October's Word

The word for this month is:

A friendly sort of spider!

Here is another pattern I made up.  I LOVE how this cute little spider turned out.  He is very simple to make and I have a couple of them around the house.  The boys love them.

A not so scary witch

I wanted a witch to decorate for Halloween with.  Since I was no where near any type of store that sold a witch - I made my own.  The pattern and design came completely from my own mind.  I used what I had on hand and I have to admit - she turned out exactly the way I was envisioning her.  I have yet to put a mouth on her.  I've made several attempts but nothing has looked right yet.  Here she is:

Fabric pumpkins!

I have seen these little babies EVERYWHERE!  I finally decided to make some.  I think it took me 10 minutes to make the 4 of them.  This is a very simple, fast craft!

Halloween Crafts

First off - I've been trying to publish this post for about a week but due to technical difficulties I have been unable to.  Finally, the stupid computer is working right so here goes.

I pulled out my Halloween decorations and found I didn't have all that many.  So, I did what any good crafter would do - I made some.  Here are 5 of my recent projects:

Crocheted Ear-Flap Hats on display

A friend of mine made a little earflap hat for Kaden so I could look at it and make some myself.  I've been wanting to make them for the kids for a while but have never found a pattern that I liked.  I made three hats all with the same colors but I varied the strip patterns.  Brace yourself - you are about to see the CUTEST little boys EVER!!

The TALKER!

The TOUGH-GUY!

The TORMENTER/TEASER

Three little CUTIES!!

Canning!

This year I did a couple new things:

PLUM JAM!

 (The property we bought to build our house on had 2 established plum trees on it so I made good use of them this year.)

APPLESAUCE!

(I've always been told that applesauce is hard to make and takes a long time.  NOT TRUE!  It took me an hour and a half from start to finish!)

And of course, our favorite:

PEARS!!