Juice Container Fabric Pumpkins

I've seen a lot of fabric pumpkins lately around the blog0sphere! So I thought I'd try my hand at some.

I saved a few juice containers, and instead of using up the little bit of fluff I had in my stash, I thought I'd use the containers as a 'frame'.

Materials:
Empty Juice containers
batting
fabric
scissors
raffia
cinnamon stick for stem
I cut the containers in thirds (throwing away the top)
I used two different containers for different sizes of pumpkins.
Cut a larger square of batting to cover the sides of your container...
THen cut an even larger square of fabric. Enough to gather at the top of the pumpkin and tie off.
Gather the fabric, and batting up around the container, and use raffia to tie it up. If you chose to use a cinnamon stick, it is better to insert that before tying the raffia. Cut away extra fabric.
I didn't insert the cinnamon sticks when I should have, thus, it was late, and I didn't want to untie them all just to have stems. Sorry.

Soup Can Pumpkins Tutorial

I have been saving ALL my soup cans and formula cans for months now... because you just never know when you will want one/some for a project. I was down in my craft room, just cleaning up a bit, and re-organizing, when I came across my massive collection.... surely there was a fall craft I could do to use some of these up?!?

And then it came to me... pumpkins!

You will need:

3 different sized cans
shades of orange paint
fake leaves
corks or empty spools for stems
floral wire
craft glue or hot glue gun
I started by mixing up my paints to get 3 different shades of orange... and throwing on a coat. You can do more than one coat if you want a more solid color... I kind of liked the thin coat look...
Let paint dry. Then take your floral wire and wrap around a pencil of your paint brush for the curly vines on top of your pumpkin...
Glue, or stab, your fake leaf to the bottom of your cork...
Then glue the cork to the top of your can/pumpkin along with the curled wire...
I finished them off with a few rounds of raffia and am pretty happy with how they turned out!

AN ALTERNATIVE:
Instead of using paint, feel free to use layers of scrapbook paper! Pictures coming soon!

Cost: FREE! All items I had on hand!

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Spooky Halloween Blocks

I had these really cute blocks I won on a giveaway that spelled out SPRING on one side and EASTER on the other... they looked so cute on my mantel with all my springy decor. However, once spring came and went, I took them down, and somehow (probably because I'm not the best at packing things up right away) the kids got ahold of them and used them as building blocks. They had so much fun with them, that I just let them play with them.

Well, as you can see, the little rugrats used them so much, they started falling apart. The paper was peeling off of them, and I seem to be missing a block of two???? So I decided to repurpose them into some Halloween blocks. I was originally thinking of doing FALL on one side and BOO on the other with a ghost..... but as I was rummaging through my craft paper, I saw a haunted house scene and got a great idea...
I cut the paper to length and split the paper into 3 pieces... slapped on a little mod podge...

and Voila!

Linked to:

Show & Tell with Shey
The Gypsy's Corner
The CSI Project: Fall Challenge
Hope Studios: Tutorial Tuesday

Halloween Cupcake Wrappers

In an attempt to clear out my original wrapper designs, I have doubled up my Halloween wrappers and am selling them in pairs.... for a total of 24 cupcake wrappers for your Halloween party!!!

I also have some value packs becoming available with sets of wrappers and matching cake picks!And now that summer is over, don't forget to check out the Cupcake Wrapper of the Month Club! With all the holidays and season changes in the next few months, it's the best time to join, or give this as a gift for a friend who loves to bake! Fall, Halloween, Winter, Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day.... just think of all the fun cupcake wrappers and items you could receive with your membership! Available in 6 month and 12 month memberships!

Handmade Costumes

Happy Halloween!

I'm putting these pics on my craft blog because I made all 3 costumes this year! Yikes...won't be doing that again. Too much stress on mommy!

McKenzie was Dorothy, because we are dog sitting a little dog who looks just like Toto and she wanted to carry her around in a basket.

Trevor insisted on being Wyatt Super Reader from Super Why (PBS cartoon) This costume was my worst nightmare. There was not ONE costume online available, and obviously not in stores (especially not here in Hawaii) AND, not a single super hero pattern an any fabric stores. But, I managed to get it done....

Addison was a Ladybug (because Mommy wanted to try her hand at making tutus) This turned out so cute!
I took them trick or treating on the marine base because all you have to do is walk up and down a road or two and you have enough candy to last you until next Halloween. The kids had a blast, and wore themselves out!

Dorothy's Red Splarkle Shoes How-To

My daughter wants to be Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz for Halloween. Being ambitious, I decided I wanted to make my kids' costumes this year.

I found some cute little red shoes at Wal-Mart for $5 and got a bottle of red glitter glue.

Transforming these already cute shoes into Dorothy's infamous Red Sparkly shoes was fun, easy and inexpensive!

My 10 year old even did it herself!Just rub the glitter glue all over the shoes and let dry!
Easy Peasy!

More Halloween Items

Here are some new Halloween cupcake wrappers that will are making their way in the shop!

October is Here!

I'm a day or two late in my title...but better late then never! Halloween is at the end of this month, so check out the latest Halloween cupcake cuppy sets I have in my etsy shop! There are so many neat holiday items in all the other shops at Etsy, so go check them out as well!