Sincerely, Christina XO

Happy October 1st!! My favorite month, not only because this is my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween, but it's also Birthday month at the Padilla house! Both of my children have birthday's this month. Jaden will be turning 7 on the 28th and Aubrielle will be 3 years old. It's a super fun month for us with two birthday parties, Halloween costumes, pumpkin patch visits, Halloween crafts and decor and of course, Trick or Treating. We will also be taking our kids to Disneyland this month too! Looking forward to celebrating the holiday at the happiest place on earth!! I'm also very excited to share that I will be on the Design Team for PSA Essentials ! PSA Essentials carries a wide selection of peel and stick stamps. Very excited to share upcoming projects and news with PSA! I got the chance to work with some of the PSA Originals stamp collection called "Frenchie" and used some of the stamps in this banner for my bedroom. I love the way it looks over

Off work today, deep cleaned the kitchen. Including the dreaded brush to tiles on the kitchen floor. ewwwwwwwwww. I felt like I was on a disaster cleanup crew. Srsly. Now my back is killing me. Oy. On the crafting side of things.........I've been getting my craft on. It's for a little hush hush project. Really like what I have made so far. I'll share soon! For now I wanted to share my Simply ArTistiC ATC challenge. We are in the midst of a Alice in Wonderland theme and it was my chance to choose the inspiration. I'm totally into makeup and tutorial sites and I came across a girl who is so amazetasitc, that I had to choose her Queen of Hearts makeup for us to base our ATC on. It was super cool to make. whimsically Gothic. love it. Check out the BLOG and play along with us! aaaaaaaaaaaaaand................ I'm beyond super pumped that GLEE will be back on Tuesday Night!! This cool vid as all the awesome Journey songs they did since the beginning. Minus the commercial

Today is my beautiful cousin Patricia's Birthday and I will never forget her bday because......I got married on that date 9 years ago! Yep, David and I are celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary! Sure has gone by really fast. We are coming up on 10 years! Is it time to start thinking about re-doing our wedding vows? I say that because I'd like to have my wedding all over again and have a huge party!!! Maybe in 10 more years, but we will do our vows again one day and it will be a fab party fo sho! Today is also a new promt over at SimplyArTistiC ATC Challenge Blog! The ongoing theme is Alice and Wonderland. I chose a fabulous inspiration photo based on makeup and came up with this! Check it out!!! and............ SCRAPJACKED is back!! We took a month off vacay to celebrate the end of summer but we are back now in full effect!! Check out our "Jackee" of the month and play for a spot to be our Guest Designer for October!! and we are halfway through the month! OH EM GEE

My night time ritual after getting the kids in bed is putting together my outfit for work the next day. I look over my closet, decide what to wear from shoes to earrings. Tomorrow I'm wearing brown dress pants, tan-sort-of-military jacket, mustard color blouse with a bib type of ruffle thing going on on top and a leopard print scarf........the shoes is what i usually mull over for a while. The deal-breaker on the shoes is usually decided if can I walk in these or will my feet be hating me at the end of my shift? Flats are usually my go to shoe and I remembered that I had a pair of satin ballerina flats in a gorgeous chocolate color I could wear! Whoooo! Happy Dance! Then I realized, that the last time I wore them, the jewel embellishments had fallen out. I thought about tossing them out and then the lightbulb went on. l just make something to cover the embellishment. I quickly went through my ribbons and lace from my scrapbooking stash and found something that would work.....then g