Thanksgiving Clipart

I'm trying something new!
My creative juices have been flowing.
My doodling urge cannot be contained.

I"m giving clipart a go.

What do you think?

You can buy my clipart at my Teacher's Pay Teacher's store
or my Teacher's Notebook store.

Costumes

Now lets talk about the costumes.
As a child, I was the same 3 things over and over again.
A witch.
A punk.
A hobo.
As a punk, I always painted my dad's old white t-shirts, ratted and spray painted my hair.
Oh, and lots of hairspray.
My mom is incredible when it comes to spooky dinners and decorations.
Costumes...
not so much (sorry mom).

So I thought I would try really hard to be fantastic in the costume department.

When Rylee was about 2,
I made a witch costume.
I hate to admit that it cost me way more to make than it would have to buy.
As you can probably tell from the look on my face,
I did not think that it was worth it.

Alas, I present the witch.
And a vampire

Did I doom her to be a witch
over
and
over again?

Not quite.

The years passed.
We succeeded in not being a witch.

We had a year of knights in shining armor.

One year we were super heroes.
Classic.

Another year I had a fantastic idea.
I love to knit and crochet.
How about monster hats?

Uh-oh...
What is that I see?
A witch costume?
Two witch costumes???
And a vampire?  Again?

Oh boy.
Then there was the year that I really out did myself.

Yep.
I totally did that.

How could I possibly top that?
Well, I didn't.

Me:  "Hey kiddios, why don't you find costumes that we already have?"
Kiddios:  "Okay"
Me: "Awesome!"

Although, I did knit a bow tie.
Johnny was a magician.

This year...
What is that I see?

2 witches.
In case you are wondering,
the costume Molly is wearing is the very witch costume I made for Rylee years ago!
I guess it was worth it.

For the boys?
How about a little face paint?

Lesson learned?
Recycle.
Perhaps my mom was good at costumes after all...

Pumpkins

I must admit, I am terrible when it comes to Halloween.
Let's talk about pumpkins first.
Brian can carve a mean pumpkin.
One year, he carved an eyeball.

The kids were still in the painting phase.

Then the next year...

Well, lets just blame medical school.

Or maybe the squirrels.

So, the next year I was determined to tackle those pumpkins.

But before I knew it, it was the day before Halloween

and our pumpkins were still bare.

So I quickly got out the white and black paint.

ehh.

This year, Brian was so ambitious, he got us 6 HUGE pumpkins, 

and we got 4 tiny pumpkins from the cider mill.  

Seriously?  

He knows how I am with pumpkins.  

So, Tuesday night.  

Three-ish days before Halloween instead of one (I'm improving), 

we got around to a mix of painting and a little carving.

Now, what to do with those 5 leftover pumpkins?

Perhaps we will paint them for Thanksgiving.

Most likely...

we will be feeding the squirrels again.