Candy Corn Cookies and R.I.P. Pudding Cups

I love making goodies for the holidays and Halloween was no exception.  Here's what I made.  And thanks to Pinterest for sucking all creativity out of me but still giving me great ideas of cool things to make.

First are the Candy Corn Cookies.  I made some sugar cookie dough from scratch but messed up somewhere so I had to run to the store and buy some premade cookie dough.  Thanks Pillsbury for saving the day.  I dyed the dough orange and then used a knife to cut out triangles.  I have a box of 101 cookie cutters and you would think it would have a triangle shaped one but no.

Then I baked them at 350° for 10 mins.  That was too long (they were too crispy) so for my second batch I only cooked it for 8 mins.  Perfection.

I melted some colored chocolate from Michaels and dipped the wide end of the cookie in yellow and the small end in white to make it look like a piece of Candy Corn.

I put them on parchment paper and then into the freezer to harden the chocolate quickly, then put them in some cute goodies bags, also from Michaels, and last into a little tote, from the $1 section at Target.  And now you have the perfect little goodie to deliver to your friends.

Now for the R.I.P. Pudding Cups.  I bought 4 boxes of instant chocolate pudding.  I made the pudding and then divided it evenly into clear plastic cups.  I got 12 out it.  There would have been more but I was generous to my little girl and let her have some.  I used a paper towel to wipe up the edges since I was a little sloppy in getting the pudding into the cups.  I stored the pudding cups in the fridge to keep it cool while I prepared the rest.

I used Chocolate Cream Oreos for the dirt.  The brown seemed more fitting for a graveyard look.  I placed them in a zip lock bag and crushed them with the wrong end of a hammer.

Then I used Mint Chocolate Milano cookies for the headstones.  I bought writing food gel from Michaels and wrote RIP on the tops of the cookies.

Last I put it all together.  Sprinkle the crumbled Oreos onto the pudding.  Stick the Milano cookies into the Oreo crumbs and partially into the pudding for more stability.  And now you have some spooky and tasty treats.

Halloween Wreath

Okay, I'm actually back to make a real post.  Shocking...I know.  Anyway, I decided a while back that I wanted to make a Halloween Ribbon Wreath, much like my Valentine's one (you can see the post with instructions here).  Unfortunately, I now live in a small town where the only store that sells ribbon is Walmart.  And there wasn't much of a selection.  So, I bought all the Halloween ribbon they had (plus a straw wreath), but it wasn't enough.  Ergo, I put that little project aside and went on with my life for a few weeks.  Then I was meeting some friends in the city (an hours drive away), and they were going to Hobby Lobby.  Just what I needed!  My friend picked up two more rolls of wide Halloween ribbon for me and I was good to go.  Unfortunately, life and my increasingly slippery brain got in the way and I completely forgot about my project.  That is until yesterday...the day before Halloween.  So, I whipped it up yesterday afternoon and last night.  And it turned out super cute.  This time I did prewrap the wreath in ribbon before I started to glue the ribbons on and it turned out even better (you weren't able to see straw in the gaps like last time).

All of my items ready to be hot-glued.

The finished product (I love how there is just a little bit
 of green to break up the orange and black)

The finished product from further away

Ricks Halloween

Let's play a game.  I'm going to show you three pictures and you have to figure out how they correlate, okay?

Did you figure it out?  If not, maybe this will help.

I hope you figured it out because that's the last clue.  My family dressed as Rock, Paper, Scissors for Halloween.  I got the idea from Google and then got to work.  It was pretty simple and they turned out great, if I do say so myself.   So here's what I did.

For the "Rock" I bought some gray clothes from Walmart.  Then I used my friends Cricut machine to make stencils for the words.  If you don't have a Cricut or Silhouette or know someone who does, don't fret.  Just get some parchment paper and you can trace the words yourself and cut them out.  Then iron the paper to your shirt and then paint over it with fabric paint.  Allow to dry and then peel off the paper and voila!  You have an awesome shirt.

For the "Paper" I bought some poster board at Target and cut it in half.  I used a cookie sheet as a ruler to make my lines straight since a ruler wasn't long enough.  I think I used some sort of bottle (sorry I can't remember) to make the circles for punched holes in the paper.  Then I used a hole punch at the top and tied some ribbon through the two holes so I could wear it around my neck.

And last is the "Scissors."  Again I used poster board and just drew a pair of scissors using real ones as a guide.  I cut it out and wrapped and taped the bottom half in aluminum foil and painted the handles.  I traced a glass bowl to make the center circle, cut it out and then painted and taped it on to the scissors.  I traced the edges of the aluminum with a black marker so you could distinguish the top piece from the bottom piece.  Again, I used a hole punch and ribbon to tie it around my husband's neck.

Happy Halloween!

They're coming!!!

Okay, so I have an exciting announcement for my six readers.  I'm expanding ItSeamedGoodtoMe.  My sister and my two sisters-in-law are all bloggers.  We each have our own blog and read each others' faithfully.  Mainly, we blog about our kids.  But occasionally, we blog about projects.  I found that I wanted to blog about projects a lot, but my family blog is private, so that kind of defeated the purpose.  As a result, I created ItSeamedGoodtoMe (I already had the name from my etsy shop).  Anyway, I noticed recently that my lovely sisters (I will refer to all three as my sisters) were blogging more and more about fun projects/crafts from around their houses.  And I had an epiphany.  We should all use this blog for our creative outlets.  It would make for more posts, different ideas, and hopefully a wider readership.  So, I ran the idea by the sisters.  And they were all for it!!!  So, now not only do you get my creative outlet, but also my sisters'!  I am super excited about it.  You may not be excited yet, but you will.  Trust me.  They're coming!