Halloween lights

I saw this idea for these really cool Halloween lights and I just had to make them. My parent's party and having a "craft day" with my crafting bestie Gail gave the push and time I needed.

 First I needed a paper dixie cup template for the Halloween paper (provided generously by Gail from her giant Halloween paper collection lol). Then I started the arduous task of cutting all of the paper. 

 I painted the cup with mod-podge and wrapped the paper around it. 

 I alternated the cute paper and wrapped 50 cups.

 Now, my dad said that he definitely had a string of 50 lights somewhere in the garage but when we looked we could only find strings of 100. If I had 50 lights I would have just poked one light into each cup but instead of making 50 more cups I just folded the lights in half and poked two lights into each cup.

Here's what they look like when they are finished. I just {heart} them!!!!!! I think I'm going to have to make them for every holiday now. I even might have to use cups to jazz up my Christmas lights this year =)

Halloween-ing

I haven't posted in a while...but that doesn't mean I haven't been crafting!!!!
When I was growing up, we would have a huge Halloween party at our house every year. My parents would invite all of our friends and their parents and we would bob for apples and hunt for treats in the haystack. It's been years since we've had a Halloween party but this year my parents hosted our first annual "Family Halloween Dinner Party". We're all older now but it's still nice to get together, bob for apples and eat yummy treats. Not to mention....I had an excuse to do some awesome Halloween crafts!

Here are some of the recap pictures, I'll also do another post about my cool Halloween lights.

 Do you know what this pumpkin is made out of??? It's my newest paint sample project!!

 My mom made the cool candle decor above. She wedged gummy bears and worms in between two different sized glass candle holder and then put a candle inside it. It was sooo cute....I guess I owe her big time for passing down those crafting genes!!

 BATS!!!!!!!

My "wine jug pumpkins", they make me pretty happy because they remind me of Pottery Barn =)

Happy Halloween!!!!