Happy Halloween to all! My apartment isn't set up for loads of decorations so this year I picked this particular corner for decorating. I will have you know that, including the price of the 3 pumpkins and 1 squash that you see, I spent just over $14. Minus pumpkins- under $10! Ah Ha!!I have counted myself among the crafty this year!!
I saw a very cute pumpkin in a lace nylon stocking and it was beautiful. Well I went out to dinner with Ethnee and Emmalene to find that Eth was wearing purple fish net stockings that just happened to have hole in them. She purchased some super cute yoga pants and wore them home, leaving me with the adorable purple stockings with which to adorn my pumpkins!!
I picked lime green, bright purple and black for my color scheme and moved from there. I bought some ribbon which went a really long way. The vampire dentures are a last minute touch!
This is our very own Skeletor, yeah Polo knows who that is!! He's been painted green but only because he had to match the decor in order to satisfy my very picky (haha- not!) taste.
A little about the flowers you see. One rose bud, with or without purple and or green glitter on the tips costs $1 at Wal-Mart. Sorry- but no! I found these old petals in my box of some dismantled flowers from who knows when. I painted them black then splotched them with purple and green, painted some straws black and glued them on using old pillow stuffing as the connector! Ok so this is the most ghetto, and the most creative of all my projects. I could have bought pipe cleaners but I just didn't have any more money in the budget. Oh well- they'll do for this year! Oh and those are pastel colored brads I found in my craft box!
These goblets I am proud of. They were $1 each at the dollar store and then I took some old pillow stuffing (I save this kind of stuff for weird things like this I guess) and rubbed it paint. Add a few ribbons, a spooky spider and flower- voila!
Again with the purple stockings but it made a good spider web. This green chair I stole from Bubba's room- it is breaking in one corner and isn't totally safe any way! I slashed a little paint on it and added my tulle-wrapped pumpkin!
The felt flowers took a long time to make. I had to cut out 18 black felt flowers and 18 green flowers and then sew them together. I then glued them onto little circles and they turned out very cute.
The book pumpkin, though it doesn't really match, I had to add because I love books and no holiday can be complete without honoring literature from which it sprang! Any way- I took "The Comedy of Errors" and cut it, then stained the edges with a peach tea bag (yummy tea). Then I found this stick at the park and glued it on! I love it! Thanks for the idea Pinterest!
This swag was created because I had some leftover tulle and found some black tulle at my in-laws that would have been tossed if it weren't for my rescue! I weaved in some ribbons, cut it up to look "scary". twisted it and added some painted spiders!
I just had to shoot a close-up the bow in the middle. This green was leftover from a baby shower I threw with a jungle theme. It fit perfectly.
And we bought a bunch of window stickers and Polo helped me put them up- he loves to look at them and tell me what they are. He likes to say, "Look it's a spider", then cover his eyes and say, "I don't like it". However, he loves spiders, he just thinks it's funny! But the web I created by cutting the leftover window sticker material- you know, the stuff that's still on the there once you've taken off all the images. So I cut it up and formed a spider web!
And a close up of my Happy Halloween banner made from sepia toned music sheet, rose and sunflower paper, extra Christmas paper, scraps, a long lost tube of glitter, some glue and then burned to a crisp on the edges. I had tons of fun with all my Halloween decorations and while I realize it wasn't necessary to post each picture individually I want to post some of them to my pinterest page! But I can say that it's only October 7th and I've already put away my decorating stuff. Yay!
Polo has learned how to use the IMDB app on the I-Pad to watch all the new trailers for upcoming shows. He has seen this particular one quite a few times- A cute girl with a bow and arrow in her hands, awesome music, horses, scary bears, and an old guy mooning his comrades- the trailer really hyped it up. 
We were so excited to go that when we checked the showtimes on the internet we didn't read that it was 3D! So we got there and decided to go any way- instead of walk 50 feet to get back home and come back later- lazy I know!
Polo did really well and kept his glasses on for pretty much the whole movie! And I couldn't see without my regular glasses on so I bet I looked pretty silly wearing 3D glasses on top of my spectacles- good thing it's dark in there!
The movie turned out to be better than we'd hoped with even more awesome music, lots of laughs, action, family values and none of that weird adult humor that's meant for adult movies- sorry Dreamworks!
There were several bare-bottomed men in the show, due to their tying their kilts together to repel down off a roof they were trapped on and I just thank heaven Polo's not old enough that I have to explain why those guys weren't wearing skivees under their... well and kilts would have been another whole ordeal! We'll wait a year on that one!
And when we got home Polo went to the bathroom, came out with his bare bum, turned away from me, bent over and said loudly, "Feast your eyes!" (He copied this from the movie- I swear I didn't teach him this) He is such a boy :) and such a delight. (and yeah- he wore his Avengers hat to the movie!)
