Happy Halloween

We celebrate the spookiest night of the year with our traditional Halloween dinner.

Dinner in a pumpkin.

Click here for the recipe.

What's a pumpkin dinner without spider bread?

Yum!

Mama Spider with all of her baby spiders.

Where's daddy spider you ask?

I ate him.

Happy Halloween!

Trick or Treat Plate Decor

Why buy Tai Pan when you can make your own decor plates?

Here's an easy and cheap way to make trendy plates.

Supplies

-plates from the Dollar Store

-choice of paper

-print words onto cardstock

-mod podge

Cut paper out into circles.

Use a little paint to give the font a spooky aged look.

Mod Podge circles onto the plates.

trick or treat  --  smell my feet

Linking up to....
Fireflies and Jellybeans
Frou Frou Decor
its so very cheri

Witchy Spells

Here's a project that used a different medium - wood burning tools.

Take a piece of pine left over from an old project.

I printed this picture from the GraphicsFairy and mod podged it onto the wood.

I traced the paper onto the wood to leave an indention for the letters.  

Then I used a wood burning pen to write the words.

I finished it by torching the edges.

It was way fun!

Tied a cute orange ribbon around the board.

Toped it with black wire for a hanging.

Witchy Spells - 5 cents

Hexes - extra

Autumn Friends

I love autumn!  

I also love to glimpse what my crafty friends do with their craftiness.

Take a look....

I love the pumpkin turned on it's side.

Check out this adorable autumn village.

I love it!

Creepy eyes made out of black paper spy out the windows of this house.

It's really spooky at night with the inside lights turned on.

Painted jars.

Save them all!

Personalized haunted house cross stitched with love.

This huge pumpkin is darling!

Witchy witch wall hanging!

Witchy Silhouette Plates

I stumbled onto this site and LOVED the  Halloween silhouettes.

I wanted to put them onto plates for my little twist.

Robyn from The Pink Peony of Le Jardin is so wonderful to share her witchy images with us. 

   It makes my crafting soooo easy and fast.  

Thank you!

I went through my cupboards and found some unused plates that needed to be used.

You can find them at the dollar store or thrift stores for $1.

Already had the paint!

I jumped up for joy when I discovered the purple can in my stash.

Oh, they turned out lovely.

I am amazed what spray paint can do.

How purplicious!

I copied the images from here and sized them to 4x6 and printed them off.

 I cut them out and traced them onto white contact paper to cut out again.

Think of contact paper as the new cheap vinyl - 24 feet for less than $6 at Wal-mart.

A little more cutting and the possibilities are endless... 

Check out this awesome costume made from black sweats and white contact paper.  

It held up all through the school day and Halloween night.

Creepy, huh?

I love how it looks on the plates.

They look just witchy on my plate rake.

Can't wait for Thanksgiving and every season after that!

Linking up to:
Whatever Goes Wednesday @ Someday Crafts
Show off your Stuff @ Fireflies and Jellybeans

Halloween Subway Art

I really wanted a  Halloween subway art to hang up, but I didn't want to buy one or design one. Thanks to Jessica on Craftily Ever After, I made one with her free printable she is sharing here (for some reason, my print is different than the one offered on Craftily Ever After.  I don't know why, I do like the other one too).

All I had to do was print it off and rummage through old frames until I found this one with a mat - yeah!

I spray painted the frame black and shabbied it up with a hand sander.

I did have to cut the mat a little larger to fit the print.

I am loving this easy peasy project that cost me my ink.

Glass Etching

My friend taught me how to etch glass.

It was easy.

Print numbers off the computer and trace them onto contact paper.

Make sure you trace them onto the contact paper backwards.

Place contact paper over your glass.

Follow the instructions on the bottle.

I've seen etching spray in a spray can too.

1.  Make sure you apply it in up and down strokes. 

2.  Do not dab as you see above, it will not turn out very well.

3.  Let the etching cream sit for a few minutes.

4.  Wash off the excess and peel off the contact paper.

Tah dah!

My friend made BOO jars.

My leaf jar turned out beautifully.

I traced leaves onto contact paper and placed them randomly on the jar. 

 I then etched the whole jar.  

Give it a try!