I’m not too sure when it happened, but sometime during the past 10 years, Halloween became my favorite holiday.  I don’t know if it’s the color scheme — I love black and orange — or all the skulls and witches or maybe it’s just all the sweets and treats, but I love Halloween!

Oh yeah, and I love to dress up!

I love costumes and wigs and hats and fun false eye lashes.

I also love crazy stockings.

Luckily for me, my place of work allows me to be as wild as a woman needs to be!  That’s what happens when you teach theatre for youth and are an activity director in a retirement community.

As a lot of you already know, my family has been through the ringer since the end of September.  Mom had open heart surgery (I promise to blog her story soon) and the whole month of October has been a blur.  Normally Chucklebutt and I would have thrown a big shindig for my residents at Halloween, but there just wasn’t enough time this year.  I did manage to work on a few crafty projects.  I’m addicted to decoupaging Funkins!

I got the idea from the folks at Country Living.

I decided to go black and white chic, but I’m already thinking about what I could do for my Thanksgiving decor.

The first Saturday I was back home in Arizona, I took a class with one of my favorite sculptors — the very talented Jenny Hernandez.

Skellies!!  Aren’t they precious?

I had such a good time working on these two love birds.

Check out that mustache!  He is so daper.

Hope that everyone has a very Happy Halloween full of lots of treats and a few tricks!