a pumpkin and a princess: halloween 2011

Halloween this year was really fun. Aurora is getting older and everything kid oriented is becoming more fun. Saddly earlier on Monday Aurora started getting a horrible stuffy noise, then later Carolina started snorting and sniffing. My two little angels became giant snot balls in a matter of hours. I feel so bad! We still did some intense trick or treating. After the tenth house Aurora finally started saying trick or treat. It amazes me that even though she is loud and energetic at home, around strangers she's a cold stone.

Aurora had a great time running around the streets of our neighborhood when it was dark. Carolina slept in her stroller the entire time, the little doll. Not many people could figure out what Aurora was. Last year we had quite a struggle with her costume. Anything even a little itchy can not touch that child's skin or she completely freaks out. So, I went to the dollar store and bought four t-shirts. I'm pretty proud of my work. It's not prefect, it's not even really good but Aurora loved it and that's all that mattered. She insisted that I put a sparkly rainbow on the front. Why a rainbow? I have no idea. I'm just happy she wore it.



I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!

round up: fun with pumpkins!

I love any excuse for getting creative. What a better excuse than pumpkin carving! Anymore there are so many great ideas for pumpkin decorating. I rounded up just a few of my favorites, but there are so many more out there!

{a beautiful mess}

{little lovables}

{martha stewart}

{pink cupcake}

Okay, so this one doesn't have real pumpkin but they are so cute!{thompson family}

Are you getting super creative with your pumpkin this year? You can go over to Talks2theTrees and enter Rachel's pumpkin carving contest! I love this idea.

Enter Here!

Happy carving, painting, or sewing!

On another note: Did you see my guest post on Pamplemousse! yesterday? Well, you should! Teeny Tutorial: Ghost on a Stick.

Pumpkins on Parade

So I was working on a project for a photography class I'm in and I got the wild idea to create a stop motion short. I have never done this before and it was so much fun! I'm really excited with the results and I just want to share it with everyone I can.

I need to work on the light and some if the photos are out of focus at points but it's a start.

Also, I made the little pumkin figures out of scuplty polymer clay and painted them as well.






I want to also mention that I got the idea from a local blogger/crafter/shop owner. She is awesome! She made a stop motion short for her Virtual Craft Night. Go Check out her blog: