Happy Halloween!!

 We've been having fun this Halloween. On Saturday we had a church party where there were contests for table decorations, pumpkin carving, chili, and costumes. So, on Friday and Saturday we were working hard on our creations while enjoying some homemade root beer. So much fun!

Here's my wonderful table decoration haunted house with working door that plays music. I made it from a shoe box. You can't tell, but Frankenstein's monster and a ghost are in these windows, and in the back are an alien and a witch.

My son working on his pumpkin.

 My daughter digging out her pumpkin and the finished works of art. They each drew or chose their pumpkin design and I helped with carving.  The skeleton in the middle won second place!! Woohoo!

My little fairy Princess got first place for costume in her age group.

Here's my toothless vampire and orange kitty cat

 

And finally, the cutest little skeleton baby ever

One of my favorite Halloween treats as a kid was the popcorn ball, and I haven't had one in years, so I decided we needed to make some. It was fun, and I love them, but the kids didn't enjoy them so much. Oh well.

Jello Popcorn Balls

16 cups popcorn (popped)

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup white corn syrup

1 3 oz package jello, any flavor

Remove any unpopped kernals from popcorn.  Combine sugar, corn syrup, and jello in a saucepan and boil 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Mix into the popcorn. Form into balls and cool on waxed paper.

We've had so much fun so far this Halloween, I can't wait for trick-or-treating tonight!  Happy Halloween everyone!

Corner Bookmark with Flower

Well, it's been a really long time since I posted, but that's because I've been busy building a beautiful baby girl, and I really haven't had a lot of energy for anything else.  I finally feel like a regular person again, so I thought I'd try to get back to it.  This bookmark I made for my Mom for Christmas last year, and just never got around to posting it. She is hard to find a gift for because she just doesn't want anything. She does enjoy reading, so I thought this would be a nice present. I got the inspiration from this blog, but kind of put my own spin on it.

Materials:

     Paper                            Glue

     Embellishments        Scissors or Paper Trimmer

     Ribbon

     Flower

Take your background paper and cut a square. I did 3 1/2 inches.

Then fold the top corners to the middle. Cut a triangle to cover the folded edges and attach to the bookmark with the ribbon between the layers. 

I cut the corners off of the bottom because I like the look of the square better, and added my embellishments. I love laser cutouts.

Attach the flower to the ribbon. I made my flower with a jeweled brad, so I just poked a hole through the ribbon and attached it with the brad.

Then I placed a coordinating paper circle on the back of the flower to cover the attachment.

And, finished! I will post how to make the fabric flowers soon for anyone interested.