Hey Folks!  I’m alive…REALLY and fine (in a warped sense of way)…*insert grin here* Many of you have sent me emails asking where I have been the past few weeks….thank you for taking the time and for expressing an interest in my whereabouts – it’s so very kind of you!  Let me see if I can enlighten you with my latest adventure…ready for this one?  It’s a crazy one to say the least!

I was here….in Pennsylvania with only a camera – no paper scraps, glue dots or glitter available on this trip (although, I did have a notepad and camera so I used my free moments wisely to make plans for future posts and projects)…it was a whirlwind impromptu four day surprise….

No crafting time in Maryland either…such beautiful country….I wish I got better photos of the mountains and rolling hills colored in such gorgeous fall hues…

I’m the Children’s Social Chair for our homeowners association and had to plan an annual picnic full of kid friendly fun for children ages 0-103 This is a photo of my lost twin sister…*wink* she really liked my creative ideas so she tried to take me hostage and was successful until Sponge Bob came to the rescue…(I’m inside the black rolling suitcase…) Yes, I do have red hair but that really is NOT me – seriously!

 Here’s a photo of my hero….in the background you can see us running from the minions – crafty kids can be so crazy!

There was no time for crafting this evening either…. we went on a hayride and weenie roast at Corron Farms in St. Charles. I had to protect  the frankfurters….see the dead ones sprinkled around the fire?  Yep, that was a tough job but someone had to do it…

Then I was spotted by the paparazzi at a local apple orchard…we went to pick apples but there were no apples to be picked so we picked up apple cider donuts and had a tailgate snack…we got our daily serving of fruit – yeah, about that…!

No time for crafting on this day either….had to make time  to jump on a ginormous inflatable bouncy thing-a-ma-jiggy that was partly buried in sand – so cool and caused some major giggly fun along with some seriously red sweaty cheeks…

So then we found some apple trees on another adventure….but the funny thing was you couldn’t pick the apples so we did some posing as though we were picking (note the red cheeks caused from the bouncing above..)

Oops!  Busted!  I was spotted posing with my boys…I feel like I’m in a “Where’s Waldo?” book…(check out those RED cheeks!)

One day, about three weeks ago, I was in my backyard working in the flower beds when I happened to see movement coming from my veggie garden.  I stopped moving and stood very still hoping to catch what little critter was out there taking a bite out of each of the tomatoes.  I moved very slowly toward the garden with my kung fu moves in place ready to attack.  More rustling so I stopped  and waited…and waited until I saw the most unexpected thing ever…….what I saw explained pretty much everything!  We had been invaded by

MADAM EGGPLANT AND HER PEPPER POSSEE!

Now, if you had to fight off an invasion of rabid veggies you’d disappear temporarily too – the only way to get these ghastly creatures under control is to eat them!  The bad thing is that there’s a reproduction problem happening in my garden even after three frosts! Every day they continue to multiply – some with fangs, some with snaggle teeth….but they all seem to have one thing in common -to keep me from crafting!  (Note Mr. Peppa’s mouth is missing…I was hungry, what can I say?)

Madam Eggplant really needs to see a dentist, don’t you think?  Seriously, some eggplants! 

Anyway, after all of the “excitement” this past month I’m ready for a break but I don’t foresee that happening for a while….I will post when I can and hope you keep checking back until the crazy storm called life settles down a bit….I do have a few fun Halloween surprises I’m hoping to finish and post this week, along with my own scarecrow for the October Challenging Challenge so do make sure to check back often.  I will be back to regular posts as soon as I can!

Olive a great adventure, don’t you?

xKim

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