halloween wreath

In case you couldn't tell, I like wreaths.  I like to change the one on my front door with the seasons.   Its a cheap and easy way to welcome people to your home.  Its almost always a conversation piece.

When I saw a Halloween wreath on Pinterest  I knew I had to try it.  Turns out it was super easy.  I even made a second one for a friend who loved my first one.

Things you need:
                      foam wreath (any size)
                      2-3 black feathered boas, depending on wreath size
                      6 pack of ping pong balls
                      glue gun/sticks

Here is what I started with:

Turns out, feathered boas are really messy.  Who knew?

See the problem here?  Besides the mess, of course.  Yes, you spotted it...you can see the white wreath through the feathers.  Since I didn't have another feathered boa and my black chicken isn't molting right now (just kidding, my chickens are grey)  I grabbed a can of black spray paint.  Every crafter worth her salt has spray paint on hand.

Ah...so much better.  Now I can wrap the boas, using a glue gun to secure the ends.

This alone is pretty cute, but not really Halloween-y enough, so I added the googly eyes.  Did I mention that they are ping pong balls from Target?  (Hint, the dollar store has them for a buck AND you can get them in fluorescent orange.)  So here is the finished wreath adorning my front door:

                                                 
                                                                Cute, no?!

Halloween crafty girl

I love being crafty.  Since I'm a creative type person, there are times when I need to be crafty and create something.  Can't fight who I am so I just go with it.  I usually try to use what's on hand, but that doesn't always work...so off to Michaels I go.

I found this on...wait for it...Pinterest! I know, big surprise.  I just can't help myself sometimes.  There are so many cute ideas.

Here is my first Halloween craft:

Just take a foam pumpkin from a craft store, dot on swirls with black puffy paint and add a big bow.  This pumpkin is probably 6-8" tall.  When this stuff goes on sale after Halloween, I'm going to buy a few.  I want to get a black one (or spray paint one black) and add white dots and an orange bow.  How cute would that be?!  You can do this to a real pumpkin too, but it'll rot eventually.  I can enjoy this one year after year.

Halloween crafty girl

Candy corn isn't my favorite Halloween candy, but I know some people LOVE it.  It was the candy I used to eat at my great-great Auntie Mar's ranch when I was a kid.  She always had a bowl of it on the kitchen table.  I've always thought it was a cute candy, though...if candy can be cute.

So here is my version:

I took 3 different sizes of styrofoam cones and wrapped them with the appropriate colored yarn.

Super cute, no?!

And again, I can use them year after year.

I love this old tricycle.  Both of my kids rode it.  The pedals are crumbling.  The tires are bald.  The glitters things that hang off the ends of the handlebar grips have faded away.  The fender is rusting.  The bell broke long ago, but I can still hear it in my mind.

But I can't part with it.  I can just picture my son giving my daughter a ride on it.

Since I couldn't part with it...I did this instead:

Voila!  Repurposed into a plant stand!

Update:  Much to my surprise, this picture was repinned almost 200 times on Pinterest within about a week!  Wow!