It's Time to Dare to Share!

It is Friday night, and you know what that means...

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I did finish a couple of new DIYs that I will be sharing in the next couple of days. I did not have the chance to post them yet, because we participated in another market this week. Every evening after working at the daycare, we made sweet treats for the market.  This was the first market we had all year with great weather!  I entertained the kids at the market with my alien suit that I bought at Aldi a couple of weeks ago.  I got lots of smiles, waves and a few blown kisses from little ones.  

The cookies I made for this market were Jack Skellington, an alien, and a pink ghost. 

I displayed my cookies in my tiered tray made with Dollar Tree baskets and skeleton hands. 

We made these mummy pretzels that are not only cute, but easy to make. 

The cupcakes were chocolate with buttercream frosting.  I was able to taste one after the market, they tasted so good! 

We also had some light up ghosts and ghost portraits on hand.  My favorite is the ghost family portrait in the middle.  I have decided to keep it. I will have a better picture of it soon. I have not unpacked my market items yet, but when I do I will be adding it to my decor.  

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Now that it is October are you ready for Halloween? I have been slowly decorating, wearing my Halloween themed clothes, and attending fun fall activities.  

We recently decided to get passes to Kings Island that are good through next year.  We don't live real far from the park, and the passes include the Halloween Haunts and Christmas lights.  Tonight we decided to go to the Halloween Haunt.  :) We did not have enough time to see everything, so we will be going back again in the next few weeks. 

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Another fun thing I did this week was get the Alien onesie from Aldi.  It is super comfortable, and cute as well.  I surprised D the other day when he got home from work and saw me looking like this. LOL!  I plan on using for a few more things in the coming weeks. The best part is it is only $14.99.  

As promised I finally got my Halloween ghost dog DIY posted.  They have been sitting on our front porch the last week, and always make me smile when I get home.  This weekend I am having a project day, and will be finishing several more DIYs.  

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DIY a Halloween Ghost Dog

My assistant Brittany was very excited to help make her look-a-like ghost dog.  To make a ghost dog you will need a tomato cage, a rubber or Styrofoam ball, a cardboard tube, craft foam, and either a  white sheet or shower curtain.  I found a white plastic shower curtain at Dollar Tree for $1.25.  I decided to use that since the ghost dogs will be on our front porch.  

In this photo I show how a bit on what to do, and what not to do. I first placed a rubber ball on the very top of the tomato cage, but that made the dog taller than I wanted to be.  Also if you plan to light up your dog it's not the best idea to use a red ball. (I will show you why later in the post.  :) I decided that I had to adjust the size of the tomato cage.

I could not find my picture of what the tomato cage and ball should look like when I was making the dogs, so I took a picture under my finished dog today.   D helped me fold down the top part of the tomato cage.  When we are done with Halloween, the cage can be used again.  After doing this, the ball fit snuggly on the top of the tomato cage.  I used a combination of hot glue and duct tape to attach the cardboard tube to the ball to make the snout.  

I covered the tomato cage with the white shower curtain. I then made eyes and noses out of craft foam.  My golden's ears are made with tan craft foam, my black lab has black felt ears.  

I found some white trick or treat pumpkins at Walmart the other day, and thought they would look cute with the dogs.  I plan place tea lights in them so they light up at night. 

Remember when I said it is not the best idea to use a red ball.  When the dogs are lit up at night, my lab's brains glow red.  LOL!   Oh well, I think it looks kind of cute, like she is a zombie ghost dog. 

Watch for more easy and fun Halloween decor ideas to be posted soon.  

 

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It's Party Time! Let's Dare to Share!

It's Saturday morning, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share!

I am hoping everyone living in the south is safe from Hurricane Helene.  While I am not  in the direct path, we did feel some of the after effects where I live in Ohio.  Yesterday we have heavy rain, and lot of large wind gusts.  The drive home from work was kind of scary, and many people in my area are out of power.  While we were lucky not to lose power at our house, but the weather was still a distraction last night.  I realized in the middle of the night, that I forgot to post the Dare to Share Party.  Oops!  We are a little bit late to get started, but better late than never. 

I am in the process of adding a new post, but the storm affected that too.  I need add a couple of last minute touches, but I will be posting how I made my ghost dogs with Dollar Tree items very soon.  I also still need to add the skeleton hand tiered trays this week as well.  

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It's Time to Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share!  

This past Wednesday, my friend and I were part of a vendor market.  Unfortunately, it has been extremely hot for days and days.  It was originally supposed to be a high of 82 that day, but the forecast changed so it was closer to 90. Definitely a warm day for a market.  I made two of these skeleton tiered baskets to use to hold some our baked goods.  Since the market was really close to where I work, and started an hour after I got off work, the baskets and some of the ghosts I made were in my car while I was at work.   The ghosts were fine, but it got so hot in my car, it melted all the hot glue on my tiered baskets and they fell apart.   I was still able to use the baskets  individually, but it was a bit of a bummer the tiers fell apart.  I am going to make them again for our October market which should be a lot cooler.   

