Boo Bags!

Tonight I assembled 2 boo bags for some of our neighbors. We are the new family on our street and most of our neighbors are much older than us (55+). My hubby insisted that I boo the neighbors and so here is the result. 

If you are unfamiliar with booing your neighbors then read on. (Read on even if you do!) So you make up your boo bags (qty 2) and set them secretly on your neighbors porches. (Don't get caught!) I included a cute cup, ghost peeps, a candy corn tube, and Reese's Pumpkins in my boo bags.

 Inside the bag you include instructions for "passing the boo around". Once you've been booed, you are to put the "we've been booed" sign in your window so that you don't get booed again. The boo bag recipients make boo bags and continue the little gift bag cycle. The idea is that all of your neighbors (and hopefully yourself too) get one eventually. 

I started by printing off these free Boo Bag instructions and cut them out. I only put the "We've been booed!" cut out on the bag but here they are side by side.

I decorated the bags with stickers and filled them with the goodies and instructions!

Most of the goodies made it into the bags...

But not all of them... Shhhh.

All in all it was fun and hopefully they will make the neighbors smile. Do you plan on booing your neighbors?

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Indian Costume For Parties

Are you aware that halloween stores run clearances before it's even October? I wasn't but now I am a fan! The hubby, toddler, and I went on a trip to the halloween store yesterday. We ended picking up a play costume for Elena. Even though I made one myself, it turns out that it is beautiful to look at and put her in but she can't really play in it. Not to mention, it creates a glitter bomb in my house just breathing on it. (; Not so practical when attending halloween parties at friends' houses. So anyways, I was completely blown away to find a clearance section a halloween store. It was even better that my favorite costume I found for Elena was marked down to a cool ten dollars -SCORE! 

So I have two Disney inspire costumes for her this year; Pocahontas & Tinkerbell.

I'd say she's a lucky girl either way and I'm a lucky mommy :)

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Tinkerbell Halloween Homemade Costuming

When I think of homemade costumes I think of falling apart, ragged, crappy looking 80s prom dresses that your mom took in and hemmed to fit you when you were eight years old. I never  thought that I would be making my daughter her Halloween costume now but that day has come my friends, scared yet? The truth is it was easy and actually turned out really nicely, much to my memory's dismay ;). 

And so Elena will be Tinkerbell this year, much to my hubby's dismay. He somehow got it in his head that we were going to be a zombie family. Just wait till he finds out that he's going to be Peter Pan... Hehe in tights! What kind of homemade costumes will all of you be making?

-Jenn