Stitch-Tober Days 1 to 4

I am participating in this really cute project called Stitch-Tober where you do a cross stitch each day in October. This is actually my first time doing cross stitch ever. So I will be alternating patterns and finished projects.

October 1st I designed this cute little pumpkin: 

And 

October 2nd I finished my first crochet stitch :)

October 3rd I designed two versions of the same cat:

October 4th I picked the cat design on the left and placed him behind the pumpkin I had stitched previously:

 

 

I am so excited to learn cross stitch! So far it has been a fun and wonderful experience :D I've wanted to try it for years and this finally gave me the inspiration and reason.

Halloween Candy Wrappers

SWE needed a fundraiser for this year and as previously mentioned I love Halloween. So I figured putting them both together was a good idea. I spend a lot of time each day on Pinterest and found this cute idea. They also had a mini version, which is what we eventually used in the sale. This is their PDF for the mini versions. Unfortunately we did not have a paper cutting machine so we cut all of the shapes by hand. 

            When I showed the bats to the group a lot of people mentioned that not everyone likes chocolate. I spent a couple days brain storming and then came up with these. Twizzlers are one of my favorite candies. So I made the Twizzler gut Zombies. One side of the wrappers have been taped back and the other side is stuck through a slit and taped  to the back of the zombie abdomen. It looks like hanging guts which I really enjoy.   

          Then I got inspired to find other shapes that we could make in order to use up other colors in the variety pack paper I had. Ghosts were an obvious choice which I had also seen on Pinterest. I didn't use anyone's actual instructions, but I used the picture featured in this one as inspiration. 

            This is the finished table. We hung a clothes line between two twisty sticks and hung the candies up to bring more attention to the booth and to show off the shape. These would also be cute for parties or trick or treaters. 

Crochet Challenge!! Day 24: Favorite Stitch

Usually I make things like toys and object, so I don't use a particular stitch very often. I did find a stitch that I liked during this challenge, which is the Corner to Corner stitch. It can be used it to make stripes or pictures which is what I have been enjoying. I used this stitch to make the Halloween wall hang and am planning another using the same method. 

Here is the chart for a pumpkin wall hang that I'm planning. Its very easy to make charts like these in paint and its on every computer for free which is a plus. 

I was playing with the stitch this weekend and made this little block. 

You can find the challenge on usscrafty's blog:

  

Finished Halloween Wall Hang

I started this project yesterday and was my first time trying the corner to corner method. The technique makes graphghans so much easier and I really enjoyed it. I followed the crochet crowd's instruction video to learn this stitch.

I included a quarter in the photo for scale. 

Crochet Challenge!! Day 16: Closet Holiday

I started a project at 7:30 hoping I could crochet fast enough to submit for this theme. Unfortunately it is only half done and I have to be up for work in the morning. I'm going to share what I have right now and show the finished product tomorrow.

It is a image of a bat flying in front of the moon made using the corner to corner method. This is my first time using his method and I really like it so far. Halloween is actually my favorite holiday so it's sad that I could make it fast enough to share the whole thing. 

If you would like to join the challenge, here is a link to usscrafy's blog:

My Halloween :D Belated

       I love Halloween it is my favorite holiday! This year was exspecially awesome, because I got to watch Alfredo experience some things for the first time. One such first is pumpkin carving, he had never done it before and we spent all of September waiting until an appropriate time to buy one. 

        It was so fun explaining to him how to cut the top of the pumpkin off and then watching his face the first time he smelled and felt raw pumpkin. The first thing he said was "This doesn't smell like pumpkin! This smells nothing like the candles", because he so used to the pumpkin spice that smells nothing like real pumpkin. 

Here are the results:

Alfredo with homer Ghost

Monica and Alfredo 4ever

Ghost Homer

Ghost Pokemon 

      Then after a fun weekend of pumpkin carving. We came back to the dorm and decorated :) We had purchased a bag of spider webs at target, for a dollar, so those of course went everywhere. 

                                                                            My desk 

                 

                      My book shelves

                                                                                                  The terrerium!

          

          Then of course I went Trick or Treat. I know that I'm to old to go by myself so we took Alfredo's cousins out and had so much fun :) look at all the candy I got! Alfredo dressed as fairy and I was the Marauders map from Harry Potter. His little cousins were a witch and a cat, so cute. 

Making the door a Monster

      In preperation for Halloween I decided to decorate the door at the dorm.

       I got these giant googly eyes at target for $3 and it inspired the idea. I used those and roll of white contact paper. I just had to cut the tooth shape and stick it up. I moved the eyes around a but until I liked the look. 

       I then added electrical tape eyebrows and a couple of the paper shapes that I had made a couple years back. Which include pumpkins, Frankenstein, a cauldron, and a moon. 

Decorated Door for Halloween

So me and my roommate wanted to decorate the door. She wanted to go to the party store, but i wanted to try a more pocket friendly version. I'm in college so its very important to try and save money wherever you can. So I have a craft shoe box in my closet and two weekends back  I had bought a pack of colored construction paper, cause construction paper is an extremely useful craft supply and the whole pack of 96 sheets only cost 2 bucks.

 So asked her why don't we make decorations instead. So we did =) and these are the results. I tried to use one sheet of each color. It makes you really think outside trying to use blue, pink, and purple for Halloween. I just took 7 pages and a couple hours. So it includes a moon, some bats, a blue ghost and a white ghost, a witchs hat with a spider on it, two Frankensteins, four pumpkins, a cauldron, and a "bloody" Boo.