Home Heart and Hands: halloween decor

Hey! Sorry I've been away for so long. Halloween really got the better of me this year! I made a couple of dresses for my daughters (Elsa and Anna) that took a horrendous amount of time to complete, I threw a party at my house, we had a trunk or treat and a family Halloween carnival we always put on every year....I was so busy I couldn't see strait! Another fun fact...we got SNOW Halloween night. It went from being in the 70s and 80s that week (that day even) to snow in the middle of the night! This was the earliest snow on record for SC. It blew all of our minds, seriously!

I couldn't let Halloween come and go without sharing my black and white Halloween mantle. It has been up all "season," but I never found time to photograph it and share it with you. I started to take it down yesterday and I couldn't bring myself to, without snapping a few shots and showing you guys. I loved it so much, I wanted to leave it...but that would be weird. I'm sure I'll love the FALL mantle I have planned just as much!

So, better late than never! Here is it:

This is just scrap book paper in frames.

I painted a couple of cheap pumpkins from Wally World and Target

Blurry shot. My bad. My 11-year-old drew the chalk sign. It says "creepy."

I painted these goblet votives...They have been painted so many times. You can see what they looked like before on top of my entryway here.

I drew on these glasses with a dry erase marker. They could have turned out better, but it was still fun.

This was such a fun idea. I took a glass bowl that I already had and drew on a jack-o-lantern face with some dry erase markers. Use what ya got!

So that's it! Pin it for next year ;)

I'll see you later with some easy sewing tips...a tutorial for the Anna's coronation dress from Frozen (it's a doozy), some lovely fall decor, and we are having my four year old, Sophie's birthday party next weekend, so I'll be sharing that as well.

Anna

Hey There! I hope you had a wonderful Sunday. I know mine was :) Spent the day listening to these amazing, uplifting talks.

I have been crafting away for the past few days on some easy, fun Halloween decorations for my new mantle. It is so exciting to get to decorate a real mantle for the holidays! Eeek! I am such a sucker for Black and white. It's my favorite...always has been. I have seen some really really cute black and white Halloween decorations out there this year. This front door is one of my favorites.

I just love it!

I am, by no means, finished with my Halloween crafting. I'd say I'm about half way through making decorations....but I thought I'd go ahead and share with you guys what I've come up with so far.

For starters, this fun spider display isn't actually on my mantle. This is above my mudroom entryway.

The large frame is just

mitered moulding, painted white, put together and braced on the back with wood and then the chicken wire is stapled in behind it. I already had this. A girlfriend of mine made it for a baby shower and passed it on to me when she was moving and needed to get rid of some stuff. I found a use for it! I made all of the spiders out of furry, minky pipe cleaners...added the striped ribbon and then painted some little wooden letters black and secured them to the chicken wire with little tiny pieces of pipe cleaner.

The entryway has looked like this for awhile. I took the wreath down and added the spiders. I don't really think I'm going to do anything else to this spot for Halloween.

Here's what I did with the wreath :) (you can see how I made this wreath here)

I hung it on the back door and added some black and white ribbon....and two skeletons.....KISSING!!!

:) :) :)

You have no idea how much that just tickled my funny bone! I think it's awesome. Skeleton LOVE!

Next little thing I made is a quick, fun Halloween embroidery. I found this embroidery hoop in my stash of craft supplies, threw in some white felt, and stitched up this cute little ghost. It was basically free handed, but I did go in with a pen and make a few faint dots in places as a guide.

I darkened the edge of the embroidery hoop with a sharpie, slapped a bow on that bad boy and we were in business. It took five minutes and it was free :)

Here's the back. I just trimmed some of the edges and then taped them down.

Here he is chillin on my mantle with his rat buddy.

I found this web bowl at the dollar spot at Target.

I thought it would be much better in black....

I made sure to do this in my side yard this time. Less noticeable.

Lookin good on the shelf. Still not sure what I'm going to put in it....if anything???

This is a cute wooden box I've had. A friend actually gave it to me. I just decided to cut out a skeleton out of felt and tape it to it. It was pretty easy. You just make a large lightbulb-ish shape out of the white felt for the head, then a couple of small Mr. Potato-head-ish shapes out of black felt for the eyes, another very small heart shape out of black felt for the nose....glue them on....and then I drew the mouth with a sharpie by copying a clip art of a cute skeleton online. I added the orange bow tie, because, well....it suited him.

bottom shelf....I don't know. I'm still working that one out. it won't be staying like that....and that's a furry black owl if you were wondering.

I can not wait to get the rest of my decorations finished and then to share the finished product with you all! I'll be steady working on those for the next few days, as well as starting to make my girls' Halloween costumes. Elsa and Anna it is...and I'm going to make them from scratch. Wish me luck on that endeavor.

Oh, and I do promise to get a tutorial up for how I built this fireplace very soon :) I'm a busy lady, but I promise it's coming!

Take care and happy crafting!

Anna

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