I went to the dollartree today and saw things like this...
and this...
On Pinterest I have been seeing things like this...
and this...
and this...
Is it that time of year already, where we are starting to gear up for Halloween and then do a straight nose dive to Christmas?
Are you starting to craft for halloween or thinking about how spooky you are going to decorate your yard? How about Christmas? Are you ready for that sprint to the finish line?
My 12 yr daughter wanted to be a vampire for Halloween this year and we had issues coming up with ways for her to have vampire teeth.
I went to a Halloween shop and found these super cool teeth that glue onto your incisors.
but they were $10 and for just one little part of a costume I thought that was a bit much. It didn't help that it was not recommended for children.
Another problem that we had that made these (and almost every other idea I had) not work is this
she is missing one of her incisors and the other is just starting to grow in.
One idea was those cheep novelty fanged teeth
but believe it or not we could not find these anywhere. I'm sure most of us had a pair of these at one time in our childhood. From what I remember they were very uncomfortable and were hard to keep in and to talk with too. I figured there had to be a easy but better way.
So I went to youtube to see what I could find.
First I found this video
Even though these are awesome I didn't have the time to make the different molds and once again she didn't have incisor teeth to work with. Not to mention the price would probably be more than the ones at the Halloween shop.
Then I found this cute little video
What is she? 5? So stinking cute. She takes a little while to get to the point but this is a neat tempory idea. But once again we ran into the problem with no incisors to work with.
Then I found this one that was a spring board for my idea.
This idea by itself is great but, you know, the incisor thing.
So I went to the store to see what I could come up with. I went to the Dollar General up the street from my house. Just so you know I decided to tackle this about 1 1/2 hours before we were heading out to trick or treat.
I found the nails
they were only $1.
Then I went looking for the denture cream to see if maybe I could just stick it to her gum. That's basically what dentures do right?
That is when I saw this
and the little spark went off. Since it was only $2 I thought sure why not.
I got home and chose which nail would work best in her mouth, which happened to be the smallest.
Then I filed them down but not to pointy so that it wouldn't accidentally poke or cut her.
Then I glued them onto the mouth guard. I wanted to use super glue but since I didn't have any and also since this would be in her mouth I didn't know how toxic that could be so I just used hot glue. They can peel off fairly easy so it was easy to adjust but they stayed on good enough that they lasted the night.
Here they are in her mouth.
See the guard sits up on the gum line. When she closes her mouth you can't even see the guard or the top of the fake nail.
Here she is in her make up and teeth.
They look awesome if I do say so myself and for $3 it was a perfect fit (even without incisor teeth lol)
She was very excited about them and they definitely topped off her costume.
I have never really been a wreath type of person (except at Christmas of course). But after seeing all the beautiful wreaths around that other bloggers are making I had to try my hand at it.
Here is one that I made out of leave branches and a wreath form that I got at the dollar store. I used a brownish glittery ribbon that I had on hand to wrap around the wreath form. I just snipped the leaves off of the branch and glued them together in groups of threes kind of forming a triangle. Then I glued them to the wreath sorta of interweaving them. I wish I had thought to take pictures of the different steps. This was my first attempt and I was really unsure how it would turn out, but I am really impressed with myself
After I made this my kids wanted a Halloween wreath so we headed back out to the dollar store to see what we could find. (I did take pictures of this one but I found out later that my 2 yr old had gotten hold of my camera and the lens was smudged so sorry for the blurry pictures).
I got another wreath form and found some small skulls. I had the black ribbon on hand. It actually has purple glitter on it but I think it worked.
The skulls had this bulge that would not let it lay flat on the wreath
so using my utility knife I cut it off.
Then I wrapped the ribbon around the wreath
and glued the skulls on.
Here it is hanging on my door.
Close up shot.
My kids are really excited about it. I think it turned out good.
