Well hello there. It is a bit early for our Int’l Bloggers Club Challenge but that’s okay. Instead of waiting till the end of the month we have moved up our monthly challenge so that you can also benefit from out Halloween projects for the month of October.
I am teaming up with my International friends to bring you Halloween crafts this month. You can see everyone’s crafts on the bottom of the post. In the past, we have done Fall Crafts and Back to School crafts.
But this month I’m throwing a Halloween party for the kids! Now tell me is that not the perfect excuse to go all out for Halloween crafts and Fun and Easy Halloween Vignettes?
But first, I’d like to talk a little bit about Halloween in Greece….
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It is non-existent.
In Greece, as in other European countries we celebrate the Carnival. It takes place right before Lent which would be between January and March. If you’d like to learn more about the Carnival in Greece you can go over to a guest post I did at my friend Sue’s blog, Sizzling toward Sixty.
This year, I am bucking the trend and throwing a party for my daughter, the one of You Tube fame who absolutely loves Halloween. A friend of hers came over and they got down to business. We also want to take this opportunity to thank the very talented Nadia for working on the crafts with us. Below is a shameful picture of the two girls in the middle of a giant mess… yes folks, that is what a blogger’s house looks like most days.
Painted gourds and an old tin can covered in black fabric and dressed as a mummy with eyes made from buttons! How preposterous!
And on the other side the Mummy couple is all dressed up for an outing. How dare they have such fake looking eyes made with felt!
Little Miss Gourd has spotted Paranoid man and is afraid of his scowl! She consults with Mummy Man. What should they do?
The walnut eyeballs area all abuzz!
But Mrs. Mummy is not fazed by Paranoid Man’s scowl and calms everyone down. After all she is very charming with her ruby red lips.
Is Paranoid Man going to leave them alone, to dwell on the Drunken Table?
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Maybe the oracle eyeball has the answer!
At least before the flowers dry out and fall to the ground.
Paranoid man sees that he is outnumbered again…drats !!
He’s leaving them alone! Goodbye, good riddance and we’ll throw away the keys!
Poor Mr. Mummy was so frightened his button eyes nearly fell off.
This was our attempt at a not so spooky story. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did creating it. And you can see that nothing out of the ordinary was used to create this fun and easy Halloween Vignette.
Did you like Paranoid Man’s new witch hat?
To find out what happened to my Paranoid Man you can check out the complete saga here:
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It is now time to visit the other ladies and see what they have prepared for this month’s Halloween Challenge. Simply click on the images below my name. If you’d like to see more past challenges click here.
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Mary,
What a great vignette for Halloween. So cute. Congratulations, you are being featured at over The Moon Linky party tonight. I hope you stop by. https://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2019/10/over-moon-linky-party_20.html
Hugs,
Bev
Jelica
Sunday 16th of October 2016
What a fun, spooky display! I never knew that Halloween was non-existent in Greece. As always, I love reading/learning something new from your posts. And you always have a fun and clever way of 'weaving a good tale' in there, too!
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
Jelica maybe I can start a new trend here. Since we are having a party it will give the kids a chance to dress up and have fun where otherwise they would have to wait until the Carnival. Also now they get to be spooky, it's a different type of dress up.
Michelle
Sunday 16th of October 2016
Lol Mary it looks like you ladies had so much fun, thank goodness Mrs Mummy was there to calm everyone down. Hopefully she'll be able to weave her magic and get poor paranoid pumpkin to feel a bit better about himself too. He looks so wickedly awesome in his new hat btw ;-)
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
Michelle we had the best time. At one point they took Gourd man and had him pose in dark areas of the house... haha And Mr PMan thanks you for the compliment.
Katrin
Monday 17th of October 2016
Aw so much fun Mary! I love how your daughter and her friend helped with all of this and these ghosts and mummies are absolutely awesome!! So easy too, my girls would love to make some as well! And I love paranoid man's new witch hat!!
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
Katrin I think I am going thru my second childhood. We had sooooo much fun, and we are still decorating. I know your girls would have fun with this too. And all the projects are so easy that I didn't even bother to show the tutorials. Paranoid Man thanks you.
ana@carpe_diem
Monday 17th of October 2016
Great story, Mary, so funny! :)
My favorites are wallnut eyes, I have never seen ones like that!
We also celebrate Karnival instead of Halloween, but lately Halloween is getting popular here, as well. I expecially like having a chance to dress up TWICE in one year :)
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
They were easy to make Ana, just paint them white with acrylic paint and then paint the colors using acrylic also.
Beverly
Sunday 20th of October 2019
Mary, What a great vignette for Halloween. So cute. Congratulations, you are being featured at over The Moon Linky party tonight. I hope you stop by. https://www.eclecticredbarn.com/2019/10/over-moon-linky-party_20.html Hugs, Bev
Jelica
Sunday 16th of October 2016
What a fun, spooky display! I never knew that Halloween was non-existent in Greece. As always, I love reading/learning something new from your posts. And you always have a fun and clever way of 'weaving a good tale' in there, too!
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
Jelica maybe I can start a new trend here. Since we are having a party it will give the kids a chance to dress up and have fun where otherwise they would have to wait until the Carnival. Also now they get to be spooky, it's a different type of dress up.
Michelle
Sunday 16th of October 2016
Lol Mary it looks like you ladies had so much fun, thank goodness Mrs Mummy was there to calm everyone down. Hopefully she'll be able to weave her magic and get poor paranoid pumpkin to feel a bit better about himself too. He looks so wickedly awesome in his new hat btw ;-)
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
Michelle we had the best time. At one point they took Gourd man and had him pose in dark areas of the house... haha And Mr PMan thanks you for the compliment.
Katrin
Monday 17th of October 2016
Aw so much fun Mary! I love how your daughter and her friend helped with all of this and these ghosts and mummies are absolutely awesome!! So easy too, my girls would love to make some as well! And I love paranoid man's new witch hat!!
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
Katrin I think I am going thru my second childhood. We had sooooo much fun, and we are still decorating. I know your girls would have fun with this too. And all the projects are so easy that I didn't even bother to show the tutorials. Paranoid Man thanks you.
ana@carpe_diem
Monday 17th of October 2016
Great story, Mary, so funny! :) My favorites are wallnut eyes, I have never seen ones like that! We also celebrate Karnival instead of Halloween, but lately Halloween is getting popular here, as well. I expecially like having a chance to dress up TWICE in one year :)
Mary
Monday 17th of October 2016
They were easy to make Ana, just paint them white with acrylic paint and then paint the colors using acrylic also.