...HaLLowEen DecOraTiOns...part 2...

If I get my act together, there will probably even be a part 3 later in the week with my outside decorations :)

It takes a while to set up 25 fake pumpkins...and plugging them all in would probably make most firemen cringe...but I'm hoping to get my fire hazard set up this week :)

Meanwhile...here's my 5 minute front door wreath...nothing spectacular...but...

I just bought a black wreath at Michaels, added a bow and a big ol' crEePy spider...he was a little ToO crEePy for daycare approval so I added the gOogly eyes to cute-ify him.

I bought the BOO! at Target a few years ago and backed it with orange paper so that it stood out a little better.  All done.  I was going to make a black wreath with a foam form and tulle...but this guy was $3.99...at that price...why reinvent the wheel?!?

Sorry these next pictures are so rotten...This mirror has a view into a cute but busy photo collage on the far wall...it was really distracting when I tried to take the picture straight on, so I ended up laying on they ground to try to get a pic without that reflection...You get the idea though...you'll just have to believe me that it looks better in person :)

Here's my HaLLowEen MantLe...some metal bats from Michael's ( I LoVe their little hangers!!) just a few decorations and this year I put a phrase on the mirror instead of just one word...

Here's a close up of the mirror.  Just cricut letters and shadows for the most part.  I cuttlebug embossed the black letters for a little interest and I hand cut and glittered the ~or~ because I didn't have a cartridge that would do it the way I wanted.  That one little 2 letter word took twice as long as all the rest of the letters!!

Here are my candlesticks that stay up year round and just get different add-ons...I used Pier One candles (the flavor that is on sale this month) and added a few paper strips and a drippy goo punch just to creep them up a bit...The AweSoMe purple EEK! is from the Target dollar bin last year.

This is my fun HaLloWeEn purchase for this year...a glitterfied WiTcH BoOt from Pier One (I kinda like that store...kinda  a lot...)  The swirls coming out of the top and purple added to the traditional color scheme are what sold this to me :)

Thanks for looking!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

jen

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...HaLLoWeEn DeCorATioNs...part 1...

My friend Cindy, does ~pretty...tasteful...grown-up~ VeRy well...

I appreciate that, because it's NOT a skill I have...I'm more a ~ cute...cutesy...juvenile...type person...

So...when she made this Halloween card...(I'm linking to her blog so you can go see her other FaB stuff too :)

I knew I had to have it for my HaLLoWeEn decorating :)

She mentioned she really liked a certain card of mine and I may have suggested that we swap...just so I could get what I wanted...I'm eViL that way :)

Her card was the inspiration for my entry table...

Here's an overview... 

....and a little closer...I felt sooooo bad when I cut up her card to put it in the frame...but it looks AwESoMe in there!!!  

I added a little bat specimen frame that I made in like 3 minutes with the MaRtha Stewart bat punch, some patterned paper and a few ScrabbLe tiles.  The tiles are just leaned against the glass sitting right on the edge of the frame...it worked out great...I'll have to remember that!

Here's a close up of the cool WiTcH shoes I bought at Pier One last year.  They are supposed to be votive holders, but I like them without the candles...

I was originally going to do a banner for over here, but ended up just glueing my medallions onto my table...I'm going to have a date with sandpaper and spray paint on November 1...but...it's totaLLy cute NOW and that's what matters right???  I mean EvErYoNe defaces furniture in the name of HoLidAy decorating, right? Right? ...Why do I think I hear crickets chirping out there???

And last, but not least is this AmaZinGLy AdoRabLe little Wee Forrest Folk witch...eeek...could you just die she is so cute...She is even MORe amazing in person...the detail is PhEnOmeNaL!!  I was over at my Aunt's house...she collects them and she accidently bought 2 of this one...easy to see how you could do that since it is soooooooo CuTe!!!  She generously sent WitCHy home with me...and I placed her in her own private cloche so that everyone would know she was special! :)

I'll get the mantle pics up next...I LoVe HaLLoWeEn!!  How could you not love a holiday about candy, dressing up,  and being a little naughty??? 

Thanks for looking and have a GreaT WeeKeNd!

jen

http://cindys-creations.blogspot.com/

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...bAcK to ScHOoL decorations...

So..I finally got tired of looking at the Fourth of July decorations and decided to change things...problem is... it's too late for fourth of July but it's too early for Fall and Halloween...if I put the fall stuff up now...I'll be looking at it until the end of November...I LoVe my FaLL goodies...but not enough to look at them for almost 4 months...especially in Southern California...we don't really have FaLL at all, so to try to stretch it for a quarter of the year is ridiculous!!

My solution?  ...BaCk to ScHOoL...

Here's a banner I made this morning...I just picked through one pile of papers and found things that looked "school-y" to me :)

...a little ribbon, some Heidi Swapp letters, a few medallions...done...and I didn't buy a thing..woo-hoo!

I left the candlesticks alone...just pulled off the red, white, and blue candles and added some school supplies and a pile of mini books...again, I just used things laying around the house...so...more free....

Here's a close up of my stack of little books just because I think they are so cute...I spent a few years collecting them and actually have a small shelf hanging in the hallway that looks like a mini bookshelf holding most of the collection.

here's the table right by the front door...super simple...still using what was around...

The pictures are the boy's most recent ScHoOL  photo (1/2 way through 4th grade) and a Kindergarten picture that I LoVe!  That boy was sooooo cute back when he smiled for the camera and didn't have a 13 year old girl's BaD attitude! 

 Just some scrabble tiles, one of the prizes I made for Connor to give his previous teachers and then I had to come up with what to do with the Apothecary jar that always sits there...It usually holds a picture supported by the Scrabble tiles I'm not using in the tray...but...instead...

I did this!!! :)  

It totally makes me laugh!!  I went out to out extra school supplies box and pulled in things that fit...SuPeR quick and easy...aaaaaannnnndddd....FREE!!  

Probably took 2 hours total...most of that making the banner...and $0.00  which is awesome since this is what is going on outside the front door....

Yup...that's a big ol' rotten hole in the front of my house...and rotten columns...and generally...a giant mess....

So...I don't really have money for something as GoOfY as BaCk to ScHoOL decorations...it's kinda being spent trying to keep my house from falling down! :(  

Amazing how creative you can be when you just don't have the money...

or maybe it's just that I have CrAZy amounts of craft supplies at my house and should open a store instead of continuing to go to them...NOOOOOO....let's go with the first one...yeah...definitely the first one! :)

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