Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Mice Would be Nice

While I am impressing you with my mad photography skills and aversion to touching things, I have another fun thing to show you.

During our quest for Chalk Ink at Michaels, the kids and I picked up this little kit from Martha Stewart for about 4 bucks. It took about 2 minutes to put them up with the sticky dots provided.

Before:

Here’s my blurry little mouse at the top of the stairs.



After:

Here’s the same staircase after we Halloweened it up a bit with these mouse (rat???) silhouettes.




They haven’t freaked any of us out yet.

Pumpkins, bad lighting, and dog hair optional.

17 comments:

  1. Kristina P.September 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    OK, seriously, so cute. And probably very easy! Love Martha.

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  2. DeidraSeptember 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    I'm using those same decorations this year. I took them down when I had a meeting with the church ladies last weekend.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2009 at 12:15 PM

    Love it!! Always a challenge to be halloween-y without being too scary.

    October is always a sleepless month for me... my children frequently crawling into my bed, tensed and shaking, after having had some nightmare induced by the unavoidable horror-flick commercials and creepy motion activated decorations.

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  4. ShanaSeptember 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    Spoooooooky!

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  5. BethSeptember 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM

    How cute! Now I want stairs so I can copy this, LOL

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  6. GlennonSeptember 30, 2009 at 4:24 PM

    Oh my gosh, this is adorable! Halloween decorating is not going to come close to happening over here, but i'm going to try harder at Christmas. I may need your help.

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  7. LynnSeptember 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM

    WAY WAY cute!!!

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  8. for a different kind of girlSeptember 30, 2009 at 7:27 PM

    Those are beyond adorable, and quite likely I would admire them constantly in the daylight, and yet be momentarily scared out of my skin as soon as night fell and I'd forgotten all the hours I'd spent admiring them in the light! I now want to find places all over the house to terrify myself with those, and then I want to get some of that cool chalk ink and write myself reminder notes all over to calm down!

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  9. GretchenSeptember 30, 2009 at 8:28 PM

    ew. that is creepy. Especially coming from a person who had a real live actual mouse hole in the baseboard of her first apartment, that mice happily used as their threshold into my living space.

    ick.

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  10. PatriciaSeptember 30, 2009 at 9:29 PM

    How adorable is that?
    I love this so much!
    Thanks for stopping by to say Hi!

    Have a great day
    Patricia

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  11. EatPlayLoveSeptember 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM

    That is adorable, my girls would love it. Maybe i'll do it as a surprise for them.

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  12. betty-NZOctober 1, 2009 at 2:37 AM

    That is really a clever item!

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  13. Lynn KellanOctober 1, 2009 at 3:25 AM

    Too dang cute!!

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  14. Debbie @ The Shabby BungalowOctober 1, 2009 at 8:16 AM

    Wow your stairs look fab. This wouldn't freak me out but if they wer spiders now that would be a whole different story! LOL

    Thanks for popping by my blog :)

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  15. PamelaOctober 1, 2009 at 8:29 AM

    Love them! I have a little mouse envy - blasted carpeted stairs...

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  16. AnonymousOctober 2, 2009 at 5:31 AM

    Oh how caaute! White pumpkins seem to be the thing this year. AND the mice are so adorable! What fun decor you have.

    Di

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  17. Somerset Spa GirlJuly 24, 2015 at 7:26 AM

    The Halloween mouse stencils are so cool, you should keep them up all year!

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