Halloween Gift Bags

My son receives weekly allergy shots.  The ladies who work in the office are the best!  I have never had a staff treat my kid so well, that they would want to come in weekly for shots.  They spoil my son with attention every week.  I put together these gift bags.  They have a soda, Out of treats sign, and a bugs and kisses jar.  It was an unexpected surprise for them.  It pays to be nice and go the extra mile :)

Vintage halloween Jar with tags

I wish I would have taken pictures of the tags.  I took 2 old spaghetti jars.  Made 5 vintage halloween tags and placed them inside.  I dressed up the lids with paper and ribbons.

Glitter Witch Girl

This is one of my favorite projects this year.  I saw a similar idea on Pinterest.  I put my own twist on it.  I love glitter!   I knew, I wanted to use the witch girl on something!  

Sleepy Hollow Screen

Another Pinterest goody.  Saw this idea, just happened to have screen material and frames laying around.  This came together quick!

Witch Shoe

I have been making these paper witch shoes for years.  They are a fun gift to give.  You can google and find a printable template.  They are a little time consuming.  But worth it!

60's style vintage Chair re-vamp!

This Chair was given to me by my mother in law.  It use to sit in the family room of their lake house.  I loved the fabric that was on the chair.  My original plan was to only refinish  and paint the wood.  Once I got the chair home,  I noticed how stained and worn the fabric was.  I also no longer had space for it in the spot I had originally planned.  I changed my mind and decided to put it in my little girls room.  I just had to make it extra Girly.

Fabric banner

My BFF and I got together and made these banners back in August.  Yes!  We get that excited about Halloween!

Trick or Treat Blocks

Found this idea on Pinterest.  Wish I could remember the blog.  She has a great FREE printable with awesome instructions.  Cut, paint, print and glue.  I mass made 8 of these in about 2 hours.

Candy Jars

I save all my jam, pickle, salsa, ect jars.  Simply paint the lid, attach a knob if you desire.  Glue to a candle stick.  We gave these as guessing jar prizes.

Dixie cup treat holder

I took some paper cups.  made a template, then cut scrapbook paper to place around the cups.  Then embellish and fill with treats!

Skeleton Tea light

Another simple project.  I cut a skull in black vinyl.  Then add it to a glass, that I glued onto a candle stick! 5 minute project!

Broom Parking

My Sis-in-law had wanted to make this sign. While I cut her some vinyl, I decided to make one for myself. For the broom, I cut a branch add some greenery leftovers and tied some ribbon.

More Skeletons

I ended up re-vamping the skeletons and gave them each a little sachet.

Skeleton Awards

Saw this great idea on Pinterest.  These will have little sashes on them.  They will be handed out for costume prizes.

Multi Halloween Frame

I had this frame laying around.  I was about ready to pitch it.  Then I decided to cut different Halloween words and put in each frame.

Mini stuffed pumpkins

There is a great tutorial on Pinterest to make these cute fabric pumpkins.  There is a little bit of sewing involved.  It's all pretty basic.

Burlap and fabric pumpkin block

I have tons of fabric scraps.  I just cut scraps and mod podged them on a wood block.  This was an easy 20-30 minute project.

Orange striped Crow

Saw this on Pinterest.  Loved the idea of the stripes behind the crow.  This was a simple 10 minute project!

Pumpkin pillow

One of my darling friends made me a pumpkin pillow similar to this one.  I loved it so much!  I made a mini version for a Halloween party prize!

Burlap and Spider frame

My BFF made this for me.  She found this darling pre-printed burlap.  She cut stuck it in a frame.  Then glittered and glued a giant spider on.  Simple and cute!

Striped Halloween Pillow

I made a single version of the trick or treat pillows.  This will be up for grabs at my Halloween party!

Outof treats door signs

Another Pinterest goody!

.  This was also very quick and easy.  Paint, stick vinyl, hot glue ribbon.

Black Cats

Saw this black cat idea on Pinterest.  This was very easy! cute on the cricut, paint your board, stick on and your done.  I think it took all of 10 minutes!

Spider web door mat

I made a black and white spider web door mat a while back.  I had this one painted green and decided it would be fun with the spider webs on it also.  The last 3 years my BFF and I have a giant Halloween party.  We do oodles of handmade prizes.  This will be up for grabs!

Halloween Chalk Board

Remember the giant chalk board I made.  I have loved changing it out every few weeks.  I found the trick or treat idea on pinterest.

Trick or treat pillows

I whipped up 2 sets of these cute pillows.  My BFF had been wanting them.  Of course I need a set too!

Retro TV floor cabinet turned into shelf/ entry table

For starters this thing was a beast!  I saw this idea on Pinterest a while back.  I liked the one I saw.  I thought where would I ever find an old TV cabinet?  About 2 weeks later one fell into my lap.  My dad was cleaning out his rental house.  Guess what was left behind!  At first I said NO!  Then 2 days later, I called him.  He still had it.  He brought it on over.  I thought my husband was going to kill me.  He actually thought it was a cool idea.  Which was good! Because this took a lot of man hours and tons of his help.

First he pulled apart the TV and insides.

 Then I puttied and sanded and sanded. We chopped about 7 inches off the back. My husband built a shelf and attached it in the middle.

 About 8 coats of paint later.  It looked like this.

 At this point. I decided I was going for more of a vintage look.  So, I distressed the whole thing.

 Here is the before

 This is how it turned out!  I love it.  

But, it was a ton of work!

Total cost was $20 in paint

you can't beat that

5 projects down!  Pretty sure I won't make my goal:(  I am feeling very accomplished and motivated!

Hoping to recover another chair this weekend.

Dead and Breakfast

Halloween is in full swing!!!  I love Halloween, it is my favorite holiday.   I have been constantly making crafts over the last few weeks.  I wanted to do a count down with a new craft, for 31 days.  Well, I'm a few days late for that.  So lets start with a 28 day count down!

Today's project My Dead and Breakfast sign to hang on my post.  My BFF cut the fun shape out for us.  I made the templates and painted them.  This project can be found on BHG website.  I love how it turned out.  Little black crows and all!