Our Creative attempt at a Scary Halloween!

Hello Everyone!  I have NEVER done much with scary Halloween decorations.  But when our twin grandsons asked to have their Birthday party combined with a Halloween party,  Grandma and Papa had to get creative. First, we decided to have a haunted ghost walk in the woods behind their house.  I think we surprised our selves on just how creative we can be.  Look at what we made for this haunted ghost walk. 

The skull heads are pathway markers that have LED flashing eyes and they also make an Eerie Halloween sound. 

We attached the skull head to a piece of PVC pipe.  We added T-joints to attach the shoulders and attached the arms to the shoulder with elbow joints. Lastly, we inserted the PVC piping for the body, attached to the T-joint, inside a cone. 

The skeleton hands are gloves that I purchased at the Halloween Spirit store.  I attached the gloves to the PVC piping with a twist tie.  The black cape is nothing more than a table covering from the Dollar Store.  

We made the coffin out of a several different cardboard boxes.  I love how the duck tape turned out after I spray painted the coffin with black primer paint.  The chains draping the coffin we purchased at Wal-Mart. 

I had intended to make hooded capes for all four of them, but I think I like the black and gray cheese cloths draped over their heads.  When we set up for this Birthday/Halloween party, we will use a red spot light on our Scary Skelton display.       

This is turning out to be quite a Birthday/Halloween party.  They are planning all kinds of fun Halloween kids games, hay rides, and a bon fire with lots of food!  But I think this haunted ghost walk is more for the adults then the kids.  

I have to tell you, my first attempt at making a scary Halloween project turned out to be anything but scary.  I made the cutest ghosts which are supposed to circle a bon fire, made of lights!  I call them my angel ghosts.  I’m waiting to share them with you because I need to set them up outside first. And these are only two of the many displays that we have planned. 

As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful week. 

Gail

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Fall Welcome!

Hello Everyone! I added the finishing fall touches to my front porch today.  I gathered a few leaves that had fallen from one of our trees and scattered them on the porch. 

I didn’t use corn stalks or straw like I have done in past years.  However, I placed mums in the urns as I have always done.   I bought the mums at Lowes a couple of weeks ago and I’m surprised that they’re not yet in full bloom.  

This year, I added a little ambiance to the front porch with lanterns.  I placed an orange mesh tin with a string of lights inside the lanterns.  It’s really pretty at night. 

It gives just enough glow. 

The wire planter hanging on the front porch is spruced up with some sunflowers and a Harvest Home sign that I made.   

My favorite spot on the front porch!

I have been enjoying the cool mornings swinging in my swing.  I still haven’t made that Pumpkin Spice Latte that I mentioned which you can read about here.  Maybe this weekend I will make it! 

As always, thanks for stopping by and your sweet comments!  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and Happy Fall.   

Gail

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Items for Sale

Over the last few months many of you know that I had been busy preparing for a Fall show.  After a lot of soul searching, I decided that I did not want to get back into doing shows again.  Years ago, I did them and they were a lot of work!  Instead, I have been pursuing a dream of mine to rent a booth at an antique mall/shop.  I have inquired at several different places and unfortunately I am on their waiting list.  I received a phone call this morning from one that I was so hoping to rent from and I was #30 on their waiting list.  So, it looks like it could be a while but I will continue to pursue my dream and hopefully something will become available.  

With all that being said, I have decided that until an antique mall/shop booth becomes available, I will sell locally (Southern Maryland area) through my blog.  I have created an “Items for Sale” tab under my blog header.  I will list the items for sale and if you’re interest in purchasing, you can contact me by either commenting or emailing.

Hopefully in the next couple of days, I will start listing some of the items for sale.  Until then, thanks for visiting and letting me share my dreams with all of you.  It means a lot!!

Gail

Potting Bench for Fall

Hello Everyone!  Over the weekend, I spent most of my time fall decorating outside between my place and my grandsons.   With the help of my youngest grandson (who is three), we decorated the potting bench for fall. 

He was a big help helping Grandma plant all her fall plants. 

  

Occasionally he would run into the garage and help Pa Pa who was busy with the twins making a surprise for their Mommy. 

They love working with Pa Pa in the garage.   

I’ll share with you in another post what they made for their Mommy!

I’m done with fall decorating outside of my place.  My son and daughter-in-law are having a Halloween/birthday party in four weeks for the twins .  The twins wants to have a haunted walk in the woods at their place.  So the next few weeks, I’m going to be busy making “spooky” things for this haunted walk.  I have so many ideas that I have pinned from Pinterest.  I’m actually excited to get started on some of them.  It’s funny because I have never really been much of a Halloween fan. 

As always, thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comments.  I hope you all have a wonderful week. 

Gail

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Swing into Fall

Hello Everyone!  I love swinging on a swing and I’m hoping now that the weather is cooler that I will be able to enjoy my front porch swing.   It was too darn hot to enjoy swinging on it as often as I would have liked this summer!

For the fall, I removed my summer pillows and replaced them with some new ones I made.  I used placemats that I found at HomeGood Store to make the pillows.  

Now that the evenings are cooler, I need to make that Pumpkin Spice Latte on my recipe board pinned on Pinterest and enjoy a cup of it swinging in my swing.  

As always, thanks for stopping by and for your sweet comments!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. 

Gail 

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Primp your Pumpkin

OMGoodness I almost forgot!   Debbie @ Debbiedoo’s,  Shannon @ Fox Hollow Cottage and Jessica @ Momma 4 Real is having a Primp your Pumpkin party!!   I LOVE a party and I want to share some my pumpkin primping with you all. 

You can click on the pictures as to the where’s and how to’s of my pumpkin primping.

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day whether it’s primping your pumpkins or just enjoying this beautiful weather.   I’ll be primping more pumpkins! 

Gail

This Old Rusty Bike

  Through the years, Charlie and I have gone to quite a few auctions.  Some have been been jam packed with wonderful treasures to be had and some not.   Not once in all the years that we have gone has he ever questioned why I would want to bid on something.  But, he did question why on this old rusty bike. 

He just couldn’t understand why I fell in love with this rusty perfection.

Which by the way, had the cutest bike basket attached. 

And when I was the winning bidder of $20, he just shook his head, smiled at me and loaded it on the back of the truck. 

To this day, he has yet to say anything about this old rusty bike that now sits in one of my flower beds.

As always, thanks for stopping by and your sweet comments.  Hope you all are having a wonderful week and enjoying this beautiful weather. 

Gail 

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