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Hi Friends! If you are like me, you are anxious to get your kids costumes in the works in order to leave time for lots of Spooky fun during the month of October. And if you want some great, yet simple, costume ideas, Look no further than CountryLiving.com. Our knight costumes from last year were …
Knights, King Arthur, castles, dragons, etc….they are all a big deal at our house. In fact we keep the boys from fighting over their medieval acquisitions by giving all red knight paraphernalia to Little A and all things blue knight go to Little O. So it only seemed fitting that for this years tricks-or-treats the …
I was asked to put together a Halloween photo booth for a trunk-or-treat after-party at our church this year. Being a fan of the photo booth movement, I was of course totally on board. I had grand plans for this but as the clocked ticked closer and closer to Halloween time seemed to melt away …
If you’re like me and are slightly manic about what you want to be for Halloween (Frida Kahlo? Liz Lemon from 30 Rock? Cool spooky ghost?) and have been waiting up to the very the last minute to put something together, well you’re in luck. With this simple hooded cloak ghost costume (made from two …
For day four, of our five days of Halloween, I bring you an oldie but goodie – paper snowflake pumpkins! Making these fun and festive paper decorations has become an annual family favorite for us. So gather around your little ghouls, grab your scissors, decorative papers and loads of imagination and your sure to have …
Jon and I have been stuffing our selves silly on some pretty fantastic pumpkin cream pies (also know as pumpkin whoopie pies) and we’ve been loving every bite of it. But what’s Halloween if not a time to share our sugary loot with others? So I got to work putting together some origami treat boxes …
OK ladies, like we need another excuse to go shoe shopping. But it certainly doesn’t hurt if we know we will be reusing our shopping bag afterwards, right!? I’ve been particularly fond of this DSW striped shoe bag for sometime and have been saving it for just the right project. I think I finally found …
OK, the countdown is on. Whether you’re scrambling to finish up your last minute costume preparations, parading through corn mazes, carving out those carefully selected pumpkin patch treasures or gathering with friends and family for hot cider, apple bobbing and spooky movie marathons…Halloween is in the air! And isn’t it about time for Mermag to …
So I mentioned that I was hooked on this paper cutting thing right? Well after our Halloween snowstorm of paper pumpkin snowflakes. the scissors just kept on wanting to cut. Anything they could get their shears on…so many ideas…no paper was safe. No Halloween is complete without a little black cat mask right? So one …
The other afternoon while unpacking I came across our Halloween decorations and couldn’t resist getting into the spooky spirit right away. So I called little A and Jon over to start the festive adorning. While setting up trick-or-treaters and pumpkin treat bowls with little A I see Jon across the room with some paper and …