DIY Candle Holder

When October first started I had all these plans to decorate for Halloween and make everything look all festive.

And then life happened.

Between school for my oldest, my birthday, an unexpected/last minute vacation for Fall Break, making a Halloween costume, and more, I didn't really get around to everything I wanted to do.

Just this past week though I was able to hurry and whip up some last minute things for the house.

I had wanted to decorate our fireplace mantel with some little pumpkins where one of them was on a candle holder.

The only problem was, I couldn't find a 'candle holder' that I liked, or even one I could re-purpose. Anywhere.

I checked the dollar store, the local thrift store, even Wal-mart.

Thankfully I remembered seeing this idea years ago somewhere, and thankfully this was so quick and easy that I was able to finish it in under 20 minutes!

Halloween 2x4 craft

With Halloween being next Friday I thought I would finally get around to a Halloween post!

Back at the beginning of October I thought to myself, 'I don't want to start decorating now, it's way too early'...and then the month snuck by without me even knowing! Oops.

I know I'm not the only one this has happened to...right? :)

Anyways, back to our craft.

A couple of weeks ago there were some guys finishing the basement in the house next to ours. I had come home from picking my son up from school and I noticed a huge pile of 2x4 and plywood scraps lying on the driveway.

I went to the basement window and called down to the workers to see what their plans were for the wood. They told me it was all to be thrown away, but if I wanted to I could take any of it.

GOLD MINE!

I ran to the other few homes on our street and told the other moms about our awesome opportunity, you should have seen us, we were like vultures buzzing around picking out what we wanted. We all had our kids loading up their arms with little piles of wood, and ideas were racing through my mind of what we would should make.

This is our first project.

Easy Halloween Crafts

Last year for Halloween I had my son help me make some decor for our apartment.
We made a Halloween paper plate craft.
Since we just moved a few weeks ago we figured the plates would not survive, so I decided to let my son make some more Halloween crafts.
I first had it in my mind to do all hand-print crafts, but after the first one my son said he didn't want to have to keep washing his hands, and I wanted him to kind of take full reign of what and how we were to do the crafts, so these were all him.

To make the spider just paint your child's palm and 4 fingers.

Then have them place their hand down facing one way, and then overlap the palm of the hand with the fingers pointing the other way.

(My son's favorite color is green, and he really wanted a green spider :) )

Halloween paper plate craft

The first week of October I was mainly focusing on making my son's Iron Man costume, check it out here if you missed that one.

This last week I knew we needed to put up some Halloween decor around the house.

I was strolling around on where else?  Pinterest of course, and I saw a picture of a paper plate ghost over at  Clean & Scentsible. The lady had used the ghost as Halloween decor for a party.

I used the same idea for the ghost, but then we decided we needed a few more pieces to go along with it.

We currently have a big, blank, white wall behind our dining room table, and I thought it would be the perfect spot to display our art work.

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