Happy Halloween

I want to first start off by saying how much money I've been saving lately with coupons, sales, and re-using things that I already have. I went to Winn Dixie a few weeks ago and spent $29 on 22 items! I've always been creative and people compliment me on my ideas and on my house decorating. I have even re-done a room in my aunts house and helped a friend with a few decorating projects, but my problem is that I'm not creative when it comes to making things for cheap or free. But this Halloween I have made things out of what I have. So, it may not be as cute or perfect as what I'd like but hey it's free!! So I'll have to deal.

 Here is the wreath I made for our front door this year. The wreath has been in my attic with lots of ugly fake leaves and flowers on it that I removed. Then I went to the dollar tree and bought the spider web and "Happy Halloween", which I just gluegunned into place and Voila! A $2 wreath for my front door. I'll take it!

I also made some ghosts that, once again, I've seen on pinterest and blogs and I've wanted to make them but just didn't have the extra money. So, I took the pre-lit topiary trees that I use at Christmas and threw a white fleece blanket that I had over them and used construction paper (that I already had) as the eyes and mouths. Oh and the names are part of the playball shapes I use for my students once again that I already had, so the total cost of these cute ghosts = free!!

 (these topiary trees do get really hot with the fleece over them so I usually just turn them on for a few hours a night)

My mom gave me some cute pumpkin and bat sponges a few years ago and I put them away in my Halloween decorations hoping to do something artsy with paints and the kids. But this year I realized that probably won't happen and why not decorate with them? So I put fishing wire through them and hung them
from my mantle.

Ok, so now onto Halloween night! Which was fun and laid back this year for us. Usually my whole family comes over for chilli & trick-or-treating (cousins, aunts, uncles, etc) but this year everyone decided to go to my aunt's house and since my children are a little under the weather and I had to work all day today we decided to stay home and do our own thing. This is the first year we didn't have a house to feed or people to entertain or a crowd to keep up with while trick-or-treating. We went out early around 5:45 and were home by 7:00. Maci Rose loved it at first but after only about 20 houses she said she was cold and ready to go home. She wouldn't wear her jacket because it covered her outfit. Figures!! And Carter went to about 5 houses and after each house he wanted to open every piece of new candy they put in his bucket. So we finally just put him in the waggon and let him have a sucker until we got home. I'm ashamed to say that I hardly have any cute pictures of them. Between getting juice cups ready and jackets for the kids and wiping their noses every few seconds I got what I could. Plus, Carter was an elephant and wouldn't wear the hood so that was another battle, but hey I tried the best I could!

Happy Halloween everyone!!