Halloween Fun!

Make your Halloween Party Spooky fun with canvas paintings. My son’s birthday is the day before Halloween so we decided to throw him a spooky Party.  My sister found these great Halloween designs from the Pottery Barn, but since I was working on a budget she re-produced them by painting on canvas.  They turned out great and were a fraction of the cost!  

We made bean bags out of Halloween print fabric for the pumpkin toss.   

The kids loved putting their hands in the spooky lab and had to guess what they were touching.  If you want to re-create this game here are some ideas for the different items:

  Food item-              Non Food item-

Fingers:       Pretzel Rods         Sticks

Brains:      Marshmallows          Cotton Balls

Worms:    Gummy Worms         Cooked Spaghetti noodles

Eyeballs:   Sour Cherry Candy  Marbles

Have fun being creative!

Pinwheel Quilting Fun!

 I love making pinwheel quilts for baby gifts.  I like to sew together 9 12” squares for my quilts.  I picked a really cute flannel print and used that for 4 of my squares and then the other 5 other squares I used a fun pinwheel pattern.  This is my favorite website that teaches you how to make pinwheels. http://www.youcanmakethis.com/articles/post/how-to-make-3-d-pinwheels.htm

They say to use 3 ½” squares, however you can make your squares any size.  

In this quilt my pinwheels are 4” and then I added a red and yellow border to make a 12” square.