TOP POSTS :: Best of October

     

Hello November everyone! Can you believe we are at the beginning of the holiday season? I am so excited as this time of year is just magical and so much fun! Within the next week, I will be decorating for Christmas and transforming my home into all things Christmas, so I hope you join me as I will have a ton of ideas! I have always decorated early for the holidays as mine always start in November with family coming into town so I kinda have too, plus I LOVE it anyway! ;) But no worries as I will also be sharing a few Thanksgiving ideas in the next week as well.

But before we start with all of the talk about the holidays, let's take a look back to see what you all were reading in October & loving the most. As always, I would also like to say THANK YOU to all who stop by to read, comment from time to time & send me emails. I SEE IT ALL! So thanks again. xoxo

:: TOP POSTS for October 2015 ::

RECIPE :: Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups for Apple Dipping

RECIPE :: Cut-Out Treats + 5 After School Traditions

 

   SHOPPING :: IKEA FINDS [September Edition]

   CRAFT :: Halloween Eyeball Wreath

  REAL PARTY :: Halloween Sleepover Party

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REAL PARTY :: Halloween Sleepover Party

      

Halloween Sleepover Party

I love Halloween and so does my daughter as every year I would like to throw a huge party but sometimes it doesn't work out so when my daughter started asking to have a party with a few of her school friends, I said yes! She has been wanting to get her friends together for a little party for awhile now AND she has been wanting a sleepover, so what better time than to just do BOTH at once and do it on one of the best holidays of the year: Halloween! I decided to use my Glam Halloween party collection from my shop for the this party as I did not have time to re-design something new, so with a few tweaks from a 'cocktail' party to a 'sleepover', we were in business and the invites went out!

the DECOR
 

Thankfully I had a lot of the decor items already from past Halloween parties but I did collect a few things beforehand for this party that came in handy. Plus I used some of the printables for the signs and food table to add a little more whimsical to this party since it was for tween girls! ;)

I used lots of color but kept the main black, white and orange Halloween color palette the more dominant across the party. I love how fun it turned out for the girls plus my daughter and her friends are still talking about it! YAY! Cool mom points are ALWAYS a bonus! ;)

the FOOD
 

I tried to keep the menu simple and fun by ordering pizza for dinner before they did a few crafting items, played games and hung out. I made spider cupcakes, monster cupcakes, some Halloween bark, Reese's bats and ghost marshmallow pops for them to snack on before they enjoyed their popcorn watching movies later on. Oh and I also whipped up some of my 'rat poison' drink and served it to them via bar cart while they were playing a few games! ;)

the MORNING AFTER
 

I tried to keep a good healthy balance come morning for breakfast serving up festive donuts, pumpkin tangerines and candy corn cups (which are just layered pineapple chunks, mandarins & topped with whip cream). The girls loved the fruit cups (candy corn cups) and they were the first thing gone!

The girls had a blast, made lots of great memories that they will hopefully remember forever and they can't wait until we can do it again. That to me is a successful party and makes all of the work that went into it worthwhile. This momma has done her job! ;)

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CRAFT :: Halloween Eyeball Wreath

Hey everyone! Today I want to share a super easy wreath I made the other night in about 15 minutes! My daughter is having a Halloween party this year and I wanted a new wreath to hang on our front door to greet her guests when they arrive plus I was feeling all crafty and wanted to make something, so a new wreath it was! 

Why purple?  . . . well since the mantel was all decked out in all purple and green this year, it seemed only fitting, plus I have a super cute yard flag out front that has purple as the main color and I needed to balance it all, because it makes me a little crazy when things are not balanced! lol So when the girl and I made our weekly Target trip last week, I looked around for something that would work for my wreath and lucked out in my search! 

Why all the eyeballs? As you can may have noticed if you are a regular here, I am having a moment with eyeballs, after using them when I made my Halloween eyeball garland for the mantel, I had plenty left over, so I decided to use them with my new supplies and I think they made the whole wreath! Hope you like it too, as it turned out more festive than I imagined in my head and that is a good thing! YAY!

This is how to make this quick 'Halloween Eyeball Wreath':

Step 1:
Gather all of the supplies you will need. I still have pool noodles from when I bought a ton of them on clearance, so I used that for my wreath form, but you can obviously use any wreath form you like. I grabbed this black burlap ribbon and these little chalkboard signs in the Dollar Spot at Target. I already had the googly eyes and the purple bead strand and I picked up this black and purple garland while I was in Target and found it back in the Halloween section. I will mention it comes in green as well, if you prefer.

Steps 2-4:
2. Start with the roll of ribbon and hot glue it to the wreath form before you start wrapping to keep it in place. Once you've glued in place, wrap the black ribbon all around the wreath form until you have completely covered it. I will mention I used two rolls of black burlap ribbon for the pool noodle form. When you get to the end glue in place. 

3. Unroll the purple garland and hot glue to the outside edge of the wreath form until you go all the way around.

4. You will also be gluing the purple garland to the front of the wreath form to give it some fullness.

Steps 5-6:
5. For the mini chalkboard sign, I changed out the ribbon for the purple beading so it matched better. 

6. I then tool a few smaller googly eyes and hot glued them in the corners. I grabbed one of my chalk paint pens and wrote 'welcome' on it.

Step 7-8:
7. Take as many googly eyes as you like and randomly hot glue them all around the wreath.

8. The last step is to take a ribbon of your choosing (I used a piece of black zigzag ribbon) to use to hang the wreath.

ENJOY!

Who else loves Halloween crafting? I hope you will give your own Halloween eyeball wreath a try and let me know how yours turns out if you do, as I would love to see it!

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