Halloween Ghosts DIY

      The last few weeks i've been seeing several Halloween decorations on Pintrest, so I thought i would share a few of mine.... including these adorable ghosts that I made to SPOOKIFY our house.... Ok they might not be spooky but I think they are awfully cute!

DIY: Witch and Pirate ghosts: 

    MATERIALS:

                     2 wire tomato stands

                     2 plastic grocery bags 

                     paper (newspaper balled up)

                     1 White king sized flat sheet

                     Black Felt (one single black sheet)

                     Witch Hat and Pirate hat

                     Spider decoration (optional)

                     Clear fishing line optional 

    HOW TO MAKE THEM: 

                   First take the balled up paper and stuff your plastic grocery bags. Tie the bags in a knot. Stand your tomato stands up with the three prongs sticking up, and pierce the bag through so you have a ball at the top to create the head of your ghost. Next take your sheet fold it in half and cut. Once you have cut your sheet in half drape it over the top of your frame. Cut ovals of black felt hot glue them into place for your ghostly face. I pinned my hats to the ghosts but you can hot glue them on. I then tied them with fishing line to make them have arms. If you don't have anything to attach your fishing line to, you could probably achieve this by attaching a wire hanger underneath on to your tomato stand frame.

DIY: Ghosts on a fence

The next two decorations were fun and very simple to do. I had the fitted sheet left from my ghosts above so i cut the sheet smaller and then stapled two ghosts to the fence.

DIY: Pumpkin Witch

    MATERIALS:

             3 Pumpkins. 

(varied in size bottom being a bit larger than the rest and the top smaller or more oval.)

             8 wooden skewers

             1 witches hat

             Black tulle (mine has little silver stars like the hat)

             Green tulle (optional)

             2 sticks for arms.

             Black ribbon

    HOW TO MAKE THEM: 

To stack the pumpkins I used skewers to make sure they didn't topple over. I also broke the stem off for the two bottom pumpkins Make a little tutu. Start out with one long strip of ribbon about 16" long. Then start cutting about 6" strips of your back tulle. Tie your strips to the ribbon. Make it long enough to go around your bottom pumpkin. For the Hair I cut long strips of the black ribbon and then stapled them to the top. Stick your arms into the side and put your hat on. 

Hutch to Message Center.

After moving some furniture around I decided to take the hutch off my china cabinet. So instead of throwing it out we decided to turn it into a message center. A place to hold mail, keys, upcoming event invitations, a calendar for the month, homework packets, the kids backpacks and a few other knick knacks.

Here are some before and after photos.

BEFORE

 

AFTER

 

Valentine "Heart" Door wreath

This project was inspired by a wreath I saw on pintrest. 

http://donablogg.blogspot.com/2011/11/hej-fran-kransverkstaden.html

I ended up changing it up a bit.  

What you will need:

• A wire Hanger
• Fake plant greens. You want them to be on the long side so you can wrap them around the wire.
• Wooden Heart
• Red, White, Black or Brown Paint
• Red Ribbon
• Floral wire and wire cutters

How to make it:

First I took the wire hanger and shaped it into a heart. 

Next I cut lengths off my greens and started wrapping them around my heart shaped wire hanger. In certain places I used the floral wire to re-enforce the greens onto my wire. once i covered the whole heart. 

I painted the wooden heart, tied on my ribbon and then attached my wooden heart to the bottom. 

A beautiful door hanger for a Loving season. :)

Keep Creating!

Amy

The Adam robot

 

I mad this precious robot for my good friend Jenny's baby, Adam. His room is vintage robot themed. So i wanted to create something that would fit right in. 

I set out for Michael's craft store and went to the wood and paper mache box isle. I started looking at all the various wood pieces and started designing him in my head. What would make the best head, arms, legs, hands and feet. Then I came home rummaged through my husbands tool box in the garage. 

And this is what i came up with. It was really fun to try to figure out what things would work best to create him, and to use my imagination even as an adult. 

Here is a link to baby Adam's amazing nursery. 

http://www.jennerrose.com/blog/?p=2158