Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Sharing today my Auntie Linda's amazing Spooky House!

She decorates her entire home (and I mean entire!) every year

from top to bottom, room to room, every room!

So I wanted to share just a snippet of her keanly thought 

out decor that she has in each room.....

This is an area of the living room

crow alley....

This is her dining room which she decorated into

"under the sea" complete with skellie mermaids

and mammals on the walls.

In her kitchen the butler ready to serve up drinks.

This is a spare room that she just remodeled and added

these two scary twins to it. 

This is the nanny who watches over all the kids 

and the toys in the room, sadly I thought I got a photo

of them all but I did not.  

They were very creepy!

Look at her bathroom!

Amazing details in all the corners,

the pictures don't do it justice,

but take it from me,

she is so talented and creative!

scary, talking witch!

and the talking frog!

I love this clever soap holder!

My auntie schedules appointments for tours 

to visit her Spooky House, once your tours are

over she has "dearly departing gifts" she gives her

"victims!"

This spider is one of the gifts she gives

her visitors... so cool!

She plans and thinks through her whole decor plan for most of the year contructing and planning each room and corner of her home pouring her passion in each detail.  I love how talented she is!

Anyway,  I thought it would be fun on Halloween to honor her

and her amazing talents!

Diy Plastic Pumpkin redo

Good Morning!

Looking for an adult "pumpkin carving" for yourself

this weekend?

Here's a fun way to spruce up your fall, Halloween or Thanksgiving decor by making one of these.

You can add any decor to the top of it and I even served muffins on it this week, very versatile. 

Start with one of these cheap plastic pumpkins,

I found mine at Walmart.

Get a plate and some bonding glue,

I had an extra plate on hand, if you don't 

Dollar Tree has them. 

I choose to use chalkpaint as it dries so much

quicker, the picture above has two coats so 

add a third for full coverage. 

Take your bonding glue and add it to the rim generously,

turn the pumpkin upside down on the plate and let dry for at least

4 hours.

Now wait.....

(this is the hardest part....)

Decorate and enjoy!

This project maybe cost $3 unless you don't have the glue on hand.

So fun to make! 

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Are you ready to roast some pumpkin seeds?

There were over 8 pumpkins carved at our house

by my daughter and her friends which lead to over

8 cups of seeds to be roasted.

This truly is THE best recipe I have tried ever

and keep sticking with it each year.

One of the secrets to crispy seeds is allowing 

your seeds to dry for at least 48 hours

after you wash them.

I typically rinse them in a colander and try ot get

as much of the pulp off the seeds as I can then

I lay them on a lined cooking sheet with parchment paper.

As I said, let them dry before you roast them in the oven.

The recipe is below....

.....

BOO!

Boooooooo!  

Showing up with another quick card made with the cute ghost

from this month's Paper Pumpkin.

I used a bat punch and punched out the bats randomly

on the card.  I layered it up on basic gray cardstock

and used dazzling diamonds to give the bats a bit

of glitter.

The remainder bats I popped up on top of the card and

added the BOO!

This card would also look cute with orange 

cardstock. 

Halloween Decor

Muuuuwaaaahhhh....

We have been amping up our Halloween decor over here.

Here is a small taste of our spooky decor!

Some of these pieces I have had for a long time,

and something I always share with you is use what you

have.  Try and see what you have on hand.

What I like to do is add things and take away til I get it where I want it. 

Another fun thing to do that doesn't cost much is using either paper

bats or rats or even vinyl if you have a cricket to cut out the images.

Mine are just paper that I bought at the Dollar Tree and taped to the

fireplace, stairs and the window you see below in our bathroom.

The qauze you see hanging from my window is also from Dollar Tree,

they sell them in black, gray and creme. 

I think there are two to a package, I like to use them around the house as well as outside.  

Had to reshare my concrete pumpkin that I made last season

filled with one of my gorgeous dahlia's from my yard.

This last picture is a tray that I use outside that I brought in and

added some of the white little pumpkin from the dollar tree.

I like them to look more life like so I remove the faux stem

and add a tree twig to give it a more realistic look. 

Do you like to decorate for Halloween?

Halloween fun!

It's no secret we love halloween over here!

We had a fun weekend putting together a fun

dinner for my daughter Shae and her friends. 

They carved pumpkins, made pumpkin spice espresso martini's

(yes, they are 21 now!)

and delicious food!

Shae and Lauren

Pumpkin spice espresso martini's 

We made this halloween charcuterie board complete with pumpkin

hummus and mini eyeballs, carrots cut into pumpkins. 

We cut a pumpkin into a brie round and added fig jam

in the center. 

It was so much fun to put together, you can add just about anything you like to make it look halloweenish. 

We also picked up at Trader Joe's the pumpkin spice

cinnamon rolls in a can.  We unrolled them and shaped them

into ghosts then baked them.

After they came out of the oven we put the icing on it and the cute little eye balls. 

Annndddd.....

this is what happened after I went to bed,

all 8 of them carved pumpkins and one

ended up with her's on her head!

Bewitching

Boo to you!

Bringing back the Bewitching stamp set and matching

witches hat punch today.

For the plump little pumpkin body I used

a oval punch and punched out three pieces

and stacked them.

To shade them I used a sponge dauber and pumpkin pie

ink pad.  

The background dsp is the new Rustic Harvest paper

What do you think?

Easy card? 

Halloween boxes 2.0

And just like that, I am back with round two of

the Halloween boxes. 

If you saw my last post you saw how I used the left over

boxes from september's paper pumpkin.

The three I made this time again are with retired dsp.

Amazing how much paper we accumulate over time.

It was fun to look through the paper and see what I have

and then find stamps that matched the paper. 

So many little pieces of left over paper,

fun to put them all together. 

This one is so funny, it's called Monster Bash.  So comical!

This one has the cute little crows on it, I was able

to find a crow in my retired stamp sets to add to the box.

The stamp is from sept paper pumpkin

And this one......

has a vintage vibe to it, 

It's  called Monster Bash and is retired. 

I try and show you ideas with things that you have on hand,

you may not have what I do, but look at what you have

and try and match up with stamps you have. 

Muuuuwaaaahhhhh!