Pipe Dreams

Are you sick of my Halloween decorations yet?

The only thing I am sorry about is the fact that Nic doesn't have a complete understanding of time.
If I hear "Is it Halloween yet?" one more time, I may end up cancelling the holiday.

I showed you these pictures in an earlier post, but wanted to share with you how I made them.

I took Halloween colored pipe-cleaners (I think that's what they are called. If not, then the title of this post makes no sense) and wrapped them around the back of the frame, alternating colors. I put the frame back together and then glued on a small Halloween decoration. I used super-glue because I was too lazy to get out the glue gun.

I got the frames at the dollar store, they came two to a pack. The little decorations I got at Michael's a few years back, just never did anything with them.  I just cut off the gold thread and glue them right on to the glass.

This last piece is a dollar store frame with a wooden cat (from a previous Halloween). I used purple glitter glue on a $1.00 gold frame. And had to add the googley eyes! 

Nothing fancy, but OH so much fun!

I can't stop glitter painting...

Child Labor Laws?

I think the kids are ready to add an addendum to the existing Child Labor Laws...

I think they are DONE with holiday decorating.  :)  Look at the calendar, kiddos - we are getting started!!

We have a lot of Halloween going on, so I added some fall/Thanksgiving in our formal living/dining room. All stuff on hand!

  

There are bats in my house!!!

Oh what a wonderful weekend I've had. Between Goodwill, Hobby Lobby and my craft closet, I was able to get my Halloween on.

I am in Halloween Heaven.

This year, I decided I was going to get CREATIVE and make most of the decorations. Reuse and Repurpose were two words I got to know real well during the past 48 hours.

On Saturday night, I was up until 1am cutting out bats. Last night, I was up until well after midnight glitter painting anything I could get my hands on!

Our spooky corner... The kids made the little ghosts that are sitting amongst the branches... The stickers on the mirror are glow in the dark...

Let me introduce you to my Halloween Mantel. With no real mantel in the house, I needed to get creative. 

Here's a breakdown of what we have on our mantel:

We have a lamp I took from my office and put an old shade on that was tucked into my craft closet. Added one paper bat. There is a black (purple?!) light in it.

On the left, I have an cast iron candle holder from Goodwill ($1.99) I have a cheap pumpkin that I painted in ivory and then covered with silver glitter paint (all on hand).

There are the potion jars... (you saw them in the previous post).

I have my green class candy dish, that along with the green vase on the right I got from Goodwill about 6 months ago. They were $2.99 each. I LOVE THE GREEN. I think they are from the 70s. I just need to add candy to the candy dish. I am going to put candy corn in there, to give it a little bit of color. (Plus I hate candy corn, so I won't have to worry about eating it.)

I took out my trusty New Moon book to rest the candy dish on.

To the right of the lamp, I took a $1 frame from the dollar store. The glass was broken, so I removed it and added black construction paper. Then I took a wooden bat I painted two years ago and found in the craft closet and glued it on to the frame.

The two gold picture frames came packaged together for $1 at the dollar store. I will share more details (tutorial?) in a few days.

In the green vase, I added black beans (left over from the potion bottles) and added 2 bunches of black rose ($1 each at the Dollar Store).

Finally, added 1 small orange pumpkin.  We love how our mantel turned out!!

In my kitchen, on my newly acquired pie safe, I added a pumpkin, a candle and a ghost! Again, dollar store frame. I took a metallic blue paint and painted right over the glass. Then I glued on a ghost we made a few years back (again, found it in the craft closet).

Finally, Marcos moved all of our downstairs furniture into the kitchen on Friday and rented a Rug Doctor to clean the carpets. I figured since everything was moved, I would change a few things, furniture wise (plus, we got a new coffee table for the family room, but more on that later). I took the Goodwill find sewing machine & table from the hallway and put it into the formal living room. I plan on refinishing it - probably turn it ivory. But for now, I added a picture that I love (my grandpa, grandma and my dad) and an IKEA plant and owl I found at Hobby Lobby a few weeks back.

I know my camera isn't the best... and the lighting sucks, but I hope you get what I was trying to share. The house feels WONDERFUL all decked out. The kids and I had a BLAST!!

Now we just need to tackle the OUTSIDE!!


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Another few great finds from my trip to Goodwill this past weekend involved these jars. One smelled of maple syrup. One smelled as though it was just unearthed after 100 years.

I've seen a lot of these around the web as of late, and Isabel and I wanted to make our own.
Reality is, I have a pitbull and a 4 year old.  I couldn't use liquid.
So, Isabel and I went to the 99 cents store and picked up dried black beans and yellow and green split peas.
Did you know that split peas came in YELLOW!?

I founds some cute (wait, it's Halloween - spooky?) labels online and used modge-podge (fun) to adhere them to the bottles.

I am working on my Halloween mantel. Even though I don't really have a mantel.
I can't wait until it's all pulled together and I can share.
Until then, I've got potion-duty. Have to make sure no one tries to spill the beans.
Get it?!

Happy Thursday!

Modge-Podge Fun

I think the word "fun" should always follow the words "modge podge."
Because it's fun to use.
Especially when you've made a wicked mess and then you get to peel the modge podge off of everything.

What's not fun?! Having your fingers stick to your keyboard.

In light of October making an appearance on our calendars, I decided to do a little Hallo-Crafting.
Nothing fancy - that's not how I roll (oh, but how I wish I did).

I picked up this beauty for $1.99 at Goodwill on Sunday.
Isn't it special?

I turned it into this:

Since I started to get out my Halloween decor, I figured I would make a few things. I used the plaque, an old Vanity Fair novel ($2.00 from Goodwill), modge podge and my trusty computer.

I know you've seen better.
But I had fun.
Because I got to peel all of the glue-y goodness off of my fingers for the rest of the night.