Halloween Decorations

After securing the foam gravestones and skeleton hands into to the front lawn was unsuccessful (they kept falling down), I chose to tape them to my window, and to move my scarecrow to under the window as well. And while at Goodwill yesterday, I got some sale spiderwebs and a crashed witch decoration.

Time for Sweaters?

That is how is seemed the other day, and I did put one on. But when I did so today, it got hot. And now this weekend's weather is expected to be in 70s and 80s. Is this already happening?:

I've already started wearing long pants again and am now wondering about the predicted weather for the coming weekend. And just how it's going to be at the end of this month.

Altered Paint Brush Art

Here are pictures of some of the paintbrush art project from work. Click here to see the one I did at home.

The last one in this photo was still in the process
of being completed when this was taken.

Apple Tree

This is the one I did at work.

SpongeBob SquarePants

The clay that was used  at work was a modeling dough found at Dollar Tree. It takes many days to become hard, something I did not know at first. 

It was a while before we got to do this project, trying to decide what to use and determine how many people wanted to join. I used my home made one as an example and printed various images found online. I did not find any specific rules or instructions on how to make one of these, so everyone just did as they chose. Not everyone wanted to do a face on the brush, as you can see. One example I'd printed was this one, which two people imitated with their designs (see in last photo above):

Old-School Costumes

 These came up on my Facebook memories yesterday. (I may have shared these on my blog in previous years):

Though I remember these things well, I cannot recall ever wearing one of these. I guess my mom was good at making me costumes. I was totally into Strawberry Shortcake and The Smurfs, so I wonder why I never went after either of these costumes. I never even chose to be either of these characters for Halloween, which is surprising to me. 

I saw one of these in a thrift store once, of a character I'd never heard of. It was  surprising because I have never seen any before or since then. 

This concept seemed weird  and is hard to imagine today, with characters like SpongeBob.

No Christmas Yet, Please!

It's not even Halloween yet and today at both Dollar Tree and Dollar General, I began to see more Christmas stuff than that for Halloween. I still haven't decided what to wear this year, though I have some ideas. I certainly don't want to think about Christmas or Thanksgiving yet! Though I already I won't be doing much for either of those, since that is how it has been in recent years. 

We are having a Halloween event at work the Friday before the holiday. I don't yet all know all the details. We also just started decorating for the holiday yesterday.    

I still don't know about public celebrations yet. I'm still not quite ready for some public events. I did not got the county fair this past weekend (since I haven't been the fair in years) and am uncertain about the Renaissance Faire. I've only gone to that one once.

I haven't come up with any Halloween themed crafts this year, and don't want to think about Christmas ones yet. The decoration for Halloween is the closest we will get to a Halloween craft, unless someone else has some other idea in mind for another week this month (we do art every other Monday). I'm hoping to get pictures up of the paint brush project from last month (still have to figure how to do that!)

October Bookish Bingo

 The card for October is here.

My books:

1. Vampires Never Get Old--Zoraida Cordova [ed.] (4 squares): E-Book, Not in a Series, Multiple Narrators, Trope
2. Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve--Mary Pope Osborne (4 squares): Audiobook, In a Series, Magical Accident, Read an Arc
3. Let's Pretend This Never Happened--Jenny Lawson (5 squares): Shelf Love, Physical Book, Book Club Read, Multi-Word Title, Humorous
4. It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse!--Laura Numeroff (3 squares): Pumpkin, Black or Orange on the Cover, Free Space
5. The Silent Girls--Eric Rickstad (2 squares): Free Book, Plants on the Cover
6. Stick Dog Craves Candy--Tom Watson (4 squares): Library Book, Graphic Novel, Candy, Trick or Treat
7. Who Stole Halloween?--Martha Freeman (1 square): Coffee
8. The End of the Dream--Ann Rule (2 squares): Man on the Cover, School Break 

25 squares completed on October 14

Hello, October

 

It's now October and the weather today as warm. Still not quite sweater time. Today was too hot for long pants, let alone sweaters. 

I began decorating the lawn yesterday as I said then, but am uncertain about adding any other decorations as I did not find many when I looked at Target and Goodwill yesterday. But I think what I already have is good, if I don't find other stuff I want to add. 

I've been looking for gothic and horror reads for this month, for the R.I.P. challenge, and have some lined up already. Mental Health Day is also coming up, so I have something in mind for that as well. 

Soon it will be time for reading challenges for 2022 to start showing up. Most start coming as early as November, though some might show up this month. I'm still deciding when to post mine for next year and which ones to bring back (likely all of them). 

And I am still wondering about this coming holiday season.