My first attempt at the light bulb snowman ornament

Here is my first attempt at the light bulb snowman ornament.  I think it turned out pretty cute.  I got the idea from a link that I found on www.missimagination.com

Next time I will use a color for the hat & mitten roll, instead of the plain white I used on this one.  This one was just a first try, so I just used stuff that I didn't care about.

Snowman & Penguin Christmas Ornaments

I am going to attempt to make some Christmas ornaments.  I found a link on missimagination.com for making light bulb snowman & penguin ornaments.  I'm going to attempt to make them this week if I have enough time.  I started out by painting the light bulbs by hand with a sponge brush, but they came out awful.  Very lumpy looking.  I decided to get some spray paint & bought some more light bulbs to use.  It came out much better!  Nice and even & smooth looking.  I suggest using a glove when spray painting the bulbs LOL  I learned this the hard way.  My hand was covered in paint & luckily my husband hand some paint brush cleaner that I was able to use to get the paint off.   Anyway, here are the bulbs painted and drying.  I will post more as I go along with this project.

More Halloween Jars!!

I had so much fun making the Halloween jar luminaries recently, that I had to make some more.  I found some different shape/size jars to try out this time.  The little Frankenstein & Vampire jar make great pencil holders.  I have one with pencils & pens and the other jar is holding paint brushes.  The little pumpkins I am putting candy in and a couple of candles to give out as gifts.

Trina's 2010 Halloween Costume Pics

Here is Trina as Demon child:

Joshua's 2010 Halloween Costume Pics

Here is Joshua as Spaceman:

Megan's 2010 Halloween Pics

Here is Megan as Starchild:

Here they are! The kids in their 2010 Halloween Costumes.

A huge thank you to my sister for coming down to take pics of my kiddos in their Halloween costumes.  She hasn't had a chance to really do anything with the pics yet, but I am so excited and too impatient to wait...so I am gonna post them the way they are for now hahahahaha.  I can always add more later right?  The costumes worked out really great & the make up took about 2 hours to do, but it was worth it.  Thankfully my kids were super cooperative on Sunday.

Halloween Jars

I was on Missimagination.com a few days ago & found a link to a really fun Halloween jar craft!  I decided to give it a shot & went out to get the materials.  I was looking for canning jars, but the stores I had checked were all out.  I ended up going to a store called Dollar Tree and found some small jar type vases for 1.00 each.  I bought paint at walmart for 98 cents per bottle & also got a package of 4 sponge brushes for 1.00.

I had a lot of fun painting the jars. I started out with 6 of them and liked it so much I ended up going back and got the rest of what they had LOL. I ended up with 5 more and I also bought some purple paint too (I started out with only orange, green, white, & black paint). 

The first batch that I painted I felt needed a second coat of paint.  For the second batch that I painted, I just applied the paint a bit thicker and it made them look good.  I did find out that this wasn't such a great idea for what I originally intended them to be for.  They were supposed to be luminaries.  When I put the candle inside the green & purple jars just didn't have much light at all shining through.  If I had stuck with the one coat of paint, I think it may have turned out ok.  


I did decide that the jars would make a cute gift....just add some Halloween candy :0)


Here are some pictures (starting out):

Here they are with the candles inside...you can see how the green & purple (below) don't really glow very well.

I added some candy to this jar (my husband wants to take it to work with him)

I forgot about adding a coat of gloss to the jars!!  Here they are with the gloss :0)