End Of The Month Randomness [October]
Happy Halloween!!!
I started this End of The Month Randomness series last month for September and I had so much fun putting that post together that I have been looking forward to doing it again this month. The main reason for this post is that it encourages me to clean up my picture files at the end of the month. I happen to take a ton of pictures every month, and so as to not take up too much of my computer's storage, I like to regularly go through all of my pictures, keep the best ones and delete all the rest.
As I'm going via my pics, I recognize that there is a ton of stuff that I by no means published about. So nowadays, I'm going to share with you a few backstage, assignment fails, and just random bits of my life moments.
Let's begin with these adorable little pumpkins that my husband's secretary grew and gave to us.
I placed them in a tray inside the center of our desk.
The maximum thrilling thing that came about this month, was celebrating my son, Jaxon's ninth Birthday. As culture, I made rice crispies with sprinkles on pinnacle to bypass out to his classmates.
And then he had a bit celebration and invited multiple pals over. When I shared this image on social media, I received a number of questions concerning the balloons. Everyone notion they had been a cool DIY undertaking I came up with, however nope, they had been from the dollar tree.
Jaxon wanted an Elemental Battlegrounds topic for his birthday party, that's from a video game he loves. And so this is the cake we came up with and had Albersons bakery make for us.
For the party, we played some games and then headed over to a local corn maze. I thought this sign at the corn maze was really fun.
I dyed my hair back to red. I think it's fun to be blonde for summer and red for fall. Red is my natural hair color by the way.
Don't mind that grainy picture.... that was taken with my old phone.....but this month I got a new phone! I went with the Iphone 7 Plus and I couldn't be more Happy with it. My favorite part is that I can call my best friend without my phone hanging up on her :) Also, I love the camera on this phone, especially the portrait setting that adds a blurred background as seen in this picture of a peacock feather. Talk about random, my son found this feather while on a walk one night.
My project fail for the month (yep, every month there is at least one fail ..... #life) was this craft project that my library was putting together. I'm not sure if the other gals had luck with their lanterns but I did not.
The idea turned into to apply Mod Podge to attach leaves interior of the jar. The Mod Podge might dry clean after which you may add a bit tea light or fairy lighting fixtures within the jar to create a cheerful little lantern.
At first I tried using fake leaves but I couldn't get them to stick. So I went outside and gathered real leaves. The real leaves stuck a little better, but after two days my Mod Podge still hadn't dried, and the smell of it was so horrible that I ended up tossing it away.
This month, we did some Halloween decorating. You probably already saw our Halloween Entryway.
But what I did not speak tons about turned into the old window.
Some friends of mine gave it to me when they were cleaning out their shed. Before it looked like this:
I eliminated the broken glass, gave it a very good scrubbing, and then introduced in some new glass.....Well kinda.
At first, I tried using a piece of glass from a picture frame, but it wouldn't fit. Getting glass custom cut can be expensive, and so I came up with a great alternative. You know how sometimes picture frames come with a piece of plastic that looks like glass? Well I had an extra big piece of that laying around from an old poster frame. I just used scissors to cut my "glass" and trim it up for a perfect fit. I then just used Elmers glue to add the "glass" to the window frames. I'm pleased with how it turned out.
I took down the huge steer horns that I had putting above my sofa earlier than, after which re-hung my
easyDIY picture ledge, after first painting it white.
Of course we carved us a few pumpkins and located them at the porch.
And lastly, we cease the month with Halloween. My notable Mom-in-law made those costumes for my boys. Liam is dressed up as Link and Jax is dressed as a Bokoblin, each are characters from Zelda breath of the wild.
And there you have it! That wraps up another month. I hope you enjoyed this this totally random post.
Have a Safe and Happy Halloween!
Emily