Rapunzel and Pebbles Costumes for Halloween

Rapunzel

 I made this cute girl of mine some very fun Rapunzel hair for her costume. 

 It was simple, simple simple.  All it took was one thing of yellow yarn, a thick headband from the dollar store and some hot glue.  I made a long braid, then I wrapped the headband in the yarn as well then hot glued the braid right to the headband. She is so pleased and I am too :) 

 And then to get even easier or lazy, I'll admit it.......that is just how I am feeling these days just a few weeks away from having another baby......here is what I did for my little red head.  Pebbles.  You would too if you had a red head :)  She is at that stage where she doesn't like to wear anything to different so I just found some clothes in the colors I needed at the thrift store and put her own locks up in a fountain ponytail and added the white bow.  She looks cute, she is happy and she won't be ripping off any costume I worked hard on.  Believe me, I know this girl well.

Pebbles

Happy Halloween!

Baby Boy monster seat belt covers

 Just another little project I crossed off my list the other day in preparation for our little guys arrival in the next few weeks.  He is being a little monster already......kicking me in the ribs and making me feel a bit sick again.  I am hoping he gets here soon!

I found the cute monster fabric on etsy in this shop: Scissor Happy

Girl Bumper is now a BOY Bumper

I took my girl bumper and transformed it into a BOY bumper by simply making a slip cover for it.

Not only did it turn out so much cuter then any store bought bumper (I just couldn't find anything I liked) I also saved myself a TON of $$$ in the process. I refused to buy one of those crib sets.  I could not believe how expensive those things are now.  I bought this bumper for less then $15 at Target 5 years ago....good luck finding anything like that now :)  boo. 

Here is a sneak peak at the fabric:

 Here is the BEFORE: cute girly flower bumper

 Here is the AFTER: handsome boyish robot bumper

All I did to do this was measure the total length of the bumper then double it, add a few inches for the seam on the end of the bumper as well as the opening of the slip cover to get the total length of fabric you need to make the cover.  Mine measured 159" so I doubled that and added 3".   Then measure the width of the bumper.  Mine was 10" so I cut my fabric to 11" to allow for a 1/2" seam allowance on both sides for sewing the cover together.  I cut strips of two different fabrics (11" x 44") and sewed them at random together to make my 2 long strips then sewed those right sides together (like you are sewing a pillowcase) and left one side open to turn it right side out.  BEFORE you do this, you will want to lay one of your complete strips on top of the bumper and pin your ties(i just used a white twine) were they are on the bumper you are covering. Then place you other completed strips on top of that making sure right sides are together, then sew around the whole thing. That will take the guessing game as to where the ties should be later on. After sewing you just simply turn it right side out and then slip your bumper into the new cover.  Sew the opening shut or I just left mine open.
**tip to save you even more $$$   When you go to cut your fabric, keep in mind that most fabrics are around 44" wide so you can use that width as the length of your strips.  Use the width of the strips as a guide as to how many yards of fabric you need.  (I was able to cover my bumper using just over 3 yards of fabric by doing this) So in other words, you can get 3 strips of fabric that are 44' long and 11" wide out of ONE yard of fabric which then gives you around 132" of length for your strips.  See where this can save you $$$?!?!  Make sure to add a few extra inches for the amount you will loose when sewing your smaller strips together.

I love this idea for the fact that it only cost $9.00 to make it, and I didn't ruin my original bumper.  I hope this helps and that it does not sound to confusing.  It totally spaced me to take pictures of the process until it was to late :)  boo.

Halloween Mantel 2011

Here are my Halloween Decorations for this year.

I love how it came together, with the help of the dollar store, things I already had on hand and things I found for free.  

 I developed pictures from last years Halloween and hung them up in my fabulous frame.  

 All of the bottles you see were from the thrift store or ones I already had.  I just added some fun yarn to the top to dress them up.  The tree are branches we found up the canyon on a drive a few days ago.

 And that fabulous Halloween Print is available HERE for free.

 I love my bat specimen frame.  I have seen these all over bloggy land and decided to whip one up for myself.

 If you want to know how I made my silhouette banner, 

go HERE for the instructions. 

Happy Halloween everyone!!

Halloween Survival Kits

How are you going to 

SURVIVE 

Halloween???

 I am hoping that some of our friends will enjoy Halloween with the help of these little kits.

I am super excited to give them away and share the spooky feeling of this month with them.

 Decorate the outside of a fun container, then fill it with all shorts of goodies.  Both salty and sweet work well.

Then on the inside I also decorated it with fun spooky names for all of the goodies.  I am sure it will be a fun game to play to match up the names with the goodies as they eat them.
These are the treats and spooky names I used:
bed bugs - Wonka gummy bugs
bat droppings - tootsie rolls
ghost poop - marshmallows
human coffins - Hersey treasures
frog legs - Mike and Ike's
rat eyes - sour cherries
mummy corpses - sour patch kids
skull dust - assorted single drink mixes
vampire teeth - caramel and apple candy corns
twisted twigs - pretzels
fried skin flakes - oyster crackers

I got the idea for using the craft boxes from 
this idea on 
this awesome site.  

Click on over and see all of their other awesome ideas.

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Halloween Advent Calendar

I just wanted to share my Halloween Advent Calendar with all of you, just in case you missed it from last year.

Go HERE to see what you need to do to make your own.  I also have fun ideas as to how to fill it. 

 Happy October!