Hallowig

I finished knitting my Hallowig last night (Halloween wig).  Just in time to go trick or treating on Sunday (it was postponed due to down lines, broken tree limbs, and power outages this week).

Its not the best picture of me.  The sun was in my eyes.

Here is the free pattern.

Halloween Swap Package to Gekko

Here is the package that I sent to Gekko in Australia for Halloween.  I also included a Kool Aid juice pouch notebook, which isn't pictured here.  The small goodies are a stamp, a pencil, 2 spider rings, a parachuting black cat, and some Peanuts Gang activity pages.

Gekko was one of my Halloween ornament swap partners.  For her main ornament I made her this black cat.  It is a super easy pattern to make.  I made a different main ornament for each person according to what they said that they liked.  All of them liked witches.  Gekko liked black cats.

I also made her a cork witch as well. 

And this wreath ornament.  It was crochet around a plastic bottle ring.  You can find directions for this in any of my other blog posts about Halloween swap packages that I made.

Here are the 4 magnets that I sent out to my partners.  They are just pre-painted wooden pieces that I glued a magnet to.

I put a few of the small items inside of some of these toilet paper tube "pillow favors." 

Here are the 4 cards that I mailed to my 4 partners.  I just put some fun Halloween stickers on the folded card stock.

I hope that Gekko liked them, and I hope that she got them by now.

Power Outage + Halloween Crafting

Since Sunday we have been without internet, cable t.v., and land lines (phone).  Thank goodness for DVDs and internet on my phone.  Also thankfully we were one of the lucky 10% to 20% who had power in my town.  A few regained power last night and today, but others aren't going to get it back until Thursday evening.  Halloween trick or treating was postponed until this coming Sunday due to down power lines, broken / hanging tree limbs, and power outages.  What happened was that there was still a lot of leaves on the trees when we got a wet and heavy snow fall.  Many limbs snapped and fell on power lines.  We just got back our cable, internet, and phone two hours ago.  So I have a few things to share with you.

I made these spider Halloween ornaments by cutting out some flat plastic packaging.  Then I put some spider stickers on it, and added some glitter glue around them.  Once dry, I punched a hole just above the glitter, then I cut them out around the glitter and hole punch.  Next I added the string and hung them up.  This is a great way to recycle that plastic packaging that normally goes into the trash.

I've been working on making a Hallowig (Halloween wig) since Saturday.  I ran out of yarn last night, and I can't get anymore until the craft stores regain power.  At least I won't need it until Sunday, so there is time to finish it.  Here is the pattern for it.  My mom wants me to make her a neon green one.  It is the perfect fun thing to make with the bad acrylic yarn that I have.

On Saturday we carved pumpkins.  This one is mine.  I used one of those pre-made templates that you can buy in a booklet.

This one is my husband's, designed after one of his drawings.

My 4 year old drew on this pumpkin and then I carved it out for him.

The best part about carving pumpkins is eating the seeds.  I cook half of them with oil and sea salt and the other half with oil and cinnamon sugar.  The color picture is before I cleaned them, and the other one is after they were cleaned.

Both of these pictures were taken on Saturday.  One was before the snow, and the other was during the snow.  Its crazy that we got snow before Halloween.  That has not happened before since we've lived here (but it has happened here before).  This was the 2nd snow of the season.  The first one was light and melted quickly.  

This was taken Saturday night.  You could hear tree limbs breaking in our neighborhood. 

Some of my friends are still without power.  School was canceled from Monday - Wednesday (yes tomorrow) due to lack of power.  Everyday a few more homes / areas get power.  Hopefully everything will be back to normal by Friday.

Candy Corn Dish Towel

I loved the candy corn dish cloth that I made for the Halloween swap so much that I made one for myself this past week.  I finished it just in time for Halloween.  The free pattern for it is here.

Episode 41: 3rd Halloween Special

Here are the show notes to episode 41 of my local access show "Its Easy Being Green."  

How to make Halloween treat containers out of toilet paper tubes.

How to make fun Halloween jewelry out of plastic bread tags.

Google eye picture frame

A little show and tell.

Swap package to LadyKatka     &    Swap package from LadyKatka

Swap package to spookycuddles  &  Swap package from sppokycuddles

Swap package to E.B.             &         Swap package from E.B.

T-shirt necklace                               Spiders & Plarn

Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Spiders

For Halloween, make some spiders with your child.  The spiders above and just below were made with construction paper.  Just cut an oval out of black paper, and cut 8 strips of black paper (spiders have 8 legs).  Fold those 8 strips like a fan.  For the eyes you can use construction paper or google eyes.  Spiders can have 2 and more eyes.  Many have 6 eyes.  Punch a hole at the top to hang from the ceiling.  Just glue all the parts together.  My son wanted his spiders to have 6 legs and 6 eyes.  The one below was from last year and the one above was made this year.

Here is my tutorial on how to make this egg carton spider.  My (at the time) 3 year old helped me make them.

These chenille stem lollipop spiders were made by my swap partner spookycuddles.  She just wrapped short lengths of chenille stems around the lollipops and then glued on some sequins. 

We bought this spider cupcake last October.  The legs are black licorice, the eyes are red hots, and the frosting has black sprinkles on it.  Kids will love to help make these creepy treats.

And I just thought that I would share a couple of my spider photos.

This one was taken by my husband.

Halloween Swap Package from Spookycuddles

My friend spookycuddles and I agreed a year ago that we would do a Halloween swap together this year.  We both love Halloween a lot, and always decorate for it.  Here is my swap package from her.  I loved everything in it.  

She sent me some wine bottle labels.  I was really hoping to get some of her fun chenille stem items.  She made a Halloween snowflake ornament and 6 Halloween candy canes out of them.  

In the right hand picture above you can see two lollipops that she made sparkly chenille stem spiders for.

For the recycled item, she painted 3 thread cones to look like jack-o-lanterns and added fuzzy green thread to the top and bottom of them.  So cute!  

Here is my Jack Skeleton treat bag that she made.  I can carry it on my wrist to Salem this year.

My little one loved the plastic pumpkin.  He is using it to hold his marbles in.

I really wanted a set of holographic Halloween portraits.  Spookycuddles titled them Grandma Ghoul and Grandpa Ghost.  My youngest son loved them.

Check out this cool leaf mask that she made for me.  I will be wearing this to Salem this weekend.

She also made me this cute felted tomb stone and crochet spider web ornaments.

This card was cute, and the witch is removable.

She even thought about my kids, and made them both a goody bag.  I love the chenille stem twist ties.  My youngest loves the plastic rings that were inside.

For the wearable item, she made me this fuzzy, sparkly scrunchie.

For the kitchen item she crochet this candy corn dish towel.  It is hanging up in my kitchen right now.

I loved everything!  I'm looking forward to our next swap together.