What have I been up to???

Take a look... I have been crafting magnetic picture frames and treat bags for my son's preschool Halloween party tomorrow.

Here's the treat bag topper graphic I made...

Credits: Eek from Funky Playground.

This has been a fun project. I cannot belive my little guy is having his first holiday party at school! He is growing up so fast. I want to make it special for him and all his classmates. I know they will enjoy all their treats tomorrow.

Freaky Friday Part 2

Welcome back for the second edition of Freaky Friday. Today we are going to take a look at the items I have outside my house in honor of Halloween.

1. A decoration hanging on my front door. My son painted these wooden shapes last year and I strung them together with some Halloween ribbon.
2. Two nice big pumpkins for carving.
3. My scarecrow, isn't he jolly?
4. Mini hay bales with some fake mums, some mini scarecrows and a metal jack o lantern head that holds a candle.
5. This is a wire angel that sits on my porch year round. I change the flowers in her pot for each season. Of course she has a few pumpkins nearby as well, we hoard pumkins around here.
6. Almost impossible to see but this little stake has a scarecrow on it and says Harvest Time.
7. A giant spider web spanning the shrubs in our front yard.
8. A giant spider we made to go on the shrubs with the web.

Halloween's supposed to be spooky, right?

This is as spooky as it gets when you have a preschooler. I so look forward to the days when he wants to wear something ghoulish with fake blood and guts. I really get into that stuff for some reason. I hope he does too when he gets older. However, for this year I will settle for another cute costume.

His first Halloween he was a skunk. We used to call him "stinky" so it was quite fitting and too cute for words.

The following year I made him a lion costume. Oh how I hated brown yarn after making that mane. Again, a very cute kid on Halloween though.

Then came his first time choosing his own costume...and of course it had to be a pirate. He's quite the pirate fan so it was fun and we all got in on the act.

I was happy to play along, even though it meant wearing a skirt in the cold to trick or treat.

My husband enjoyed it too, despite the pout he's flashing me here. Not sure what his problem is, maybe the clip on earring was hurting him. hehe

And of course the bulldog didn't want to wear his pirate shirt, but too bad, and the lil bugger is so lazy that he kept laying down every couple houses when we were trick or treating (as seen here).

That brings us to this year. This Halloween promises to be even more fun than the last. Now he's almost 4 and really getting into the whole idea of trick or treating and spooky stuff. He loves the Toy Story movies and said he wanted to be Woody. However, one day in Target he saw a Buzz Lightyear costume and HAD to have it. We bought it and tried it on at home, but it was to small. So off I went to find one that fit. I ended up at Toys R Us, and they had the deluxe costume that had wings as well. I KNEW this was the one. He LOVES it! So, while it may not be spooky or creepy, it sure is going to be a fun Halloween.

Freaky Friday Part 1

There's only two more weeks until Halloween! It's coming up fast! I have yet to share all the freaky, spooky fun we have around here for Halloween. So, I thought today and the next two Fridays would be "Freaky Fridays". Today we will start with the inside of my house, mostly the playroom, and I will show you all the Halloween stuff we have out and about.

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1. Spider egg sack with baby spiders, directions here.
2. My son's play table with his pumpkin placemate, tiny real pumpkin, and Halloween book.
3. Again in the playroom, my son's Halloween tree that he loves decorating each year, a pumpkin tray and a skull candle holder.
4. On the kitchen counter, a lil scarecrow next to my Kitchen Aid mixer.
5. Pumpkin buckets used to store toys on the playroom shelves.
6. A candy corn tray with my son's pirate pumpkin, of course in his playroom.
7. A pumpkin and skull candle holder in the playroom next to the toads and the mantis.
8. My Bath & Body Works pumpkin soap pump at my kitchen sink.
9. Chairs in my son's playroom adorned with a spooky faced orange balloon and his little trick or treat bag.

Halloween is so much fun around here, my little guy really gets into it all, so I have to have things at his level that he is allowed to touch and enjoy. No fancy stuff here, at least not until he is older, at which point it will be all about adult Halloween items. Mwah ha ha ha!

Next Friday...meet me in the front yard for pumpkins and a spider you wouldn't want to find dangling over your bed at night.