Music Boxes

Music boxes have within melodies they carry with them. Once they're opened music fills the air. -from Rigoletto

Be Mine Valentine

My husband is the best! I love flowers on Valentine's day!!!

Lie Detector

Spoonfuls of Sugar

Before Thanksgiving comes around....tomorrow, I need to post Halloween! This was my first Trunk or Treat. For those who have never done a Trunk or Treat, people gather in a parking lot, park their cars in rows, and decorate their trunks. Then kids come and collect candy from all the parked cars. It's a lot faster, safer, and easier for the kids. I had fun putting together and decorating my trunk. I even had the song "Spoonfuls of Sugar" playing on repeat. It was also really fun to dress up with my husband! Enjoy spoonfuls of sugar.

Advance to Boardwalk

My mom wanted a Monopoly bracelet. After some research, this is what I came up with. I didn't do it all by myself this time... My awesome husband helped drill the needed holes through some of the metal game pieces. He's much better than I am at drilling a straight hole. The game picture charms are made with watch backs and resin.

My Junk Drawer jewelry

New creations.

Halloween home-made apothecary jars!

I bought a number of different glass jars and sundae glasses at a yard sale last year. At a booth in a craft show, a vendor had put them together like soda shoppe candy buffet containers or those nice apothecary glass jars and I wanted to make some. They've been sitting in storage until last weekend when my mom suggested making them Halloween jars. So my mom and I adventurously started a new project. 

She helped me paint the bottoms (sundae glasses and candlestick holders) and the tops of the jars with orange and black spray paint. We used matte black and semi-gloss orange. 

 As they were drying we found labels for the jars, candy to go inside of the jars, and ribbon to decorate them. We found cute free labels to put on the Halloween jars off the Internet and printed them out. We had fun looking for goodies to go with each label. There were a lot of cute ones to choose from so it was difficult to narrow it down to the number of jars we had. 

The websites for the labels we used are listed below:
www.squidoo.com/free-halloween-bottle-labels
www.lilluna.com/happy-halloween/
www.wallwritten.com/catalog/newsletter-october.html

WinCo sells bulk candy which was perfect and is inexpensive. The sundae glasses were turned upside down and the jars were glued to the bottom of the glasses. They were glued together with loctite clear silicone. 

Some labels were attached by being tied around with the ribbon and others were simply attached with clear packaging tape directly to the front of the jar. Ribbon was tied around on tops and bottoms randomly to give variety. 

 They turned out exactly as I pictured. They are perfect decor and treats for Halloween!

The candy used for each label is listed below:
Toad Tongues - Fruit by the foot
Witch Fingers - chocolate halloween fingers or cheetos
Eyeballs - chocolate or gumball eyes
Dyed Bat Droppings - nerds
Pixi Dust - pixi sticks
Mummy Dust - powdered donuts
Lightly Salted Innards - white chocolate pretzels
Worms - gummy worms (sour or regular)
Dragon Scales - corn nuts
Snake Venom - sour zots
Frog Eyes - green gumdrops or green apple gummy rings