This is Halloween...

I love Halloween! This year, I decided I'd make some tombstones. I would have liked to buy them but I was trying to save some cash and I was afraid the Styrofoam ones would just blow away. It can get windy here. I had some scrap wood leftover from basement projects and started sketching ideas. I came up with 4 patterns and started cutting. (Please try and ignore my open-toed shoes, I'm pretty sure they're not OSHA approved.)

Then I started painting. I coated them with some primer gray spray paint and added texture with a sponge. (I'm a little embarrassed that I was faux finishing something but oh well.)

This is how a few turned out.

Jack said he wanted his own tombstone for him so I made him this.

Next year I might make a Juliet one and a Maxine one but for now, I'm good. All told, I spent $1.96 on 2 cans of cheap primer spray paint. I had the rest of the paints from other projects and leftover brackets from basement plumbing. I was pleased with how they turned out! I made 4 total. Now I kind of wish I had a fog machine. Eeeeee eeeee eeeee!

My other homemade decoration was a spider's egg nest. It hangs from the front chandelier in the entry.

I really feel like my Halloween decorations are where I want them to be and feel pretty satisfied with the creepiness factor in my house.

Potty training update: Juliet has done really well and is going to the bathroom pretty much by herself. I haven't been able to get her to go #2 in the toilet so we're still working on that. Jack only had the one success that day but I'm hoping things keep looking up. Other than that, Merril and all the kids have/had the flu. I have somehow escaped so far.