Craft Idea

I'm making some of these for Christmas presents. (This one is my first attempt, so it's not a masterpiece. It's also a little difficult to see the brown flowers in this picture, but they are there.) Sorry for those of you who read this and will be receiving one - it will no longer be a surprise. 

 

 

I saw the idea on Etsy months ago, but can no longer find the ad for it. Then I googled how to make paper flowers and found this tutorial.  A pretty and relatively simple gift.  If you want to make this, here are a few notes I had to learn on my own:

1. Card stock works nicely as long as it's the regular kind and not the overly thick kind. I also used 6x6 squares instead of 4x4 to make bigger flowers that would fit into the 8x10 shadow box.
2. Don't make your swirls too wide or too small.  Try and stick as near to 1/2 inch as possible. If you have to err to one side, go too small, though.
3. You don't have to roll it all the way to the center. The center is a pain.  Cut it off.
4. If you are using card stock, roll it tight! Then after rolling, hang on to it for a minute before letting go and letting it unravel. 
5. Close it up at the end with some glue or a sticky dot (my preference).
6. If it unravels more than you would like, don't throw it away.  Roll it tight again. It can be salvaged.

Halloween

It was the Boy's idea to go as Mickey and Minnie Mouse this year for Halloween.

In addition to the regular Halloween night, we had trunk-or-treat at church the weekend before.

We participated in the little parade and trick-or-treating they had downtown.

And finally, just before the real trick-or-treating began, we went to a little party at the neighbors where they had a bounce house, bobbing for apples, and create a mummy.  It was a great time!

It felt like this Halloween was a week long and I'm a little happy to see it go.