I love to decorate my kitchen for the holidays, because that is where we spend so much time!
So I thought that these ruffled dish towels would be just the thing that I needed to make my kitchen a little more festive for Halloween.
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Do you want to know why this is the best ever Halloween Countdown?
So does anyone what to make a darling Halloween countdown for all of your kiddos? Continue reading
Today I would like you to meet my newest friend… Tilly. That is short for Matilda. She is so kind and has agreed to come and stay with us for awhile! She is not much trouble at all and even though she may look a little odd, we have tried to make her feel right at home here.
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I love to decorate for Halloween, but I usually will not put any decorations out until October, I cheated a little bit this year because I had one of my granddaughters here and I let her help me do some of the decorating last week. But I decorated my front porch today and I am excited to share it with you later this week. In the fall, I always seem to do a lot more crafts and sewing and this year has been no different. 
I have a fun little idea for you today. Even if you say that you are not crafty, you can do this project! My grand kids love it and I am sure that your kiddos will too!
It’s a Spider Web Door!
I have some exciting news to share with you today! I am going to be showing how to make these candy jars on Good Things Utah
on Monday, Oct. 8th at 10 am. I would love for you to join me and watch the tutorial of how to put these cute little babies together!
But for all my readers, here is the tutorial for you to make an “Eye” Candy Jar like these that we made at our craft retreat. They are so easy to make and yet are so darling! The thing that I love about these jars is that you can eat the candy after the holiday is done and then fill it up again for the next holiday! Apparently they make “Peeps” for most every holiday! Something that I didn’t know because I don’t like to eat them.
This weekend we are doing a Girl’s Craft Retreat and this painted board is one of my projects! I did one of these here and I told you that I would show you how to make one, so here it is! I have a great little trick for you that will help you get clean, crisp lines with no paint seeping under.
Last weekend my friend Sharee and I went to Bountiful for a fun craft night with Landee from Landee See Landee Do. She is a cute, fun, energetic girl, and was so sweet and kind to us. She has a darling blog and you really should check it out!
We made these darling subway art boards. Sharee’s daughter met us there for a little while, she is at Weber State going to school and she had her mom bring her a few necessities…like homemade cookies!
Sharee and I had so much fun on our girl’s night out. You would think that we had not seen each other in months, the way we talked all night long. Never a dull moment! 
I love that this board is double-sided! It makes for better storage…one board, two holidays, you can’t beat that!
This is the Halloween side.
This is the Thanksgiving side. I love it!
Thanks Sharee and Landee for a fun evening!
I love children’s books and I have two that we get out to read every year for Halloween. My grandchildren love these two; the boys love,
“Frank was a Monster who wanted to Dance.”
Written and Illustrated by Keith Graves
It is a monstrously funny, deliciously disgusting, horrifyingly hilarious story of a monster who follows his dream.
The illustrations in this book are delightfully wacky!
The girls love this darling book by Mary Engelbreit,
It tells about how Ann Estelle is ready for a Halloween night on the town, but Halloween can also be a little bit scary. Will Ann Estelle be brave enough to ring the bell of the spookiest house in town?
Of course the illustrations in the book are darling.
This book also includes a paper doll of Ann Estelle, so that is a fun little bonus!
I hope that you can spend some time this weekend reading to a child and enjoy their wonderful responses, it is so fun to see the delight in their faces as you read the story. What are some of your favorite children’s books?
Here is a cute little bingo game that you could play for FHE, a school party, or at your own Halloween party!
There are 6 game boards and 2 pages of calling cards. You can use M&M’s or candy corn for markers, or buttons or paper circles. You may want to laminate the playing cards for durability.
To print, just right click and go to copy. Open your favorite program, like word or any other program you like. Right click again and go to paste. These are 8 1/2 x 11 format, but you could resize them to fit 2 on a page in landscape setting.
Happy Haunting!
You can also email these to a lot of your favorite copy stores and they can print them for you. Alphagraphics in my area, will print them for .56 a page, and that is on cardstock, so that is a pretty good price. You could also have them laminated (I am not sure of the price of lamination, but their prices seem to be very reasonable) and you would just have to go pick them up and cut them out and you are ready to go!
You can also email these to a lot of your favorite copy stores and they can print them for you. Alphagraphics in Lehi will print them for .56 a page, and that is on cardstock, so that is a pretty good price. You could also have them laminated and you would just have to go pick them up and cut them out and you are ready to go!
