BOO!

Happy Halloween!

Last Bits of Halloween Craftiness

I actually made these a while ago and they've been hanging happily above my kitchen sink for a couple of weeks now.  Felt eyeballs!

With yarn optic nerves!

When I finished them (at night) I hung them with regular scotch tape from the window in the kitchen:

It was so nice to be greeted by them the following morning :)

For other decorations, I tried to find just a classic cardboard skeleton to hang on my door like my mom always did when we were kids, but couldn't find a good one anywhere.  THEN I found a link to this awesome shop online where I found not only a great skeleton, but the exact same one my mom had from years ago and various other haunts...

I've also had success with my first use of those weird window/mirror goos.....this little ghostie has done just the trick:

And I can't get over the tissue boxes I found this year....the monster candy corn makes me laugh every single time I see it!!

Finally, I remembered from last year that a local bakery down the street from my office made these amazing Halloween cupcakes, and sure enough when I checked yesterday, they had them again.  I only really cared about the eyeball ones, but the others are cute too.  No nasty sugar frosting either, just some kind of stiff creamy goodness....mmmm....

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Shout Out

Our friend Jessie is taking a cake decorating class, and I was floored today when I saw this picture of her creation - she should be on Cake Boss! It's a beautiful arrangement of Fall flowers in a lovely basket, all fully edible and magically delicious, I have no doubt (tragically, I live much too far away to experience an actual mouthful of this masterpiece). Good job, Jessie! Let us know if it tastes as good as it looks - if you can ever bear to cut into it!

DIY Halloween Decorations

Oi, more pumpkins!!  This time smaller and only one panel, reminiscent of pincushions past.  I used the same base as the purlbee cushion, but tied off the gather and topped with a stem.  I think winding the thread around the cushion would still look awesome, creating the signature grooves of pumpkins, buuuuut, this looks fine too, and is less work :)

Aside from pumpkins, I spent last night tracing out Martha Stewart shapes and cutting them out of plain black construction paper.  The jack o'lantern is kind of a pain to cut out, but totally worth it.  I still have one cat to cut out but am putting it off because the millions of little spikes to cut out are wicked daunting.   

Anyhoo, back to pumpkins.  They aren't scented like the big ones, and these are stuffed with regular polyfil for guts, but the same tiny silca beads for weighted bottoms.

(Gratuitous shot of p'kins on the counter with my new smiley face mug I never knew I couldn't live without until today)

I'm not sure where to put them yet for the Halloween season.......maybe gathered in front of my boyfriend's cookbooks?  

For now they're in a sort of centerpiece on the kitchen table with some sprigs of berries I walked 40 minutes up the road for yesterday thinking they were going to be bittersweet.  Ah well...........I just ordered a couple packs of retro Halloween pictures that will be here soon, and tonight I'm going to work on felt eyeballs!

I just can't wait!!