Happy Halloween at the Solle/Greenplate Household

Happy Halloween! 

Halloween at the Solle/Greenplate household has been put in full swing the last couple of days. We finally did pumpkins, I made trick or treat bags, and we had costume controversies...so sit back drink some apple cider (or pumpkin spiced anything) and read all about our Halloween festivities. 

{all photos are personal}

We started out with a little trip to Paul's Fruit Market to pick up some pumpkins...Look at these bad boys (HUGE!) I ventured to the Walmart to grab some paint, candles, and paint brushes for all the decorating. Side Note: I have no idea where all my craft projects are located with all this moving around, let's hope they are still at my parents house in PA!

Josh was busy trying to print the pattern he wanted to make for his pumpkin so I thought I would get started on my trick or treat bags. If you remember back during Halloween Week here on Can't Buy Me Love I talked about wanting to make trick or treat bags. I loved as a kid getting a little extra treat of a goodie bag or something different then just grabbing candy from a bucket. 

This is my mess on our kitchen table.

 Guys candy is expensive. I got 2 variety packs with a coupon and I didn't end up spending that much, but regular priced it would have been $26 for bags of candy (that is unreal to me!)

But I think my 50 trick or treat bags turned out cute-I can't wait to hand them out! Josh seems to think we are going to run out and hey we might, but it happens. 

After I snapped some poor quality iphone pictures of my goodie bags I cleared the table and set up our pumpkin station. Let it be known that Josh wasn't into the whole pumpkin thing at first, but I insisted and he ended up having so much fun!

I didn't get many pictures of Josh working on his "masterpiece," but here is one of him on 

the phone with his dad (not very safe carving protocol)!

 If you also remember I was really debating what I wanted to do to my pumpkin this year, because I am the worse carver EVER! I kid you not-normally I am done and people have no clue what it is supposed to be. 

I took to Pinterest about a month ago and looked up different options. I like so many things that I combined a bunch. I first painted boo...

Then added some polka dots! You can kind of see Josh's work in progress in the background!

I saw so many people taking a drill to their pumpkins and I HAD to try it. So I drilled a bunch of holes all throughout my pumpkin!

Action shot! ha!

Wanna see the final products?

Josh recently got a new company car and it is a brand new Ram truck so he insisted he did the Ram logo...I think it turned out awesome!

Here you can see my pumpkin glowing through all the the holes I drilled.

Here is Josh's pumpkin with the candle in it!

 Here they all are on our porch! I kept the painted pumpkins on the porch in case it rained.

We also did a couple little pumpkins! We really didn't feel like doing them after we took so much time on our big pumpkins. I painted mine in probably 2 minutes flat and I didn't even get a picture of Josh's little one (it of course had car logos all over it).

Here you can see the pumpkins my niece and nephew mailed to me and my final products. I almost cried when I got their little pumpkins in the mail, I miss them like crazy. 

Okay so you are probably wondering "Angi where are the costumes you have talked about for the entire month of October," guys sometimes things just don't turn out the way you want them too. I have dressed up for Halloween every single year of my entire life. Yup that's right I'm Halloween obsessed. I have just been flip-flopping for weeks about what I wanted to be that here it is the day of and have nothing. I did buy everything for Josh to be a Zombie tonight, but I think I am going to sit this one out. We decided that since the weather is so bad right now in Louisville that we weren't going out to anything downtown. I guess paying money for a costume that I would be wearing just to hand out my trick or treat bags didn't appeal to me this year. So I will sit the year out, oh well! I hope everyone has the most magical Halloween night filled with candy, costumes, and pumpkin everything!!! I will be enjoying bakes pumpkin seeds and hot apple cider after dinner. 

Please tell me all of your plans for Halloween (whether they are related or not!)?

Struggling What to Share

This week I really struggled with what I wanted to talk about. I have been so busy unpacking and reorganizing our lives that I haven't been doing to many exciting things. I know one day soon I want to write all about the woes of renting a home and all of the updates we are allowed to do on this very dated (very charming) home, but I am just not at that stage yet. I had also planned to share all my halloween goodies this week, mine and Josh's costumes, the goodie bags I wanted to make up for trick or treaters, and our pumpkins, but I am starting my new job later this week and I'm not sure if I will even be able to do all these Halloween related events so I am holding off making costumes and goodie bags. 

Here is what I had planned for costumes:

{picture via Pinterest}

Something along these lines for me

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And Josh wanted to do something ofThe Walking Dead variety

{picture via Pinterest}

I am  might be making goodie bags like these!

I always hope that what I share is interesting. I find the popular blogs are all about fashion (which I struggle with myself), cooking (which I also struggle with), and people do the worlds most entertaining things(which I am not doing right now). I hope that as I grow as a blogger I find my niche and people really enjoy my blog. I don't consider myself a good or inspirational writer, but I just share the truth about every step of my life. 

With this all being said I wanted to share that I am boring right now and okay with it. I painted my nails nude, just ate an orange and had some apple cider, and plan on going to bed a little after 9 tonight. 

So let's hope later this week (maybe even tomorrow) I can share something a little more interesting with you all!

 {if you like my signature check out this post to see how I did it}

Halloween Week Day 3: Costumes

Everyone's favorite part of Halloween...Costumes! Let's talk about previous costumes Josh and I have done. I've actually been most excited to share this with you guys! 

{next couple of pictures are personal}

Year 1: Hershey Kiss and Milton Hershey (Who kind of looked like Hitler)

(Sorry I didn't have time to rotate this.) Josh handed out Hershey Kisses all night and made a cool name tag for himself.

Year 2: We were a Mac and a PC.

If you remember that's when those commercials were SUPER popular. Josh actually completely made these computers out of canvas. This was days before blogging so there are no how to instructions! 

Year 3: Last year we were (like many others) Soap and a Loofah. It took me 4 straight hours to make my costume. If anyone wants instructions just let me know! We used a sheet to cover a box for Josh and added bubble wrap to look like bubbles on his soap. I also made that headband myself.

{all pictures via Pinterest}

I first thought of the idea of being the cookie monster. Well because I love this costume. Josh wasn't pleased with the idea. He didn't want to be a cookie.

I loved this idea. Josh didn't because last year he was so hot in that bulky costume and struggled getting around.

I didn't even show Josh this idea...because I can't see him in this little dress ha!

Once again I loved this idea, but that costume is bulky.

I begged Josh for this one. I didn't think it was too bulky, but apparently he did. This is the ONE thing that Josh is opinionated about and he is down right stubborn. I do however want him to be comfortable and having fun in whatever he wears so I give in.

Then I found this! I could be an adorable deer and Josh could be a hunter (he already has all the gear and will be comfortable) His other big issue was that being new in Kentucky we won't even know people to go out with so why are we dressing up. So this is perfect. 

I am still trying to decide how I am going to do my makeup and antlers. If anyone has suggestions please feel free to share!

I found this video that I THINK I am going to model my makeup after. I might just make my antlers out of tinfoil, duck tape, and spray paint them. Can't wait to share what I come up with!

****VERY RECENT UPDATE: Josh now wants to be a zombie. (For those of you who watch The Walking Dead and love it as we do, you understand his new obsession). We will see if I will be able to pull off Zombie make-up. I will be watching tons and tons of youtube tutorial videos.