This year’s Halloween display includes some thrifted decor…a tree with vintage ornaments, jack-o-lanterns with battery operated tea lights, and a few other tricks and treats. We also projected onto a sheet in one of our front windows to create the illusion of ghosts moving around inside. …and I made a Halloween candy catapult for socially-distanced distribution of candy. My trunk-or-treat theme this year was time flies…which seemed poignant for nearly a year of dealing with the ongoing pandemic…because we are all wishing it will fly by and everything will get back to normal ASAP.

I’d been planning to turn my childhood dollhouse into a Halloween dollhouse…because I LOVE Halloween, and admittedly, it has seen better days. However, at the History Center garage sale, I stumbled across another house in far worse shape and in much need of a fabulous Halloween makeover -and thus began a month-long project to create a Halloween dollhouse.

When you turn ten you have to do it in style, especially if you can’t have all your friends over for a big party because of a pandemic.  …So that’s what we did! With the help of my husband we recycled some stage props into a cactus-themed putt putt course that I set up in my nieces yard. Happy birthday Evie!

When the daily quarantine grind has got you feeling down…build a fort!

Happy Easter! Here was one of my takes on a socially distant photo egg hunt for family members far, far away.

And here’s another take on a socially distant egg hunt I set up a little closer to home.  The scanable eggs contained Easter jokes and riddles and I hid them throughout my neighborhood. The website with the instructions and a page to print off your own egg hunt is here: https://jenni929.wixsite.com/egghunt.