Did anyone else completely miss October??? I feel like it was just the beginning of pre-school and THEN......today it is almost November. Weird. I think 2 thinkgs contributed to my lost month. ONE....sick kids. Nothing ruins a month like puke and mucus!!! And number TWO...THIS....
I have been creating Emersyn's Halloween costume. I finanally finished...well almost. I still need to make her hair. SERIOUSLY!!!! I would post about her cotume today, but I am still in shock that it is done. MAYBE a post for another day.
Amongst the chaos I was able to finish up a few more projects. Nothing Earth shattering, but some fun quick and easy crafts. You know...the kind that make you WANNA be crafty again. First off was a baby gift for my neighbor. Julie is cute and crafty and nice (and brings great dinners after I have babies), so I wanted to make something....WELL cute and crafty and nice.
I used 2 different tutorials to help. FIRST, I borrowed the numbers from
THIS BLOG (btw..she has the numbers available in girl colors too). THEN, I borrowed the cute note from
THIS BLOG. I just opened it in paint, erased her words, and typed my own message. AND....I even managed to get it delivered to her before her kid was a month old....score!!!
NEXT, I have been trying to add some cheap a and easy Fall decorations to our house. I love decorating, but hate how much I spend if I head out to the craft stores and look for Holiday decorations. So I headed to
Pinterest and grabbed my favorite ideas and got started. I found
this subway art on Pinterest and printed it right up on my printer. I am not a wood cutting kinda gal, but wanted to make this RIGHT NOW. So I grabbed the first square (actually my pre-schooler would actually tell me it was a rectangle) thing I could grab and got mod-podging. I used a shoe box lid as my base. I had to dig it out of my garbage can to save it for this proect. I wasn't sure, but it worked great. I spray painted it quickly so that it would be a brownish color, then mod-podged on some scrapbooking paper I had around. Then I sanded the edges and put some wood stain on with a paper towel and my finger. Since it was tecnically free, I kinda love it. How can you not love something made out of garbage????
I found these cute jars at GOODWILL. I knew right away what I wanted to put in them. AGAIN....
Pinterest!!! I had the black ribbon around. I actually just taped it around the jars (since I want to change them soon for Thanksgiving and then use the jars year round). The tags I printed from
HERE and I just taped them onto the jars too.
I made a leaf garland out of dollar store leaves. I bought two packs of 50 leaves and then just sewed them together on the sewing machine in a long line. Worked like a charm.
I wanted to make
this wreath THE MOMENT I saw it... you guessed it...on Pinterest. I didn't make mine interchangeable, I just glued the flowers right on the wreath.
I also just used regular buttons for the flower middles. I just glued some fabric around them.
Emersyn thought she needed to pose with HER wreath:) Then of course she didn't wanna smile!!!
I am super dooper in love with my milk jug. I found it in my Gramma's shed and she said I could take it. I wanted to paint it and pretty it up, but then I hosed it off and loved the antigue-y look of it. SOO I might have to head back to Gramma's and grab another one to paint (she has like 5 stashed away in there).
Last but not least is our infestation of bats. I saw
THIS over on MADE last year and liked it. Then she did it again
this year and I decided it was time to get it done.
Our rodent friends are sneaking out of the pantry and flying to freedom in the living room. Kinda fun and FREE:) All you need is some black paper and a few minutes and you can have creepy flying friends in your house too. We are having a Halloween party at our house Friday....A PIRATE PARTY....and so there will be more creepiness coming up soon. Since I have had sick kids for 2 weeks, first kid 1 and then kid 2, I REALLY need to get cracking on the whole GET THE HOUSE READY FOR A PARTY thing:)
Other than that....we have pretty much just been hanging around.....HAHA!!! She REALLY thought she was SOO high off the ground. I had to come and save her!!1
Happy Autumn Everyone!!!
