Halloween Fun

Coming to you from Portland

I am not actually going to be a bumblebee for Halloween, but I bought an outfit for Barley and I had a costume from three years ago, so we modeled together.  As you can see, she absolutely hates it.

These are the cutest things I have ever seen.  I got the idea from this years Martha Halloween issue.  All you do is print off the templates for the mouths from the Martha website, trace it onto the pumpkin and saw it out.  Remove the insides, pop in some fangs and add a couple of red push pins for eyes.  I bought the fangs for $1 each at Party City, but I later saw some at Spirit that were 10 for $3.  I got the push pins at Craft Warehouse for $3 for a variety pack of 100.  The pumpkins were 50 cents each, so a very cheap project overall.  Unfortunatly (I'm sure as a way of getting back at me for the bumblebee outfit) Barley got a hold of the little white one and tore its fangs out and started chewing up its flesh.  

This mummy pumpkin was really simple.  You just make a couple of holes for eyes and push white push pins in and draw in some black pupils with a sharpie.  Then using crepe paper ($1 at Party City) wrap the pumpkin all around, using double sided tape when necessary to hold it down.

These are fabulous and only cost me $1 (for the orange tissue paper).  This is from Woman's Day Halloween issue.  You just cut a bunch of one inch strips of orange or white tissue and use glue water (one part wet glue, one part water) to paint them onto a pickle jar.  Then you cut out faces from two layers of black tissue and paint them on.  Once they have dried, go over everything with Mod Podge for a glossy finish.  This may cost a little more if you don't have black tissue or Mod Podge which I already happened to have.