 Another craft I started, but was not able to finish yet are these stacking pumpkins from the Dollar Tree.  The three days before the market last week, we were making cookies and baked goods. Our next market is in three weeks, so I hope to get finished by then. 

I have already been wearing my Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein  T shirts I made using Dollar Tree wood pieces and bleach.  They are super easy to make, and fun to wear.  

I recently took a sugar decorating class and made these Halloween cookies. If you have ever tried to use royal icing, it takes a little bit of practice. They turned out pretty well for my first batch.  I really liked making them so I am going to continue to try lots of different cookies and techniques.  

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It is Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I did not have time to start Halloween crafting yet this week, but I will be crafting this weekend. Yea!  Tomorrow I am going to try to make a few new crafts, and Sunday I am working with my friend making things for an upcoming market.  I am including a photo of one of my favorite crafts I made last year, Halloween Pool Noodle Candles.  All you need is a pool noodle, some tea lights, and some black flowers from the Dollar Tree.  You can also use the same directions to make Christmas candles with different color pool noodles.  

Tonight D and I made a trip to Target after dinner.  They have some of the cutest Halloween items.  I will be adding many of the items we saw  in my LTK store this weekend.  I saw so many things I wanted to buy.  

Well it looks like it is time to get this party started, so link up and HAVE FUN! 

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It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is Time to Share! 

    I mentioned during last week's party that we were going to our high school reunion over the weekend.  We met last Saturday at a lake house.  While the group was smaller than we were expecting, a fun time was had by all.  Hopefully it wont be another five years before I see some of these friends again. It was a rough year for our class, we lost six classmates in the last year.  It made us realize how important it is to keep in touch with one another. 

Another big thing that happened this week was we got a new car. We really needed one. Between the two of us, we have almost 600,000 miles on our two cars. His Honda has a whopping 365,000 miles on it. Mine has 230,000, His car still runs pretty good, but does need some work.  We also wanted a safer, newer car if we have special cargo in it. :)  Speaking of special cargo, the new grandbaby is doing well. She had some firsts this week.  She went to her first pediatrician appointment, and then out to eat with mom and dad. It's still hard to believe she is finally here.  

I have been starting to get into the Halloween spirit with the opening of Beetle Juice this weekend.  We have not seen the movie yet, but I have been checking out all the great Halloween finds in the store and online.  I also shared a post of some of my easy pumpkin pail crafts this week on the blog, that I created for our front porch last year.  I am starting to add a lot of what I been finding in both my Amazon Storefront, and my LTK store.  I have several more things to add in the upcoming days, so please follow to see when they are posted.  I would be broke if I bought everything I have seen so far that I have on my wish list.

Now that you know what I have been up to this week, I would love to see what you have been doing.  Link up and HAVE FUN!  

 

 

 

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Easy Plastic Pumpkin Pail Crafts

 

Now that Spooky Season is here, plastic pumpkins are available for not only Trick or Treating, but also for crafting. 

 

I bought four plastic pumpkin pails, and used them in different ways to decorate our front porch. 

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The first pumpkin craft I made was the sitting pumpkin witch. I found the supplies I needed from the Dollar Tree. You will need two sets of witch legs, and a witch hat.  I found everything for $1.25 each.  

One set of the witch legs will be used for the pumpkin's legs. I filled them with a plastic bag to give them a little bit of dimension. 

Since they do not sell witch arms, I had to alter the second set of witch legs.  I cut out the shape of mitten out of the felt shoes, so it looked like the picture above. 

I also filled the arms with plastic bags to give them dimension as well. I attached both the arms and legs to the pumpkin with hot glue.  

 The last step was to remove the plastic handle and glue on the witch hat. I only glued it about 2/3 of the way around though, because you want some space to add a tea light or push light. Both types of lights are available the Dollar Tree. 

A very simple way to add some Halloween fun to your porch is by making a Halloween lantern.  Dollar Tree has planter chains near their floral section for $1.25.  I am not sure if they are available all year or if they are seasonal.

We hung this pumpkin on the front of our porch and added a Dollar Tree Strobe light that changes colors.

I don't have a good picture of pumpkin we placed around the light fixture on our porch. First we cut off the handle, then cut down the back of the pumpkin.  Depending on the size if the light fixture you will need to remove the bottom of the pumpkin and some of the back so that it fits around your light fixture. 

The last pumpkin craft that I made is to make a pumpkin head candlestick.  I found a black pillar candlestick  at the Dollar Tree and glue it to the bottom of the pumpkin.  I also added a gem spider from the Halloween party section. 

