DIY Costume: Ewok!

I know it's not even close to Halloween, so, why, you may wonder, am I wearing this crazy costume? Well, my friends and I had an event last night where we all dressed up as something beginning with our first initial. So, naturally, I chose to be Ewok Ellen.

If you love furry little Star Wars creatures and you need an easy and funny Halloween costume, this may just be the perfect costume for you.

Materials:

• Headband
• Brown fur (Comes in a small package at craft stores)
• A yard of burnt orange fabric
• Brown top
• Brown/black bottoms (Leggings)
• Brown/black shoes (I just wore moccasins)
• Hot glue gun
• Cardboard
• Eyeliner/black or brown face paint
• Spear (Or jank spear made of cardboard, like mine)

 How To:

For the ears: 

• Cut out two ear-shaped pieces of cardboard (Mine were like 3'' tall. Pretty tall.)
• Cut small pieces of brown fur to cover both sides of the ears
• Hot glue the fur to the cardboard ears. Press the fur together on both sides to cover the outside edges.
• Hot glue both ears to a little black headband. Make sure they're secure! (Lots of glue!)

For the hood:

• Drape the fabric over your head. 
• Have a friend trace your face with pencil. 
• Cut out the hole, starting smaller than you think it should be. (You can always make it bigger, but not smaller!)
• Cut diagonally across the front of the fabric to create a draped appearance.
•  Trim the back to be a little shorter and get rid of any superfluous fabric.

Putting it together:

• Put the hood on and the headband over it.
• Mark with pencil where the ears will stick out.
• Cut slits where the ears will stick out.
• To put on the costume, put the ears on first, then the hood, letting them stick out through the slits. 

Final touches:

• Add a little eyeliner ewok nose!
• Carry your spear with pride.
• Practice the ewok language.

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Hope this was helpful to all of the aspiring ewoks out there. Try not to end up like these out-of-control little dudes on the Today Show. And have a happy Halloween :)

Cutie Pumpkins :)

To make these cute vampire/bug-eyed pumpkins, I combined these two ideas from Martha Stewart. So simple, and I think they turned out great!!

Click here.

And also here.

Happy haunting :) LOLlen

My car!

LOOK AT LOLA (my car) 's HALLOWEEN COSTUME!

Just used white magnet sheets, colored them with sharpie (the giant "Magnum" kind works the best) and cut out the shapes! (The nose and eyes are each made of one sheet. The mouth is 2 put together.)
 
Happy Haunting, 
LOLlen

DIY: Halloween Countdown Blocks

Aren't I CREATIVE?! 

Just kidding. I didn't make this up. I found it on Pinterest, and here's the link to the person who was actually creative enough to think this up: Here.

But, it was pretty easy and really fun! The person whose instructions I followed actually bought blocks and made her own base piece. I, however, got lucky, and found a set of Christmas countdown blocks at Hobby Lobby to  paint/cover/transform into Halloween blocks. (Tarnishing cute Christmas blocks and making them into spooky Halloween ones - I think Jack Skellington would be proud.)

I digress. 

Here's how I did it.

1. Paint the blocks black, and the base orange. I used cheapo acrylic paint.
2. Using construction paper or Halloween-themed scrapbooking paper, cut out 12 squares. (Measure a side of the block to determine the size.)
3. Cut out numbers using black construction paper. For the first block, you'll need: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. For the second block, you'll need: 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. (Important: Make sure the 6 also looks like a 9 when turned upside down.) 
4. Glue the numbers to the squares of paper.
5. Mod Podge the squares of paper onto the blocks. 
6. Use letter stickers to spell out "Halloween Countdown" on the base, seal with Mod Podge.

Tah dah! And now you're ready to countdown to the world's best holiday.

Love, candy corn, and cauldrons,

LOLlen