Halloween Candy Chest

It's a new week!!!  I am so happy to have another week of school behind me!  In case you didn't know, I am in school full time.  Sometimes I don't know what I was thinking going back to school at my age.  It gets a little bit CrAzY that is for sure!  Being a busy mother to five kids, being in school full time, and fostering my creative addiction, can be a lot to juggle at times.  I am sure that once I am finished with school (I graduate with my Bachelors Degree in December 2011) I will be so glad I lived through the craziness and finished!

So, this weeks creation is a SUPER fun one.  Well, at least I think it is!  I took a plain unfinished wooden box like they carry at craft stores (Michaels, JoAnns, Hobby Lobby, etc) and spruced it up to become a super cool box to hold my candy for the trick-or-treaters.

Sorry that I don't have a before picture.  I was so excited to make the box that I forgot to take a before pic! ;)  If I end up back at the craft store before the end of the week, I will snap a quick picture of one of the plain boxes on the shelf and add it to my post :)

I added paint, scrapbook paper, and then some fun Halloween Decor (signs, ghosts, spider, cobwebs) to make my SPOOKY Halloween Treasure Chest. 

To get the spider to stay on the top, I simply drilled some small holes and slide his legs into them.  I added a drop of E6000 to each hole to make sure he would stay put.  My kiddos LOVE this box!

Thanks for stopping by this week!  Don't forget to come back and check out Thrilling Thursday each Thursday.  It is a linky party that I host where YOU get to link up YOUR creations! 

I am joining THESE LINKY PARTIES and THESE BLOG HOPS this week.  Stop by and check them out!

Fun Foam Halloween Costumes

My local craft store had some rolls of Fun Foam on clearance. I snapped them up and wanted to see what costumes I could come up with for Halloween.  These costumes were VERY inexpensive and VERY easy to make :)

For M&M Mini, I just took the fun foam and cut it into circles.  Then I cut M's out with my Cricut and glued them on the fun foam.  I used a stapler and stapled the M&M's onto black sweats.  You could glue them on using fabric glue, but I decided this way they can be pulled off and the sweats can be reused.

To do the large M&M, I just cut two large circles out of the Fun foam and then made straps for the shoulders with the remaining fun foam.  I bought some red gloves and a knit hat.  I added an M (cut with my Cricut) onto the hat and the front of the M&M.

Sponge Bob took a little bit more time, but he is all cut out from Fun Foam pieces and glued onto a large yellow rectangular piece of fun foam.  I used a marker to make the three red dots on each of his cheeks.  The hat is made out of a piece of fun foam too.

What are you and your kids going to be for Halloween this year???

I will be LINKING UP HERE this week and BLOG HOPPING HERE too!  Go check them out!

Hope to see you back to Paisley Passions on Wednesday for my Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop, it's a GREAT way to meet new bloggers, AND on Thursday for my Thrilling Thursday Linky Party where YOU can link up YOUR creations!  :)  Hope to see you there!!!