Candy filled Witches Legs

I saw this super cute idea from Stamp with Heather, and just had to give it a try. I had book marked it over a year ago, but was actually able to find the idea and even though I didn't have the stocking punch, my upline was sweet enough to let me borrow hers.

This was one of those special projects for a special friend, not something I would have wanted to make 30 of for Jay's class, but it did turn out pretty amazing.

I could see all kinds of different takes on this idea....Elf legs anyone?

Halloween Teacher Treats

So, I couldn't just send the mummys to school for the kids without sending something for Jay's teachers. They are such great people, and I really do appreciate how much they work with him and the other 29 students in his class.

I had seen several of these curly paper wreaths on other peoples blogs, but hadn't made one myself. Most of the ones I saw online were made using the styrofoam wreath forms, but those things are expensive! I'm not a cheapskate by any means, but since I was making five of these, I thought there had to be a better way......

Cardboard! Nothing said the wreath had to be three dimensional, and with the curly paper to fill it out, you can't even tell these are just flat circles of cardboard unless you look at the back. I hadn't really used the Halloween Washi tape from Stampin' Up! yet, and of course, I had to put my favorite thing, punch art on there as well.

I thought they turned out adorable, and by the thank-you notes I received, the teachers thought so too!

Another bonus about this project, it is the perfect busy work project you can think of. Once you have the paper strips cut, it was just a matter of curling them with my bone folder and using glue dots to stick them onto the cardboard. I answer phones all day for my "real" job, so I just sat there curling and sticking away while talking on the phone. It made the day and the project go much faster!

Little Mummy's can't have all the fun.....

So while I was thinking of Mummys, I wondered what kind of treat box I could create using the same idea. I found a pattern for a coffin on the internet, and started there. I have to admit, the directions I found weren't very self explanatory, so it ended up being a one time only project. I won't be making it again anytime soon.

Maybe if one of you has better directions for a coffin box you are willing to share, I will give it another shot. Either way, it did turn out to be a pretty cute project. And it can hold quite a bit of candy.....not that I actually know how much. My son found the candy stash and ate it before I could ever quite fill this box.

Woohoo....Halloween!

Are any of you as big Halloween fans as I am? While I don't really dress up any more, I still love the ghosts, ghouls and witches that are abundant this time of year.

I'm not a scary, haunted house kind of girl, but if you can make it cute, I'm all for it. So, needless to say, the next few days will be filled with Halloween treats.

It seemed like once I started getting ready for this holiday, I just couldn't stop. For example, Jay asked me to volunteer to bring a bag of candy to his Halloween party at school. Well what fun is that?

He chose miniature Twix bars, and honestly.....those aren't very Halloweeny at all. So, I dressed them up a bit using a punch (of course) and the really neat washi tape that Stampin' Up! has started carrying.

What I ended up with were these adorable little mummys, the absolute perfect size to hold one miniature Twix bar each!

Flashback to October

October 14th is my darling son's birthday. This year, we finally started to get into Football (much to my delight) and even played on a Flag Football team at the Y! Since his birthday fell during Flag Football season, and since his party consisted of a Sunday trip to see the St. Louis Rams play, what was more appropriate than a candy bag topper showing his current favorite sport.

You might recognize the football player from my Lions vs. Patriots preseason post (Wow! that was a long time ago!).

I thought these turned out extremely cute, and so did the kids in his class and on his football team.

Since we are such big football fans in our house....I'm sure these cute little bruisers will make another appearance soon......Maybe even for SuperBowl!

On to September.......

Ok, honestly, September must have been a pretty rough month. I have no projects that I actually created in September. Which seems rather strange considering that I had just gotten back from convention and had all those new goodies to play with.

So, since I don't have anything I made in September to show you.....how about I show you something I should have made in September?

My birthday and my beautiful daughter Katie's birthday both are in September.....as a matter of fact, they are a day apart. We spent our birthday weekend by having a Mom daughter day and going to see Chicago the Musical at the Fox theater in St. Louis. We had amazing seats and were lucky enough to sit in the first row.

It was a great day, and a wonderful memory (there aren't too many of those lately considering she's 15 and teenage girls can be total monsters at times!).

So, to represent our birthday month, here is an adorable birthday card made using nothing but framelits and punches. I'm a huge punch art fan (in case you didn't know or couldn't tell from my posts!) and I just thought this guy was too cute not to share!

Is it really almost 2014?

I know, I know, you all thought I fell off the face of the earth didn't you? Well, I have to admit, for a while there I wasn't sure if I was still living on planet earth either. For those of you who don't follow my posts on Facebook, I have been feeling poorly for the past several months. My energy level was gone and I had a hard enough time going to work, let alone doing anything fun. Right before Thanksgiving I was hospitalized with severe anemia. My iron level was so low, that my blood didn't even have enough hemoglobin to carry the oxygen I needed to my brain. No wonder I felt like I was walking around in a fog! Well, I'm happy to report that after a couple blood transfusions, and a straight cocktail of Iron delivered to my system, I'm feeling much better.

While I haven't been posting, I have been stamping. A little oxygen deprivation wasn't going to get in the way of me doing that! So, I have several new things to show you. I realize that most of these are Holiday related, and not really relevant to right now, but I'm hoping you don't mind seeing Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas projects in January. Let's just pretend I'm really on the ball and ready for next year :)

So, here is wishing a safe, happy, and most of all healthy New Year for us all!