Riot and Frolic

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Pumpkin Week in Review

I could also name this "The Not Great Pumpkin".  Maybe you'll disagree but I label this #uninspired.  

Sunday

Pumpkin carving: The Godfamily took the little ghouls (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  HA HA HA.  Ha ha… [sigh]) for the seemingly annual Pumpkin Carve. For some crazy reason, I didn't take any pictures of their super cute pumpkins.  

Trust me, they were cute.  And I didn't see the offspring for 5 hours, so it must have been good.  I heard there was candy and pizza and Adam has a green shirt.  I get the important details, you know.

Monday

Books for the week:

Pumpkinbooks

1. Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

2. Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch by Mary Peterson and Jennifer Rofe

3. Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin Picking Plan by Rob Scotton

4. Ready for Pumpkins by Kate Duke

Tuesday

Muffins: it's always muffin day on Tuesday, so duh.  But also chili.  Seriously, throw a can of pumpkin puree in your chili.  It tastes great.  (I don't have a recipe for it, I just throw things in a crockpot and make a wish.)  

The ladies mostly digested today's activity, so time at the table would be THE ETERNITY IT TAKES THEM TO FINISH A MEAL.

Wednesday

Paper pumpkins:  Yes.  Cut straight lines, make a sunburst, staple it, use some three-dimensional visualization, staple it again, and win.  It's a pumpkin, a ball, a basket that doesn't really hold anything, it's freaking Superman.  

Pumpkinpaper

Zoo, clearly, is winking.  Mae Cake is stressed out by holding her pumpkin over her head (which I did not ask her to do).

Time at the table: 5-10 minutes depending on hand-eye coordination.

Thursday

Pumpkin cards: from the Craft-a-Day bible.  Again, I missed the photo ops (opps?) and the fancy cards got sent out without me knowing what's inside.  You know, if you send us your address, you'll probably get a card.  (riotandfrolic@gmail.com)

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making the template

Friday

Painting pumpkins: it turned out very Martha Stewart-y [read: AWESOME] and I used the quintessential stay-at-home-crafty-mom product: MOD PODGE.  

Since my zucchini plants were actually miniature [read: useless] pumpkins this year, we had more than a few decorative pumpkins waiting around to turn into coaches or at least something that glittered.  

I had some acrylic paints left over from a somewhat failed jewelry making project, small foam brushes from the same lame project, and I had found glitter in Target's Dollar Spot, so GAME ON.

Pumpkinpaint

Time at the table: 20 minutes.

How was your week?  Do you hate or love Halloween?  Do you carve pumpkins?  Roast seeds?  Did you make a haul in candy, vicariously through children or by raiding the Halloween sales?  Did you see this ridiculous list of things to make with a thing called "leftover candy"?

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