Snow White

Here is the picture that our friend, Eric took of Hannah on Halloween.

And here is Hannah with her friends. Front row: Belle & Tinkerbell. Back row: Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty & Ariel.

Eric's website: http://ericwashburn.com/
Eric on FB: https://www.facebook.com/washburnphoto

Halloween Recap

We went back to our old neighborhood to celebrate Halloween this year. One of our neighbors hosted the annual cul-de-sac party in his driveway.

Hannah and several of her school friends dressed up as Disney princesses this year. Hannah was Snow White.

Here's Hannah with her good friend who used to live next door to us.

Hannah & one of her princess friends. We had our photographer friend take pics of all the princesses together. I will share that when he sends it to me.

James wore his usual mask & enjoyed scaring older kids.

The weather was so nice this year. It sprinkled for about a minute or two, but that was all. The temperature was fairly warm.

It was nice getting to hang out in the old 'hood with our friends.

Halloween Decorations

I usually start decorating for Halloween on October 1st. Things were a bit behind schedule with our late September move date. We did manage to find some time to do a little decorating this past weekend.

As far as interior decorating, I only decorated the fireplace mantle and hearth this year. I love my collection on musical Hallmark characters on the hearth! The kids were so amused by them when they were younger.

Here's a close up of the mantle. Here's the link to my post from last year about making the altered printer's tray. Halloween Altered Printer's Tray

We also did minimal decorating outside.

Close up of some of our tombstones that we made last year. Tombstones

Although simple, we are happy to at least have a few decorations out this year. But with only a week before Halloween, it seemed like too much of an effort for such a short time. Hope the new neighbors appreciate our holiday decorating!!

Halloween 2012

Another Halloween has come and gone. Here's a recap of our 2012 Halloween.


I got this cute banner from Oriental Trading Company.

Hannah made her own duct tape costume this year. So cute!

Here's James with two of his friends. James in in the center.

We have a big cul-de-sac party every Halloween. Here's our food table.

 

 

Hannah and her friend.  

Kay-C was mewing at us from our window. She didn't like being ignored.

Sue & Jeanette

Antonia & Kyra

Denise & Scott

James helped pass out candy. I had to tell him to stop scaring the little children!

Evening decorations.

That's it for Halloween 2012.

Tombstones

I may have mentioned in the past, that I LOVE Halloween! We have accumulated quite a lot of Halloween decorations over the years.

A few years ago we started setting up a cemetery in our yard for Halloween. However, the styrofoam tombstones just don't hold up very well over the years. So this year, we decided to make our own.


Hannah traced some of our styrofoam tombstones onto some plywood.

Then Chris cut them out.

Then Hannah helped to glue some extra wood on the back so the wire rods could be drilled into.

 Then we painted the wood.

We used various shades of gray and black to create weathered looking stone.

I painted the names and phrases. Here are some of the finished products. The R.I.P one is an old styrofoam one, the others are all our new sturdy ones.

 

The R.I.P in this shot is also an old one. 

 

 

 

 

We received a lot of wind, thanks to Hurricane Sandy, so the new, plywood tombstones held up very well. We only put up a couple of our old ones. We've already decided that we will make more next year. 

Halloween Painting

Over the summer I purchased some Living Social Vouchers for Corkscrews & Canvas. The vouchers expire next month, so I decided it was time to redeem some of them. I shared one of the vouchers with my good friend, Denise, whose birthday is next week. She LOVES these painting nights as much as I do.


We started by painting the background.

We used white chalk to sketch out the shape of our pumpkin and witch's hat.

Here's Denise working on her hat.

Chalk was used to sketch the hat band.

Here's my nearly finished painting.

Ta-da. My finished piece of art.

 Proud artist

And here we are with our masterpieces.

Halloween Altered Printer Tray

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I absolutely LOVE decorating the house for Halloween. Unfortunately, I have this unwritten rule that I can't put up holiday decorations if the house is not clean. It's the 3rd day of October and my house is not clean! Therefore, I cannot put up any Halloween decorations yet. Of course, one might think that the simple solution would be to just clean the house. No, instead I decided to make an altered printer tray with a Halloween theme!

I have become quite fascinated with the decorated/altered printer trays. They are so cute! Today I ran into to Michael's and saw a cute little tray that was just calling out to me.

Here's the package from the tray in case you're interested. I've seen several nice ones on Amazon, but I had a 40% off coupon that needed to be used.

I used some old, discontinued Stampin' Up! printed papers and various Halloween stickers that I had on hand. Most of the stickers were from Jolee's Boutique. I just slapped it all together and here's the finished project.

If nothing else, I think this is going to motivate me to clean the house so I can get out the decorations!

Girl Scout Daddy Daughter Dance

Our Girl Scout troop just had it's annual "Sweetheart Dance". We hosted the dance for the whole service unit.  Usually we hold the dance in the spring, but the girls really wanted to have a costume theme, so we decided October would be the perfect time for it. Plus, we've got it out of the way!


Hannah dressed as Elphaba from Wicked.

Here is Hannah with her Dad. Chris went as "Darth after Dark".

Here they are without the Darth Vader mask.

Here are a couple of dads who were good sports about dressing up. We LOVED the Girl Scout costume!

Our girls named out ghost, Ghouliette Gorden Low, a pun on Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts.

We choose a charity or organization to benefit from our dance service project each year. This year the girls chose Mostly Mutts, so we collected various dog and cat supplies.

Here are some of Hannah's friends from our Girl Scout troop.

Another friend with her Dad.

We do a few group dances, such as the Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, and Chicken Dance. I think this is the Cha Cha Slide.

Here are the girls in our troop.

We had a fun evening! There were about 65 girls in attendance.