My mom is far more crafty than I, which isn’t saying much because most every Halloween costume she made me revolved around a cardboard box of some sort (see Exhibit A). I was a Hi-C grape juice box, which was almost impossible to walk in because the box was narrow and my knees knocked on it every time…
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Aiming Low Guide to Halloween Decor
So it’s Halloween and you still haven’t carved a single pumpkin or at the very least tossed a few shrunken acorn squash in your front yard? What? Who says acorn squash aren’t scary? Never mind. Because I’m here to solve all your Halloween dilemmas in one wham-smacker with the all-awesome Aiming Low Guide to Last-Minute…
Surprise: I’m a Halloween Over-Achiever!
I know this site is all about Aiming Low and how awesome it is to be mediocre. I have a confession to make: I’m an over-achiever. A perfectionist, if you will. I’m one of those supermom types, you know, the ones that seem to have it all together and everyone’s all I DON’T KNOW HOW…
How to Go From Lazy Mom to Super Mom Without (Much) Effort
So it’s Hallowe’en and your kid is all like “Moooooommmmmmmm! I don’t have a costume!” Pshaw, I say. A mother who can’t whip up a costume in 10 minutes flat is no kind of mother in my book. Except apparently the whole white sheet + holes for eyes and mouth thing is getting tiresome for…
How To Make Tampon Ghosts And Other Terrifying Halloween Crafts
Part of the mission of our new Aiming Low Teach section is to give you tangible ways to make cool crafty shit with a touch of the absurd. So when a friend of mine sent me a link to this brilliant tampon ghost, I knew right away I had to make some. The idea comes…
Halloween FAIL WHALE
There’s very little I like more than fall. Okay, that’s a lie. I like Hostess Orange Cuppy-Cakes, the color blue, happy pants, Diet Coke, and Being Right much more than I like fall. Or really, anything. Alas, I digress. It’s fall here in the Midwest, which means the trees are turning red against the most…
Texas Halloween Costume Massacre
Halloween scares me. Not the ghosts and goblins rigmarole–I’m talking being scared as a parent with young girls. I’ve watched my two stepdaughters get dressed up and take candy from strangers going on five years now. It’s always been fun for them, of course, but as the girls have gotten older, I’ve noticed an unsettling trend when…
