Great Halloween Crafts For Kids

I found some awesome ideas for kid's Halloween crafts while cruising around the ole' web:

Spider Hatchlings

Cute Felt Owl

Moveable Mummy

Paper Bag Puppets

Paper Owls (found on Pinterest, with no backlink....but you can see how they are easily made)

Also, kind of a tangent, but here isa great giveaway for a $100 Lowes card:
http://tatertotsandjello.com/2013/09/link-party-palooza-lowes-giveaway.html

I need your help!!

My dog Chloe is entered into a Halloween Costume Contest and she needs votes!!!

Click HERE to vote for Chloe!!! All you need to do is type the word CHLOE into the box above the pictures and click submit!!!

Don't forget to look at my Halloween Craft Tutorials!!!!
I've got tons of ideas:

Pom Pom Pumpkins

Moss Monsters!

Duct Tape Halloween Wreath Tutorial

I shared this post at these parties (and all of those in the tab above):
Tatertots and Jello

A Refinished Cabinet With Hummingbirds

I found this old cabinet for $5 at a yard sale.

I WISH I had a before picture..... when I was moving, I was working on this project, and I was so busy that I forgot to take one!!! 

I can give you an idea though.

It was a stenciled wood design with raised grapes on vines, the wood was stained dark and some of it painted green, kinda like this shelf (but, you know, a cabinet):

Pretty old fashioned. 

And, from my point of view, grapevines are *out*. 

So here it what I did:

-Sanded it. Especially the raised grape spots. 

-Wiped it off and then spray painted it white on the outside and inside. Let it dry.

-Painted the doors a peachy color on the outside. 

-Distressed it with some sandpaper, especially areas where normal wear would occur (handles, sides, doors).

-Took a towel and some brown paint, watered down, and rubbed it all over the surface of the outside of the cabinet to antique it:

Making sure to get the areas where I used the sanded it down well:

One the inside of the cabinet......

-Modpodged some antique sheet music to the inside walls of the cabinet, and the inside of the small drawer:

-Then, on the doors, I used a hummingbird image from The Graphics Fairy and printed it out onto regular paper. Then, I transferred the image using old-standby transer paper and left it the way it was. I really liked the color of the graphite against the door color:

-To finish the project, I sprayed the outside with a clear matte acrylic. 

What do you think?

I shared this post at the following parties (and all the places in my parties tab above):
Inspiration Exchange
Between Naps On The Porch
Tatertots and Jello

A Marvelous Mess

Well, I wasn't up to any new crafts (at least that I showed you) this week, but I did share some mportant messages:

A Twitter party for Child Passenger Safety Week. Hosted to support the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

So many people have their car seat in the wrong way or are using the wrong seat for their child!!!

Are YOU one of them??

Click HERE to find out!!!!!

Also, I shared with you the Get Ready Get Safe campaign for Save the Children.

You see, my State of Maine failed the Emergency Preparedness test for kids in school and childcare. 

So, I wrote to my Governor and shared it with you!!

Did your state fail (28 states *did*)?

Find out HERE!!

Don't forget to write to your Governor to change your states status. We need to do this for our children!!

Now, you all shared with some awesome projects: 

Here is my fave:

Make Your Own Sushi by Domestic Bliss Squared.

Yum! What a fun project!

Now, on to the party: