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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Getting into Halloween!

I really enjoy Halloween. Not the spooky, scary, creepy Halloween. The fun, dressing up, being silly, cute decorations... type Halloween! Here are three fun ideas that we have done that I wanted to share.

Hannah's Halloween Shirt:
My friend Andrea emailed me a link to make a cute Halloween skirt and an applique witch hat shirt. They were so cute! I knew I wouldn't be finishing the skirt in time, but decided to give the shirt a whirl. I didn't do so well on the sewing part. That is definitely a technique I'll need to work on! (eek!) But it was really fun and simple to make and I'm excited for further possibilities! (Thanks Andrea. I love getting ideas!)

Free Halloween Skirt Tutorial
Halloween Applique Pattern


Fun Halloween Nails:
Hannah and I had a little nail party. We did jack-o-lanterns and spider webs. Sorry some of the pictures are blurry... and yes, we went a little crazy taking pictures!
Halloween Sugar Cookies:
We made some yummy sugar cookies with glaze frosting from Our Best Bites. They were a bit time consuming, even more so than regular sugar cookies because of the drying time. But they were really fun. I really enjoyed decorating them... and eating them!

Sugar Cookie Recipe
Glaze Recipe
Tutorial on how to make the spider webs


What are some of the fun Halloween things you are doing? Any Halloween traditions? Next year, I'd like to do a Halloween Countdown with books, found at Brown Paper Packages.
Do you have any favorite Halloween books? (Wouldn't this be awesome for Christmas too!? We already collect a different Christmas book each year.)

Anyway, Happy Halloween!

1 comments:

Ashley

I love the shirt; great job. Those cookies look awesome too! Ya I have heard of the book idea for Christmas you could wrap up the books you already have and open one each day in December. Cute Boo Book basket!