GRAM'S HALLOWEEN CRAFT DAY

How else do you keep a bunch of kids busy on a school holiday?
You feed them, you make them work hard,
and then you let them make a big mess.






We made egg carton spiders and bats







Salt dough ghosts and goblins


I found the idea for this guy over at
THE HOUSE OF WHIMSEY



So we thought it would be fun to give him a try.
We made witches, pumpkins and skeletons, oh my.





All in a row.



Even Missy and Meadow got in on the fun.



Some cupcakes with sprinkles and hanging on the monkey bars finished up the day.



I'm one worn out Grams.

IF HE WON'T MOVE IT, DECORATE IT!!!

This "thing" sits on my driveway. It is the love of my son's life (well, after his girlfriend and dog) but no matter what I do or say he will not move it. Of course being the baby of the family, he thinks he can get away with anything, and it's pretty much true. He just looks at me with that sweet face and says; "You know you love it Mom."
I DO NOT LOVE IT!



SOOOOOOOO... This is what I did to it. Of course he thinks it awesome.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Oh the joy and utter delight at Gram's Halloween party last year.
The sweet dears had so much fun!

Bet they can't wait till this year.

MERRY CHRISOWEEN!!!

Look what I woke up to. I love it! This is why we live in Utah.

Nothing like snow on the
Halloween decorations!

Maybe I should make a snowman to sit beside my witch.








This is when this slide is really fun!

How about a ride in my little
"Covered Wagon."

Anyone up for a snowball fight?

From UGLY to SCARY!

I suppose that at sometime this was beautiful to someone. But alas, they had the sense to throw it out so I could rescue it. You know, some woman's trash is my treasure.

So off came the top and what do you know, it landed on Brooklyn's head.



Then out came the trusty black paint and in went a skeleton.



Now he sits in the bathroom ready to scare the ****** out of you.

HELP ME! I'M FALLING

What else do you do when it is FALL but put up the Halloween decorations. Every year I tell myself that I'm just going to put up a few things this year but of course once I get started, I can't stop.

Someone's flying by

I woke Missy up taking this picture.
See her down there looking disgusted.
(How dare I)

I painted these pumpkins

Lit up at night

Added some purple lights and
leaves to my new picture board

Got busy outside.







The teenagers love this and laugh as I drive by.

This is me!

Ring around the Rosie

Hang in there honey!

KIMBA over at "A Soft Place to Land" is hosting a Fall Decorating party.
If you want some fun ideas or just want to see what others are doing go take a peak.

TRASH TO TREASURE

My dear friend Sue was wanting a way to display her photos of past Halloweens. We came up with a few ideas as we wandered around a couple of boutiques.

Then at the same time we both remembered something that her daughter had made a few years back.

An old window frame with chicken wire stapled to the back.




We hurried home and made her one. After she took it home and painted it and hung it, she sent me a picture on my phone. Of course I had to make one for myself.

We used large paper clips with buttons glued to the ends for hanging the pictures on it and old door knobs to hang them on the wall.

Fun huh?

I got the windows and door knobs from the old house that Bekah and Troy used to live in. I better go get some more because they are planning on knocking the house down soon.

CARAMEL APPLES, YUM!

Have you ever seen a caramel apple with no calories? Well I did the other day and being the great copier that I am, I decided that I definitely needed to make some. My nephew Logan helped me and boy did they turn out looking yummy.



Does anyone want the recipe? Well here it is...

INGREDIENTS:

8 good sized faux apples that you find up in the attic in the Christmas boxes and of course they are in the last container you look in.

8 colored pencils or you can use dowels but I always use what I have sitting around.

8 different ribbon colors and patterns or I guess you could use all the same. Sometimes these can be found tied on or wrapped around other projects.

A good old heavy duty glue gun and lots of glue sticks. I tried my glue pot but it didn't work.

A bottle of craft paint that you have in the basement that looks like the color of caramel.

DIRECTIONS:

Wrap the pencils with the ribbon gluing as you go so it doesn't slip around.

Poke them into the apples in the top.

Drizzle hot glue around the top very generously so it will run down the sides in globs.

Let it cool



Make sure your glue gun is really warmed up and wait about 10 minutes before doing the next one.

Paint the glue with 3 coats of paint. Spray with clear varnish and glue a bow on.




There you have it. Calorie free caramel apples. Yummy!

PUMPKIN TOPIARY ANYONE?

I've had an idea in the back of my mind lately that I wanted to make a pumpkin topiary.
I wanted one of these nice looking black pots but I wasn't about to pay a fortune so off I went to the local thrift store.





I found a pot for fifty cents but it was an ugly yellow so (hee hee hee) I painted it black of course. I went "shopping" out in my garage, which by the way looks like Halloween gone bad right now, and found some plastic pumpkins and some moss and leaves. Then out came the good old glue gun and 30 minutes later and a big mess (I have to make a mess because that is what I do best) I had my version of a pumpkin topiary.




For some fall ideas and tours, visit The Inspired Room because it's Fall Nesting Week!

YE OLDE GENE POOL

This is me and my sweet Momma.
I had lots of dark hair and blue eyes.

Here is my oldest Daughter, Liz. Not quite so much dark hair but her brother had enough to spare and she has blue eyes

This is my second daughter, Bekah.
Lots of dark hair and the bluest eyes ever.

Then my youngest daughter, Emma.
Once again, lots of dark hair and blue eyes.

Here is Zoe, my first grand child,
with her sweet momma Sara
Lots of dark hair and blue eyes

And here is Miley J,
Bekah's youngest.
Lots of dark hair and blue eyes.

And here is our new

Beatrice Renee, Liz's Baby.
Yup, lots of dark hair and....
blue eyes!!!