Jered's 18th BDay

One of my son's turned 18 in Oct. this year and I have been bugging this kid for the last 13 years to let me throw him a Halloween themed birthday party, and he always said no. This year, his girlfriend thought it would be a good idea to have a Halloween themed birthday party...doesn't matter how I got it the point was I got to throw him a Halloween themed birthday party.  Now I had all these plans, and I was going to make so many decorations and goodies, but unfortunately I started back at work Oct 9th...and I couldn't hang.  Although I didn't do all that I wanted to, I think that he had a good time and his friends did too and that's all that matters!  But here is what I managed to accomplish. Most everything I saw on Pinterest so just check out my Pinterest Halloween board if you are interested in doing any of these.

I made little goodie bags shaped like pumpkins.  They were filled with chocolate candies. I didn't hand them out, we just left them on the table since these were big kids  :)

Mummy and eyeball cupcakes.

Finger shaped sugar cookies, don't worry that's not a real one in the middle, it's a prop.

Since I made cupcakes, I went with a small cake.  It's better with the bigger kids, they seem to be messier with cake than cupcakes...go figure.

I made candy holders out of glass candle sticks and glass votive holders I bought at the .$99 store.  I then made faces on my Cricut with vinyl.  Really easy, really fast.  I filled them with the appropriate color candies to represent Frankenstein, ghost, and pumpkin.

I made trophies for the costume contest.  This was a challenge and not as easy as it seemed on Pinterest, of course.

The whole little spread.

4th of July

This 4th of July I was feeling more creative than usual, so I went on over to Pinterest.  I'm totally addicted to Pinterest, it's my new favorite site.  I love the ideas you get from it and I love being able to save ideas I find on the web in a convenient location.  I'm a visual person : )

So this is what I was able to create.

Hair bows for my daughter.  Thanks to http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-A-Full-Mini-Korker-Hair-Bow/?ALLSTEPS.

I made pinwheels for the kids and they doubled as a table centerpiece.

I made some mad hatter cupcakes from one of my favorite Disney sites http://family.go.com/food/recipe-1018483-mad-hatter-fourth-of-july-teacakes-t/.

Then my mom's favorite recipe, fruit tarts.  My husband wants credit for the blueberry star shape.  He did a great job though : )

I had a good time making all this stuff.  Hopefully I get motivation like that again soon!