The monthly cookie bake for the apartment house - 15 dozen fruit&nut oatmeal, 7 dozen peanut butter, and 6 dozen sugar.
I blame the hubby for the odd flower middles - he tilted the rack before they were dry and they flowed. We sent birds, flowers, alligators, lizards, roosters, and two varieties of fish; but Tommy wanted to keep all the caterpillars at home.

I love paper snowflakes.
Been hanging them on the doors. This is the library door. Everything is knob high or higher, because of the grandson.

Front window day and night.
There will be more work on it, but it gives the neighborhood some Halloween cheer.

Getting out the lights
and making sure
they work.

Tommy is most
happy about it all.

Still having computer printer trouble, but found these paper twist 'corn husk' dolls I made a while back.
The witch was based on a straw Halloween decoration, and the others are some variations I made.
Styrofoam heads, twisted paper, ribbons, silk from an old shedding Christmas ornament for the blond hair.
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June 2, 2010 - Darn, I just realized I have already posted this. Well I'll leave it, as it might get confusing if they're removed.

A little tired of posting Perler beads, so I'm putting last year's fall peanut butter cookies.
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Those are supposed to be schoolkids, not clowns, LOL. Used a gingerbread person cutter and a maple leaf pancake ring. They're covered with peanut butter buttercream, the heads of the turkeys had added cocoa and powdered sugar to make a dough, the eyes and feet are whole cloves.

I came across this picture of some paper twist ladies I made a few years ago. I had found a little sisal (I think) witch at the store, and recreated her in paper twist. These three went around a cauldron for Halloween, then the two on the right went in my Thanksgiving display.
There were a bunch of them for a while, but most have been given away. These are the only ones left. The witches hair is a sheet of paper twist, the blond has hair from a fraying Christmas ornament, and the gray hair is from my hairbrush!

Good evening!
Three of the contestants were installed in the yard today. Above is Miss Lascaux from France, and Sonja from Iceland. Below is Sadie The Swamp Lady, from Swampland.
I put the ladies out without their sashes, but started making them today.

Bess, the English witch. She has a broom and a cat with a large round head.

Here's Heidi, Miss Switzerland.
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She's a 5 foot plastic skeleton. Her hair is a piece of yellow material braided on the ends, and duct taped to the head. Her eyes are blue plastic gemstones glued into the sockets. The sockets and mouth areas were colored in with black permanent marker.
The red sweater is stuffed with plastic grocery bags; the vest is 2 yellow bags, clipped and tied into shape. There is a kerchief on the back of the head that doesn't show from this side.
The bottom is just a dance petticoat with a fleece-like skirt over the top,
It still needs the trim on the vest, but she is basically finished.

I have started my Halloween display, a Halloween Beauty Pageant.
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This lady is the beauty contestant from the North Pole.

To create her, I started with a stuffed snowman. Then made a garland of silk poinsettias, and sewed them to her head as 'hair' (at this point her hair is not complete). Her skating outfit is made from about 2-inch wide shiny green fabric strips, braided to create the bodice, and left to dangle down to form the skirt.

I will tweak her further as I have more of the contestants made. (The fellow in the background is "The Baron", he's holding some of the trims for me while I work.)