Halloween

After our beloved St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup I kept thinking, geez…this Halloween we’re gonna see some hockey costumes! Specifically: Stanley and Gloria! I searched the internet and didn’t come up with any really good tutorials. (I think I’ll work on one later!) I DID get a few good ideas, and there’s lots …

I’ve always been fascinated by fancy feather quill pens–they just look so elegant! But writing with ink in a jar is incredibly messy…and a bit frustrating for kids used to ballpoint pens and pencils. When I was a kid I even tried making my own ink by smashing wild Pokeberries–we didn’t have Google back then …

A good Pinterest worthy Halloween costume for your kid does NOT have to cost you an arm and a leg! Don’t be tempted to browse that big box store costume aisle–you know everything there is either cheap or sleazy. Or both. Yes, you really can make an awesome kid’s costume that your kid is proud to wear to that …

I found some really cool DIY snow globes over at Michaels the other day and couldn’t wait until Christmas to use them! I also thought it would be fun to put a Halloween Peep in the globe…which kinda means I couldn’t put water or glycerin in the darn things! That’s when I remembered seeing ideas …

Here’s Mitch’s third Minecraft costume: himself! I wanted to make him a cool “Steve” costume with full armor, but we decided to ditch the square-head-hat* in favor of a more comfortable set of Minecraft style diamond armor. *A mom’s full disclosure on costumes with cardboard heads: Every year I ended up carrying around Mitch’s costume head.We made the …

If your kids are too small to carve a jack-o-lantern with a knife this Halloween, try a snazzy no carve pumpkin instead! You can decorate real pumpkins, cute little mini pumpkins, or faux pumpkins.  When Mitch was a little guy he had a serious thing for googly eyes. He’d put them on Every. Freaking. Thing! …

We’ve been playing Minecraft for a while now, and every fall we have the same problem. Where are the Minecraft costumes?? I’ll admit, it’s gotten easier to find the parts now that Minecraft is so uber popular, but store bought costumes are never quite at good as homemade. Mitch has been a Creeper, a Enderman …

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in October, with clear blue skies and some of that lingering St. Louis summer still in the air. A little hot for Autumn, but not so much to make a person complain. We could hear kids squealing in the bounce house not far away, but all we could see was …