Candy Corn Decor {a tutorial!}

The other day I was totally pinspired. {pinterst + inspired = pinspired} And yes, that's a word, because I just made it up!  Pinterest is amazing.  I love it.  I don't know what it is about Fall/Halloween, but I'm extra excited about making decor for this season.  Other than Christmas, I have more decorations for Fall/Halloween than all the other seasonal decor combined.  For reals. Anyways, so I decided to make some of the things I've recently pinned. 

Here is my pinspiration-

Pretty darn cute, no?

Aaaannnnddd, here are mine!

Yay, I love them.  They make me happy when I look at them.  And they were surprisingly fast {and easy} to make.  I mean, I knew they'd be easy, but double bonus for being fast too!

Wanna see how I made them?  Well, ok, if you insist.  I'll do a lil' tutorial for ya!  The picture I pinned didn't link back to a blog or site or anything, so this is just the way I made up to do them.

1.  Get your supplies- foam cones, orange, yellow, and white yarn, and a hot glue gun {not pictured}. I got the thick, soft yarn because I liked that is was thicker and it looked prettier {in my opinion}.  But any kind will work fine.  And those cones were actually bought a year ago for a Halloween project I never did.  I'm sad to say I have a quite a few supplies like that.  It worked out this time though!

And if one of your cones breaks, don't worry!  Just hot glue it back together, easy peasy. 

 {I just love the pretty colors and soft yarn}

2. Get your first color- yellow and tie it around near the bottom of the cone.  You don't want to go right at the bottom because then it can slide off easily. 

3. Snip off the extra piece of yarn from tying your knot.

4. Start wrapping the yarn around your cone over and over.  It doesn't have to perfect!  In fact, myself the perfectionist, loved the look of yarn wrapped all different directions.  Plus guess what?! It's much faster that way too. ;)

5.  Just keep going and wrapping the yarn around and around and up and down until it's the height and look you want.  Cut the yarn and glue the end down with a teeny dab of hot glue. 

**Also very important, make sure you have a super helper to unwrap all the yarn for you.  ;)

One more tip for you, make sure you start out with the correct color.  Save yourself some unraveling and look at a candy corn first to see the color order.  I mean, not that I would know from experience or anything...

6.  Now start again with orange!

Here's a picture where you can see how I glued down the end of the orange yarn.  I know it looks ugly, but you will cover it up with the next color.

7.  Lookin' good, almost there!  White is the last one.

8.  To finish it off, you need to use more hot glue.  I continued to wrap up and over the top using lots of small dabs of hot glue.  Be careful!  You can't cover up mistakes too well on the  top.  Just go slowly and spiral the yarn until you get to the center.  And use small amounts of hot glue so it doesn't seep up and on top of the yarn.  Then you'll see it and it won't look as pretty.

Finished!

Then make another one if you want.

 

And admire them.

 And have your helper do some tests to make sure they are in proper order.

You likey?

I do. :)

Some of you super clever peoples may have noticed a small difference from the picture I pinned and mine.

No?  See it now?

The other one finished the top with a white button.  While it was cute, I wanted to keep an all yarn look.  The button would have been a little easier, but I like mine better. :)

Have you been inspired by Pinterest lately?

I'll be linking so some of these parties.

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