Dan and I have been in such a festive mood lately! We were so excited for Autumn and the *HoLiDaYs* to start that we made a list of festive activities we wanted to make sure to fit in our free time!
1. Visit a cider mill and eat way too many yummy cinnamon & sugar donuts and cider!
2. Buy lots of apples and make pot after pot of chunky homemade applesauce
3. Watch ancient episodes of Are You Afraid Of The Dark on YouTube on Sunday nights.
4. Sit in a graveyard with a mug of hot tea and a book of scary stories and read to each other.
5. Carve pumpkins - white ones!
6. Go for a long bike ride/walk through pretty colored trees
So, so far we have done all of those things except the one in the graveyard which we plan to do on Halloween weekend :)
Last weekend we bought a faux pumpkin from Michael's (for 60% off!) and I monogrammed it for us in spooky letters - Daniel's brilliant idea. And, since our apartment has NOOOO storage space I had no decorations here except a few I brought with me for Christmas when we moved in. So, I went to the dollar store and found these really awesome glittered black skulls, a skeleton, a corny chandelier and place mats for the kitchen... and some spiders from Tar-jay. I snagged some gnarly looking branches when I went on a walk in the woods and with the help of a few of my salvation army candlesticks and a few black candles around the house, I turned our tiny apartment into a frighteningly festive space!
1. Visit a cider mill and eat way too many yummy cinnamon & sugar donuts and cider!
2. Buy lots of apples and make pot after pot of chunky homemade applesauce
3. Watch ancient episodes of Are You Afraid Of The Dark on YouTube on Sunday nights.
4. Sit in a graveyard with a mug of hot tea and a book of scary stories and read to each other.
5. Carve pumpkins - white ones!
6. Go for a long bike ride/walk through pretty colored trees
So, so far we have done all of those things except the one in the graveyard which we plan to do on Halloween weekend :)
Last weekend we bought a faux pumpkin from Michael's (for 60% off!) and I monogrammed it for us in spooky letters - Daniel's brilliant idea. And, since our apartment has NOOOO storage space I had no decorations here except a few I brought with me for Christmas when we moved in. So, I went to the dollar store and found these really awesome glittered black skulls, a skeleton, a corny chandelier and place mats for the kitchen... and some spiders from Tar-jay. I snagged some gnarly looking branches when I went on a walk in the woods and with the help of a few of my salvation army candlesticks and a few black candles around the house, I turned our tiny apartment into a frighteningly festive space!
