Scrapbooking--Halloween Party

Here is another finished product from my retreat. This page is for my son's Halloween party at his school. The page with the big candy corn is actually the art activity he did at the party, I just added another picture, some journaling, the side border, and a few stamps.

I really like how these pages turned out and I love that his artwork was part of the page.

Craft-Scrapbooking

Good Morning,
The only good news about being home with a sick little boy is that I hope I can get a few things done around the house today...do you love my over the brim optimism? I am not sure how much I will get done, but I sure hope I can at least get the laundry in its rightful place and get the house generally picked up...that would be a feet in itself!


Here is one of the first scrap booking pages I got done at retreat. This is a combo page of pictures from different days at school, they had a Dr. Seuss Day at school and then Halloween, but since one of the more famous Dr. Seuss books is "Horton Hears a Hoo", my older sister had the great idea of using that for his elephant costume page for Halloween....such a great idea. Anyway, here are the pages....click to enlarge. It seems that one of my pictures is a little fuzzy. I keep having that problem since my husband took the camera on a trip he went on, I think he put it on some funky settings and I can't figure out what the heck he did! Once I figure that out, I will take another shot and replace it. Silly husband! :)

Craft- Candy Corn Cut out

I know this is a little late for Halloween this year, but I wanted to post it in case someone needs ideas next year at Halloween. This is the craft we did for my 2 year old son's class at school. I cut out the 3 parts of the candy corn, the yellow, orange, and white in the shape of a candy corn, then I used a circle punch for the eyes, one size for the green and a smaller size for the black, then a large circle punch for the mouth and I cut it in half. Easy peasy and all the kids had to do was glue it on. I did glue the black on the green for the eyes, but they they glued the eyes on so some of them were cross-eyed and such. They all turned out pretty cute and took just long enough to hold their attention.

Fun for Kids: Polka Dot Pumpkin

Hello! Happy Hallow's Eve...or is that tomorrow night? hmmm? dunno...

Anyway...we had our ward craft day a few weeks ago and they provided a nursery for the kiddos. One of the activities was a polka dotted pumpkin....all you do is take a normal pumpkin from the grocery store and give the kids some golf tees and a play hammer! Then, they can proceed to hammer in the golf tees and make a polka dotted pumpkin. You can leave the tees in the pumpkin or take them out and reuse them to make another hole. This is low maintenance, you don't have to gut the pumpkin or anything...just let them at it.

I would suggest adult supervision anytime a hammer is being used, even a toy one!

Have a great, happy, and safe Halloween! If you come to my house, there is a really good chance you will get fruit snacks and yogos instead of candy...I am trying to encourage healthier eating! ( I know, what a DRAG!)

Be beautiful! It becomes you
Heather

Recipe: Cake Pops

I found these today and they are totally and amazingly cute!

For the full view, go check out Bakerella at http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/10/trick-or-treats.html

And one of my favorites The Pioneer Woman gives you step by step instructions with pictures on how she makes them at http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/

I think I will have to make these this weekend....I will have to do 20 extra push ups for boot camp if I eat a cupcake but I may just throw caution to the wind and eat one anyway....way cute!

Halloween!

Happy Upcoming Halloween Everybody--




I always thought Halloween was a fun time to dress up and be creative, my sister LOVES Halloween and currently has a yard full of decorations, including an 8 ft tall spider! My husband hates Halloween, he thinks some people take advantage of the holiday to just act stupid and try to get away with things...I can understand his point of view because he has seen some examples of that behavior. I just think its fun to come up with best and most creative costume!

Most people would expect me to make Landry's costume but this year I got it easy. My sister called me up a few weeks ago and said "Does your son want to be an elephant for Halloween?" her daughter decided she wanted to be a fairy princess instead of an elephant so I said "Heck ya, he wants to be an elephant!" Its a great costume and it involves minimum effort on my part! (Wahoo to that!) My sister's husband actually made the costume...he pulled out the old sewing machine and made a monkey for one of the girls and an elephant for the other....and boy did he do a great job! This is one well made and very cute costume.

So, to the men out there who say real men can't sew....my brother in law defies you!