Gareth (who is 4) has been very sick this month.  He has had the H1N1 flu and no sooner makes it pass that when he comes up with strep.

Since we are headed out of town I decided I would make them a little gift box for Halloween.  This is the stuff I found and most of it is $1 stuff from either Target or M’s.

Rylan is 17 months old and although she didn’t get the H1N1 she definitely got strep.

This is the stuff for her Halloween gift box and most of them were $1 from Target and M’s including that cute little stamp that says “There can only be one Queen and I’m It”!

When I went to put the boxes together I discovered I did not have the right color tissue paper nor did I have anything that look like something for Halloween.  So I decided I would design my own.   

I had white tissue paper, stamps and ink surely I could come up with something.  I pulled all my Halloween stamps and some orange and black ink.   On Rylan’s tissue paper I used her stamp but left it off of Gareth’s tissue paper.

I then started randomly stamping all over the tissue paper.  TIP:  This best way to do this is take the lighter of the inks (this case orange) and use all the stamps.  Then go back with the darker ink (this case black) and re-stamp using all the stamps.  This way you don’t have to clean the stamps in between using the two stamp ink pads.

I think this worked out perfectly.

Here they are ready to go.  I took 3 different ribbons and tied little knots around the metal handles.  I also made them little tags (not shown) that I tied onto the handles with “To” and “From” and some additional Halloween decorations like pumpkins and bats.

This year Gareth is “Tigger” and Rylan is “Piglet”.  They are so cute and for some reason it doesn’t take them long to figure out if you say “Trick or Treat” you get candy.  For some reason that doesn’t work as well for adults, you usually get the trick instead of the candy.