Halloween Crafting

I've been doing some Halloween crafting lately but haven't shown any of it yet.  Lame, I know.  I had great plans of a post for each one, but that didn't happen.  I've been having too much fun with my family and soaking up all the gorgeous Fall weather!  We've been trying to get out and do as much as we can before the cold and snowy weather starts.  Brrrrrr!  I do NOT like winter.

Anyways so here are some things I've made this past month.

Felted Acorns

I didn't actually do the felting or anything, I don't know how to.  I bought the balls and then hot glued on the acorn caps that I collected from outside.  Easy, fast, and super cute.  I luuurve them!  I really want to get/make a cute apothecary jar to display them in.  But this works for now.  I got the idea from here.

And on the dresser near those lovely little acorns is a stuffed burlap candy corn.  I'm really lovin' the candy corn this year I guess, since I already made the yarn ones!   I got together with my good friend Erin and we both made 2 of these cuties.  We used this tutorial from Oopsey Daisy.   I'll show you the other one when I share my full on Halloween decor. :)

Burlap Candy Corn

Fabric Pumpkins

 These were inspired from the always creative Jen of Tatertots and Jello.  I just loved her choices in bright, colorful, and patterned fabric and wanted to make some too.  These aren't your normal pumpkins.  They are wonderfully non-traditional and ruffly!  Love them.

Here are hers, aren't they gorgeous!  I can't get the link to work for her tutorial, but here is the link to my pin.

Spooky Bunting

I've been wanting to make a cute little bunting for ages.  But for some reason new things I've never done scare me.  I buy the supplies, and then they sit there.  For. evah.  Well, I finally made one and it wasn't hard at all.  And I'm so happy with how it turned out. 

I just used some scrap fabric from thrift store curtains, green double fold bias tape, and purple acrylic paint.  And I cut the stencils for the letters with my Silhouette.  Fun and not too spooky!  I'm more into cutesy Halloween. :)

Oh and want to see a project FAIL?  Yeah, I have plenty of those.  I wanted to make these pillows I'd pinned on Pinterest.

via Pinterest

See?  Pretty huh?  and cute and I love the glitter!

Well, they DID turn out pretty much just like that.  Pretty, cute, and glittery.  I loved them.  Unfortunately, so did my 13 month old cutie pie.  I didn't even get a good picture of them before they were, well.... see for  yourself

 Look closer!

My sweet little G got to them multiple times and that was that.  I should of put them up high, but I loved how they looked on the bench.  My fault in thinking he'd stop noticing them.  So for now I turned them around and it looks like this.   

 

Any ideas for what I can do to upcycle these pillows?!?!  It's not a cover.  I sewed them and stuffed them and sewed them shut.  I can't bear to waste 3 perfectly good pillows.  I'm thinking about trying to stencil them again with non-glitter orange paint, but I don't know if that would work since it won't be a flat surface. 

So those are recent additions to the Halloween decor!  Whaddaya think?  Soon {hopefully} I'll show you all of it!  Happy Saturday!


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