A Happy DIY Halloween!

It's my favorite holiday! Isn't Halloween just the best? As originally thought, I wasn't going to dress up today but then when I figured out I could get my entire costume that I wanted to do together under 6 bucks, I decided, what the hay! I ultimately decided a while back that I wanted to dress as Rosie the Riveter. For those of you who don't know who she is, she's a icon for woman during WWII who was put all over posters to encourage woman to go to work while the men fought the war. She's a major feminist icon! Which only means that I HAD to be her. This is what I'll look like...



But you might know her better as this... in all her original glory.



I decided that since I would only be wearing it once I'd just check out thrift stores, because what's the point in buying a brand new jean shirt, I'll never wear again? So, off we went on the hunt for Rosie clothes. I got lucky and found the perfect jean shirt for $3.99 at Thrift City USA and then after looking at more than 5 stores, I found a red bandana. I really looked hard for the red with white polka dots but it was impossible to find! I found black & white and pink & white but no luck on red & white. So, I settled for red. I got that on sale at Michael's for $1.98! Talk about a steal!

So, costume totals... $3.99 for the shirt & $1.98 for the bandana + tax = $6.01

I'll obviously wear jeans I already have and use makeup I already have, so money saved on those two things! Anyway, I'm excited to dress up tonight and walk around with the kids. Should be a good time!

In other Halloween news, Gracie & I decided we'd do a glitter pumpkin this year. This is how you do it.



Supplies needed:
- Glitter
- Glue (you can use spray adhesive, but I ran out so I used wallpaper glue & it worked fine)
- Newspaper (to keep area clean)

Put the glue all over the Pumpkin and then shake the glitter all over. Make sure to have a clean piece of paper under the pumpkin so when the excess glitter falls off you can reuse it. Repeat the process until all of pumpkin is covered.

It's really that simple! This is what it looked like when she was finished.



And of course she chose pink! But really, you could do orange or black or any color you wanted! That's all for now. Have a Happy & safe Halloween!

PS. Sending love to the North East who were effected by super storm Sandy! <3

Exciting things to come!

So, pretty recently I had a sit down with my MIL about moving out of Florida, since she is able to retire in 4 years, I asked her about moving with us, basically anywhere north. She surprised me in saying that she wouldn't want to wait 4 years that now is the best time to do it. She works for the US Post Office so she can pretty much work anywhere. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am! We actually decided on a state. I'm not sure if it's the one we'll definitely end up going to but it looks so far like it's the one. The last place I'd ever thought about living, honestly. Delaware!

I was even more excited when she told me to start looking at houses online and if I found anything good, to email it to her. Well, boy did I find a good one! A 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom home that has a apartment attached to it, also known as a mother/daughter home. With also a small house in the back of it, for guests. And it's in our price range! Now obviously, the chances of us actually getting that house are pretty low since we aren't moving tomorrow or anything. We did talk about visiting sometime next year, probably in the Spring to look at houses, get a feel for the area and see if it's the place to call our new home! As this process continues I'll be sure to keep everyone in blog land in the loop. I'm pretty ecstatic about this whole thing! Finally, real fall weather & real winters! That's the way to my heart. ❤



In other news, I don't think I mentioned that we're taking Gracie to Disney World for her birthday next month. Thanks to some really amazing family connections we actually got tickets for free and get to stay in the new amazing Art of Animation Resort for more than half the price you'd usually pay. Aren't connections the best? We're going about two weeks after Gracie's actual birthday, but we have a great two fun filled days planned for our littest one!



Day one we'll be visiting the Magic Kingdom and possibly park hopping to another park, more than likely Epcot since that's her favorite. Day two we're going to spend the day at the pool area at the resort, then get cleaned up and head to Downtown Disney so Gracie can be transformed into a Princess at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. She gets the whole 9 -- hair, nails, princess dress, a birthday sash, makeup, etc etc! She's so insanely excited, it's all she talks about, and we still have a month to go!

So with that being said, lots of fun and exciting things to look forward to in the future! This is one happy and excited girl looking forward to the next chapter! :)

October is here!

Holy smokes, it's almost the middle of October and I haven't updated! What is my problem? Lack of motivation I suppose. But hey, I'm here now! ;) With October comes all of my favorite things, cooler weather (not nearly as cool as I'd like, but I digress), Pumpkin Spice Lattes, Halloween & pumpkin patches! Gracie actually went on her first field trip this past week to a pumpkin patch with her class. She had such a great time, got to pick her very own pumpkin and also got a bag of goodies to go with it (coloring book, orange lollypop & pumpkin seeds)!

We also have been checking random stores (Target, Walmart, etc) for Halloween costumes. Their selection was so awful. We used to just go to a local Halloween store but after it closed last year, where it had been for years, another store popped up in it's place, so it couldn't be there this year. Finally, after asking my cousin on facebook about it, she told us about one that was by her job. So, after the kids got out of school last Tuesday, we went and checked it out & the kids picked out what they wanted to be. Personally, I wanted the kids to be something that went together. Yanno, a doctor and a nurse, a cop and a prisoner, etc etc. But, Jordan wanted to be something scary, as most boys his age do and Gracie wanted to be something cute and cuddly, as most little girls do. This is what they decided on...



Gracie originally chose a really adorable cat costume but they didn't have her size, and were sold out of the cute leggings that went with it. She was really disappointed, until she found the bunny. She tried it on when she got home and man, it's so cute!

Jordan wanted something with a mask, but I knew after 10 minutes of walking around he'd just end up taking it off for being too hot, so I steered him to the zombie costumes and he chose that one. Instead of the crappy mask that came with it, I'm going to do zombie makeup on him. We even got really cool fake wounds to put on his face & neck. He's gonna look so cool when I'm done... or so I hope! haha

Other than that, I thought I'd share my week in Instagram ;)...



Have a great weekend! :)