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Halloween Lanterns – the 2011 Take On An Old Fave

| October 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
Halloween Lanterns – the 2011 Take On An Old Fave

When it comes to Halloween, one of our favorite projects and annual family traditions is creating something to light the path up to our house. There’s something extra spooky, yet warm and inviting about a beautiful, glowing front sidewalk and the big kid and I have had tons of fun over the years coming up [...]

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Halloween Crafts to Make Fright Night Sparkle

| October 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
Halloween Crafts to Make Fright Night Sparkle

We’ve made a whole lot of crafts around here in the last couple of years and, since Halloween is our favorite season, we’re taking some time today to jump in the way-back machine and check out some of the cool craft tutorials from OBE that are all about celebrating fright night. Here are some of [...]

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Halloween Crafts – Shadow Lanterns with Repurposed Jars

| September 23, 2008 | 5 Comments
Halloween Crafts – Shadow Lanterns with Repurposed Jars

The tiny person totally digs shadows these days. She follows hers around, has lengthy conversations with them on the walk to library, thinks that our bedtime routine is nowhere near complete until a round of shadow making commences. She’s also right into the whole spooky Halloween tale universe – insisting that Eve Bunting’s “Scary, Scary [...]

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Chinese Lanterns & Other Traditions

| February 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
Chinese Lanterns & Other Traditions

All he did was turn his lantern on. I had no idea why it could possibly be so cool, but the Chinese lettering and lovely art that glowed red through the paper hanging from the ceiling sucked me in and my pal Cliff, with his parents smiling modestly in the background, began to tell us [...]

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