I’ll be spending the evening with the cutest spider ever (aka my nephew Bentley) and forget to tell you all I Guest Posted over at the CSI project sharing my Fence Post Pumpkins on Monday (in my defense there was a hurricane headed my way)!
Make sure to stop over and check out this quick fake pumpkin tutorial that will carry you from Halloween to Thanksgiving!
Google+Here on the east coast Halloween activities may require scuba gear. So I thought I’d whip up a few more word searches for everyone!
The last Halloween Word Search I made was pretty tough (it took me forever to find the word Werewolf!) so I made an easier one:
And another hard one:
Feel free to download the Easy Halloween Wordfind and the Halloween Costume Wordfind from Google docs and print as many copies as you like.
The PDFs do not have watermarks and are set to print on regular printer paper.
Please DO NOT sell this file, I make them available for free so everyone can enjoy them!
I’d love some feedback on the word searches! Do you love them? Hate them? Would you like them easier/harder? Would you like a key with all the answers? Any ideas for new ones?
Google+We had some friends over last night for a last minute Halloween/Birthday Party (my husbands birthday is Monday, he’ll be 33!). We threw together a pretty decent spread, but my camera went MIA so sadly no pictures of the set up. We served chilli (some of it was baked in pie pumpkins), corn bread and sausage bread.
I bought a pack of orange paper cups and a pack of googly eyes at the store and along with a hot glue gun and a sharpie I made these fun little guys:
Cute right? It took less than 20 minutes to do them all, there was a cyclops but that one went missing. After I ran out of cups I realized I hadn’t done a kitty, always next time right?
This is also great for smaller kids who might not recognize their names but will remember whether they had the pirate or spider cup.
You could also personalize them to match each child’s costume!
Have you linked up to the Halloween Party yet?! And don’t forget the giveaway!
Google+Are you ready for Halloween? No? Me neither. But I do have another quick project for you!
I have a thing for spiders, you can probably tell by looking at my past projects including the very large lawn spiderwebs with giant spider warning signs, embroidery hoop web art and hot glue spiderwebs.
I’m very excited to be part of A Crafter’s Dream Christmas Giveaway! This giveaway is hosted by My Merry Messy Life, Earning-My-Cape and Tutus & Tea Parties and has a Christmas, crafting, and supporting small business theme! Each blogger is offering her/his own giveaway worth $25 or more going on now through Sunday, November 4, 2012. You have more than 50 chances to win fun stuff here!
If you aren’t familiar with the Chicken Scratch house, I have a country aesthetic with a lean towards handmade and natural elements. Today I am offering something a little different. The winner will receive 4 embroidered fabric squares. They can be simply framed or sewn into a beautiful table runners, wall hangings or pillowcases. The options are endless!
Included in this set are:
Barn Swallow Botanical, Wild Rose Botanical, Yellow Warbler Botanical and Tiger Lily Botanical
Each is approximately 6.5 x 4.5 inches on Cream colored organic twill with a generous seam allowance. Please note that this is thicker than Quilt Cotton!
Christmas is just around the corner, and the time to start crafting our gifts for friends and family is now. Some of the blogs in the giveaway group will be giving away some awesome crafting supplies! Sometimes we want to give a handmade gift, but just don’t have the time or know-how to make them ourselves. This is a great opportunity to support small businesses and shops who offer handmade items! Some of the blogs in our giveaway group will be highlighting such small businesses and offering giveaway items for them, as well. Even if you don’t win the giveaway, we hope that you will keep these small businesses in mind when shopping for that perfect gift for your special someone.
Now you can hop from blog to blog entering as many giveaways as you want!
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Today is my fluffy little puppies first birthday!
He went from being the size, shape and relative weight of a single brick to about 90 lbs of HAPPY
When he isn’t bringing his toys to the bunny, trying to play with the cat or letting Bentley ‘pet’ him; he enjoys cuddle time.
We had to buy a king sized bed to fit him and the cat (oh, and we sleep in the bed too).
Alfie Doodle posts:
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I’ve been busy ripping my house apart. As usual I can’t focus on just one thing. Sadly my Halloween decorations aren’t permeating every room in the house yet.
I did get one of my book cases a bit spook-ified. I painted the sign, it’s a strange mix of reds with white free handed text. By the way, Hocus Pocus is THE best Halloween movie EVER. The metal roosters were replaced with the Embroidered Spiderwebs.
The warty pumpkin is one we kept from the wedding, the bloody flowers and hot glue spiderwebs you might recognize (hint hint). My favorite part is the witch hat (the sign is a close second!). I’ve made several witch hats and this is my favorite, it’s purple crushed velvet with black glitter dot on the bottom of the brim. It’s tucked and tacked into a crooked shape, I might wear it this Halloween if I don’t get a costume together. I’ve had the fake head forever. It’s styrafoam that I hot-glued twine all over. My fingers were burnt for a week but it looks 100 better.
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Are you ready to entertain the Little Ones? That’s right today is all about the kids with fake fangs, green face paint and sheets over their heads! (Factoid: I was almost always a witch when I was growing up, I have curly hair and my mom would brush it out so it was super frizzy and give me a black dress)I’ll be linking up my Halloween Word Search
Head over to All Done Monkey! To check out the fun and link it up!
Don’t forget the Halloween Party (hosted here!) is still going strong (I’d love to make it over 50 links, hint hint) and you can get your fall food fix at Jen’s Favorite Cookies!
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