My husband forgot to inform me that he doesn't like the smell of cinnamon in the air, so my dreams of cinnamon pinecones have been dashed into a million pieces.
Unfortunately, after much debate and sniffing of the glade scents in Walmart I talked him into a lovely smelling apple cinnamon spray. (I meant to say unfortunately, just so you know.) We keep it handy for when our furry little puppy unknowingly uses her skunk-like scent against us. The poor thing doesn't realize she does it, so when we go running from the room (and I mean RUNNING), she just gives us a confused look and runs with us. She doesn't eat any human food, and we switched her puppy food to hopefully remedy the problem to no avail. So now our house frequently smells like cinnamon apple scented puppy fluffs. Delightful. I really hope that I can still enjoy cinnamon scents later in life, but for now it always seems to be paired with the smell of butt. What can you do?
Even though I frequently have to run from the room in my house thanks to my dog, I had a lot of fun decorating for Halloween. Too bad for you, I'm lame and I didn't do tutorials. I'm always too excited to get the project done to take pictures during the process. I'll try to work on that, don't worry.
Here's a sample of October's fun for you to enjoy:
 My sweet husband tried to make his own Halloween costume. I took pictures afterwards, but I can't post them on the internet because modest is hottest and he made it short enough that people would have made fun of him for years to come. I made round two, and it seemed to go over much better. |
Amazon is a great place if you're searching for strange nerdy items like the ocarina that Allen has tucked into his belt. Unfortunately, my cute yellow belt is no more thanks to our smelly little monster.
Sancta Mortis is Latin for "Deathly Hallows" according to my source. If not, I have some strange words written in Latin on one of my cute Halloween Books.
Nerds for the win.
The process for my cute jars was quite simple.
Materials:
Hot Glue Gun
Jars of Various Sizes
Black Matte Spray Paint
Silver Paint
Paper Towel
I just drew my designs on the jar with my hot glue gun *not as easy as you think it is* I only peeled it off 10 times before I gave up.
Then I spray painted the whole thing and waited for it to dry.
I then dipped my paper towel in a little bit of silver paint and rubbed it all over til I was satisfied.
I think they're cute :)
I think they're cute :)
I'm not even going to pretend like this wreath deserves a tutorial. It turned out cute, but trial and error is the way to go. I couldn't remake it if I tried.
Not being artistic in any way, I was pretty proud of my haunted house. I sat it on my front porch to display in my apartment complex. Our apartments are pretty spaced out, so we pretty much never get anyone walking past that isn't on their way to our apartment, so I peeked out the window when I saw a shadow passing by a few days ago. A cute little boy walked up to my pumpkin and I watched him sound out the letters to figure out what exactly it said. It was really cute. Then he stole our newspaper and ran away, and I haven't seen him since.
And some adorable floating witches hats for you.
Also, I made some great little cinnamon apple chips too. They smelled and tasted delightful. It was just sliced apples, cinnamon, and sugar on a baking sheet and then you baked them at the lowest temperature until they're dry. I made a pretty small batch.
Just don't attempt to cut off your finger halfway through slicing apples and you'll be able to make a batch big enough to share.
