Gobble and a Turkey

I made these cute things for my shelf last year, but I never got around to posting them. They were fun to make and go great with my other decor!

Halloween Teacher Gifts

Today the kids got to give their teachers a gift:

We used their handprints for the ghosts and I let them decorate the faces.

Bat candy bar wrapper template came from Skip to my Lou.  We put in a Reeses Peanut Butter Cups for the candy bar. 

For the Mummies, we wrapped a bag of microwave popcorn with white crepe paper and glued on some wiggly eyes.. 

I found some cute jack-o-lantern sticky notes and they each picked a Halloween pin to add to the bag. 

The hardest part was trying to find some small brown paper bags.  I finally settled on a roll of brown paper from the dollar store and sewed up the sides to create a bag. 

Halloween Ruffle Skirt

I wanted to make a cute skirt for Halloween this year, for the girl who LOVES to wear skirts :)
I used the tutorial at From An Igloo and adjusted the size, added one more ruffle layer and changed the waistband to a wide piece of black elastic.  Super fun for the upcoming holiday!

Here are my measurements that I used:

Kyla's Waist: 23 inches
Length from waist to knee: 15 inches

Ruffle Layers: (one of each color)
62x6 inches

Waist:
 24 inches elastic (2 inch wide, black)

Lining: (2 total, mine were plain black)
31 x 4.5

Halloween Shirts

My boys were super excited about this project!!  I decided to buy some freezer paper and try stenciling some fun Halloween shirts. (Thanks Pinterest)  Thanks to my sister who helped me out with her cricut, these were a breeze to make!! 

Countdown to School

 School has officially started, but we did this fun countdown that worked really well for us this year.  I had lowercase letters for Nathan to match with the Uppercase letters to review them for school.  Then the kids all helped think of words that started with that letter.  The kids did really well thinking of the words!  Then we would count down how many days were left.  We tried to do some activities that worked for the letter if we had time that day, otherwise we went with other activities we had going on.  They really enjoyed doing this countdown and it eliminated the question of "How many more days?"

Girl Car Seat Blanket

A friend of mine recently had a baby girl, so I got to sewing....

*tutorial for car seat blanket from Make it Do.

Still wish we were there....

We had the wonderful opportunity to go to Beaches Resort in Turks and Caicos.  It was very relaxing with great weather, lots of fun things to do and it was beautiful!!  So I have to share some pictures we took while we were there:

Soft, white sand.  Clear blue water. 

 This was the view out of our bedroom glass doors:  We were right next to one of the pools and very close to the beach.  It was great!!

Lots of trees...

 


 Lighted Pools at night...yes those are tables in the pool...the bars were in the pools, too...so Pina Coladas, Strawberry Daiquiris and Miami Vices (and some Diet Coke) while we swam :)  Of course there were bars available all over the resort, so we always had a cold refreshing drink to relax with. Ah...

 The lazy river at the waterpark had gorgeous landscaping.  It was so relaxing to sit and float....

 Beautiful walkways...

So relaxing...we didn't want to leave....