You mean I missed Halloween!?!?!?

Just kidding!  But it DID fly by! Somehow it got lost with everything else I had going on.  I used to make awesome costumes for my kids but now they just pulled something together on their own. (granted, they are 13 & 16 and one is a college freshman!!) But for some reason my girls wanted to Trick-or-Treat this year.   It's the latest craze amongst teens - pretend for one night that you're still little!! I actually like that they want to stay young for a bit!

Our son did come home for the weekend and I did help him with his makeup - he was the Joker from The Dark Knight.  He came home because we had tickets to see Wicked! If ever you have a chance to go see it...GO! It is SO worth every penny! The minute it was over, I wanted to see it again!

Anyway, I didn't get a chance to post some altered letters I did and I will give you a peek at my mantle - or should I say my dusty mantle but hey! who wants to dust when there is paper to play with?!?! I love mantles!! The jack-o-lanterns have been taken down and put away for another year but it is still ready for Thanksgiving. :)

If you were wondering....here's a peek at what I've been up to lately!

I was working on an event for our annual Mission's Conference where I work (First Baptist Church of Atlanta).  My sweet friend Tracey, our assistant pastor's wife, was put over the annual Shower of Love - an event for the women missionaries and I got to plan the event with her.  That's my job at FBA. Isn't that the best job ever!?!? I plan events/parties and get paid for it!!!

White paper lanterns were hung to bring the ceiling line down, table linens were floor length (LOVE that!), individual bottles of sparkling lemonade and REAL dishes were at each place setting.  It was an banquet type event for our missionary women, who were visiting for the conference, and the women of our church bought tickets to come.  The whole event is to get the know the missionaries on a more personal level and to "shower them with love".  We made prayer books with the awesome Bind-It-All for each person!  Yes, all 210 people in attendance had a prayer book at their place setting!! The chipboard cover and the 80 or so pages of each book all punched by hand!! So if you were wondering if that little manual machine was durable, the answer is YES! And if you were wondering if our hands were sore, that answer is also YES!! 

At the end of the event we gave each missionary a monetary gift but we wanted to give it in a unique way so we came up with the idea of a origami type money flower.  I was thinking more along the lines of a bouquet of money roses, but Tracey found a pattern that was an even better idea.  She made each of the 33 missionaries a corsage out of crisp bills and then put them in corsage containers. They were SO adorable! 

So now on to Christmas for me but keep checking back because I have some fun stuff coming up for EveryDay with Marcus and Lisa!!