1 Boo Banner, Buy of the Week and More!

Here is the Halloween banner my daughter and I made for our front door (don't mind the smudges on my door - I didn't windex before taking the pic!  Ugh - I'm going to go do that right now.):

 

BUY OF THE WEEK

As I mentioned in a previous post, for my daughters 9th birthday we are having a cooking party.  I gave you a sneak peek of her invites, and just have to give you a sneak peek of the favors:

I found these adorable little kits at The Christmas Tree Shop on clearance for $5 each!  Since I was planning on making aprons for each girl and it would have cost about the same, I decided to buy these instead.  Now each girl will have their own bowl, rolling pin, wooden spoon, whisk, apron, chef hat, cookie cutters, measuring cups AND spoons!  I am pretty happy with my fabulous find.

MARSHMALLOW SHOOTER

I finished the marshmallow shooter for my brother for Christmas.  I also made a shoulder pouch to hold the marshamallows and a larger bag that I stamped his name on to hold everything when not in use.  This was VERY simple to do and pretty inexpensive.  I loved it so much that I decided to also make one for my little sister (they are the same age and will have a blast shooting marshmallows at each other).  I will probably end up making goggles for each of them as well... no need to shoot an eye out!  On an easy to hard scale of 1 to 10, this was a 2.  As long as you can handle a saw, you can put this shooter together!  I featured an easy-to-follow tutorial in my What are little boys made of?  Weekly Round-Up for anyone interested in making one of these.  I altered it a little to make my shooter a bit bigger.

And here is a picture of the girls and me coming back from our weekend shopping extravaganza:

We shopped till we dropped and then some!  As you can sort of see in the pic, the back of my Pathfinder was completely packed, as was the Thule on the top!  We were going to make one more stop, but literally had NO more room in the vehicle.  Next year we are graduating to two trucks!