BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Lot's to do for Halloween spooking today. Cupcakes to decorate, goody bags to fill, cleaning to do. Can't wait for the fun to begin! Here's a sneak peak at one of the spooky treats will be having tonight. Severed finger cookies, YUM! Harry's totally turned off by these. I think they're fun.

Don't forget to get your Holiday shopping done early and pain free by logging onto my Longaberger website: www.longaberger.com/pamsbasketcase Your purchase is shipped within 3 days and sent directly to you. Please contact me through comments or pam.harry@patmedia.net if you have any questions. Be sure to check back for more uses for your gorgeous Longaberger baskets too!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My Halloween Purpose

Today my purpose is Halloween preparations. I have baking and decorating and shopping and haunting to do. This is the beginnings of the table decorations. I can't wait for my nieces and nephews to see all the crazy stuff I have planned. Monster and witch cupcakes, "finger" cookies, rotten apple punch, eyeball pudding and LOTS OF SPIDERS! Too scary! If you have any Halloween tips or ideas I'd love to hear them.





On a side note, if you want to see something scary. The little man fell up the stairs yesterday and put a lovely little hole in his tongue. Every time he'd stick his tongue out at me it would lay open. Yuck! The picture I was able to take just doesn't do it any justice since he wouldn't hold his tongue out. So you can see the line on his tongue but when it's in his mouth it stays closed. Lovely! Great shot for the Dentist! Look, no cavities!

Don't Forget!

Don't forget, I'm an Independent Longaberger Home Consultant. If you're inspired to get organized or decorate your home with beautiful products or need to purchase some gifts, than you can either leave a comment with your contact information, e-mail me at pam.harry@patmedia.net or go to my Longaberger website at www.longaberger.com/pamsbasketcase and place an order right there. Please contact me with any questions or for more ideas.

Oh The Beautiful Baskets!

As promised, here is a list of ideas for the medium wreath basket from Longaberger. This picture shows it with the red hurricane, garland and filled hurricane candle inside. Absolutely gorgeous for a centerpiece! But how about taking the garland out and filling with chips, pretzels, crackers and cheese, candies, replace the garland put some ice in the red hurricane and put a bottle of wine inside, remove the hurricane and replace with a 5" bowl for dip, place vegetables in the divided protector. How about filling the hurricane with holiday candies? Fill the entire basket or half with the garlands and hang it on the wall as a Holiday decoration. Change out the garland to fit the Holiday. Eggs for Easter, roses for Valentines, etc. Having a Brunch? Fill it with muffins and bagels and biscuits with butter and spreads in a bowl in the middle. Fill the bowl with coctail sauce, place ice in the regular protector, sit the divided protector on top to hold shrimp, etc. Make it crafty and separate your beads, cross stitch threads, scissors, glue, scrapbooking supplies. Basically, the ideas are endless. Put your basket to use all year round!

Lots to do today and a Halloween party for the kids, so keep checking back for more ideas and progress on my list.

And there it goes!

Here's Shooter's after photo. His eyes are open, woohoo! Isn't he gorgeous?! I keep wanting to call him a her and Billy Jean. Too weird how much he looks like her. I took the before photo in one shot. It took about 10 to get the after photo.

It feels good to check the first job off my list. Today I have a party at 12:00. Yup, right smack dab in the middle of the day. So therefore, I end up spending the morning getting ready, the afternoon at the party and the evening getting the kids ready for bed. No time to work on my list. But I think tomorrow is going to be "go get the paint" day. So any little helpful hints for preparing and actually doing the painting will be helpful. I'm going to concentrate on the lower half of the hall for now. All the stuff I can reach on my own and with a regular ladder and then I'll move on from there. I'll take a few more shots of the hall from different angles so you see what I have to work with.

I think tomorrows post will be all about baskets. My favorite. I plan on leaving all types of ideas for using your baskets. How many times do you go to a Home Show and they give you 5 million ideas that you're completely excited about and then you get home, the basket arrives and you just can't remember any of those great ideas you were going to use. Now you can come here and find them.

See you tomorrow!

Here Comes the Fuzz

OK, one thing I neglected to put on the list was shaving the dog. Poor Shooter is desperately in need of a new "do". So I snapped a photo of his before and today Shooter will get shaved and I can officially say I completed a task. And since it's pooring rain outside I really don't feel like going to pick up paint and running in and out of stores with 3 kids. Blah!

I can't believe it, his eyes are closed! And I thought that only happened to humans. I guess I just won't show him this photo.

And if you're wondering how this will improve my home than I bet you don't have any pets! Check back later to see Shooter looking 10 pounds thinner and much more handsome. You'll probably mistake him for his mother - Billy Jean.

In The Beginning

OK, so it all starts somewhere, right? Well this one is going to start somewhere in the middle. By this I mean in the middle of all the unfinished business in my life. All those nagging little projects that I see everywhere that never get completely finished. Is it just me, or is this what most people are going through? I'm tired of getting all excited over a project, getting it started and either running out of steam or what happens alot is some occasion, date, another project, whatever, gets in the way and I never get back to the original. And then every day as I go about my routine I see these unfinished tidbits and they nag at me. "Please finish me!" So today I start this blog as a way of being accountable to all these things and anyone who logs on to check my progress.

So here's the start of my list that I'll add to as I come across more things or new projects arise.

Paint the front hall
scrapbook for daughter
scrapbook for son
clean out closet
organize kid's clothes (Too big, too small, too old)
put stuff in attic
go through toys and books
organize paperwork
reorganize linen closet
organize photos (in albums, in computer)
paint kitchen cabinets
clean the 100's of windows in this house

So that's a start. Any advice on home projects, organization, crafts, etc. is greatly appreciated!

I'll take some pictures of what I need to do for before and after shots also.

In Need of Tips

So I'm working over the whole painting of the hall project and I could use some helpful tips. It's a weird space. There's a large victorian staircase that wraps around and creates a 2-story area that definitely won't be reachable from the floor. Do I use a really long roller or special ladder or grow some wings? And how do you decide where the wall color should stop? the stairs go up to a hall that spans the entire length of the upstairs. It does make a turn though. Maybe I should just stop at the turn then. So, any other helpful hints are definitely appreciated.