Ghost Bean Bag Toss

I made this for the ward Halloween party. It was demolished by the end of the night. :) Oh well.

the pencil work and cutting - scissors and exacto knife

spray painted white

 

Bought dowels, broke them with my bare hands!, then hot glued them to the back. I thought it kinda looked like darth vader, and if it hadn't been demolished, I would have sprayed that back side black and called it darth.

Above: One strip of hot glue under the dowel wasn't enough, so I had to do it down each side. Used lots of hot glue.

After a few tosses, the dowels started coming off, so I had to tape them on again.

Halloween!!

A few pictures from the church Halloween Carnival & Trunk or Treat:

face painting station

craft station

The craft station was this idea:

from Martha Stewart

from Simply Creative Insanity

But instead of cheese cloth, we used white plastic grocery bags that the kids cut up and then put the balloons on balloon stick thingys, so they were kind of like balloon wands.

Yep, their mom MADE all their costumes. Not pictured above was their brother... was he Luke?? I can't remember. She told me she'd put them up on Pinterest soon, so you should see better pictures of it all there.

I don't let Jason have sweets very often (he's crazy and rambunxious enough without sugar), with the exception of fruit or a few bites of an occassional dessert. But at the Halloween party, he had:

some doughnut

some cupcake

a laffy taffy

a milky way bar

& one other candy thing

He cried almost all night that night.

Never. ever. again.

He went trick or treating tonight, but was not allowed to eat any candy. Sadly, though, he is still sobbing terribly in his crib right now. Why? Because for some inexplicable reason he decided not to take a nap today. Translation - CRANKY! Oh, and I forgot to put his blanky in the drier, so he has a substitute one, which is NOT okay with him. Oh and he can hear kids knocking at the door and saying "Trick or Treat!!" so he understands that there's fun stuff going on without him. Poor guy.

Here are some cute pictures of him from the Halloween party.

with his favorite neighbor friend

green scales with fire coming out his nose

The tail was a GREAT way to keep him running away from me.

He is saying "OFF! OFF!" to me, so I'll open the wrapper.

note the laffy taffy in his mouth

wearing someone else's helmet

Ah, the sobbing has stopped. As have the trick or treaters. It's only 7:45! Back home we weren't done till 9:30 at least! But I'll take it, especially since it means Jason will sleep :).

Happy Halloween!!

Parmesan Roasted Potatoes

Just made these for dinner tonight. So easy.
http://chichoskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/03/parmesan-roasted-potatoes.html
And delish. I also made a Chunky Broccoli Tomato Sauce because I had some broccoli stems. So I diced 'em and threw 'em in a pot with a can of diced tomatoes, a little tomato sauce, a little water, and some italian seasoning. Once the broccoli was tender, I coursely blended it and served it over the roasted potatoes. Yum.

photo courtesy Chico's Kitchen

Sugar Scrub Presents

Found this sugar scrub recipe at Our Best Bites and have made it for myself and a few others. It's awesome. And it makes a great bridal shower/wedding present. At first when you mix all the dry ingredients together, it smells really strong. But when you get the oil in there (I use vegetable b/c it's flavorless), the smell mellows and  ... it actually tastes good too :o. So here are some pictures of how mine have come together.

The jar things are from Target. And I created the little labels (the "directions" are adapted from OBB).

Young Women 2011 Theme Printable

My first printable!! I'm so excited!!

My Cat Loves...

graham crackers
and apple stuedel/turnovers