Halloween Tablescape

I love to set the table for special occasions,

and for everyday.  So I am always

trying to come up with new ways to

set our table.

I love to shop the second hand stores to find new (to me)

dishes to have to set new tablescapes.

It sometimes is hard to find really good finds,

but just recently I found some black dishes.

Perfect, I thought, for

Halloween!

So here is my tablescape for Halloween.

I found  diamond shape fabric at JoAnns,

I just bought 2 yards and put it on top of a white 

tablecloth.

Then under each of my plates I put a sheet of 

black glitter spiderweb cardstock

found on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

A princess pumpkin for my centerpiece on the table

topped with a black crow and black and orange diamond ribbon.

I bought 4 white plates at the dollar store and colored them in 

black felt pens to make the diamond plates.

In my garden I grew these cute mini white pumpkins.

White charger plates and black dinner and salad plates were found

at the second hand store.

I added a 'O" tag in black for O'Crowley.

The white and gray salad plate is from my mother's

china that our family would eat off on special occasions

.

This turned out to be such a cute tablescape.

It makes the kitchen/dinning area feel so festive!

Hope you have a fun Halloween.

It's just so fun to have this in the house!

See how fun just a piece of 12x12 paper can add to you 

tablescape!

Have a great October!

Ciao,

Robin

Halloween Tombstone Scene

Hello Robin's Nest Readers!
It's Wednesday again,
and I am sharing with you more of our
Halloween scene.

Halloween is close!

The background of our Halloween scene.

I used Haunted House Cardstock

12x12 sheet chipboard

12x12 frame sprayed black

I then added Orange 6mm dew drops

Black 6mm dew drops

Black diamond drops

Orange tear drops

a few glitter bats

and a few white pumpkins.

And here is my background to the Haunted House 

Halloween Tombstone mini book scene.

Here it is as the background of this cute Halloween scene.

Next week is our Wicked Mini book,

I honestly cannot wait to share

this with you!!!!

Find all the Robin's Nest Products on our website

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Happy Halloween!

Ciao,

Robin

Halloween Tombstone Mini Book

Hello again,
Robin's Wednesday.
Sharing the Tombstone Mini Book with you
for Halloween.

The tombstone sat on a table as I looked at it for several days

in my bedroom, I would walk by it

and think,  I have all this space between the 

fence and the stone!  What am I going to do with it?

Then the ahah moment came.

A mini book!

I wanted to have a book without rings in the binding.

So it was quite a thinking process to get to this point.  Seriously,

I'm not kidding, you probably had this figured out 

weeks ago, but me, well, it took me a while to get here.

Here is the finished book inside the Tombstone Graveyard
with the fence.

To start the book,

I traced the shape of the tombstone, then cut the bottom off shorter,

so the book is the shape of the stone, and yet you can 

see the tall stone behind the book when it sits in that open space.

Then the back of the book is also short.  It takes 3 pieces 

next to each other to create the book.  The book is cut from

black distressed chipboard. 

This chipboard comes in 12x12 sheets and you can easily

one book from one sheet of 12x12 chipboard.

Then the binding edge of the book is cut out of black bat glitter

cardstock, then both edged cut with a border punch.

These 3 pieces are glued together to form the outside shape 

of the book.

I glued with extra heavy glue tape these 4 pieces together.

This is the base for the outside of the book.

Here are all the finished pages glued to each other.

I took a 12 x12 sheet of Robin's Nest printed cardstock

and folded it in half, traced my pattern, then cut out the page

with the fold in the center of the sheet so it will open up.

This is the back side of the book with all the finished pages

 before I glued it into the base of the book.  Easy!

Here is the book with the binding base glued together.

Now,

The front cover of the Tombstone book.

I used Black Glitter Trees CS as the cover

Then cut out the Wicked from my Cricut welded the letters

together from Glitter Orange Crackle CS.

I used EK Embellishments

with Gina's Designs Doilies

Black 6mm dew and tear drops

Orange Crackle Glitter CS for the rosette

and book pages.

Here the book is sitting inside the tombstone graveyard

so you see the rosette on the book and the rosette on the graveyard fence.

Here is the binding of the book, I placed an eyelet in the edge of

the book and brought all the ribbons through the eyelet

to let them hand down the edge of the book.

Here is a video of the finished book.

My first video for the blog!

I ran out of memory on my card by the last page,

but you can see the page.

I used so many elements, made lots of tags, journaling tags,

and pockets, you need to watch the video to see 

all the fun elements of the book.

Enjoy!!!!!

Products for this book can be found on the 

Robin's Nest website.

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Just look for the Halloween line.

Have a Happy Halloween season!

Ciao,

Robin

I apologize the pictures aren't that great,

only have the small camera with me today.

Here are the pages in my book,

they are shown and described much better on the

video.

Happy Halloween.

Our Halloween 2009

Hello on this wonderful

Wednesday morning!

Robin's Wednesday Posts

Today I have decided to scrapbook a few pictures from

years past.  Dana and I left on our mission to Africa

in 2009.  I had printed the pictures we took in the

fall, but never had time to get them onto a scrapbook page.

So I am catching up this year,

and it just brings back some wonderful memories.

The end of 2008 and  most of 2009 found our daughter in law

Robyn in our home town for the year while our son Josh

was in Afghanistan.  We created some wonderful memories that

year, at the end of 2009 Josh came back, alive I might add,

and we had about a month to share with each other 

before they moved to their new duty station, and we left for Africa.

