Halloween Craftiness

This Halloween has been a particularly crafty one for me. Not only have I helped decorate hay bales, but I have also spent some time making a Halloween Treat Tree. Heather suggested that we make the Halloween Treat Tree, and I was more than happy to join in the fun!

The tree was originally made for the Halloween Festival that we were participating in. However, the festival was canceled due to rain, and the tree ended up in my office. It is rather large due to the fact that it was originally designed to be outside, but I have to admit it still looks cute as an office decoration.

I should have had Heather take the pictures of the tree because my photography skills definitely leave something to be desired. These pictures don't show how cute the tree really is, but at least you can get an idea of how it turned out!

Here are a couple of full tree photos. The base of the tree is a clay pot spray painted black. The tree itself is a branch spray painted black. The branch is held in place with oasis (used in flower arrangements). We stacked the green blocks of oasis in the pot and secured the branch by poking it through the oasis. We then covered the top of the pot with a piece of cardboard cut to size and placed black stones on top of the cardboard. If you are making a smaller tree, it would be better to use plaster of paris to secure the branch. Since our tree was so big, we didn't use plaster of paris because it would make the tree too heavy and hard to transport.


Here is a close-up of the tree. I love the spooky black branches and the precious treat bags!


And of course-a picture of one of the treat bags! We found the small white sacks at Hobby Lobby. We stuffed the bags with candy, folded over the top, and used a hole puncher to punch the hole. We then tied a cute orange ribbon on them and hung them on our tree.

My coworkers have really enjoyed the tree being in my office! They think the tree is so cute, and their eyes light up just a little when I tell them they can pick a treat bag off the tree!

A Glimpse of Heaven

Yesterday I planned on blogging about the Halloween Tree, Scout's Halloween Costume, and I also planned to share with you more of the decorated hay bales. However instead of blogging about all of those things, I didn't blog at all. In fact, I didn't even touch my computer last night. Do you want to know what I was doing? I was playing with puppies!!!

Keller and Katie (two of the sweetest friends we could ever ask for) took Michael and I to visit 9 of the most adorable lab puppies I have ever seen! I had so much fun playing with those sweet little puppies! It was definitely my idea of Heaven!

Without further ado, here are the pictures of those precious little furry babies!!!

Pictured Below: Keller and Katie playing with the puppies!

Pictured Below: Katie the Puppy Whisperer!

Pictured Below: Michael playing with one of our favorite puppies! We lovingly referred to him as the droopy puppy because he had the cutest little droopy face!

Pictured Below: Me with the puppies! These sweet little guys just climbed all over you as soon as you sat down! At one point, I had all 9 puppies in my lap!

Hay (Bale) Fever!

Today has been a fun but super busy Monday. Heather and I (with the help of Savannah) finished decorating our hay bales (we ended up having to decorate two) for the Halloween Festival tomorrow. We began at 9:00 am and did not finish until well after 6:00 pm. All three of us are exhausted, but it was well worth the work! Our hay bales ended up so cute!

For our first hay bale we decided to make it into a vampire bat. His wings were quite a challenge, but we were pleased with the way he ended up.


I think our second hay bale might be my favorite! For our second hay bale, we created a robot. You can't see him very well, but he is complete with two working clocks on his body and a spiral of wire above his head.


Oh, and I have to include this picture just because it makes me giggle. This was my attempt to take my picture with the robot.


Our hay bales are cute, but there are really some amazing hay bales out there. I will try to get pictures of some of my favorites to share with you later in the week. Also, stay tuned for pictures of our trick-or-treat tree and the special collar I made Scout (my sweet little cocker spaniel) to wear to the festival!!

A Hot Dog in Target

Heather and I were in Target earlier this week purchasing supplies for the Halloween carnival. While perusing the aisles of the Halloween section, I happened upon a hot dog costume. It was simply hanging on a hanger, so I realized that I could easily slip it on. Of course, I did just that. I put on the hot dog costume in the middle of Target.

Heather (wearing a purple witch's hat with feathers) happened to be on the phone with her husband when I decided to strut my stuff as a hot dog. She got one glance at me, started laughing, and pointed to my costume asking, "what's that?".

A little hurt that she couldn't tell I was a hot dog I replied, "It's a hot dog costume. I'm supposed to be a hot dog.".

"No! What's that?", she said as she pointed between my legs.

I quickly looked down to see that the hot dog costume did have a piece that seemed a bit phallic. (See picture above) I immediately covered my hot dog private area and shyly asked Heather not to look. By this point, Heather was laughing so hard that she couldn't speak. Her poor husband, who was still on the phone, had no idea what was going on. I think the only words she could get out were "Jennifer" and "Hot Dog".

I told Michael (my husband) about our hot dog costume adventure, and he thought it was hilarious. In the midst of his giggling he also stated the obvious, "You and Heather should not be allowed to work together." It is true that Heather and I really should not be allowed to work together. We always get our jobs done, but we have way, way too much fun in the process. Thank goodness our boss hasn't caught on!

I'm Just A Little Shy!

In real life, I can not be considered a shy person. In fact, I often carry on full and meaningful conversations with strangers. It's a gift and a curse! :)

However, I have found that I am rather shy when it comes to my blog friends and Facebook. Lately many of my blog friends have been popping up in my suggested friends on Facebook. I'm not sure how Facebook knows that we are blog friends-I think it is rather spooky. I always get excited to see my blog friends on Facebook, but when I go to send a friend request I get shy. I often worry that my blog friends will think I am crazy and that there is no way they would want to be my Facebook friend. I always talk myself out of sending a friend request.

Due to my Facebook shyness, I thought I would write a quick post and let you know that I am on Facebook. I am more than happy to have my blog friends as Facebook friends too, so if you are interested in being my friend on Facebook(no pressure) feel free to e-mail me at jenniferthepinkchick@yahoo.com, and I will send you a link to my Facebook page. The only thing I ask is that you don't mention my last name or place of work in the blog world.

Oh and because posts with pictures are more fun! Here is a picture of me with a very large cement rabbit. It is also my Facebook Profile Picture.

My Favorite Things: Halloween Edition

It is so hard to believe that Halloween is just around the corner. At work, Halloween is usually very uneventful, but this year Heather and I have a Halloween work project! To support a local school and charity, we are decorating a hay bale and participating in a Halloween carnival. I will share details about the hay bale later, but I could not resist sharing our latest craft idea with you. Heather brought this idea to the table to help spice up our trick-or-treat station at the Halloween carnival-we are making a Halloween Treat Tree!

Woman's Day (on-line) has an easy tutorial to help you make your very own Halloween Treat Tree. You can find the DIY instructions here. The Halloween Treat Tree is a cute, simple, and cheap Halloween decoration or can even serve as a Halloween centerpiece.


Heather and I are straying from the instructions just a little. Our tree will be a good bit bigger. We are also using small paper treat bags tied with orange ribbon instead of using the cloth sacks shown above. The kids will be able to pick their Halloween treat right off the tree! I will post pictures as soon as our project is complete, and I hope that you will share your pictures with me if you decide to make this adorable Halloween craft!

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