Happy Halloween and a Black Friday Event

 Happy Halloween! We have rounded up some trick-or-treating goodness both old and new for your Halloween viewing pleasure! Hope you all have had and will have a safe and fun Halloween day! Be sure and check out our BLACK FRIDAY EVENT below!

K and B rocking their Halloween at home in 2008

The whole gang, K ,B and hubbies

Halloween 2008 {again} K being silly with kiddos.

Our Halloween in Florida, SO different from Wisconsin. 2010

Carving pumpkins old school, 2011

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October is over, and now it is officially time to start thinking about the rest of the year end holidays! Which does include Christmas, and all the shopping, presents and gifts that are involved with it! To kick off the holiday season with a bang, we are throwing a 

HUGE GLORIOUS MOTHER OF ALL GIVEAWAYS 

giveaway. It will begin on Black Friday and run for a week. We are gathering all shops, individuals or bloggers that are interested in joining this mind blowing event. If you are interested in joining the fun and donating items to be in our giveaway email us today! jandmseyecandy@hotmail.com 

Please put Black Friday in the subject line.  Lots of exposure for you and your awesomeness!  

Pink Post {a pillow tutorial} and Strut Your Stuff Sunday Linky Party

We are participating in this awesome idea today!! Won't you join us!?
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I am working on a transformation for little J's room. My mom has made her a quilt that I am very excited to get in the mail!! It is beautiful, and way beyond my skill level, but I can make pillows! I call this one the bow tie pillow. J saw it though, and said, "oohhh, a butterfly pillow!" Either way, it is a pillow and its pink. (wink wink).

I got this fleece at Joanne's for 1/2 off. It was just a bit shy of 1 yard.

I cut two 16 inch circles.

I then cut 3 X 1 inch strips.  Lots of strips

This is the crappy super fun part.  You kind of want to scrunch them in the middle to make a bow tie, I kind of did a fan fold.  Then run it through you sewing machine.

Make a lot of those.

Now randomly sew the bow ties on the front side of the pillow.

 Just keep sewing.

 Just keep sewing!

When all the bow ties that you want on your pillow are on, put the two circles together right sides facing each other.

Sew around the outside, leaving a three inch gap.

Turn it right side out.

Stuff with fluff :)

All done!  

Plus today is Sunday, and you know what that means!  Strut Your Stuff Baby!  Link up your current goodness below!

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3) Please only link up a post of your specific project, not your blog home page or any shops PLEASE.

4) Please take the time to check out what others have been busy with, and don't forget, if you see something that you like, tell the creator! Spread the love friends :)

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Recap of Scare Team

Welcome all new followers from the Fall Fest!  We are so happy that you are here!  To learn more about it, and {us} click here.

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What a fun and scary month it has been! Can you believe that just like that with the twitch of a witches broom, it is all over! We can't, it went by way to fast, and so just in case you blinked an missed any of the awesomeness from our Scare Team members, here is a recap for ya'all!

We kicked off the event with the lovely Kassi from Truly Lovely and her delish, Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes, we know they are yummy cuz we tried them, and yup they got our stamp of approval!

Next up we had Melanie from Reasons to Skip the HouseWork wow us with some Halloween decor that is totally cute, fun and easy!

Erin from Living In Yellow joined us next for a "cheesy" post about a yummy snack, involving cheese!  We tried this one too, and let us just say, yes addicting and to die for!

A totally rocking diva wreath was shared by Lindsay from Artsy-Fartsy Mama.  We were thrilled with this project, it was absolute fun-NESS!

Kasia from Designs by Kasia shared the most adorable little monster warm/cold pack idea.  This is the perfect little something to make for this "free candy" season.

The awesome and talented Sheryl from Lady Behind the Curtain shared not only one, but six! recipes with us!  All of them are excellent and totally Halloween worthy!

And last but surly not least Angela from Love Sweet Love gave us a little treat with an awesome treat idea!

Now how about all that Halloween-ie goodness!  If any of you were contemplating throwing a Halloween party, look how nice we are, we just helped you plan it all out!  We really do love you guys girls.  

A huge thank you to all of our Scare Team members!  We really do love you all too!  You stepped up to the plate and knocked this series out of the ball park!  

Happy Halloween all!

Island Winner Announced!

 We have announced a winner for the island giveaway! The lucky lady is, chosen by Random.org is.....................

Mrs. White who blogs over at I'm an open book.

