Happy October. What a fun month, Welcome to Happiness is Homemade and we are more than ready For Fall to happen. Visiting the East Coast, aka New Brunswick and it is Sweater Weather and the foliage is stunning.
Every week we try and feature some of the more stand out shares. Also trying to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to be featured.
This is my month, I love hosting for October,. All the other months my amazing co-hosts share their favs. This month, A Labour of Life gets to share her love of Fall, Canadian Thanksgiving and Halloween, for this Canadian it is an amazing time of year.
Today, I celebrate Halloween. So many treats to sip and savour. Come show us what you are working on.
Welcome to the party. Hope your week has been good so far. Halloween is coming soon so I thought I would post some last minute Halloween decorations.
Hope you find some inspiration.
Have a blessed week!
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Welcome to the party. I am so glad you stopped by. Halloween is right around the corner so I pulled some awesome Halloween desserts for you to check out.
Welcome to the party. Hope your week has been good so far. Halloween is coming soon so I thought I would post some awesome Halloween desserts. All of them are calling my name.
Hope you find some inspiration.
Have a blessed week!
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Check out all of these lovely features. Hope you find some inspiration.
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Welcome to the party. Hope your week has been good so far. Halloween is coming soon so I thought I would post some awesome Halloween goodies and decor. Hope you find some inspiration.
Have a blessed week!
Many of my features come from your comments. Don't forget to leave our Linkup Number or Post Title so I can find you and you might become one of my features for next week.
Check out all of these lovely features. Hope you find some inspiration.
Each hostess chooses her own features on her blog so be sure to visit each hostess.
Welcome to the party. I am so glad you stopped by. I am cleaning out the garage. What a huge project. We haven't done it since we moved in 5 years ago.
How do we accumulate so much stuff? I bought lots of clear containers to sort and label . I will finally know where my stuff is and I am traying to organize hubby. He is out of town. Everyone said, "he is letting you". Yes, he is. I do send pics if I have questions. It is coming along great, but it does take time to sort and go through boxes. I found stuff I forgot I had.
We are finally at the end of October and that means Halloween. I love to decorate for Halloween but this year I just couldn't and it makes me sad. I will have to wait for next year, but I enjoyed seeing all of the Halloween goodies and decorations you shared.
Enjoy your Halloween day!
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Happy Thursday dear friends. I hope your week is going well. I had my third treatment this week. Only one more to go. I am heading for the finish line. Thanks to all of you for your support. I really helped me thorough.
Enjoy the rest of your week and weekend.
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Welcome to the party. Halloween is coming soon so I thought I would gather some Halloween goodies. I hope you find one or maybe two that you might try. I see several. lol!
Welcome to the party. Well, we made it through Milton. What a storm. we had no damage except for all of the tree debris. It took 4 days to clean up. We didn't get power until late Sunday afternoon. We have a generator so we managed.
We were blessed, it could have been so much worse.
Happy Thursday dear friends. We have been having the most awesome fall weather. Now I feel more like fall decorating, although I already did. lol!
I am heading to Pittsburgh on Saturday. I have not seen my Mom since June when I was there. I really miss her and my sister. I will be driving, which I love to do but it is a long trip - 15 hours.
I pick some awesome Halloween decorating ideas and crafts.
I hope you have a fabulous weekend ahead.
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I love pillows and have brought several over the years. I always think you can't have enough pillows. When I was in the Dollar Tree, I saw these Halloween bags that were so cute. I knew they would make great pillows.
I put them out on my lanai. I love their cute faces.
I am still trying to make some Halloween crafts and this one was easy and very inexpensive. I had everything on hand so it doesn't get better than that - zero dollars.
You can find so many great Halloween items at Dollar Tree as many of you know. I have been finding great items that I can use for decor. This is my second project that I have made from inexpensive items from the Dollar Tree. My first one was about Bats, Branches and Bows that I shared. You can see that project here.
When I bought the bats, I also bought some wooden ghosts. I decided to make a garland using them.
This garland looks great with my Bat Tree.
How to make this garland:
- one package of wooden ghosts (8 per package)
- black felt
- glue
- black/white twine
- white paint
I placed the wooden ghosts on some foil on a cookie sheet and then painted them with white paint. You could do this with a brush or spray paint them. Use whatever you have.
I painted both sides of the wooden ghosts. Once they were dried, I added some black felt so the eyes would stay out. I cut a piece that would cover the eyes and the mouth. You can use black paper or foam core that they have at the Dollar Tree.
The black really makes the eyes and mouth pop.
Once all of the felt was on, I used some black/white twine that I got at the Dollar Tree. If you can't find black/white twine, you can use regular twine or plain black.
I just threaded the twine through the hole in the top of the ghost and then hung them on my window that is in my dining room.
I have a very inexpensive project for you and everything comes from the Dollar Tree and your back yard. I call it my bats, branches and bows project.
I had to start creating some Halloween decor. I kept seeing all of the posts about fall and Halloween so when I went into the Dollar Tree the other day, I found these packages of bats.
The great thing about these bats was that they had clips on the back so I could easily attach them to branches.
Although I liked the bats, I thought I would paint their eyes red. I had some red paint and dabbed it on. You don't need to do this if you don't want to. Hopefully, you can see their red eyes in this picture.
I headed in the back yard for some branches. I found one that had some moss on it. That would work well. I gather a couple more sticks. Hubby gave me this blue/green vase on my birthday with flowers in it. Although it is new, I like the shape and color.
I did place some floral foam in the bottom to hold the branches. Once the branches were secured, I started to add the bats.
Of the 4 packages of bats, I used all of them except for 2. I needed something more. A bow around the vase. I also found this at the Dollar Tree. First I tied some ribbon around the vase and then made a bow and attached it.
While at the store, I also found these Halloween shot glasses, at least that's what I think they are. I wasn't really sure what I was going to use them for, just bought them.
I put a tea light in them and put them around the vase.
So for $6 I was able to create my Bats, Branches and Bows. I am so excited that I created my first fall/Halloween project. Maybe I will go in the attic and get my fall and Halloween stuff down.
These cookies will be the hit of your Halloween party. Aren't they adorable? The best part - they are easy to assemble. The kids will have so much fun creating their own monsters.
Halloween is rapidly approaching and I am still decorating. I wanted a quick and easy vignette for my kitchen table. So I checked my stash, painted a little, added a little and this is what I came up with.
I am always looking for cute ideas for Halloween treat bags. We have an annual Halloween party on our street and we dress up and have all kinds of food and then we all gather on our golf carts to go trick n' treating. I wanted to make some cute treat bags but not spend lots of money. I had some burlap left over from another project so I decided to make these cuties.
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