She's crafty

I love Halloween. I'm not really into dressing up these days, or gore, or spooky stuff, but I am into October and Halloween is in October so in turn, I like Halloween. There is one thing I absolutely HATE and that is carving pumpkins. It's messy, and frustrating, and stupid...because of the frustration. So, I'm I selling my case of loving Halloween or what?

For the past couple of years I have been invited to my sister-in-law Kelsey’s house for and annual pumpkin decorating party. It's pretty much awesome! I guess her aunt started this tradition YEARS before you would see it in a Martha Stewart magazine and it has just stuck around. Aunt Suzie (Kelsey's aunt) is a talented florist and lives on a large piece of land in Oregon. This time of year everything she has tended to in the yard starts to die which makes for perfect pumpkin decorating. We use staples from a staple gun...both short and long to keep the vegetation in place by pushing the staple directly into the pumpkin. How easy is that? The hard part is trying to be creative....this year I did pretty good.
 

I always make two.  One for Steve and one for me.