While these darling little clothespin elves aren’t available anymore, I did enjoy perusing the Flickr stream and blog of AllSorts. I was trolling Flickr for holiday ideas, and stumbled on these. They look like something cute my Aunt Patsy could make!
A few photos of the decor we did for the costume party. Chrysi had the great idea to do a fall-ish, pumpkin theme, so I went and got some felt and decided to recreate that candy corn banner that I saw on Etsy the other day. It was such a simple project – all I did was cut up the felt into triangles and I used fabric glue to adhere it all. It was a good naptime project while Jude was sleeping.
With the leftover felt, I glued it all end-to-end, and then cut a scallop design, making a fun little runner (shown below). Ok, and aren’t those black rats hilarious? They were sticky – the kids had a lot of fun with them!
And what’s a fall costume party without a bunch of pumpkins? For $10, I bought 2 bags of small pie pumpkins and I had the idea that for the activity for the kids, we could decorate them. Kind of like Mr. Potato Heads. Except Mr. Pumpkin Heads. I bought a bunch of googly eyes, feathers, pompoms, glitter glue, and stickers and let the kids have at.
Couldn’t resist a few owls or funkins, either. 
I glittered a Funkin for my mom with a big “D” on it.
Yay yay yay! Here’s my candycorn banners. I’m totally in love with them.
Mmmm, yummy.
In Mom & Dad’s living room. Their house looked so pretty and we were SO thankful that they let us have the party there!
Chrysi’s amazing pumpkin cupcakes! They were decorated gorgeously, and the cupcake itself was pumpkin and chocolate chips. I think these are my newest faves.
I brought over my Martha Stewart trick or treat banner from my mantle.
Oops, here’s the owls again.
I totally forgot to take pictures of the favors we did. Chrysi found these cool little buckets in the dollar spot area at Target and filled them with all kinds of goodies and some glow sticks.
Hilarious photo of my folks wearing the kids’ wigs.
Enjoying cupcakes. That’s Carolyn on the left – she’s ready to have that baby!
First round of “Happy Birthday” – to Noah!
Lighting the candles
When it was Jude’s turn to be sung to, he lit up like Christmas morning. It was absolutely precious.
Finally, in memory of my Grandmother Blanche, we of course had to have her popcorn balls. I love to make them every year at this time. I miss you, Grandmother! You would have loved this party!
In my mind, perfect design consists of form and function. It’s beautiful, but it has a purpose. That’s exactly what these gorgeous pimento Fret Boxes are. Perfect as a side table, but doing double-duty as storage boxes. Maybe you need a way to store your kids’ toys and DVDs out of the way in the living room. This is the perfect solution without sacrificing style.
You have to go check out Modern Chic Home for other goodies. It was just launched by design blogger Belle Maison and I am really impressed. She has such an amazing eye and her picks are really cool. There’s definitely some unique stuff there that you just won’t see anywhere else.
I’m really persnickety about stuff when it comes to holiday decor. I want it to be different – something chic, not cheesy. I can’t really put a finger on it, but it’s like I know it when I see it. And that’s exactly the feeling that I got when I saw these Christmas stockings by etsy darling Plum Cushion. I was reading a writeup about them over at Little Green Notebook (they’re a sponsor there), and she mentioned that they’re also making Christmas stockings. And I didn’t even have to SEE them, I knew I would love them.
And I do. I think you will too if you love fabulous fabrics as much as I do. I’m thinking that these green Imperial Trellis stockings would look a-mazing hanging on our mantel. A.MA.ZING.
She has plenty of other gorgeous fabrics to choose from. I’d hop on this and get on the bandwagon before she gets swamped for Christmas!
I have a thing for wreaths. I know, this is totally granny of me, but every time I get a Pottery Barn or Williams Sonoma catalog in the mail, especially at this time of year, I am all over the wreaths. I love them. So when I was perusing Etsy the other day and stumbled upon the KnockKnocking wreaths, I practically crowed with delight. They’re handmade using yarn, and I think they have such a distinctive, unusual look. Almost Anthropologie-esque.
Too cute – check out her shop here. KnockKnocking at Etsy.
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