Hehehello!

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.


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.

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:


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):

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:

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?