Cute Halloween Pumpkins!

Well now that I have started, I might as well keep going on the Halloween things! Just got the Better Homes and Gardens Special Halloween Magazine! Browsing in the car at a stop light, barely glanced and KNEW I would need to make these! They just used fake pumpkins (Michaels has them on sale often!) and covered them with black lace! Sounds easy and looks wonderful!! I really like it on the white ones! Not sure I will make the towers, I like them individual better I think!

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Halloween Silhouettes!

I wasn't going to do any Halloween posts until after the baby's first birthday but then some of my very favorite blogs are LOADED with them, too tempting! I have been working on 1 project, that I really like so far! Spooky Silhouettes! I like to do mostly black, white and silver Halloween stuff, these fit right in!
Here is what I did, pretty easy, and none of the steps take too long, just took me a few nap times.

~First I snagged some frames at Goodwill, and a garage sale.

~Spray painted black, left the silver ones the way they were.

~Found pictures online, copied to a zip drive and took it to the copy center. I did this because I don't feel like our printer prints REALLY black. I also brought the frames to make sure I sized them right for the frame.

~I really like Martha Stewart Glitter A LOT! I used a tiny glue pen and did this little witch and then covered with the black glitter, I did it in sections because the glue dries so fast. I didn't glitter all of them, just a couple

~Once it was dried I stuck it in the frame.

EASY, pretty inexpensive if you get a deal on the frames, or you have them already and not too scary.

 

But this one is my favorite! I didn't print it off, I used the cricut with the new Halloween mini Cartridge, October 31st. Cut the moon, covered with Martha's GLOW IN THE DARK Glitter, stuck it to some black cardstock, put it in the frame and thats it. I really like how not scary and just enough whimsical it is!!

 

 

This is them all together, I'm not happy with them yet. I have a few more that aren't finished, need to find the perfect silhouettes still! I want to add at least a few more, but considering it is still August, I'm not worried about running out of time!

These are in our living room, that we have done NOTHING to in 3 years, that's why it looks so plain!

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Fall Cleaning Already?!

It's almost time to start Fall cleaning again! Doesn't feel like it has been a year since my last POSTS about this! I think having an infant makes the days long and the year seem short!  For me, summer means more time doing fun stuff and less time cleaning or worrying about what I didn't get to! Not only is it too hot to clean but the school age kids don't have to be picked up and dropped off and we can actually go do something! School here starts Sept 7th for our Kindergartner and the baby's first birthday is 2 and a half weeks later! 2 and a half weeks is not a lot of time to get ALL the cleaning done, but I think with some extra planning I can pull it off!

Getting all of this stuff done in that time frame means planning ahead and having my lists ready!  I'm sure I could re-post last years posts but I'm sure I missed something then or I use something entirely different now!

First thing I need to do is get my supplies ready! Here is my supply list!

Then the things that probably need done in every room here are

~washing the walls, I just use a old towel and a vinegar/water mix.

~Windows need washed and its a good idea to clean the tracks before anything can get too caked on, and right now it's just dust, but once it rains, it's mud!

~Baseboards, I vacuum them first, if that doesn't make them look clean, just a quick wipe down with the vinegar/water mix, if they are still bad or having red paint on them (thank you little Lightning Mcqueen car) I just touch up the paint!

~Our white doors get DIRTY! All those cute grubby little finger prints have to go though! Treat the doors the same way as baseboards, but they usually need a magic eraser too!

~Carpets need cleaned, sometimes just a spot cleaning. Here, the area rugs get some baking soda sprinkled and the kids have to "dance" to get the baking soda in realllly good, (they like to help and I'm not worried about baking soda!) I just vacuum it up when I have a chance.

~Finally, paint touch ups. We have kids, kids and flat wall paint don't mix, so we always have a few spots that need attention!

 

I will post ALL of the tasks I do in each room soon. On my lists at home I have the approx. time they take me, so if I have even a little window of time I can usually squeeze 1 thing in! 

 

I am not doing any cleaning yet though! Going to enjoy this last week of Summer with the kids and prep for the first week of school and all the new and different things it means for our family and house.

 

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Super easy 1 dish 5 minute S'mores Yumminess!

My friend Kat posted  about her S'mores Bark, totally my kind of thing, I knew I would want to make these! Picked up some Goden Grahams and mini marshmallows at the store came home and planned to make these with the mini's after nap. Started reading the ingredients, holy smokes 2 pounds of chocolate, I don't think I have that much! Not about to run back out to the store, so I took the basic idea and did about half the chocolate! I don't know if mine looks the same as hers but it still has the same ingredients. So thanks Kat for the yummy idea, my mini's love it!

Here is what I did with the same ingredients!

~Melted 1 C chocolate, I used the discs from the baking store that I bought for the chocolate fountain.

melt it in a BIG bowl on defrost setting, stir it every minute and it should take about 3 minutes total to be melted.

~While it is melting get your bag of marshmallows and Golden Grahams out

~Once the choc is melted I dumped 1 1/2C Marshmallows and 1 3/4 C Golden Grahams ( I did more cereal than marshmallows because atleast the cereal has a *tiny* bit of nutritional value compared to the marshmallows)

~Stir it all together until the marshmallows and cereal are coated, my version gave them a light coating, I could still see the grooves in the cereal.

~Line a cookie sheet with foil or wax paper, so you don't add to your dirty dish pile, and it comes off a little easier too.

~ Spread the mixture onto the pan and put it in the fridge until the chocolate sets.

~ Remove and break into smaller pieces, I just put ours in a bowl, I have a feeling it won't last long enough to need a baggie!

Yum! 

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