Halloween Goodie Bags

 I decided to make some Halloween goodie bags for the sisters that I have assigned to visit. I really liked how they came out.

 

 

I busted out my Halloween stamp sets I had bought from Stampin Up! Not sure if you can still find these but you can try and check out if they still have them. Here are the sets I used.

 

 

 

 

I also digged out my Halloween theme paper. This is really a project that is open to your own creativity so I'll try to just give you the basic overview of what I used and what I did. I cut out these rectangles that measured the same as the baggie. I folded them in half to go over the opening of the bag.

I then used my embossing tools and materials to make the decorations with my stamps.



And these are the results. For this one I just embossed the images with black embossing powder on white paper. I then framed them with black paper and used a 3D sticky to put them on. I added a black bow to the bottom and tada!

 

With this one I did the same embossing technique but on orange paper with the same black background and added black ribbon behind them.

 

And lastly I embossed this cute kitty cat and then colored the image in. Simple but cute I think.

Then I filled the bag with candy and stapled the tops on.

 

 

Easy, simple project but very fun. I'm sure the sisters will enjoy receiving these. Let me know what you guys think.

Dollar Store Tie Organization

After many compliments on the way I organize my hubby's ties I decided to share how it is that I organize them. It really isn't anything out of this world.

 

I bought a set of these black plastic small bins at my local dollar store. You really can use anything that looks similar to this.

 

I then take his ties and roll them up as nicely as I can.

I then place them one after the other in the bin as so.

This is the result. It helps us keep his ties neat and clean.

 

My hubby really liked the idea. It kept them in sight and easy for him to pick which one he likes. And suprisingly he has kept up with putting them back nicely after he uses them. But when he does forget it's pretty easy to just roll them up and put them back.

 

I like this much better than any other hanging option because with those they would always end up on the floor.

 

What do you guys think? What forms of organization do you guys use for ties.

My version of Splatter Paint Nails

I found this awesome tutorial for cute nails in the September issue of Seventeen Magazine. Yes I know, I'm way past the age of 17 but I still enjoy this magazine!

 

 It's titled Neon Splatter and here are the directions and what they're suppose to look like.

And here is my result. They don't exactly look the same and they might look kind of messy up close but I actually liked them.

 

I didn't have all the supplies or colors they asked for so I improvised. Instead of a bright neon color for the base I used Wet n Wild's 204B Private Viewing, which is a very nice light almost natural skin color pink. Did that make any sense? Hahaha. I guess describing colors is not my talent.

For the splatters I used Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens in the colors yellow and green. I also used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Coral Reef 4860-66. And lastly I used Wet n Wild Wild Shine in Bijou Blue 443D. I just did random marks, splats and dots. I topped it off with Sally Hansen no chip Acrylic Top Coat.

I liked the results. I got compliments and they actually looked like I had confetti all over my nails.

Family Scavenger Hunt.

This activity ended up being such a fun family activity. I got the idea on Pinterest, here's a link to it: http://pennycarnival.typepad.com/penny_carnival/2010/08/park-scavenger-hunt.html.

I modified the idea to fit my family more. Since I have a soon to be 10 year old and a 3 year old I skipped the coloring the pictures part. Instead I printed most of the pictures in color already. I thought about the types of things they might actually see at our local park.

We set out to the park with our list in hand. It was nice to see how into it my kids were, even the hubby. I was amazed how hard my three year old was trying. Ofcourse my daughter was finding most of the things so it was soooooooooo cute when out of no where he yells, " I see boy on motorcycle." Hahahaha he meant on a bike. It was exciting for him to have found something on the list all by himself.

All in all this is a very good family activiy that really gets everyone involved and looking at their surroundings. I really enjoyed watching my kiddos and hubby going through this activity.