Happy Halloween!

Halloween 002
Originally uploaded by AlwaysInspired

I just wanted to wish all my bloggy readers a wonderful and frightfilled Halloween! Or Happy Samhain to all you pagan peoples! This is the pumpkin I carved last night. A witch on her broom flying over some buildings. I love to carve pumpkins and have not missed a Halloween! I'm off to inflate balloons for the community Halloween party (another of my Halloween traditions).

Have a spooktacular Halloween and a very blessed Samhain!

Craft Dungeon Finally Clean

Craft Dungeon
Originally uploaded by AlwaysInspired

Just wanted to welcome you all into my Craft Dungeon. So named by the Hubby who says I spend more time in there than Batman does in the Batcave. I spent 3 days cleaning, organizing, and in general straightening. I'm so proud I had to show it off. More pics on my flickr!

Bright and Shiny buttons

Bright and Shiny buttons
Originally uploaded by AlwaysInspired

I ran across these buttons in the bottom of a lot of sewing stuff I got at an estate sale. I have no idea what they are for, but I am assuming military clothing. They were wrapped in tissue and it looks like this isn't a whole set. The back of the buttons say D. Evans & Co. Inc. North Attleboro Mass. There is a pic of the back of the button on my flickr account. Any help in identifying what these were intended for would be a great help. I plan on making a sailor inspired pencil skirt and using these for a button detail on the front.

Album from Korea

Album from Korea
Originally uploaded by AlwaysInspired

A while back I promised to blog some more of my vintage goodness. This is a yard sale find that is one of my favorites. I bought it from a little old man that told me he brought it back from Korea. Inside the 1st page says "Christmas 1951". The photos are long gone, but on a few of the velum cover pages there are love poems scrawled in a very hard to decipher script. So romantic! I can only imagine the woman that they were wrote for. I've managed to completely decipher 1 and part of another.
Going Away
When I'm gone and you're left behind
My love won't stop with the passing of time.
I may travel the ends of the Earth astray
But my love for you grows day by day.
The time that passes
The miles we're apart
Will only mean a lonely heart.

Isn't it just beautiful. Sappy I know, but the fact that a man wrote this for a woman is touching.
I will post the other when I get it figured out. It is even more romantic.

Kilt update!

So my help came over and we began the tapering process yesterday. I have to do the sewing now since it is all pinned up and then we will get the waist band on and pray that it fits Aaron! It is looking like a real kilt! I have until his party on November 2nd to get it done, but his real Birthday is on October 30th. He was almost a trick or treat! Any way it is close to done and I'm feeling so excited that I made it! I got a couple of blank kilt pins to decorate too!

This giveaway rocks!

I just wanted to alert anyone reading my blog about this giveaway!
Go to http://indiefixx.com/2008/10/13/indie-fixx-autumn-cornucopia-giveaway-2-ways-to-win-2-prizes/#comment-19680
and check out the giveaway! If you enter make sure you link to my blog so I can win too! This stuff in wonderful and what a great idea for a giveaway!
Good luck!

Roamy Gnomey's Adventures

Roamy Gnomey and his new glasses
Originally uploaded by AlwaysInspired

My little buddy, Roamy Gnomey, that I got from bsonlytoots via Holstercobabe in a personal swap has been on some adventures lately! He went to Bismark, North Dakota with me and the Hubby. He had so much fun he wanted to share his adventures on my blog. Go to my flickr account to see his story in pictures!