Spooky Handcrafted Halloween

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Happy Halloween! This is such a great time of year. The leaves are in full-color mode, the air is delightfully crisp and the cider+donuts are plentiful! I was at Target the other day and saw a little girl dressed in her costume, shopping with Mom. She was a fairy princess, and when I looked at her she just beamed, and did a little curtsy. So cute. I immediately thought two things: one, what a nice mom to let her wear her costume out all around town, and two, remember what it was like to be so excited to wear that costume that you just couldn’t resist wearing it for days leading up to Halloween?

I used to “break into” our family costume trunk a few weeks before Halloween. It was this old, rickety, dusty trunk with a broken lock, stashed in the back of the basement, covered in cobwebs and dust. Every year, I’d get the nerve to walk to the very back corner of the basement, among the spiders, cobwebs, and ghosts (as a kid, it’s a terror zone in the basement) just to peek inside the trunk and try on the costumes. I am not quite sure why I felt the need to “sneak” down there to look; I’m quite positive if I asked my Mom if I could go have fun she’d be all about it. But, I think that’s part of being a kid, feeling like you’re doing something in secret and getting away with it that makes it even more fun. There were so many costumes to choose from, what with being the youngest of four kids. My brothers’ GI Joe outfits with the ammo clips; a pirate outfit complete with plastic sword and eye patch; my cat costume with black bodysuit and tail; ‘Belle’ from Beauty and the Beast (the year my Mom even let me play with her makeup and curl my hair to look the part). There are so many memories stored in that trunk, and to this day it still sits, in the back of my parent’s basement, and I’m sure one day my little one will sneak in there just to try them all on…

We rounded up some terrific handcrafted Halloween items + we just had to share! I hope everyone has a scarily spectacular Halloween + don’t forget to eat a few pieces of candy. Some chocolate, a good scary movie, and some snuggle time under a blanket is the perfect recipe for a holiday night.

Can’t wait until Monday when we kick off another week filled with handcrafted wedding goodness! Stay safe out there, kiddos!

love,
-E.

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