Happy Halloween!

NO ERASING involved to create your own personalized chalkboard from technology...well, at least it only takes a click of a button to erase. I did this one really fast and Nest of Posies has great ideas and links for Free downloadable fonts and chalkboard backgrounds. This will do for now, but I have a real repurpose chalkboard project that I want to make...looks like I will be doing a lot of erasing to achieve this perfection.

Scare those crows away!

I thought maybe I scared him off or the Wizard had problems getting him home...well he is back for the fall season! Scarecrows are fun to make and you can add your own special touches too. Just take some old clothes and stuff with newspaper. Make a head out of muslin and use craft paints for his features and stuff with poly-fill pillow stuffing. Stuff garden gloves too for his hands. Take a dowel stick or baseball bat to prop up his body and head. For his hat, I used an apple basket. Finish off with a little raffia to stuff around his head, feet and hands and to tie the ends. Use your imagination!




                    Happy Halloween!

Fall into some new pillows!

The Fall season is always a fun time to decorate and to throw in a punch of orange. I made these pillows for a special friend of mine. Orange and teal are lovely coordinating colors for your decor all year too. Pillows are an easy way to create a new fresh look and so many styles and textures to choose from.

Halloween Cobweb Decor

I think I have slacked off on my house cleaning chores! Halloween is a fun time to decorate and this is a simple addition to a chandelier. Just purchase artificial cobwebs and have fun placing them everywhere. Now I am ready for our guest, The Adam's Family!

Halloween Spider Vase

Use an old wine bottle (this long skinny bottle was from "ice wine"). Paint spiders on the bottle with craft paint. Fill it up with crystal acrylic rocks. Put beads on a wire and loop around the bottle neck. Place a decorative stem in the vase and you got it!

Fall Decorating with White Pumpkins

Instead of always using the traditional orange pumpkins, they now come in a variety of colors and are fun to decorate with for the Fall. Just glue some glitter on the seams to dazzle them up...There are many ways to be creative!

Fig Preserves Finally Finished for the Fall Season!

I finally finished making my yearly fig preserves and gifts too! These make great host/hostess gifts which is more personable and everyone loves. Since fresh figs only last a couple of days and I had my share of eating them and giving some away, I also froze them on a daily basis. When the figs stopped producing, I had a nice supply in my freezer waiting for me to get cooking. It is a simple recipe that I use, just plan on spending most of your day cooking!