Having trouble sleep..

   I swore to myself that if I started a blog, I wanted to keep up the crafts and 'frugalness' and gather with others with inspiring ideas. I fully plan on keeping this promise to my blog and blog followers. Forgive me for posting great ideas that I find temporarily. We have been on a rollercoaster ride from hell for over a month now with a very loved family member in CCU. But today...I post with high spirits. A miracle may be taking place and I am speechless. I just wanted to let you all know I will be posting all these crafts that are being born in my head soon. I will leave you with a cute idea for what you can do with all your candy wrappers from Halloween...
   You can find the tutorial for this project here. Friendly advice...the foil, although it may be better looking, is harder to work with then Starburst, Now and Then or lollipop wrappers. How about getting really ambitious and try these crafts out!...Click here. Tomorrow I will post a pic of what I did, using this method of candy wrapping art, a hair clip, glue and remnants of an artificial flower. Cute idea for younger girls :)

Last minute Halloween snack ideas for that 'before the big night' party :)

    I just LOVE it when I find things that don't take to long to make, but will stick out with my children later on in years. My parents did some signature things that I will always carry with me. For instance, my mother food coloring once throughout our Dinner. Our meat was one color, while the mashed potato was a different color and so on. Even though this may have never changed the taste, it sure was more fun eating it. 

There were some really cute ideas I stumbled upon on Food Buzz.

How about some "Mummy Dogs"made by Rachel? Aren't they cute?

Get the recipe for these guys here.

And this one is being made as soon as I go shopping...Ellie had a genious idea with macaroni and cheese and a mini bread loaf.. get this recipe here!

Susi made some great Halloween appetizers. Just take a look at these! 

Now that's creative, and very simple. Click here for the recipe. I will certainly be trying these out on my little monsters. They loved deviled eggs and I love jalapeno poppers, so it is a win-win. If you have a fun recipe like this, please share :) What meals/ snacks stood out to you?

Get carried away with these cute broomsticks and look at those bats!!

   Hello everyone, hope all is well. My family and I have been going through a lot lately. It has really brought us down. I just really have not been in the mood for projects and had no creative juices at all. But! Luckily my sister was told about a really cute idea for a Halloween party and pulled me in on the project. Please check out her post on this project here! Thanks for a fun afternoon! These brooms are very affordable and such a cute idea for a party treat. All you need is some brown paper lunch bags, scissors, bailing twine (or just thread), plastic baggies, candy (or snacks),  and some sticks you can have fun collecting with the kids outside.

 First you take two of your brown lunch bags and cut off about 2 inches off the top. If you want bigger brooms then just skip that part. Take one of the bags and from the bottom upward, cut strips as wide as you like till about an inch and 1/2 from the top. Take your other bag and place it inside the one you cut. Puff out the bag and straighten the strips how you would like. It should look like the photo above.

   Then you fill the little plastic baggies with candy or snacks..(we used gummy fish, sour patch, and pretzels). Place the baggies in the brown bags you have made. Grab one of your chosen sticks and stick it up in the bag. Gather the brown bag at the top and use the twine/thread to tie it tight. Wrap as much as you want for the look you are trying to achieve. That's it...for an added touch, we stuck some name tags on the brooms so the kids knew which one was theirs.  The kiddies loved them!

The second project my sister had ready to try were some pumpkin bats. For this project you will need: some very small pumpkins ( about the size of gourds), black spray paint , some craft foam, toothpicks, and some double sided tape.

                          First..take your pumpkins outside and spray paint them all black. Let dry.

 

Then, use your foam to cut eyes, ears, wings, fangs and whatever else you may want to accessorize your bats. Attach your wings and ears to the toothpicks with tape or glue. Then put the eyes and mouth on with the double sided tape. It's that easy.

     You can either let the kids put the pieces on or if it's too hard for the kids to push the picks in, then you can just make a bunch of different eyes/wings/mouths ahead of time to let them pick the look. Of course, you can always substitute the materials being used with just about anything.... you can use black thumb tacks to keep the white eyes on, white glue to adhere the pieces. You can also cut these bags from the top so you have a more uniformed bottom, but we like the unruly, windy look. Just have fun :)

A nice Halloween treat that is fun to make.

   I first saw this idea here. I thought it was so cute. My stepson has a birthday tomorrow and since he loves Halloween I like to combine a Halloween party with his birthday sometimes...especially since he is usually with his mom for this holiday. The video shows how to do this but I'll quickly go over what I bought and how I did these particular treats. I will be adding hair tomorrow, so those pics will be uploaded then.

   I got 11 boxes of lime flavored jell-o. I also bought 1 package of gummy worms, some gummy eyeballs, fangs and fingers. The eyeballs were great. They came in 3 different colors and were very gushy. They work well with the jell-o. I found them at a local convenience store.

     I made the jell-o according to the directions...for this project, I boiled 11 cups of water, added it to the gelatin and then added the 11 cups of cold water. I poured it into the cups and placed them in the fridge till they were half set. Pulled them out and added the eyes, fingers, and worms. Then I put them back in the fridge to set all the way. I'm going to pick up some cotton candy and add that as hair and eyebrows. When I get around to it, I will post a picture of the finished monster treats.

   That's it. Simple, fun and the kiddies will love them.