Matthew decided he wanted to be a Minecraft Creeper for Halloween. To make his costume, I ordered a hoodie and got him some green pants to wear. I was feeling a little inspired so I decided to make him some Creeper shoes. I worked on them while the boys went on their fall camping adventure.
We had to go to 2 different Walmarts (my nemesis) to find these canvas shoes in the right size:
After one coat:
The final product:
If I made these again, I’d try to make the colors a little more random/less repeating. Part of that was poor planning on my part. Part of it was that I only had 4 paint colors. 🙂
The edges didn’t turn out as clean as I wanted either. I tried to clean it up a little with nail polish remover but mostly just left it. It was hard to see when he was wearing them and I figured my level of perfectionism was completely unnecessary for a silly Halloween costume shoes. LOL
Overall, I was pretty proud of myself and he LOVED the shoes. 🙂
Fall camping weekend coincided with our beautiful fall weather taking a left turn towards “impending winter”. The forecast predicted frequent rain showers turning to snow in the higher elevations. Not the best weather for their trip but the boys had a ball.
Here they are all dry, warm, clean, and not remotely muddy…ready to head off on their great adventure in the woods.
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Week 1 was a short week dominated by the New Years holiday and the start of year end close for me. The highlight of the week was going to our first Bandits game of the season so it monopolized my week 1 layout. Be sure to use a QR reader to watch the videos above!
Two thumbs up!
A friend from work had an extra ticket to see Joseph and invited me along. I hadn’t ever seen the show before and I loved it!
