Halloween Costumes

I can't believe I forgot to post the boys in their Halloween costumes this year (I didn't get a picture of my husband and I in ours).

My oldest is Ben 10, my youngest is a Jedi Knight. I put together both costumes, though the Jedi Knight took alot more work. The Ben 10 costume was just painting a white shirt and finding green pants and the Omnitrex in the toy department for him to wear. I sewed everything for the Jedi Knight costume except the lightsaber and the boots.

Gingerbread monsters

I made gingerbread men monsters for my husband. He wanted some to take to work. I think they turned out awesome. I'm hoping I get a chance to make more. I drew up the pattern. I cut out the patterns in felt and embroidered on the details and added beads and buttons. I put heavy card stock and a ribbon in between 2 gingerbread man shapes.


Zombie, Vampire, Mutant/Alien, victim, Cthulhu





I didn't get any good close up pictures before he took them to work.

Okay I finally got some good (not great but good or atleast better than the ones above) pictures of these monsters :

Christmas Bags

I made some cloth Christmas bags. I'm hoping to make more, but this is it so far.



These are bags for dvd's and games.

Thanksgiving Owls

These are the only Thanksgiving crafts I made this year. Owls for my Thanksgiving tree. I forgot to take a picture of them on the tree, but here they are anyway.





I found the pattern for the owls here:
http://moonstitches.typepad.com/photos/owl_pennant/index.html

Halloween Party Food

Here are the foods that Brian made for the boys' Halloween party.

Pumpkin cupcakes


Witch's fingers


Bones


Worms (jello):


Brain puree:


Puking pumpkin:


Chocolate frogs, watch out some are crunchy:

Pumpkins

Here are the pumpkins my guys made this year.

Colin did the one on the left, Gavin drew the one on the right. Aren't they adorable.



Here's the pumpkin that Brian carved for his office:

Halloween Tree and decorations 2008

Here are some of the other decorations from this year:

Candles on top of the TV:




We added iron decorative bracets between rooms and it turned out a perfect place to hang decorations:


Plain black masks




The Halloween Tree:


Great topper:


Spiders on the wall:


Under the tree:

Wizard's Apothocary

Well I made alot of Halloween decorations this year. Most of them were apothocary jars and incredients. I actually didn't get around to labeling everything. Most of the wet ingredients have shampoo of liquid soap in them.


This part wasnt't really part of the apothocary, but I had to share it anyway.
I found these signs at Hobby lobby and Michaels:






And here are my jars, ingredients and the staging of them:

Here is the picture of a jar with Bezoar stones, magic pied pipers flute, dried potion ingredients, poison dart frogs, spider venom, etc.:


Dehydrated Maggots, Ogre Fungus and more:


Ogre Fungus this is actually tree moss that I found on the ground after the hurricane:


Dehydrated Maggots:


Love potion, preserved eyes in goo, miniature snakes:


Love Potion


Miniature Snakes


Mermaid's Tears




Elemental spiders, Baby Rats, Black Ants and Flies, Beetles, etc.


Whole Baby Rats


Elemental Spiders


Doxy Eggs and Centipeds




Grave Dirt:






Live Giant Maggots (white fishing lures with the tails cut off) and purple water worms (purple fishing lures in blue shampoo):






Eeeewwww, fecal worms!!!!


Snake Venom with snake, I found this bottle on clearance at Pier One and put a cheap plastic snake in it with shampoo:












Unicorn horn (made from Crayola air dried clay) and pixie fairy dust (glitter)



Cursed pirates treasure


Demons horns, cursed tresure, pheonix feathers, enchanted necklace:


Miniature cauldrons


Werewolf pelts




Pheonix feathers:


Pixie Skeletons


Dragons' Tears


Blood Worms


Ogre's Blood with Pixie Dust