Halloween Frames

What a cute idea.

Crafty Weekend

I crafted like crazy and here are some of the results. I am very very happy with them.
I love how many Halloween tree turned out so much....

that I had to make one for my niece!

These metalic pumpkins turned out really well. I pull a little of my black jewelry on them for a little sparkle.

My mom showed me this from a magazine. She made a pattern and so I of course needed one too.

The Boo banner was so cute...

that I had to make an Eek banner too.

My Mom

My mom is the best. She came into town this weekend and we crafted like a bunch of crazy women! It was the best. Everything was out and all over the place but it was so productive!
My mom has these fun binders she keeps with all of her favorite little seasonal crafts and treats. Here are some of my favorites I got from her. We made some of these and loved them.
We had a great October dinner of...
worm burgers

and hand in our potato salad

and "thing" treats!

These are some of the goodies I need to remember. Go cute and creative and fun.





I saw these here and love them. The spiders are trix cereal with frosting legs!

Halloween Party Invites and Game Ideas

Here you can find cute ways to invite and then play with your party guests. Here's some of my favorites.
Bat Ribbon Invite

Mummy Invite

Mummy Bowling

Halloween Countdown

I LOVE love LoVe this! Finally a cute one.

Mummy and Skeleton

These are cute little halloween dolls. I might wipe some of these up.

Halloween Treat Jars

Cute idea. Easy and cheap.

Halloween Ornaments

I love these. They are easy to make and the result is fantastic. You could do this for any holiday. I am seeing a tree for Valentine's, Easter, St. Patty's, Fourth of July...
Just cover your old christmas ornaments with strips of newspaper that were soaked in 1 part mod podge, 1 part water. Let them dry and then paint. You could add glitter, beads, gems....
If you don't have any ornaments in storage check DI. They always have them and for super cheap!

More Halloween Crafts I Love

Just two more cute crafts from fiskarscrafts.com.

Bleeding Candles and A Sppoky Banner

This was such a clever idea. They're called "Bleeding Candles". You just spray paint a red candle black, light it and let the red drip down. Easy and fun.

This was a really fun banner I saw on that same blog. I love the fabrics. She also added ribbon and little halloween doo-dads to it. It looks great!

How to Tie-Dye

I love tie dye. I think it is so fun. Here's a tutorial on how to do it. I did it once when I was little, but forgot all the steps, etc. check it out.

Halloween Jar Candle Holders

So here are my tissue paper on glass jar candle holders. I LOVE lOvE LoVe them! I took the idea from here.

...and with my neighbor we expanded on the idea. That's the best way to do it. Her husband suggested we do a Frankenstein and then I figured, why not a spider too?! They both turned out super cute, but I definitely need to redo my spider.

The pipe cleaner legs need to be hot glued to the bottom, not the sides, and you need to only put ONE layer of black tissue paper on it so it can actually shine some light through.


All the faces are just paper mod-podged on. The bodies are colored tissue paper cut in random pieces.
Frankenstein is a pace salsa jar with green and black tissue paper. His face and head thingies are black paper and his mouth and stitches are embroidery thread.
The spider is a tostitos dip jar covered in black tissue paper. His eyes and mouth are white paper and his legs are pipe cleaner.
The ghost is a pear jar (from the cannery), white tissue paper and a black paper face.
The pumpkin is a jam jar, orange tissue paper, and a black face.
Just get your tissue and get mod-podging! Be careful not to hold in one place. The tissue paper will come off in your grip while it's still wet. On the top and bottom go over and past the edges.

Thanksgiving Crafts

I love this idea for a pumpkin placecard for Thanksgiving Dinner. I'm not sure I would just paint mine solid gold, but I do love the idea. I would probably do mine like the Metallic Pumpkin post I have. Check out Martha's Ideas.
Here's the place card

Here's the glitter pumpkins. These last forever. They can last from before Halloween until Christmas!

This pumpkin garland is so adorable. I am definately doing this for the fall.

This pumpkin chandelier is amazing. I love it.

Boo Banner

I love this burlap boo banner. It is very simple and uses the freezer paper-fabric paint-cricut thing I just learned a little bit ago! Check it out here.

Pumpkin and Ghost Jars

This is offically my next project. I love it, I have the stuff for it so it will be free, it's so cute, and it's the next holiday coming up.
Just take a clean jar, cover it in mod podge and wrap it in diffent ways, or strips of crate paper or tissue paper. And the face and then cover with a little more mod podge if you feel nessessary. Check out the tutorial here.

My Halloween is already leaking out!

So doing these few Halloween crafts that I have loved has made Halloween already start leaking into the house. I just love Halloween and have felt a little "Holiday Deprived!" There is such a lull in the holidays from Spring to basically Fall (with the one fabulous exception of the 4th of July!).
Here are a few I have finished. I will probably keep updating this post as I finish crafts so I don't have a gazillion posts about it. Here you can find where some of these ideas came from.



Target has the best after holiday sales. I bought these frames after Halloween last year and have used them for so many things...but lately they were just sitting around, so I thought why not do a little Halloween somethin' somethin'?! So here it is. This is my first time stitching paper. I don't like how you can see a little white where the needle came through, but over all I really like the look. I love texture in a frame. It is a little unexpected and gives great interest.


I then of course had to go buy some candy to see how it went with it. This is a great way to decorate if you don't have a certain holiday decor. I bought these jars last year and just fill them with seasonal candy as the times change. It is very festive, a lifesaver when you just need a little sugar fix, and cheap.

Holiday Word Blocks

These should be so easy. Just cut a 2x4 up into different lengths to get the different block sizes. Then mod podge the paper on after you have decorated it as you like (stamping the edges, ripped, trimmes, etc.). Them apply the letter and add embeleshments. I am definately going to do this one soon. I finally have a use for those loose boards I have been hanging onto.
At the site the link takes you to you can see where she got her ideas.
Here's this one:

Metallic Pumpkins

I am going to have so many pumpkins around my house with all the cute pumpkin ideas I am finding...and the best thing about it is I have a bunch of pumpkins I am only half in love with to play around with. I love the look of this one, and it is super cheap and easy. I am finding that I love to copy Pottery Barn stuff.

Fabric Pumpkins

I Love, LOVE, lOvE, holiday decor and blogging is the best way ever to grab ideas and go with it. I love these fabric pumpkins because you could pick any fabric you want, any size you want. I would probably make apples too for the whole back to school thing.
Here's a tutorial for them. Be aware that this girl took it from someone else who is highlighted on her post.
Have fun, and happy crafting!

Halloween Decor I Love

I grabbed these ideas from here, I'm sure she grabbed them from somewhere too, but at least she'll list where they came from.

I just have to make this owl garland. I love it. Owls are so cute. I am definately a cute halloween person, none of the gore and gloomy for me.


I love this bat chandelier. It is cute and very halloween. I don't think it should be that hard to make. Just some felt bats that I would probably make with a little stuffing inside, pom-poms, yarn and I think that cross-stich rings would work well for it.


I wish I could find where to get this tablecloth. I absolutely LOVE it.


And this is so cute. I think these Mummy Pops are just suckers dipped and then drizzled with white chocolate. If not, that's still what I would probably do....yummy, white chocolate!