Hi you! The best part of the year is coming up and I thought I would reappear to this blog and share some of my recent seasonal craftings. Halloween is such an awesome time of year, and yes, I say time because I like it to last at least 31 days, instead of just one day or even one night. Like so many other people, I have always enjoyed dressing up in costumes, making decorations, and covering my house in webs, pumpkins, blood (fake, of course) and bats.
First, I will start with these pins I made over the past weekend with the creative design assistance of the sweet Elisa.
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| Collection of Spirited Fun Clips! |
These were pretty simple and clearly inspired by orange (the best color ever), black, googly eyes, and pumpkins. I found these clear orange pumpins in the "dollar section" of Target. They were $2.50, and called "Table Scatter". Interesting, right? I had the eyes on hand (haha) as well as the felt, pin backs, earring backs, and super old (and awesome) craft glue that I can smell just looking at this picture. The ribbons were from the "dollar section" of said Target and Michael's.
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| Again, wonderful, spirited orange and black pins and clip! |
Part of me was making these for my girls to wear, but who am I kidding. I will totally wear every single piece here! I'm already wearing this one today:
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| Eye Love Halloween/Orange! |
With our new house (yayyyy!), I have been dreaming of making a front door wreath for each season or holiday, or whatever mood I'm in... must be a new homeowner thing or a crafty blog reader thing... But I started out at Michael's craft store and soon became overwhelmed at the glittery, feathery, spidery, batty overflow of crafty items to choose from. I was practically having a sweaty panic attack because I was envisioning so many wreath options. Does that ever happen to you? I ended up buying the wreath hook (around $3) and this amazing little dude at 20% off (somewhere less than $3):
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| Hoo. |
Soon after I took my neato Joann's phone app to the store and picked up a fine feathered black boa and a combo black/orange boa with chunkier feathers (this one was hiding at the end of the window treatment aisle!). I cut a wreath shape from a giant cardboard box, mostly eyeballing it, and used it for the base. This is the end result, and I am
very happy!
I really really REALLY like this wreath. So much so, that I was actually worried it would get stolen during the night... but that won't happen.
Oh yeah, and I also made this little guy with scrappy pieces. It's a spidery-unibrowed-googly-mini-monster:
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| Eye dunno. |
Next craft: costumes for the girls! We already have their costumes "picked out", just have to find/make the parts and put them together...
Are you excited for Halloween?
