At your request I posted links to all of my silly Halloween crafts around my house. Enjoy!
Ian has been loving getting ready for his Halloween program at school. He has been asking where all of our Halloween things are (his school is decorated darling). Our Halloween decorations are non existent and did not want to spend money to decorate my house. So I started searching. I looked through some of my favorite crafty blogs (because I am not crafty myself) to find some great Halloween ideas.
The Tip Junkie has tons of different inexpensive Halloween ideas. Many posted various words they had spelled out of letter and so on. I used these cardboard like letters that Hobby Lobby sells. I had the paper already, and the black paint. Painted them black, glued the paper on, then sanded the edges. Tada 15 minute project done, under $10 dollars. Then I added a stick we found on a walk, spray painted it black, and put it in a vase I already had. Plus added Ian's fun dollar store spiders.
This one was way too easy, but it took about an hour to do. I already had the black card stock, then I purchased the frames at the dollar store. I found a picture of a bat that I like online (type bat template or stencil into google images). The made 3 images different sizes. Traced on black cardstock, folded the wings, and made the bats fly up the wall! Many of the crafty blogs on my site did something similar to this. I did the same concept with the cat, witch, and broom and got the templates and idea from Ucreate.
This was the first project I came to when searching. For the crafty person it might be inexpensive because you might have all the materials. I did not have the materials but loved the candy corns. It cost me under $20. The lame Styrofoam cones were kinds of pricey. It was really easy though if you love it click here on the Thrify Decor Chick website.
My last project was super easy and I can't find where I got the idea from :( It is just a cereal box and other random boxes I had. Wrap in black wrapping paper , create the eyes with yellow paper, then glue it on. Ian made the pumpkin at school so we added it to our table. Speaking of table to did you notice our new table! I love it and we finally found chairs. Yes I still have to refinish the brown chairs but hurray (Found the chairs at the DI for $15 dollars a chair -can't beat that)!
This is what it looked like before -a door. It is a solid wood door that we got at the Star Mill Antique Store for $27 dollars. 
Our idea originally came from the Nate Show. So we started searching the web and found the idea for our table here. We loved the table so we tried to create the exact same table but a little bit sturdier for our rough boys. We bought a single panel door (the five panel ones tend to go quickly) and Tim did the rest! He built it into a five panel door and put legs on it to turn it into a table. We then purchased the glass top at a local glass shop.
Then I added scrapbook paper for another unique touch (the site above used wrapping paper). You could actually change out the paper for various holidays as well.
Other than our fun Halloween projects I have actually had time to get some organizing done and finish unpacking the last few boxes we have left to unpack. I call that being productive, Tim calls that hyperthyroidism. At least the job gets done :)
First task: organized the linen closet (below), and the bathrooms, and the medicine cabinet.
Second: The laundry room, aka the place were everything goes. Yes I took a picture of before. I know it is horrible. When we moved in this is the place were all random things would go. Shear Madness.
Of course I did not want to spend any money, but I did want it to look nice and organized. I took boxes I had (we have lots of those from moving), then butcher paper (my mom gave a huge roll for Ian when we moved), wrapped the boxes with the paper, printed labels on the computer and mounted it on scrapbook paper I already had. Tada, way better!
Third: The office room. It was filled with boxes of decor, teaching materials, hundreds of books, games, electronics, everything. Ok, we had two junk rooms in our home where everything goes. It took about a week but is all organized and looks beautiful. I still need Tim to hang a few things so I will post picture of that room later. Plus, all of our picture and art work is in that room until I can figure out where to put them. So, it has been a busy and very productive few weeks and nothing better to do than enjoy some pumpkin chocolate chip bread! Delicious! And maybe go to bed :) One loaf is missing because we already ate it. Did I mention Tim was at work, at least we still have two more.
Ian has been loving getting ready for his Halloween program at school. He has been asking where all of our Halloween things are (his school is decorated darling). Our Halloween decorations are non existent and did not want to spend money to decorate my house. So I started searching. I looked through some of my favorite crafty blogs (because I am not crafty myself) to find some great Halloween ideas.
The Tip Junkie has tons of different inexpensive Halloween ideas. Many posted various words they had spelled out of letter and so on. I used these cardboard like letters that Hobby Lobby sells. I had the paper already, and the black paint. Painted them black, glued the paper on, then sanded the edges. Tada 15 minute project done, under $10 dollars. Then I added a stick we found on a walk, spray painted it black, and put it in a vase I already had. Plus added Ian's fun dollar store spiders.
This one was way too easy, but it took about an hour to do. I already had the black card stock, then I purchased the frames at the dollar store. I found a picture of a bat that I like online (type bat template or stencil into google images). The made 3 images different sizes. Traced on black cardstock, folded the wings, and made the bats fly up the wall! Many of the crafty blogs on my site did something similar to this. I did the same concept with the cat, witch, and broom and got the templates and idea from Ucreate.
This was the first project I came to when searching. For the crafty person it might be inexpensive because you might have all the materials. I did not have the materials but loved the candy corns. It cost me under $20. The lame Styrofoam cones were kinds of pricey. It was really easy though if you love it click here on the Thrify Decor Chick website.
My last project was super easy and I can't find where I got the idea from :( It is just a cereal box and other random boxes I had. Wrap in black wrapping paper , create the eyes with yellow paper, then glue it on. Ian made the pumpkin at school so we added it to our table. Speaking of table to did you notice our new table! I love it and we finally found chairs. Yes I still have to refinish the brown chairs but hurray (Found the chairs at the DI for $15 dollars a chair -can't beat that)!
This is what it looked like before -a door. It is a solid wood door that we got at the Star Mill Antique Store for $27 dollars. 
Our idea originally came from the Nate Show. So we started searching the web and found the idea for our table here. We loved the table so we tried to create the exact same table but a little bit sturdier for our rough boys. We bought a single panel door (the five panel ones tend to go quickly) and Tim did the rest! He built it into a five panel door and put legs on it to turn it into a table. We then purchased the glass top at a local glass shop.
Then I added scrapbook paper for another unique touch (the site above used wrapping paper). You could actually change out the paper for various holidays as well.
Other than our fun Halloween projects I have actually had time to get some organizing done and finish unpacking the last few boxes we have left to unpack. I call that being productive, Tim calls that hyperthyroidism. At least the job gets done :)
First task: organized the linen closet (below), and the bathrooms, and the medicine cabinet.
Second: The laundry room, aka the place were everything goes. Yes I took a picture of before. I know it is horrible. When we moved in this is the place were all random things would go. Shear Madness.
Of course I did not want to spend any money, but I did want it to look nice and organized. I took boxes I had (we have lots of those from moving), then butcher paper (my mom gave a huge roll for Ian when we moved), wrapped the boxes with the paper, printed labels on the computer and mounted it on scrapbook paper I already had. Tada, way better!
Third: The office room. It was filled with boxes of decor, teaching materials, hundreds of books, games, electronics, everything. Ok, we had two junk rooms in our home where everything goes. It took about a week but is all organized and looks beautiful. I still need Tim to hang a few things so I will post picture of that room later. Plus, all of our picture and art work is in that room until I can figure out where to put them. So, it has been a busy and very productive few weeks and nothing better to do than enjoy some pumpkin chocolate chip bread! Delicious! And maybe go to bed :) One loaf is missing because we already ate it. Did I mention Tim was at work, at least we still have two more.
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