Congratulations girl!!  Email us to claim your awesome prize!  

Thanks to all of you who participated, and no worries if you didn't win, we have a double giveaway going on right now!  Check it out here. 

The Good, and The Bad...

If you're new here at J&M's HUGE welcome to you and thanks for stopping by!!

Be sure to leave a comment if you follow us! We would love to follow you back and get to know you better!!

When we started this blog in May of this year, we wanted it to be a place where we shared our creativity. Mostly our crafts and projects, sprinkled with cute pics of our sprouts (because let's face it, who doesn't want to see their cute faces?).

We both have our own family personal blogs, so the thought of being more "personal" and "open" in our sharing for this blog never was even brought up.

What we are learning is that this blog that has GROWN so fast in a short amount of time, has become SO MUCH MORE than just a "creativity" blog. It's become a community. We are connecting and making real friendships with other woman who relate so much to us it's crazy :)

We've met some AMAZING women that have shared so much of themselves with us. We are truly inspired and humbled by their stories. That being said we've decided to take a new direction with our blog.

If you noticed we changed up our blog design! I (K) won a blog design make over from a giveaway hosted by the ever so talented and sweet Ashley from Eisy Morgan (designs)!! Seriously, you should enter GIVEAWAYS! The people hosting them would love your participation and YOU COULD win! I NEVER win anything, so when I did I was literally in shock and of course THRILLED!!
 

With Ashley's help we changed up J&M's Eye Candy... most importantly we added in the word {unedited}.

Yello!! I'm Kristine!! Wifey {to the hubs}, Momma {to our M&M girls}, and Rockstar Extraordinaire {wink wink}! Showing off some handmade Eye Candy from our Shoppe, and my make up free face to show off my H.O.T.T under-eye circles! They are always in season it seems over here!

Whaat's Up!  I am Brit, wife, mom and goofball queen.   I would like to claim that I am showing off something here, but I'm not.  Just me (makeup on) nonsense and jibberish!  (wink wink)
BTW, doesn't K look so friggin cute without makeup?  You can hate on her with me for a minute....no makeup!  She should be beaten for looking so good sans makeup!  

That's a little bit of us in a nutshell. We should mention we are sister in laws :)
We married the cheese-head wearing, Green Bay Packer loving Foley boys!

The gang at Maggie's first birthday party this past summer.

We want to share {us}.

The real, the raw, the unedited versions of {us}.

With that said...

Life IS full of happiness, sunshine, and rainbows.
We love sharing that with you! We love reading about it in all your stories.

But let's face it, life can suck at times too! Sometimes beyond our control.

 We will be sharing those times with you as well! Excited right (wink wink)?!

We aren't sharing the "bad" to be "Debbie downers," but because it's part of our journey, and we want to share more of our {complete} journey with you!

So hang on lovely readers, and enjoy the ride with us, 

The Good, and The Bad. 
Read more about us here. 

Happy Day to you awesome readers!!

Photo Credit: Glady Anne Photography

Linkin up with our Thursday lovelies!!

Friday Features - 10.28.11

Happy Happy Friday to you all!!  It's time again for Friday Features!!   

THANK YOU to everybody who linked up!  You all rocked it out and

We {heart} you!!  

If you were featured below, feel free to grab a button and get your brag on!!

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 From Strut Your Stuff Sunday...

 Talking Dollars and Cents made us all hungry and drooling with these little beauties!  Don't you just want to eat them all up!

 Through the Eyes of the Mrs has a great NO SEW super hero cape tutorial that, well you know how excited we get over NO SEW projects!  They rock, and so does this little project!

Mommy X 3= Insanity  showed us how to patch up that hole in your pants in such a cute and genius way!  It made us want to go an put holes in our jeans just to sport the cuteness.


From Help a Momma Out Tuesday...

 I am a Mother Seeking shared a heart touching story of taking time for the small things, even when we don't have the time.  A good read for all moms, all people actually!  So read it!

Sew Fantastic wowed us with this super cool dress.  If we all went through our closets, we could find the supplies to make this too!  We love how cute and easy it is!

Cass Can Sew  shared with us her super cute and genius bead necklace that is not only adorable but also child proof!  Pull all they want, the beads will not go a flying!  How cool is that?  VERY!!

Thank you to you fabulous ladies, and thank you to all of our linker uppers!!  You, as always, make our party rock!  See you all next week!