Category: Halloween/Fall

DIY Pre-Packaged Halloween Class Treat Ideas: Cheese and Cracker Mummies & Bat Brownies

DIY Pre-Packaged Halloween Class Treat Ideas: Cheese and Cracker Mummies & Bat Brownies

Welcome to Halloween class treats in the year 2020! Where Pre-packaged Halloween Treats are all the rage, and “baked with love” treats are now a thing of the past! But don’t worry my creative Mamas and Papas, we can still get creative with our once…

3 DIY Halloween Decor Ideas: Using Dollar Store Ping Pong Eyeballs

3 DIY Halloween Decor Ideas: Using Dollar Store Ping Pong Eyeballs

It’s Dollar Tree crafting time!! Because finding ways to make something fun from something cheap is life!! If you have ever been to the Dollar Tree at Halloween, they always have these ping pong eyeballs, but what do you do with them? Well I have…

Halloween Treats: Chocolate Covered Apple Spiders

Halloween Treats: Chocolate Covered Apple Spiders

Let’s just take a moment to be thankful that spiders don’t fly!! Imagine!! Just witnessing their creepy legs crawling around is bad enough! Spiders are CREEEEEEPPPPYYYY!! So, guess what Ivy wanted to make for her class Halloween party treat last year (yes this treat is…

Halloween Crafts For Kids – Turn Your Kiddos into Bat Kids!

Halloween Crafts For Kids – Turn Your Kiddos into Bat Kids!

Isn’t the best part of parenting when you can turn your kids into something else?!?! Lol… Well, not literally… but by putting your kids cute faces on some fun or Spoooooooky animal crafts! Well this Halloween we decided to go batty, and turn the kids…

DIY Thanksgiving Table Place Cards Made by the Kiddos

DIY Thanksgiving Table Place Cards Made by the Kiddos

There is always something to be grateful for! This thanksgiving I am grateful for the health of my family, grateful that we have some of our family close by so that we can share our lives together, and for Shawnikins and everything that he does…

Pumpkin Patch Photoshoot Tips to Capture Beautiful Fall Memories – This Years McMillan Pumpkin Patch Adventure

Pumpkin Patch Photoshoot Tips to Capture Beautiful Fall Memories – This Years McMillan Pumpkin Patch Adventure

It’s the season of fall… the best time of the year to to capture beautiful photos of your family with a pumpkin patch photoshoot. With all the leaves changing color, and the beautiful fall flowers in bloom, not to mention it’s not scorching hot out,…

DIY Fall Decor – How to Paint a Cute Watercolor Pumpkin Patch Painting

DIY Fall Decor – How to Paint a Cute Watercolor Pumpkin Patch Painting

Decorating for fall, is my favorite thing of all! And that incudes finding new ways to DIY my own new fall décor each year. Anyone want to DIY their own watercolor pumpkin patch fall art?!?! If I can do it halfway looking like a child…

DIY Textured Paint By Mixing Baking Soda With Paint, That Looks Like Pottery!

DIY Textured Paint By Mixing Baking Soda With Paint, That Looks Like Pottery!

Trend Alert! Did you know that you can make inexpensive thrift store or dollar store decorative items (such as vases, bowls, and jars) into pieces that look like they are actually beautiful pottery!! Pretty much any glass or hard plastic decorative piece, that can be…

Spooky Ghost and Skeleton Halloween Treat Cupcake Toppers

Spooky Ghost and Skeleton Halloween Treat Cupcake Toppers

This is Halloween, This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween… HALLOWEEN!! AHHHHH… This song plays in my head all season! And so do the thoughts of DIY Halloween decor, Halloween adventures, and of course Halloween Treats!! To celebrate the season we made these fun ghost and…

DIY Fall Porch Decor By Improving Items at the Dollar Store

DIY Fall Porch Decor By Improving Items at the Dollar Store

I’ve been envious of super cute fall porch decor for years!! I always wished I had a stash of awesome beautiful faux pumpkins, a gorgeous large garland to go around our entryway, and baskets filled with beautiful blooming Mum flowers flowing down our front steps……

DIY Simple Fall Wreath with Pumpkins!

DIY Simple Fall Wreath with Pumpkins!

Is it fall yet?!?! I love this cozy season, and everything associated with fall! The smell of the air (minus the smoke), candles burning, crisp leaves under your feet (or slippers inside), sipping hot apple cider, and getting cozy under a blanket by the fire.…

DIY Easy Fall Decor Sign – Made Out of Cute Wood Beads

DIY Easy Fall Decor Sign – Made Out of Cute Wood Beads

Fall… The most wonderful time of the year! I love getting cozy in sweaters and boots, going for walks and kicking up the leaves, and the weather is not too hot and not too cold… It’s the most perfect time of the year! Oh, and…

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs!

DIY Halloween Decorations: Spooky Tray of Eyeballs!

Fancy a spooky tray of Eyeballs? A collection of petrified eyeballs, is a must have decor item for any Halloween party, or haunted house, and you could have your very own collection too! Lol… I thought this would be a fun DIY Halloween Decoration to…

Mint Chocolate Treat Pops!

Mint Chocolate Treat Pops!

Have a craving for mint chocolate, but you don’t have any premade mint chocolate, however, you do have chocolate chips and peppermint extract?? Lol… Make yourself some yummy mint chocolate pops, in any shape mold that you have around the house. We just happen to…

List of Our Favorite Fall Traditions: Including This Years McMillan Farms Pumpkin Patch Adventure!

List of Our Favorite Fall Traditions: Including This Years McMillan Farms Pumpkin Patch Adventure!

It’s my favorite time of the year… FALL!! The weather is not too hot, and not too cold… Bring out the leggings and boots, chunky sweaters and comfy fall scarves… It’s time to get COZY!! The leaves are falling, and the streets are lined with…

Halloween Traditions with the Kiddos!

Halloween Traditions with the Kiddos!

Halloween traditions are so fun to make as a family. This Halloween season is almost over and it has been so fun! I love the change in weather, so we can snuggle up in comfy clothes, and drink warm bevies, and the kiddos love dressing…