send him to school at 8:30 then. So, he stayed home. Going to have the husband take him to the doctor later.

I love the fall and this kills me that he’s been so sick throughout most of it. All my fall plans down the drain. I wanted to go to the local nursery to check out the big corn stalk maze, along with their pumpkin bowling. Now we’re stuck inside. Bleh. And of course this means he’s going to get me sick, and I always end up worse than him and I also just got over being sick. It’s like the flu shot mocks me:

Flu Shot: Ha ha ha. You’re protected from the flu—but not from the cold!
Me: I know.
Flu Shot: So now you’ll suffer a cold every other week for blocking the flu!
Me: I know.

On a positive note, when the kiddo gets sick, he’s not one to be mopey. So he’ll act all normal, just be coughing and sneezing all over the place. Wait, that shouldn’t be positive should it?

Sigh. Time for more coffee.

Happy October!

by Erin on October 2, 2009 in pure prattle with Comments Off

Happy October!

October 2nd. And it actually FEELS like October. Woo Hoo. *Ü*

We’re suppose to go to Family Fun Night at a nursery, but the weather may not hold out. Plus, it would just be me and the kiddo. So, it’s still up in the air. I’ve got decorations to get up anyway. Apparently, I was “on his ass” to get the fall decorations out of the garage and I’ve yet to decorate. Of course, I’ve put some stuff out. It’s really my Halloween stuff that is the bulk of it. That’s going out either tonight, if the Family Fun Night is a bust or tomorrow, when it’s storming out.

I also got my Vera Bradley bag I ordered the other day. It’s a bowler bag, normally $72—got it for $28! Woo Hoo! And I was even more surprised at how it arrived.

: Vera Bradley Box

: Inside Vera Bradley Box

: Vera Bradley Bowler Bag

How awesome is that? I’ve never ordered directly from VB, so the packaging was a total surprise! And I couldn’t beat the price. Of course it was for certain colors only. The one pictured, the one I got, is the Mod Floral Blue. I have a larger bag in the Mod Floral Pink and I love it, so I grabbed the blue this time. So now I’ve got a nice, fallish bag to use. It looks REALLY nice with jeans. Yay!

Fall is the fuel for my addiction…

by Erin on October 1, 2008 in pure prattle with 1 Comment

I love fall. I love the smells, the cool mornings and evenings, apple picking, pumpkin picking, comfort foods, colors and the coziness of it.

So keeping with that theme, I bought *the* cutest felted sweater cell phone holder from Etsy.com. :)

It’s made from an old Ambercrombie sweater. How cool is that?! LOL So fall-y.

Today I put most of my Halloween decorations up. Got a bunch more to do along with the outside lights. Yay. ;) Got my mums and kale so I just have to decided how I want them and then that will be done.

Hopefully I’ll have it all done by the weekend!