Halloween Treats!

This is a bit late for halloween but could be altered for Thanksgiving treats!

My sister in law & I got together to make Carmel Popcorn & Halloween Puppy Chow. 

Here is the recipe i used for the Puppy Chow:    Halloween Puppy Chow
I did make 1 alteration and that was using some broke up pretzel pieces and covering them in the carmel we used for the carmel corn. I wanted to add a sweet and salt touch and these were perfect! 

I forgot to get the exact recipe from my sister in law for the carmel corn but pretty much, air popped the popcorn & then made a carmel recipe from karo syrup, brown sugar, butter and vanilla. It turned out AMAZING!!

What I'm really focusing with this post is our packaging. We decided to do Mason jars for the popcorn and then i used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the letters & then used ribbon and deco mesh to do the rest. My sister in law came up with wrapping the deco mesh on the jar and I thought that was so cute!! The treats bags were just bought at Wal-mart and were more for the kiddos :-) I think over all they were a hit! 

Batman & Robin

As promised, here are some pictures of my girlies costumes! They are what you call Tutu Dresses, I found a few different tutorials on Pintrest to get my started. I also just printed off stencils for the decals and cut those out of felt and hot glued them on to the tutu dress tops, the straps are just sparkly type ribbon ( bought at walmart ) that i had on hand. Here are some pictures that i took along the way of making them:

With Both Tutu's I put them on books or some sort of hard surface so that I was able to stretch the bodice just a tiny bit to be able to navigate the holes on where to put the tulle.

Another thing i figured out is buying the tulle in spools instead of off the bolt. SOOOO much easier and then i just measured how long i wanted it on each girl and then found a book or box that was that length and wrapped the tulle around that object and cut one side for my strips of tulle, it went soo fast! and to make a fuller better looking tutu, you take two of those strips and lay them on top of each other and then fold in half and then start looking in through the holes on the bodice. That was such a better way to do it. I have made a tutu using just elastic and it turned out really bad looking. I highly recommend using a crocheted bodice for the any tutu. I ended up putting long sleeve shirts on under the tutu to provide warmth and modesty. Another option is to cut on strip of the tulle about an inch shorter than the other and then you get a layered effect. You can cut the strips to dress length or shorter. Its totally customizable!

The batman mask was cut from two pieces of felt using a stencil from the internet and then sewn together with a piece of elastic to hold it on. I have seen paper masks with ribbon also and that would work too. I wanted something a little sturdier since was doing pictures and then trick or treating.  


Kendall's tutu ( Robin ) seemed to do a lot better since it was shorter, Shelby's ( Batman ) got a little balled up and nasty on the ends from it being a little too long but over all I'm very happy with the results and will be making more of these types of tutus in the future! They both got way too much candy and making it very hard for me to stay out of it!! hehe

I would love to hear what your kiddo's were for halloween! Hope everyone had a safe and candy filled holiday! ;-)

Halloween Yarn Wreath

In the spirit of the season I made a Yarn Wreath. I have seen SO many of these on Pintrest and they looked so easy to do!!

I used the following supplies:

-1 larger roll of Orange Yarn ( just got it at walmart )
- 16in Styrofoam Wreath ( This one is a flat surface one, I couldn't find a round one but that works too )
-Various hanging Halloween decor sold in the Halloween section of Walmart 
-Some 2 1/2 in Deco Ribbon 
-roll of Halloween Mesh Ribbon sold in the halloween dept as well, i have never seen this stuff before but it is very popular this year!


I didnt take pictures of the wrapping of the yarn, kinda self explanatory. It took a while to do this part of it, I have seen some many different ways of doing, i just kept it neat the first wrap and then went around 2 more times just filling in the spots. The last wrap i made sure to keep with some sort of the same design so it didnt look too messy. 

I took of picture how i attached the bow, i used some christmas wire stuff and it worked awesome! 

The decorations are totally up to how you want it to look and all that. The possibilities are completely endless! My sweet husband didnt think the ribbon bow matched at all but its all in the eye of the beholder right?! 

In the end im in love with it and it looks so perfect on our door! Couldn't be happier!   

Spooky Spiders

So what first inspired this craft was me wanting to decorate for Halloween and spending 2 hours outside on Sunday afternoon brain storming ideas. After lots of debating I went with lights srung on the inside of our covered front door area. I will post more pictures when i get all the rest of the yard decorated. I did not want to go with a really scary theme but more of a fun place to trick or treat. I then decided spider web under the lights would be so cool! AND THEN! wanted to make my own fun spiders. 


I didnt take pictures of all the supplies but i used:
-Smallish/Medium size Styrofoam balls from Joann's Fabrics 
-Can of Black Spray paint
-Craft Pipe Cleaners
-Craft fuzzy poof things
-Googly Eyes

I had my hubby paint the balls but litterly the pain ate the Styrofoam!! I was kinda worried about it but after i started making the spiders it didnt really matter. My Daughter and I then just pushed the pipe cleaners in sets of 4 on each side of the ball. I did a combo of different colored legs to be fun, I was going to do all black ones but i had some other really fun colored pipe cleaners and loved making up cute combos. I then picked out some "fuzzy poof things" and then some googly eyes and hot glued those all together on to the Styrofoam ball. Kinda self explanatory but just wanted to make it a complete tutorial. 

I took a picture of them all and called them a "Spider Family", My daughter LOVED that!! :-)

She picked the TINIEST eyes for this one!! haha She was very proud of it!



I then put 1 pipe cleaner into the back of the spider and hung it somewhat upside down on the side of the house to give the hang effect. ( The Yarn Wreath in the background is another craft i did today, will post a whole post on that! )  

 We had a BLAST making these and im so excited to finish up my halloween decorations! I will be posting pictures of that soon!! Hope you all enjoy!! I would love to see and hear what you are doing for this spooky halloween!