Ghostly Greetings!

These ghostly pot heads are a new additon to our bathroom this year.

They're "hanging out" with yarn and tied beads to hold their place.

The pots are painted with white acrylic paint and the arms and faces are made with cardstock.

Be the ghostess with the mostess!

Boo to you from our crew.

Owls in the night...oh what a fright.

These black and orange paper owls are hiding in their trees silently watching you. Mwhahahahahaha...oops...whooooo whooooo! 

They are made with two pieces of cardstock paper wrapped and glued around cylindrical vases.  

 

In the front, a black piece (with a cut out oval) wraps over the orange piece (with the owl) in the back.  Trim the orange piece around the hole before gluing. 

The front black piece isn't big enough to wrap around the whole vase so the back is orange...you can cover it with another piece of black paper...but it's the back. 

A rubber band will help hold everything together around the vase while it dries.

Add a couple of cut out branches to the tree trunks.

Throw in a couple of tea lights and watch them glow.

Whachu lookin' at??

You're the TOP!

All our Halloween stuff is up and ready! Dennis leaves for the Anything Goes tour today, he'll be back in December, but it's an 8 month contract.  We're missing each other already!  These past few weeks we've become a bit nostalgic and decided to take a stroll down memory lane and share our top 5 spooky posts. 

Yarn spider webs-an inexpensive way to give the room a huge eerie impact!

Simple Halloween jars-made from tissue paper, painted on with glue and water.

Terror-iums-spooky, scenic and cheap!

Zombie garland-shaggy, dramatic and decrepit.

Spooky stares-peek a boo, we see you!

We hope our favorite past ideas help you have a killer Halloween!

Happy haunting! 

Itsy Bitsy's at it again!

All spider webs begin with a single thread and so do our yarn spider web jars!

We loved our giant yarn spider webs from last year and wanted more! 
We used the same techinque on the jars as we did on the walls.

We blackened the back of our jars with a lighter, like we did for our smokey lights!

In the right place, the web will cast a shadow on your wall!
Creepy, huh?

Keeping my eye on you!

I spy with my little eye...these spooky eye magnets!

We traced and cut white paper around the flat glass stone for the eyeball.
For the detail on the iris, we drew lines with a ruler and a pen. 
Everything was cut out freehand, we didn't want them to look perfect.

Once our eyes were all cut out and glued together we used Mod Podge to adhere them to the stone and hot glued a magnet to the back. 
Badda bing, badda boom!

 We love how the stones make the eyes look glassy.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!

Believe it or not, Halloween is just around the corner!

We like a smooth transition from our fall and autumn crafts into our spooky Halloween decor.

This year we're starting a subtle change over with our black paper mini bats.

We cut our little friends free hand out of black construction paper and added glowing red rhinestones. 
Our bats are hanging from floral wire and dying to catch your eye!
Mwahahahaha!

Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na, BATMAN!

Going batty?!

Smells of the Season.

Make your home smell like pumpkin spice with a hint of latte!

This is great after you've baked your pumpkin goodie.  
Use the left over pumpkin you can't get out of the can...scrape all you want, but you'll never get it all out! (We used Easy Pumpkin Pie Mix, it's all we could find!)
Before you recycle your can, fill it with warm water, swish it around and dump it in a sauce pan.  
Add the other ingredients and place on a low setting burner! 
Don't let the water completely evaporate, keep refilling.
One mix stays good for about a week!

Keep it smelling like pumpkin goodness long after your treats are baked!