Here are our Halloween memories for that year.

Carving pumpkins was a great evening,

and of course as you can see

STAR WARS

was the theme of the pumpkins.

I chose dark colors and papers to scrapbook these photos.

Dark because Gabe carved the Dark Syth Lord,

and Josh and Lucas carved Darth Vader.

I used the Pumpkin paper front and back

and Halloween House paper, Ghost Camo back and 

orange dew drops, and orange glitter 

chipboard.

Here the same papers, and Glitter Pumpkin Chipboard cutout.

Robyn wanted to dress up,

much to Josh's dismay.

He didn't want any nasty make up on his face,

but after much prodding, he gave in,

and we were able to take these shots.

Such a fun way to spend Halloween with your kids!

I used Brown Glitter Witch Hats for the background of these

layouts.

I also used Orange bones paper front and back,

Boo Glitter Cardstock, Halloween sticker, and

Halloween Rub on.

I used Orange Clear Scraps paint,

Halloween Glitter Words, Halloween hat sticker,

Halloween rub on, and Orange bones CS both sides.

Background is Brown Glitter Witch hats, 

and orange dew drops.

The funny story about the photo with Robyn and Dana,

is Dana had just come in the house from working in

his awesome man shed, and the back yard.

This is how he looked after work that day.

Every time I see this photo, I just laugh and laugh, and laugh!

He didn't have to dress up for Halloween that year,

it was his all day look!

Well,

I hope you have enjoyed

these very different Halloween layouts.

You can find these products on 

our website under Halloween.

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Happy Halloween!!!

Robin

Military Photo Box for our Sons Part 1

Hi to all,

Robin here, for another fun Wednesday

Post.  I have been making a book about our sons

who serve in the Military.

I have been thinking about this box for a long time.

Saved it from years ago when we had a retail store, it was

a box that a frame came in, but didn't get used.

Here is the original box.

I looks pretty cute just the way it is,

but I wanted  to put my own twist to the box

and specialize it to represent our sons

who serve in the Army.

 Here is my new box.

I wanted to show our love of Country 

on the box, and still represent our sons.

I covered the box in Coffee on Creame Classic Glitter Swirl CS.

Then I added lots of elements to the box to represent the USA,

the Army, our Name, and what we believe.

I so love the Statue of Liberty paper, because you can

use it in so many different ways.  Here I have made one of the

rectangles into a tag, then added other elements on top.

Red Stars die cut from Red Glitter Chipboard.

Red mini dew drops.

Glitter Fireworks Die cuts

The small flag is a pin that I found in my mother's jewelry box.

The Silver Star is from one of our son's uniforms, 

The name embroidered O'Crowley is what is actually on each

of their uniforms they wear everyday.

The mini flag, just an old cloth flag from many years ago.

The words from the Declaration of Independence (retired Robin's Nest)

I used the brown and beige colors because they are

the colors they wear everyday to work. 

Star made from Blue diamond drops.

Here the box is open with 

the first page sitting on top inside the box.

These are our sons,

all serving in the Military as I write.

Next week, I will share with you

the pages inside my box.

and

My Tribute to our sons.

Watch for part 2 next week!

May all of you as we celebrate our Nations

birth find peace and joy and happiness.

We are able to celebrate the 4th because of 

soldiers like our sons, who served our Nation many

years ago, and today we are able to celebrate

because of the thousands of men who serve our country

every day.

A mother could not be more proud.

Happy Independence Day!

Ciao,

Robin

South Africa

Good Morning!

From South Africa

Dana and I have been in South Africa for over a week

now.  We currently serve for our church

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 

as missionaries for the Welfare/Humanitairian Department.

Dana and I served for 2 years in Ethiopia 

as Country Directors, for the Church's NGO 

Latter Day Saint Charities while we were there for 

2 years.  We did everything from financials,

Paperwork, and finding and implementing projects there.

After we came come in Dec of 2011, 

We were called to serve as technical specialists

for the Food Production Programs throughout the world.

We are on our 3 rd year doing this, 

our first assignment was in Arizona and New Mexico 

working on projects with the Native American People.

Over the last 2 years we have been to

Projects in the US, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.

This is our first assignment back to Africa. 

This trip we have traveled to the Durban area

And met with a partner Enterprise Ilembe, who does 

Garden projects with local people, they 

Have are formed into coops

And they grow vegetables for the school food

Program implemented by Nelson Mandela for the

Children in South Africa for better nutrition.

This was an awesome visit, 

We see that the women are the workers and the 

Important part of keeping the gardens watered, weeded, and 

Harvested.  Every garden we visited the women's were

Going down to the nearest creek or water hole, fill their buckets

With water, and haul it up the hill to their plants.

Most of their day is spent doing this,

We are hoping that we can bring water closer to them,

By purchasing pumps, pipe, and sprinklers so they can spend

More time in caring for their plants, keeping the weeds down

Have better productivity, and become self reliant.

So they can purchase all they need on their own with out

Any assistance.

So this has been a very productive trip.

We are still waiting for the financial 

Figure from the partner, how much will it cost to

Supply the things needed, listed by the garden group,

We plan to help 7 coop groups there.

Tomorrow we leave for Madagascar, 

It is our assignment to go and see 2 food 

Projects already in process and write up a report on 

How they are doing.

We are excited to do this work!

Hugs,

Robin