DIY Halloween Costumes for Kids

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DIY Halloween Costumes for Your Little Trick-or-Treaters

Halloween is three weeks away and besides sifting through the left over costumers at Target, you might be feeling pressured to come up with fabulous Halloween costumes for your kids. They rely on you for your creativity and you can’t let them down. So instead of panicking that you won’t come up with an amazing costume in time, rally up some supplies that are inside of your home and search for coupons that will be useful for purchasing accessories that you are missing. It’s time to make a DIY costume that will look wonderful. Your kids will love it!

Space Man – Let your little man or woman blast off and find all of the delicious snacks on Halloween! To create an outer space man costume, dress your little child in all white and use aluminum foil to add bands around the arms. Continue using the aluminum foil and put stripes down the legs as well. Now it’s time to create a really cool rocket. Do you have any shoe fry cans in your home? This is the one time you can tell the kids to hurry up and eat them because you’re going to use the empty tube of shoe fries to create a great looking rocket. For the cone use cardboard and staple it to your shoe fry box and watch him or her blast off!

Colorful Crayon – Create a simple yet colorful costume by turning your son or daughter into a crayon!  Find out what their current favorite color is and after they tell you, start making a crayon costume that they will have fun in on Halloween. To make this costume, use colored poster board for the main portion of the body – one sheet for the front and one sheet for the back that can be adjusted accordingly. Construction paper shaped into a pointed cone will work perfectly for the top of the crayon. Then cut out the eyes and the mouth and staple or tape it together for a colorful creation. Don’t forget about the coordinating shorts, top, and more that will color coordinate with the crayon, creating a fun Halloween costume.

Scuba Diver – Sure it’s the fall time, but if your child loves the ocean water and hopes to be a scuba diver one day? Encourage them to become a scuba diver for their Halloween costume and have them dress up in their favorite wet suit or swim trunks. It’s also time to dig out the goggles and scuba gear for a complete scuba diver ensemble. Now they’ll want to find the nearest pool to really act out their costume!

Sierra is a freelance writer and owner of Paige One. She loves shopping and creating a fun costume and looks for her favorite accessories on sites like JoeShopping.com.

Guest Post: Reasons to Clear Clutter

Reasons to Clear Clutter — and the Best Place to Start

I’m a bit of a neat freak — for some reason, I’ve always felt bothered by clutter. When I have a pile of junk of my desk, I feel like I can’t concentrate; when my kitchen is littered with dishes, it puts me in a funk. I swear that my kids’ homework-finishing ability is sapped when their rooms are a mess.

As it turns out, science backs me up on this: Neuroscientists and psychologists have found that cluttered environments wreak havoc on your ability to focus and dampen your mood. You might not even think you notice clutter, whether it’s a single stray sock or a pile of junk mail you’ve been accumulating for months — but your brain notices all these things, and the attention it wastes on them drains your mental resources. The results are what you might expect: less concentration, less motivation, less productivity, more general irritability.

If you’ve got a lot of stuff lying around, the prospect of clearing all that clutter away can be daunting. But with well-designed storage areas, you can create a place to store all that clutter and add newly functional space to your home, especially in bedrooms. That’s why the best way to go about organizing your home can be to tackle your closets first. Unfortunately, many closets are poorly designed — an afterthought of a home’s architect — but their space-saving power can be doubled or even tripled with the use of closet organizers.

Every home is different, and every family is different, but closet organizers can be customized to fit anyone’s needs, whether the items in your closet need to be folded, hung, or boxed — even locked — away. You can use adjustable shelves and rods to keep your closet tailored to your needs even if they’re constantly changing. Commonly used items can be kept in plain sight, while seasonal items and treasured possessions can be stored away where they can be easily retrieved without taking up space underfoot. Even spaces in closet corners can be made usable.

Whatever type of closet you have, there’s a system that can make it that much bigger-seeming and better. In walk-in closets, closet organizers eliminate wasted space and make things easy to find. Large walk-in closets can even be turned into crisp, modern dressing rooms where everything is within easy reach. In reach-in closets, organizing systems can help make the most of what limited space there is, preventing you from having to waste time rifling through overflows.

There are several options for setting up closet organizers, whether you want to go the DIY route and buy implements at a houseware store, or get a custom set that matches your home décor from brands like California Closets. Either way, with your newly partitioned space, you won’t get flustered searching for clothes in the morning, and you’ll have more space — serene, clutter-free space — in the rest of your room and home. It just might change your life!

A Marvelous Mess and Features!!!!

Hi there!!

I hope you guys are having a lovely last couple of days of September!! I don't know about the rest of the country, but in the North East we've had a weekend of rain. I've got my fingers crossed that this won't effect our leaf colors too much.

Here are my fave's from last weeks party:

Fall Rake Leaf from Heatherly Loves.

And, the post I'm going to feature on my sidebar is....

How to Make Ruched Sleeves from The Petite Sewist. This is a really handy and thorough little tutorial that I *know* I will use.... I just recently bought a bunch of solid colored tunics to go with my leggings and boots (Hello, Fall clothing!!!) and this will jazz up the sleeves a bit.

Thanks to all of you for linking up!!

Now, on to the party!!!