Something happened yesterday that doesn’t happen a lot. I had an idea. A wonderful amazing sharing kind of idea.

I decided I would make some of those little spiders everyone is talking about, for Halloween. You know, just one each for the children in my daughter’s school classes. Oh and one each for my son’s kinder class at child care. And a couple of extra’s for teachers. Counting… counting…. counting….. hmmmm. That’s 70 in total I need.

Easy peasy, they’re such tiny cute things they’ll be finished in no time!!

Good lord, a WHOLE DAY later and they were all finished! And that was with the kids punching out shapes and sticking them together with me! We used Stampin’ Up! punches (of course!), there’s the Scallop Circle, the Photo Corner and the 1/2 inch circle. The black bits in the eyes are hand drawn with a marker, and a tiny dot of white gel pen finishes them off.

Underneath each spider is a little heart shaped chocolate, wrapped in red foil (colour coordination is a must LOL!), usually people put a flat round mint choc in these and sandwich another Scallop shape underneath, but I couldn’t find anything like that. The rounded hearts give the spiders a nice ‘jiggle’ when they’re put on the table to be honest - a bit creepy LOL!

Still, it was worth it! The kids at school and childcare loved them!

Hopefully it will be a while before I have another bright idea - I don’t think I have the stamina for another one anytime soon!!

I can’t believe the year has gone so fast, and that Paperific is on THIS WEEKEND!!

I was going to write up a big spiel for you all, but I see that Claire has done a fantastic job of it already, so go and visit her blog here to see all the awesome details of the Stampin’ Up! stand she has organised. This is the second year in a row for Claire, and it will be fantastic yet again!!

I’ll be working on the stand on the Saturday if any of my customers are there, so drop by to say hello!