Weekly Photo Challenge: Hidden
This little tuft of grass was “hidden” in my yard behind some trees and leaves amidst moss. It is kind of an abstract pic, but makes me feel like the grass is so large that you could actually get lost in it!
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check some out other great entries from this week’s photo challenge here!
Halloween Surgeon’s Caps!
Stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make a surgeon’s cap, but thought I’d share some cute halloween ones that I made for L, before we get too far past halloween!
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I think they came out pretty fun!
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Too bad he can’t wear them for much longer!
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Bats & Ghosts!
I forgot to put this up earlier – R and I made some other decorations for the house – bats and ghosts!
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Like the pumpkins we made, we used the googly eyes…
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And to draw on the black construction paper, we used chalk pens!
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R drew the eye lashes on these one. It was apparently a must…
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I love all the faces she came up with!
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my little robot
In the 5 minutes before we had to leave the house to go trick or treating today, I managed to bribe (with fruit bunnies) R into letting me take some pictures of her in my new studio set up (my bday gift!). I have yet to set up the “two” light scheme, to fill in the shadows, but I like the effect of the one light as well.
Here is what I was able to get, and I’m falling in love. I think I might make bribing R to let me take pictures of her a daily activity… =)
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Halloween Celebrations!
We had a halloween party this weekend – and despite the 3 inches of SNOW that came down, we had lots of fun! We did not plan for L having to spend 2-3 hours shoveling and salting the driveway…so we were behind a little bit on the prep, but it worked out.
Thought I’d share some of the fun!
I love these little ghosts we got – they were from Target, you just fill them with leaves and hang them up! Unfortunately, I don’t think you could really see them with the snow =)
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Various other cute decorations…Radha had fun putting those in the ground!
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Carving the pumpkins was of course fun times. Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures of them before they started to wither…this first one is supposed to be an owl sitting on a tree branch…but the owl’s head kind of shrunk away!
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Had banners here and there. This one is from Pottery Barn (75% off!), and had another really cute felt one from Target that I liked too =)
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Had to have some healthy snacks for the kids: pretzels, fruit snacks and animal crackers. These are the ones that were in arms reach of the kiddos.
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I found a lot of really cute and free printables online. From these water bottles…
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To these really cute treat boxes. I didn’t think I would print all these out and make them, but it ended up being not that bad. I used my paper cutter to cut them out, and just made them squares except one tab on the side. The treats were super fun inside!
There was a rubber ball that actually looked like a sports ball (basket ball, baseball or soccer ball), spider rings, halloween themed silly bands, halloween tattoos, lots of halloween erasers and some stickers. R has been having a lot of fun with the left overs!
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And now for the dessert table. This was perhaps my favorite part of the prep! I found so many cool dessert ideas online and couldn’t wait to make them!
These are oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with skeleton running men on them!
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This was my first try at them…didn’t work out so well. Skeletons are definitely better in white…and with mushroom heads!
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Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with ghosts on them. These took some trial and error, fooling around with different options for putting on the icing, till I finally bit the bullet and did it the old fashioned way with an icing bag and tip. Phew! The pros use those for a reason!
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I think these were my favorite looking desserts! Mummy cupcakes =)
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The yield was awesome for very little work!
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These were supposed to be “brain” cupcakes. I unfortunately did not have the right tip for these, I needed a large, plain hole. but instead I had to use a regular zip lock bag and cut of the tip. So it was kind of pointy. Oh well…
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Another set of printables (actually, same set as the treat boxes) – although I printed and cut each label, I made L wrap them all!
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I had a couple of fun activities planned for the kiddos also.
The first one was “Make Your Own Mummy Pop!”
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I put out a bowl marshmellows, a small bowl of corn syrup with Q-tups, jumbo sized confetti, popsicle sticks, and food coloring pens.
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The kids really loved these…although some of them had more fun eating them than anything else!
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The second activity was decorating foam pumpkins. I bought a stack of the pumpkins and two different packs of stickers from Ikea.
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R couldn’t wait until the party started to make hers!
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L actually did something really creative (don’t have pix of this) – he blew up orange and black balloons, then took different eye face stickers and made faces out of the orange balloons. There was SOOO cute and funny! We tried to plan ahead by doing this the night before…and unfortunately, they had all deflated by the next morning! Who knew that latex balloons don’t last long!
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Well, all in all it was fun and I’m glad we got to celebrate despite the snow!
My Upcoming Halloween Party!
We are having a Halloween Party on Saturday – I can’t wait!
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I have found a lot of great ideas of things to make and to decorate online and have been having tons of fun getting it all together!
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I’m working this week, so haven’t had time to put more up, but I figured I could put up a few sneak peeks at the festivities!
Yay!
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An Impromptu Halloween Dress
I bought this fun halloween fabric for to make a surgeon’s cap for L, and decided I had to buy some extra to make a dress for R!
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So I whipped it up one day during her nap time!
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I ran into a couple of snags along the way, but improvised to make it work…and I think she likes it!
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She had fun exploring outside with it on =)
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And posing too!
This is a rare shot ladies and gentleman – usually I just get her back and forehead since she has a knack for avoiding the camera. Ha!
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How appropriate! Halloween dress for some halloween decorating!
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Also works well for bike riding =)
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IHeartFaces Weekly Photo Challenge: Little Ones
Here is my submission for the I Heart Faces photo challenge this week. I had a hard time picking because the little ones are ALL so cute!
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Check out some more great entries here!
Impromptu Pumpkin Halloween Decorations
I recently bought scissors for R to use at home (safety ones) after I saw that they were using them in school. So one day while we were playing with paper and she was having fun cutting, I decided we could make pumpkins that she could decorate!
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So I started randomly drawing pumpkins and cutting them out. While I did that, she kept herself busy cutting the scraps of paper into MICROscraps of paper…
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Then I brought out googly eyes left over from her “make your own elmo” activity for her birthday party, foam stickers for noses, and puffy paint for everything else.
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She had lots of fun putting the foam stickies on the backs of the eyes and then putting the eyes on the pumpkins. Although it was a little challenging for me to control my “Type A-ness” and let her just do whatever she wanted, it ended up being lots of fun!
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And this is what we came up with!
Once I drew eyelashes on one pumpkin, she had fun drawing them on most of the others too.
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Of course, no activity is complete without throwing some stickers on here and there…
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Makes for a fun last minute decoration for the house…
why don’t you try it!?
IHeartFaces Weekly Photo Challenge: Pretty In Pink
My entry for this week’s photo challenge makes me feel…kind of wistful…but more importantly, hopeful…
Check out some more great entires here!
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