GIVEAWAY! Win a copy of Make Your Day DIY!

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Make Your Day DIY // thepapermama.com

Make Your Day DIY // thepapermama.com

One week from today the Make Your Day eBook will be here! Ready to go and here for you to enjoy. To celebrate this momentous occasion Chelsea and I have decided to giveaway some copies of our book. Save that $12 bucks to buy some fried chicken.

We are giving away 3 copies each! If my math is correct, that’s 6 of you that get to enjoy our book for free. YES. Check out the Rafflecopter Widget below to see how you can win!

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If you want a quick entry, just answer this question in the comments below (and let us know you did this in the Rafflecopter widget): If you had to eat the same thing everyday, what would it be? FYI: Chelsey would eat fried chicken, and Chelsea loves homemade turkey sandwiches… with a pickle on the side. 

– Chelsey and Chelsea

This giveaway will end on Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 at 5 PM PST. Six winners will be chosen through Rafflecopter. Winners have 48 hours to respond to the winning entry email. Please see the Rafflecopter widget for full giveaway rules. 


Painted Star Pumpkin for the Kid

Painted Star Pumpkin for the Kid // thepapermama.com

We love carving pumpkins, I swear, but it’s much more fun to paint a pumpkin when your kiddo is 3-years-old. I don’t quite trust her with a knife just yet. Ha! I know she loves stars, so I hand cut some stars out of some contact paper and pressed them onto her pumpkin.

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Set her up with some paint and let her go to town. When she was finished I peeled off the stars and we were left with a beautiful star pumpkin! Fun.

– Chelsey


Mummy Candy for your trick or treaters!

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Halloween is just a couple weeks away! Add a little pizzazz to your candy this year. Make some Mummy Candy! I saw this idea about 3 years ago on Christopher and Tia’s blog and it only took me forever to try it. Ha! It’s easy to create, here’s how…

Supplies needed:

– white crepe paper

– Hershey’s Dish Candy (it’s the perfect little shape + size)

– mini googly eyes

– hot glue

– scissors

Directions:

1. Cut about a 20 inch long section of the crepe paper. Use the scissors to split that section into 3 skinny strips of 20 inch long crepe paper.

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2. Grab a piece of Hershey’s Dish Candy and glue one end of the crepe paper to the back of your candy piece.

3. Wrap, wrap, and wrap that little paper until the crepe strip is completely wrapped around the candy. Glue the end of the crepe paper on the back of the candy.

4. Grab a couple googly eyes and glue them on the front of your Mummy Candies. You could also glue one eye and place an “x” in place of the other eye. Poor guy lost an eye.

5. Hand these guys our to your trick or treaters! I recommend sneaking a few and eating them yourself. Ha!

Mummy Candy // thepapermama.com

I’ve been working so much lately, plus doing mama stuff, it’s been hard for me to take some time for myself. I get most of my work done when the kiddo is in bed, which means I forget to just chill out. Drawing is usually one of my favorite ways to just sit and relax, but I’m talking about REALLY unwinding. No creating. Just sitting and relaxing.

The best way for me to truly relax is to do some reading, like a PEOPLE Magazine. Add some chocolate and wine, perfect. Since Halloween is just around the corner… adding some chocolate to my relaxing has been happening A LOT. Cause: chocolate. I’ve gotten really good at sneaking pieces of candy without my kiddo seeing. Ha! Halloween is dangerous for me. So much candy. I really need to make some more mummies… since I ate most of these guys I made for the trick or treaters! Ha! Whoops. Side note: I used a Target coupon to buy my candy and magazine. I know you’ll be buying candy soon, so here’s a link to the coupon (while supplies last).

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Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeen!

– Chelsey

This post was sponsored by PEOPLE Magazine, Hershey’s Dish Candy, and Target. I was paid for this post and all opinions are my own.


Monster Eye Wreath DIY

Monster Eye Wreath DIY // thepapermama.com

Boo! Scare the bajeebies outta your trick or treaters with my Monster Eye Wreath DIY! Actually, it’s kinda cute and I’m happy to have it on my door! It’s a cheap and easy craft, check out how I made it below. Side note: I sorta thought this looked like a hairy monster boob before I added the eyelashes.

Monster Eye Wreath DIY // thepapermama.com

Supplies:

– foam wreath (I used 12″)

– 8 inch smooth foam half ball

– 1/2 yard of “monster” fur material

– hot glue + glue gun

– one 8″ x 10″ piece of black felt

– optional: wire

Directions:

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– Add a bit of wiring to the wreath (to hang when you’re done.

Monster Eye Wreath DIY // thepapermama.com

– Place your wreath on the wrong side of the monster fur. Push the foam half ball into the center of the wreath on the right side of the monster fur. Fold the fur over each side of the wreath to make sure it covers all the wreath foam. Trim the fir to size. Note: the fur is super messy. I suggest taking the fur outside, after cutting, and shaking. It helps.

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– Flip the wreath over and hot glue along the wreath and fur edge (see image above).

– Pull the foam half ball out of the wreath and run a line of glue along the edge. Carefully press it back into the wreath to secure.

– Roll the monster fur over to the back of the wreath and glue it down with your hot glue.

– Cut a small circle out of your black felt and glue it onto the center of your foam half ball…. aka: EYEBALL.

– Optional: Cut a small/teensy crescent moon shape out of white paper for the pupil.

Monster Eye Wreath DIY // thepapermama.com

– Optional: Cut out 5 long black felt triangles to create eyelashes. You can also add eyelashes to the bottom of the eye, but I felt it looked too much like teeth.

Monster Eye Wreath DIY // thepapermama.com

– Hang that baby up and enjoy/confuse your neighbors!

Monster Eye Wreath DIY // thepapermama.com

– Chelsey


In NYC for BHG!

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Wait, what? I’m in New York City for Better Homes and Gardens! I’ve been a contributor for the BHG Style Spotters blog for…. quite a while now and the lovely people over at Better Homes have invited some people over to New York for a fun workshop! I cannot wait to get started tonight. For now, I’ll just need to focus on not falling asleep while standing… Just landed here at 5:30 am (I’m nuts, but I prefer to fly direct… which just happen to run as red eye flights). Hopefully I can catch a quick nap before everything.

If you’d like to follow along with the whole BHG trip, you can keep watch on my Instagram OR just follow this hashtag: #BHGStyle … Happy Wednesday!

– Chelsey

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