Maggie from Generally Creative made these cute stars while on a long car trip. She has a fabulous step by step photo tutorial for making these cute little guys. You could leave them plain, spray paint them, cover them in … Read the rest
Autumn Flower Arranging
This quick and simple step by step takes you through what goes in first and how it should all end up. I personally need help in this area, flower arranging is not my strong point!
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Paperback Pumpkin
Heidi over at The Craft Monkey put together this cute Jack O’ Lantern by using a paperback book. Boy, the books I have passed by at garage sales! Tons of trashy romance novels, and they could all be living a … Read the rest
Salt Dough Halloween Bowl Fillers
Salt dough is a favorite medium of mine. I’ve spent many years making crafts with kids and have made countless cookie sheets full of salt dough shapes. It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s inexpensive. You can easily create your own with … Read the rest
Make a Life Sized Yard Witch for Halloween
Halloween. According to MSN’s Money Central, and this was two years ago mind you:
“This year, the National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend a record $5.07 billion on costumes, cards, candy and decorations for the holiday, with the average … Read the rest
Painted Wood Pumpkins
This project brings back memories for me. I used to make a lot of projects out of scrap wood. Snowmen mostly, but I love the idea of these pumpkins. Such a nice country touch and easy to make.
Fire and Water Centerpiece
You know what I like about many of the home decorating projects at Martha Stewart’s website? The directions for the project can be explained in one paragraph. When I saw this centerpiece idea I had one of those “why didn’t … Read the rest
PB Inspired Mercury Glass Pumpkins
I stopped by Robin’s blog, All Things Heart and Home today to find a great tutorial on mercury glass pumpkins. Pottery Barn offered these last year and they are no longer available. I’m sure that even if they were available … Read the rest
Halloween Head Wreath
As soon as I saw this it make me smile. Look at all those cute Halloween heads! Witches, pumpkins, ghosts and ghouls arranged in a circle to adorn your holiday door.
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Halloween Advent Calendar
Alison from Oopsey Daisy made this candy covered Halloween advent calendar to count down the days to that spooktacular holiday. She’ll not only show you how she made it, but gives you the downloadable numbers you’ll need as well.
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Halloween Subway Art
Ahh subway art, it’s all over the blogosphere and such a fun and quirky way to decorate a room or entryway. I knew the holidays would bring about more and am happy to see they are already popping up … Read the rest
Halloween Candy Wreath
Jen over at Craft-O-Maniac put together this sweet treat wreath to welcome trick or treaters to her home. Doesn’t it look tasty?
Get the Halloween candy wreath how to from Jen’s blog.
… Read the restDecoupage Pumpkins
Animal prints aren’t something that normally make it into my home decor, but I am in love with these pumpkins! There is just something so cool about these how could you not love them?
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Flower Cart Revamp
Yard Sale + $4.00 = Rusty old flower cart. Sounds like a great deal to me! This little cart sat in Sandy’s garage all winter long, then all spring, then summer came.. well, you get the picture. But she pulled … Read the rest
Harvest Blocks
It’s not quite the end of July, but I know many people, including me, are already planning for the fall and winter holidays. I see lots of letter and block projects, and they are all cute, but Swainston Vinyl and … Read the rest