Fall jar luminaries

I stumbled across some really beautiful tea light jar luminaires on a blog called Crafts by Amanda a few weeks ago and just knew I had to make some for myself. This is the kind of craft that's right up my alley. If it involves some sort of glue or paint I'm all in!
 I bought some spray adhesive for about $5, Bought 3 doilys for $3 and had some jars that I had no idea why my husband saved but was thankful that he did and some ribbon from my hairbow makin' days. All in all I guess this craft must have cost me around $9 for 3 luniairies. I didn't glue the ribbon to the rims so I could change it according to the the season or holiday. These were obviously Halloween themed so I will need to change them to Fall soon.
These would make a really beautiful gift for any occasion.As a matter of fact, I think I may just do that for my kids' teachers this year. Woo Hoo. teacher gifts DONE!


 Here are some photos of the ones I made based on the tutorial from Crafts by amanda.

Halloween 2010

We spent Halloween at my brother-in-laws house this year for their first Halloween party ever!

 I painted faces, the kids ate tons of sweets and had a fun trick-or-treating even though only about 5 houses on a 2 block radius were handing out candy! I know. crazy huh!

I scared my little nephews and they wouldn't come near me till the end of the night when they finally asked me to paint their faces LOL! I told them I'd do it another day when I didn't look so scary.

 Here is my little commando throwing up what appears to be GANG SIGNS! What the heck?! I don't know about this one. He's always keeping me on my toes.

 Here the Mad scientist screams in excitement as he looks at his creation... ME!

 Awww, look at the little cuties. There's Belle, a dead bumble bee and my sweet little Coraline who wouldn't keep her eyes closed long enough for the me to paint buttons on her eyes.

 My little witchy poo niece who's as sweet as can be. She could never be an ugly witch! She specifically asked me to come paint her face for her party. Aww, I love her so much!

 And the big girls who I can't believe got so big all of a sudden. Seems like just yesterday they were dressing up like Disney Princesses and now they're beautiful young ladies.

 It was a fun Halloween but, next year we'll stay a little closer to home since it will be on a school day. The kids really want to pass candy out to trick-or-treaters next year anyway. 

What did you do for Halloween this year?

The night before Halloween

It's tradition in our house to carve our pumpkins the night before Halloween and this year we decided to add roasting the seeds to our tradition. The first batch didn't work out so well or rather mommy burnt them. The second batch was delicious!
 Here are the burnt seeds

 and here is the good batch. Yummmmmmmy.

You can watch my little monsters scooping out the goop from their pumpkins here.

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The Pumpkin Patch

It's a tradition in our family to spend an evening at the pumpkin patch each year before Halloween and this year was no different. We take pics with the pumpkins, ride the kiddie rides and eat stuff we shouldn't.

  Here are my little monsters all ready for an evening of fun...

Here is my happy little pumpkin posing with pumpkins almost as big as she is.....

and here she is posing with mommy.......

 She was "Riding" the pumpkin here saying "CHOO CHOO!"

and my little monsters in a sea of pumpkins

and then we found this

a pumpkin that looks like a butt! My nephew just couldn't resist!

My little Ghost Rider

 

 Here is one of the options I've been practicing for our trip to the pumpkin patch since my kiddos haven't decided on a costume yet. Scaaaarrrrryyy!

Easy Halloween Cupcake Designs

 I've been on the hunt for some super spooky Halloween cupcake ideas for two different Halloween events and found a great post on Tip Junkie ( Have I mentioned how much I LOVE her blog?!) which led me to My Cake School's post - Goulish Goodies I'm thinking about making either the pumpkin cupcake (click on a picture for more details)

or the Spider cupcake since they look the easiest an I'm pretty lame when it comes to baking.

 I'll post pics of mine...hopefully they'll be as cute as these. Keep your fingers crossed : )