Wax accessories, dressing up, and decorating

My all time favorite of Halloween sweets are wax lips. I still remember them from my youth. With boys I get to add wax mustaches to the mix. FUN!!!

 I couldn't decide which picture made me laugh the most...so I included nearly all of the shots :) Each one is just different enough with someone being just enough "off" that I giggle at every one.

Hmmmm...let me think about that a moment.

 I told the kids that we would absolutely NOT decorate for Halloween if they couldn't get their messes cleaned up. I'm not really a decorate-for-the-holidays kind of a girl and I most certaintly was not about to add decor on top of clutter. Well the really long story short is that they never did it until this afternoon. By then putting up decorations just to take them down less then 24 hours later seemed silly. And that is exactly what I told Karaia when she asked if we could decorate now. Her reply?

"It's ok, mom. I'll do everything. I put it all up and I'll take it all down! Please!!!"

I thought that sounded very reasonable and gave her free range of the decorations on hand. Everything you see was 100% her idea. I didn't suggest one little thing. Right down to the choice of accessories and the placement of them. The only thing I helped with was placing some of the webbing a bit higher than she could reach. But that was by her request.

 

When she asked if she could move a table to the porch, throw gauzy fabric over it, and "put a bunch of Halloween stuff." on top, I may have teared up just a little. Be still my heart! My daughter is a natural decorator!

She was even moving the very few decorations we had inside to the outside and reusing them. *love*

 

We had SO many comments on our decorations tonight. Even I was surprised at how many people loved it enough to tell me so. Nice work Karaia!

 Here's the foursome. All decked out ready to go.

 Tennyson's pumpkin is a dinosaur. Sanders wanted a happy face. Karaia carved a bat.

 This is Beckham's masterpiece. He did a wonderful job and was pretty stinkin' proud of himself. As he should be :)

 The big Family pumpkin designed and carved by Karaia and the pumpkin she painted.

Happy Halloween!