We have started to decorate for Christmas at our house. We actually started before Thanksgiving but only did one thing here and one thing there. I am finally done with my fireplace mantle. We have a couple Christmas trees up, but no ornaments on them yet. Tonight my husband wants to put some lights outside in the bushes, and the columns on our front porch. I wanted to share an easy Christmas craft with you. First here is our mantle.The craft I wanted to share with you in the "JOY" in the … [Read more...]
Halloween Table Decor
Today while browsing through all the Halloween things at the store looking for led pumpkin lights, I decided to get some candy corn to decorate my table. I haven't had my hurricanes with my white candles on the table for months, and I'm ready for a pretty table again! I know it is only going to be a couple weeks worth of decoration, but here is my cute candy corn table decor! I was hoping to find a bag of just the pumpkin candies, but they didn't have any, so I went with what they had. … [Read more...]
Bowling Pin Mummy and Ghost Tutorial
These cute Halloween decorations can be made very quickly and very cheaply. I am a HUGE fan of a 30 minute or less craft! They are simply used bowling pins (donated to me by my local bowling alley) white spray paint, cheese cloth, black paint pen, mod podge, and brown stain. It is as easy as it looks.GHOST When you acquire used bowling pins, they are usually pretty banged up. I don't bother filling in the wholes or gashes, but I do spray paint them all white. Most of my bowling pin … [Read more...]
Ghostly Halloween Tree
My girls have been asking to do a craft, and since I’m starting to put Halloween décor everywhere, it’s getting me in the mood for some spooky crafting! I decided to take a page from the Easter crafts we did and just make it Halloween-ish. While the kiddos were at school, I found a gnarly branch in the front yard, spray painted it black and stuck it in a pot on the front porch.When the girls came home from school, I had our stuff ready: a box of tissues, yarn (you could always use ribbon- … [Read more...]
Easter Decor!
Since we got a jump-start on our egg dying, I went through BHG and picked out my favorite decorating ideas. I tweaked different ways of egg-dying and different décor ideas to turn them into projects that I thought we could do with supplies that we already had.The first idea is natural died eggs on a cute egg tree! We blew out our eggs by poking a hole in each end and blowing. (Super gross and messy!) Then we tried to dye our eggs from natural ingredients. To make lavender, mix 1 cup of grape … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Roundup!
Since my Valentine Craft and treat posts were so popular I decided to jump on St. Patrick's Day and share some craft and treat ideas I found! On The Magic of Ordinary Things, she made a darling fabric wreath for St. Patrick's Day! She includes a tutorial and it looks pretty easy. I think I may attempt this since I am lacking in green decorations!While we are on the topic of wreaths, how about this super cute felt wreath by My Frugal Family? I LOVE it! And as the name of the blog … [Read more...]
