Maybe next year I’ll do a craft project countdown to Halloween. Wouldn’t that be fun? I’m hoping to finish a few more projects for this year. I already made my Jack Skellington. I’ve got all the piece I need (I think) to make Sally, but haven’t gotten very far, my witch table is now going…
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Easy & Inexpensive Candle Props
If you don’t know this about me already, I love Halloween. It’s my favorite holiday. I am also a cheapskate somewhat frugal and I love to DIY. So when I found out you could make a ton of really awesome Halloween props and decorations for little money I made it my mission to start building…
Upcoming Project: Witch Table with Feet
If you couldn’t already tell, I’ve been in the mood to work on Halloween projects. A few different projects. (Halloween is only 65 days away, you know!) Inspired by this tutorial I decided I need my own witch table with feet. Or a cauldron with feet. Maybe both? But a table could hold the cauldron? I…
Make Your Own Halloween Luminaries
Cute, huh? They’re pretty easy to make, too! You need: Cardstock Vellum (any color works) Adhesive X-acto knife Scoring tool (optional) Pencil Stencil design LED Candle – I like the color changing ones, which I buy on Amazon: Color Changing Everlasting Tealights Candles with 7 Rainbow Colors- Set of 12 INSTRUCTIONS Cut your 8.5″x11″ paper…
Making Sally! Making Sally!
Feel free to sing the title of this post to the tune of “Making Christmas!” like I did while working on this progress. 🙂 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKAxikZmY-0 Ever since I started making Jack I had a funny feeling I would feel the need to make a Sally to go with him. Jack was time consuming for sure,…
Turn Baby Food Jars into Treats & Favors!
I love me some upcycled baby food jar crafts! Last year everyone got lighted Christmas Trees from Big Girl’s leftover jars and now that Little Baby is going to be trying baby food soon I will have a big pile of them again. They will go next to the big pile I still have from Big…
My Favorite Creation
It all started when I was asked to help plan and officiate a wedding for a good friend. Their theme is…wait for it…The Nightmare Before Christmas!!!!! EEEEEKKKK!! How FUN is that?! Of course I started scouring Pinterest immediately for ideas and inspiration. Did you know the hours go by even faster when you’re searching for…
Instant Burn Relief
Tell me I’m not the only one who has totally burnt the crap out of my fingers with a glue gun. Right? It hurts. A lot. I have two settings on my glue gun – hot and melted magma. For some stupid reason I always put it on the hottest setting to quickly warm up…
Drab to Fab: Upcycled Cereal Box
Okay, so this here is what I call a “slop craft”. I have very little patience or desire to follow patterns, measure precisely or take TOO much time. Terrible, I know! This is not to say I don’t do those things with more important projects but for those that I just want to get done, or…
Baby Food Jar Christmas Tree
As soon as I started feeding my daughter baby food I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the empty jars. Correction. BEFORE I started feeding my daughter baby food I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the empty jars. =) Twenty-plus years ago I watched my mom upcycle baby food jars into this…
