Halloween Door

I got the ideas for my Halloween door from these pins: Spider Magnets and Boo Wreath

 

I love the spidey door magnets, but I could only find a few big spiders around my house and I keep forgetting to get little ones at the store but soon enough I will have some baby spiders on my door as well! I just used little magnets I had laying around and tacky glue. My magnets are a little too powerful so for the next round I am going to buy some different magnets that won't tear off the spider because they are too attached to the door. For my wreath I just used an old black bed sheet that I had bought at one point for a back drop or something. I also used a hay type wreath I found on clearance and I didn't paint it or even take it out of the plastic. I turned on a show, and started cutting strips of fabric. Then I tied and I tied and I tied until it was all covered in raggedy messy fabric. Then I modge podged the paper to the letters and attached them and added some google eyes because it looked like a monster. My husband didn't want me to re-paint the door orange just for the season, and I was okay with that.

 

 

The spiders had a deeper well in the body so I filled it with hot glue before using tacky glue for the magnet. It is holding up okay.

On a scale of 1-10 these were a 10, so easy it was scary. The wreath too, just time consuming but so easy anyone can do it!

 

Pregnant Skeleton

 

I got this fun costume idea from this pin: Pregnant Skeleton

 Last year for Halloween I was pregnant and I wanted a fun costume for my family's Halloween party so when I saw this I thought it would be great for the cooler Utah Halloween and nice and comfy for my pregnant state. I didn't use freezer paper as a stencil like she did on makeit-loveit.com but the reason I thought of this project was because this past week I used freezer paper as a shirt stencil as some friends and I made matching tank tops for a race we were running. It was amazing and would have made this project much easier. By placing the freezer paper shiny side down and ironing it to your clothes you can paint onto your clothes without the paint seeping through. Honestly, I don't know how crafty people figure this stuff out I don't even know what freezer paper is really used for but it makes an amazing clothing stencil! So last year I just cut out paper and traced it and then outlined the bones with the fabric paint that has the small tip for writing and then filled it in with paint. It took a long long time and I just free handed the baby skeleton and it was tricky. For all future painted costumes I most definitely will be using freezer paper! I actually think I may start making my own super hero shirts for Cooper to wear every day because using freezer paper is fun!

On a tricky level of 1-10 I give this about a 7.5. It was a little tedious and I had really hoped there would have been a skeleton stencil. I wish I could provide a stencil here, but I don't have one. The bigger bones were not to bad to make free handed stencils of but the baby skeleton was pretty tricky, It may be easiest to blow up the picture on the computer and print it out and then cut it out of the freezer paper. On a comfy costume for a pregnant lady this got a 9 for super comfy and I wished I could have worn it with out feeling silly for more than just Halloween parties and Halloween.

Monster Jars

I loved these cute jars from this pin: Monster Jars

 

I was "organizing" my cupboard the other day and I had two jars that just kept getting in the way, and then I saw that I had green and white acrylic paint and I thought of these jars. I opened up one jar and squeezed in some green paint. Then I put the lid on and shook the jar until the jar was all green. Then I logged onto Pinterest, pulled up this pin, and read the instructions on how to get the black faces on. Well once again I learned that I need to read the pin before I start the craft! She didn't use paint for this project, she modge podged tissue paper to the outside of the jar and then she modge podged the faces on, and then she can put a votive in the jar. Weeellll I had already started and I didn't have any tissue paper that wasn't pink so I just decided to go with the paint. I put the white paint in the other mason jar, shook it till it covered and then I found a smaller jar for my orange pumpkin. I didn't have orange acrylic paint so I used my sons crayola washable paint and it is holding up okay. In case you are wondering, painting the insides of jars with leftover house paint didn't work for me, it looked good for three days but then it just separated and dried out funny and one day I looked at the jars and they looked really bad, it was a shame. Anyways, once the insides of the jars were colored I grabbed a black sharpie and started to draw on the faces. I copied how hers look because they are darling, but I didn't use her template because I was lazy. But if you don't feel comfortable drawing on the faces she has a cute template you can print out for the faces. Now because I painted the insides I don't know if light will shine through as well. I definitely won't be putting a candle in them but maybe I will pick up a few battery votives and try it out. Also I need a bit of ribbon for the lids.  But for now they just sit on my shelf looking Halloweenie and I am just fine with that!

 

 

On a tricky scale of 1-10 these get a 1. So So easy and quick and if you use her stencil your jars can look just as cute as hers!