Clutter-free decorating tip of the week:
Mr. and Miss Pumpkin Heads.
Grandma Jensen sent the kids these decorating kits. I think it is an awesome idea. Besides being absolutely adorable, I love them because you can just pull your kids' Mr. Potato Head accessories out of the toy bin and put them in your pumpkins for the month of October. When Halloween is over, wash them off and put them away for every-day play.
Plus, kids LOVE putting them together, they are cleaner than paint, and you can carve your pumpkins a few days before Halloween if you want, or just leave the accessories in them.
My fall decorations are minimal this year. I dejunked my fall bin and kept the stuff I really like. I decorated Kimmie's shepard's hook from her wedding and put it outside my front door with leaves, vines and lights. It is my favorite fall area of my house this year.
I need four focus areas of my house: My front kitchen counter, my kitchen table, my living room and my side of the bed. (that seems to be a major clutter collector for me) If those areas of my house are clean, I can breathe. So I will take the twenty minutes (that's how long I need) at night before I go to bed to make sure these areas are in decent shape.
Check out my blog to see pictures of the kids with their pumpkin heads.
Oh my gosh, those are so cute I can hardly stand it. I love this idea....gets rid of all the yucky mess of carving and the mess of pumpkins going back. The trick is getting over the stigma of having to 'carve' a pumpkin to really have Halloween. It's like having a fake tree instead of real tree at Christmas. These are stigma's we have to overcome in order to have less clutter and more sanity. If you decide to do the messy pumpkins make sure you have 'traded out' something so you aren't stressed. I will be talking about 'trading out' in the near future on a blog entry. Nice job Annie, I love it.
ReplyDeleteYou've got to be kidding, how stinkin cute are these. Oh, and to think that my cute lil Tan-man and Baby Cedar put them together. I just love it! What are you doing for costumes this year?
ReplyDeleteAuntie Kimmie