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Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

SPOOKY....

Halloween is my second favorite holiday to decorate for!  This year I have made and updated most of my decorations!  I had been saving some ideas that I had seen on Pinterest and I finally got to work on them!  Some of my old favorites made the cut as well!

Let's start out with my favorite!!!



I wish I had  more room to put more of these up because I just absolutely love love love them!

Then I have my sparkly spooky tree.......I posted about this here , but in anticipation of said swap ornaments, I have been puttsing around with a few to add!  The pumpkins are my fav up there right now, but there are cats, ghosts, bats as well!!


PS they are made of the foam sheets!!  so easy peasy!

Next, I found this glittery guy at the Dollar Tree, but he needed something else!  So I cut the ring part off of the spider rings and glued them on!




Who doesn't put a halloween bowl of gordes out?? 




Next, I joined the craze of yarn wreaths to decorate my front porch!  I loves this one mucho!!!


I made the bat template my self,  and cut it out of glitter foam.  I had bought a bucket of foam letters from Joann's (or so I thought!!)  Until I went to dig them out to glue them on!  Guess I left them on the counter at the store - so I pulled out some really old ones that didn't match - and used them as a template to cut out glittery ones!!

I saw this idea on a blogger friend's page - I used the same bag of plastic spider rings and cut the rings off - I glued them to super magnets - and put them on the front door to greet all the little monsters who come to visit!




Then I made some luminaries out of milk jugs!!!



sorry the pictures are bad - but it is hard to get a good one in the dark that shows the true color!!
I took clean milk jugs, cut the back out, decorated the face with sticky back black foam.  Then I bought color changing flameless candles!  I put rocks in the bottom so the wind doesn't blow them away -


Isn't this pumpkin neat?  We didn't grow this one!  But I think it looks pretty cool in my bird feeder!


Lastly here is a picture of the oldy's that made the cut - I put my collection of  PartyLite candle holders/houses up on the high shelf so the littles don't get any funny ideas!!


I am too lazy to actually put candles in them and light them - but they still look pretty cute up there!!

I do have another oldy out which is my favorite - but the picture got lost in cyberspace!  He is my Franky!!  I made him out of flower pots stacked on top of each other!  I will have to find the pic and post him later!!

I do have a couple of other ideas - but I have a craft show this weekend - so my sewing machine is attached at my hip for the next few days!!

Happy crafting!

 
linking up this Monday to :Life Made Lovely

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Halloween's A Comin'!

A fellow blogger friend had posted that she wanted to do a Halloween ornament exchange for anyone that was interested!  I LOVE, Love, love halloween~ {almost as much as Christmas!}  So I responded that I was all in!  I received word back as to how many to make and where to send them.  Then it hit me.....

I DIDN'T HAVE A HALLOWEEN TREE!!!!

I was going to be receiving 10 wonderfully yummy ornaments and had nothing to showcase them on!  I got right on that!


I found a large branch lying in the woods, sprayed it with black paint {a new obsession!!  Spray Paint!} Stuck it in a very large lime green vase that I had sitting in the kitchen corner, sprayed it with silver glitter spray that I found in the craft dept at Wally World! 


TA DA!!!



I thought it looked a little plain - so I tied orange ribbon on some bare branches~

The bats are the ornaments that I will be shipping out for my exchange!  I saw something like them in a craft catalog and made my own pattern and variation!




This guy is my fav!!





I can't wait to get my ornament package in the mail and decorate this up with lights and maybe some purple,black,green,and orange pompom garland!!



Happy crafting -
Stephanie