We had a little Halloween party at a friends this morning. I could not resist taking picture after picture of Princess R swinging. Isn’t that adorable!
Tag: halloween
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Spooktacular Giveaway Hop
Welcome to Home Maid Simple: Where we turn our house into a Home!and the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop hosted by I am a Reader Not a Writer and The Diary of a Bookworm.This is a blog hop so make sure you visit all the other amazing blogs on the linky (below) and enter to win their book related prizes!You may notice I don’t talk a whole lot about books here at Home Maid Simple. I have a very open love affair with books though. Some times I imagine that Mark has a dark secret to sell all my books, and that he just tolerates them for now. Back to the hop though! I really wanted to participate in a blog hop and decided maybe there might be a book I could giveaway. I apologize it’s not all that spooky or halloweeny (yes I made that word up), but I hope it will become a wonderful book addition to help someone else turn their house into a Home!One winner will receive Better Homes and Gardens America’s Best Cross-Stitch
This is a used book but in EXCELLENT condition! Dustjacket is even still intact (can someone explain to me the purpose of a dustjacket please?)
This is just a sampling of some of the designs. See you can get started on some great Holiday decor. Maybe even do a little cross stitching on some gifts!I should mention, my other love affair after books is cross stitching. I am in the process of cross-stitching Princess C’s Christmas Stocking, and I really enjoy it. Plus it’s easy to do!!To enter this giveaway just fill out the rafflecopter form below. Do any or all of the entries. The more entries you complete the better your chance of winning.RafflecopterSettings = {
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Decorating for Halloween
I did, I (er Mark) finally got our Halloween decorations out of storage. I don’t know why I didn’t do it when I pulled out fall stuff out. But that’s ok, because it’s out now! We only have a few things left to do this week – find/make a large spider for our spider web, and get pumpkins for painting and carving!
Easy to make porch spider web, and cheap too! I just pulled out our black yarn and started wrapping it around! Princess V helped with the scissors
Yes it’s a bit small for the door, but I like it. ~Spooky~
These gourd I won over at Gingerbread and Snowflakes. The requirement though was that I try my hand at this artsy technique. I colored the both with colored pencils (it was all I had!). Then paint over them with black acrylic paint. Finally using toothpicks scratch out a design. My art skills are lacking, but the Princesses though they were pretty cool and can tell that one says Spooky in a spider web and the other is a witch with a boiling cauldron. The colors from underneath should show through, but mine didn’t turn out so great. It’s definitley a technique I want to continue playing around with though!
My awesome happy Halloween blocks I won from Cafemom!
Last but not least is our haunted house. It’s actualy a music box, but it doesn’t work. This item I got for FREE from a yard sale a couple years. One of these days I may try and fix the music box, but for now the Princesses enjoy spinning the top wheel and watching the witch zoom around in circles. -
Princess Peach Costume
*In accordance with FTC guidelines. I did not receive any financial compensation for this post. I was provided with the product for my honest review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own!This last month I had the opportunity to review a costume from the Costume Super Center. It’s a great place for cheap Halloween Costumes!We got to pick the costume for review, so Princess V and Princess C and I sat down and browsed their huge (and I mean HUGE!) costume collection. It was really hard deciding, but when we came across the Girls Deluxe Super Mario Princess Peach Costume, we knew we had a winner! It was decided and within a week we reveived our costume. We opened it right away and within seconds it was on Princess V and it was not coming off anytime soon.
The quality is just amazing! We so often in our society associate the word cheap with poor quality. The Costume Super Center offers cheap halloween costumes, that are also well made and will last. When ordering the Girls Deluxe Super Mario Princess Peach Costume, I was struggling with their site (ok my computer was actually just acting funny) so I was unable to find how they measure the sizes. I ordered a medium so I would hopefully not be too big or too small. It was perfect! It is just slightly bigger than Princess V (4 years old), so she should be able to wear it for at least 2 years maybe more!Now so you’re wondering, they do have a size chart, and it’s really easy to locate and size for each costume (I did go back once we got the computer back up to par!)
I just can’t help posting all these cute pics!The Girls Deluxe Super Mario Princess Peach Costume comes with the dress, gloves, and crown. Everything a Princess needs!
The Costume Super Center has a great selection of kids costumes ranging from the decades, to movie characters, to the scary stuff like zombies. I can’t wait to go back and get something for Princess C and Princess R for this fall. I may not even wait until the fall. These costumes are great for every day dress up, not just Halloween!