If you order from DollarTree.com, they are offering Free Shipping up to $50 through Sept 7th with the code FREESHIP.   If available you can also have items shipped free to your local store!

Happy Crafting! 

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It's Time to Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means...

It's time to Dare to Share!

I'm sorry I am a little bit late with the party this week, but I have a really good reason.  My grand baby is here! She was induced on Monday morning, but there were some complications, so she actually arrived early Tuesday morning. Even though it took a bit for her to enter this world, she is doing well.  She is beautiful and healthy. I am already so in love with her.  They came home from the hospital tonight, and we were asked to come over to  spend some time with the baby.  :) We just got home from our visit. 

This weekend we will be having another big event. D and I are having our high school reunion. We graduated together, so we both know all our classmates. It's a pretty big number, but we are looking forward to it. It will be weird seeing everyone getting older though.  Since it is getting late, I am going to get this party started.

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Let's Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share! 

Well, I was hoping to have some big news to share, but baby watch is still on for our grandbaby to be born.   Her due date has come and gone earlier this week.  We know it can happen at any time, but for now we are just waiting.  There is only one person still left in the "guess the due date" game we played at her baby shower.  Everyone else guessed days that have already passed.  Hopefully this weekend! 

 Are you starting to think about Halloween yet? I have to admit I am.  I having been thinking of some new projects that I want to make this year.   Last year I made these easy pumpkin pail crafts that I plan on using again this year.   The Dollar Tree has been getting new Halloween items in store and on their website.  What I love about their website is you can see what to look for in stores, and you can order what you can not find and you can often have it shipped for free to your local store. 

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Halloween at the Dollar Tree

 

Now that it is almost the end of the summer, we are starting to see Halloween everywhere, including at the Dollar Tree both in store and online.  I LOVE shopping at  Dollar Tree for Halloween items.  I was so excited when I had an email in my inbox from Dollar Tree saying that Halloween items are now online.  I love looking at the website, because not only can you see what you might find in stores, but you can also buy items you don't see in your local store. 

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New this year are these black metal haunted houses (photo above)  that are 11.9 inches tall and light up.  I think they will be a very popular item at only $5 each.  

Are you a fan of the Halloween Porch Signs ? Dollar Tree has several new ones for only $5. I think my favorite is the Hocus Pocus sign. It would fit in great with my Hocus Pocus themed items I bought last year. 

I included this 36 inch hanging ghost in this round up, because I used this to make one of my favorite Halloween crafts last year. 

I used them to make the taller ghosts. The shorter ghost is made with a Dollar Tree mop. You can see how to make both types of ghost on my post how to make Dollar Tree light up ghosts. (everything on my table is from the Dollar Tree except for one ceramic ghost) 

Another new item this year are these coconut lime spooky soap dispensers. I bought them this weekend, but have not tried them yet. 

A popular item that has come back the last few years are these 4 inch pumpkin votives that come in clear and orange. I have a few of them, and I really like them.  

I don't remember seeing this black lace table runner, so I am not sure if they had it last year or if it is a new product. I really liked it in the store, so I picked one up. The runner is 72" x 13" and only $1.25.

These Halloween throw pillows are selling out in stores quickly. I was lucky enough to find the Hocus Pocus pillow, and I am hoping to find the bat.  They are only $5 each and super soft. 

I LOVE the solar lights at Dollar Tree. I buy both regular and holiday solar lights every year. At $1.25 they are a great deal. This year I am placing several of the spooky LED ghost stakes in our landscaping.

If you are having a Halloween party, classroom party, or looking for unusual gifts, there are so many items available this year like these plastic candy jars.  I bought the pumpkin jar last year and filled it with orange gum balls.  

These Halloween canteen sippers are another really cute party favor items.  I think the ghost is my favorite. I bought it last year for my ghost table.  

New this year are these themed drink dispensers.  I bought the cauldron last week. 

A few years ago, Dollar Tree introduced a mini candy dispenser.  It was so popular, they added a couple more. This year there are FOUR different candy dispensers for Halloween. They are 6.5 inches tall and would make great party favors. 

These skull snack bowls have been around a few years. I am not sure if all four colors were available last year or not.  My store only had the black one is stock the other day, but just got in a new shipment out over the weekend.  They are a great deal for only $3.  

I love these 2 tiered metal trays. I already have two of them. You can see what the bat tray looks like below.  I used mine for decor, but they would also be great as a cupcake stand. 

I have been using the Dollar Tree foam pumpkins for many years.  They  used to only be available in orange, but now they also have black and white pumpkins as well.   For years I have been adding new pumpkins to my Pumpkin Gang. You can see how to make all of the different pumpkins here.

Hopefully you have seen something you like, and are starting to get excited for Halloween.  It will be here before you know it! 

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