More Halloween Fun and a Tutorial

I mentioned before how we don't have much by way of Halloween decorations. I do, however, have craft paper, glass candle holders, chop sticks, and crayons. Today I made a center piece for our dining table using these things. And I took pictures along the way for a tutorial. 

First I took my orange paper, glass candle holder and tape. 

I put the cup in the middle of the paper like so...

Then I cut out some of the paper so it looked like this. 

Then I pulled the paper up around the cup and taped it in place (on the sides and inside the cup)

I then drew on a face with a sharpi.

Next I took my chop sticks....

And my black paper (or white paper with black crayon) 

And cut out various sized ovals and circles. These will be petals. I took one of the smaller 'petals' and wrapped it around the small point of the chop stick and taped it in place.

Keep adding petals to look like a rose. Then take your green paper and wrap it around the 'stem' of the flower, taping it in place.

Make as many flowers as you want. Put them in the pumpkin glass, add some marbles, top with some curly green paper if you want and this is what your center piece will kinda look like. 

Now, I don't have a tutorial for this next part, but I took the decorations into the kitchen as well and cut up some ghosts and bats. 

It's starting to look a lot like Halloween =D

Jack-O-Lanterns and Candy Corn.

Today is October first. YAY! This means out come the Halloween decorations! We don't have much by way of decorations for this holiday. We have a ghost I made using a white sheet, a coat hanger and a sharpi.

So today I decided to make something for the dining room. I googled a bunch of Halloween banner ideas and finally came up with this. 

I look forward to making a lot more decorations for around the house. I will share them as I create them. 

With Halloween Just Around the Corner

I decided that since I was getting better at sewing that I would make the girls costumes this year. More than previous years, that is. Before I had just put certain clothes together and called it good. For example: 

Haylie's first Halloween she was an Army Brat.

Haylie's second Halloween she was Pink Tink:

Haylie's third Halloween she was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz:

And Lexi went as an Oregon Ducks cheerleader (her first Halloween):

So this year, after asking for months what Haylie wanted to be, she finally said "I want to be Spatula." Which I knew meant, "I want to be Cinderella." 

So here is the Cinderella dress I sewed for her (no pattern):

Turned out pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. 

But Lexi was a little harder, as she can't really tell me what she wants to be, and she has only just really gotten the hang of walking. Oh yeah, and because October up here is pretty darn cold. 

So I tried out the pink fairy idea. My fall back apparently:

Egh, it was cute, but Haylie was Pink Tink on her second Halloween, and that just screams 'hand me downs, ' and Lexi always gets Haylie's hand me downs. 

So after days of contemplating I settled on Princess Jasmine. Because she wears pants, and pants plus new toddler equal really great idea: 

Even though she isn't thrilled about me taking her picture today.

But she's better now.

Of course, they do still have their pirate costumes from their grandma's wedding a year ago: 

And the costumes still fit. Here they are playing dress up today: 

But they are going as Cinderella and Jasmine. Super excited for Halloween now.