DIY: How to Stencil On Tombstones

Halloween is coming (only 272 days away) and you want to give yourself enough time to prepare for the witching hour.  Last year, we decided that we had enough of our styrofoam tombstones falling down & getting blown away from the strong winds, so we decided to cutout tombstones from pressed wood – and they turned out great!  [...]

Pumpkins in January

We know what you’re thinking… it’s too early to grow pumpkins now, but we could not resist.  We love the Seasons, and we love everything to do with Halloween, including pumpkins!  Last year was our first attempt at growing pumpkins in our backyard, and if it were not for the deers in our neighborhood, we [...]

DIY Halloween Prop: Cemetery Columns & Sign

DIY Halloween props are fun to create, but they can take hours, days, weeks, and perhaps a little longer to create when you can’t imagine the final product.  So, when you start with an idea for a Halloween Prop, think it through, draw it out, list the materials you will need, then… go to work!  [...]

Chasing a BIG Bug

Man, this guy has huge claws! It’s amazing what I find or rather, run into when I head outside.  Just like the time that I went outside and ran into a skunk twice in one weekend, or when I ran into deer standing in the backyard, but this week I ran into something that I [...]

Decorating for Halloween

                                             The time FINALLY arrived…. it was time to cut Daddy’s pumpkin!  Daddy could not wait to finally get the chance to cut his own grown pumpkin this weekend as he was so proud of it.  If you were following our story of our attempt to grow pumpkins in our backyard, you will remember that [...]

Halloween Bucket List

With only 25 days away until Halloween, I thought that I would create a “Halloween Bucket List”.    A Bucket List is usually a list that you make of things you want to do before you die, but I decided to make one of things to do before Halloween arrives.  Let me know what is on [...]

GOT MILK?

WOW, what a great Labor Day weekend we had!  Daddy had Monday off, so we got to spend a lot of time together & had a lot of fun!  We headed off to PetSmart on Saturday and got to meet a whole bunch of really nice people and tons of furry four-legged friends too!  I [...]

Are You Ready for Halloween?

Did you know that Halloween is only 60 days away?  Yep, we’re counting it down and getting ready too!  Mommy is getting her creative side in gear and is trying to make a cemetery gateway out of boxes to put in the front yard this year.  Making your own Halloween props is not that hard, [...]

Present for Grandma

Shhhhh, don’t tell Grandma, but we made her something for Halloween!  Since Mommy has been busy cutting & sanding tombstones for Halloween, she thought it would be a nice surprise for Grandma if we made her one as a surprise.  What do you think?  Daddy & Mommy found some nice wood numbers & embellishments at [...]

Growing Pumpkins – Our Adventure

5-27-11 It all starts from this In the whole fun of Halloween, Daddy had a dream and wanted to try growing some pumpkins for us for Halloween.  We started our first planting back in May, but the downpours we had and the water that saturated quite everything, we had a slow start, as our first [...]