Monday, October 27, 2008

Eyeballs Haunted Treat Boxes & Family Antics

Happy Monday! Can you believe Halloween is this week already? I am SO excited! Since we live in a half developed neighborhood and a cul de sac, I think we are going to go to our church activity on Halloween night. Should be fun! Seriously, time around the holidays just seems to fly by. It is cool because I have never been pregnant this time of year and the weeks are just zooming by and soon I will have my new little guy here to cuddle.

Make sure you take lots of pictures of your costumes this year, because I always do and I think this year I am going to do a costume roundup post, where you can submit your costume pictures for us all to enjoy! I think that sounds fun!

I saw these fun boxes on Splitcoast and had to make my own. In the original, Jeni used swirls on the acetate, but I thought my Papertrey Ink spiders would be perfect to have crawling all over the eyeballs. I also used some smaller sized eyeball chocolate that I found at my dollar store. Such an easy project, a basic 2,4,6,8 box, altered to make it look extra creepy! I just adhered the circle on the front. Easy peasy. The fun spidery paper is from Making Memories. LOVE IT!!!

Stamps: Spooky Sweets (Papertrey Ink) Paper: Spellbound by Making Memories - 12x12 Polka Dot Stripe, Pumpkin Pie(SU!), Whisper White (SU!) Ink: Staz On Black (Tsukineko) Accessories: Nestabilities Circles, Black Sheer Organdy ribbon with white dots, acetate, red sticky tape (for extra hold).

Yesterday I decided to take some pictures of my kids! It was my mommy's birthday (Happy, Happy Birthday mommy dear), and I know she loves pictures of her grand babies. I took some pictures of E's hair -- I found a cool design on "Girly Do's By Jenn" and had to try it! The hairstyle was Head Band: With Climbers and was surprisingly not that hard! It turned out cute and kept her hair out of her face for the day! Love that! We curled the remaining hair in back with my hot curlers to complete the princess look.

It has also been awhile since I have done funny face pictures with my kids(always one of my favorites) so we took some of those too! ENJOY!





One last quickie piece of fun news . . . you know that awesome site Grosgrain Fabulous, that gives away the most adorable children's clothing all the time, well, she is opening a mini store! I am so excited!!! YAY! You have to go check it out as of Nov. 6th AND don't forget to stop by and check out her amazing Marie Therese costume she made *faints* It is stunning!!!

10 comments:

Unknown said...

They are so so cute! Last time I saw E she was a baby! Crazy! Time does fly around the holidays! Having had two babies in December, I'm with you there!

Brimaca said...

Love the eyeball boxes. And your kids are so beautiful. I love those pics!

Anonymous said...

Yay! Grandbabies do make me SMILE !!! Thanks baby ! Love from Your MOM xo

The Crazy Life of a Navy Wife said...

Got your blog candy today! THANK YOU!!

I also LOVE this project and want to make them for my coworkers. Could you send me the directions to make the box?

cporter519@yahoo.com

Thanks!!

Anonymous said...

You are so very talented...I am in awe! and those pics of your kids are fabulous! They look beyond adorable.

Ann said...

You rock! These boxes are awesome!

Your kids are adorable, too! ;)

Michelle said...

I saw those boxes on SCS too, & thought they were really cute. However, they stayed on my to-do list & never came to life, so I'll just have to ogle yours. Adorable kid pics too!!

Teresa Kline said...

very sweet children...your work is awesome too! have a great week *~*

specialcraftmom4 said...

Your children are just beautiful! I love your little girls hair. I will have to try that hairdo on my girls! I also love the Grosgrain Fabulous site you linked to. What a stunning dress she has created! Have a great day (:

love2Bcreative said...

How Fun!! Both your boxes and your kids -- what an awesome life you lead ;o)
TFS~