Happy Halloween

Halloween Paper Wreath

Again from Ribbons and Glue the tutorial here

Halloween Wreath

 

 This is from Jenna Sue Design Co.

Materials 

• 18” Grapevine Wreath
• Black faux ivy
• Black spray paint
• Orange Led Fairy Lights (Optional)
• Mini Usb mini charger(Optional)
• Snakes (Optional)

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Diy Spider Necklace

From Minted Strawberry this tutorial to make this necklace here

How to Make Wire Spiders

From The Crafty Blog Stalker

          Round nose Pliers 

20 gauge Wire 

(56)4mm Black Beads 

(48)#5 Black bugle beads 

(16)6mm red Beads 

(1) 25 mm Red Bead

(1) 12mm Black Bead 

(2)Small Metal Bead Caps

(2) Large Black Bead Caps

(1) 3 inch Headpin

Prepare Wire

I am using 20-gauge wire, but you can use other gauges. You'll just need to make sure that the wire fits through all of the beads.

Cut 4 pieces of wire to about 10-12 inches each.

At the 1 end of each wire, bend a small loop. This will prevent the beads from sliding off the end of the wire.

To do this, pinch the very end of the wire with round-nose pliers and wrap it around to form a small circle.

Spider Legs

With each wire strand, you'll want to repeat this pattern. These will be the spider's legs.

String the beads all the way so they are tight against the end loop you made in the wire.

After all four wires are strung with the same bead pattern, make sure the legs are even and clasped tightly with round-nose pliers.

This part is a little tricky. As you can see in the kinky ends of the wires, I had to do this a couple of times before I was happy with the results.

Hold the pliers tightly and twist the legs. You'll want a nice, tight twist like shown in the second picture.

Spider Body

Create the head of the spider by putting the headpin through 1 small bead cap -> 1 12mm black bead -> 1 small bead cap.

Poke the headpin between the wires already twisted for the legs, and continue to twist the wires to secure the headpin.

This step is a little tricky, and 3 hands would be helpful because you don't want the headpin to fall out of the twist while you twist.

I held the 4 wires a little farther down the strands and twisted them more.

To the headpin, add the large bead cap -> 25mm red bead -> large bead cap -> 1, 4mm black bead to the end of the headpin for the abdomen of the spider.

At the end of the headpin, I made a wire-wrapping loop to keep everything secure and together.

My cute little spider is coming along, but he isn't quite finished yet. He needs 4 more legs!

Continue Spider Legs  Using the same pattern as before, string the beads onto the wire for the other 4 legs.

When all beads are on, push them as tightly against the spider's body as you can, then make another wire loop and trim off the excess wire.

When all legs were finished, he looked like this. Like a spider, but a sad and flat spider.

Gently bend the wires at the first joint nearest the body to make it appear as if he is standing.

Pumpkin Halloween Banner

From Craftaholics Anonymous -free printable for this here

How to Decorate a Witch Hat

How to decorate this lovely witch hat here

How to Make a Spider Necklace

Beautiful Necklace.Tutorial here from the Impatient Crafter.

Pumpkin Shadow Box

Here are some other Shadow box pumpkin. Directions here

How to Make a Halloween Birdhouse

How to make a Halloween Birdhouse here

Ghost Bracelet

Another pretty bracelet. Instructions here

Pumpkin With a Window

This interesting project is called Creepy Hollow. Directions are here

Monochromatic Pumpkins

This one is quite easy. Just pick a color and paint. Directions here

Spider Bracelet

Isn't this pretty. Instructions here

Halloween Wreath

Is another cool wreath to make. Instructions here

Creepy Countdown

This project reminds me of Nightmare before Xmas - the hill that Jack walks on and unwinds.
Want to make this -here are the instructions  for this

Pumpkin Face Throw

I know this is a real time consuming project but I had to post this because I love the pumpkin faces.
Instructions here

Sewing Room Organization Part 1-Crates and Soda Carriers

I am going to be showing how I organized my sewing room. I will start with this wall. The crate is covered up by marvel heroes fabric. I hated that thing without it but it was the only thing that could hold my albums.

Laura Gunn of Paint in My Hair gives a pdf tutorial on how to make a cover right here

Link here to make this cover by Sewn Up

From Cat on a Limb-there's a tutorial on how to cover a soda carrier here

Sew Many Ways Tutorial here

I didn't bother covering mine since I liked how it looked. I put all my glues in mine.

Halloween Costumes Toy Story's Woody and Jessie Part 2

Here is the start of Woody's shirt. I bought a very light yellow shirt at Goodwill. I started marking the lines with a ruler and sharpie. I ended up dying this in Rit Dye color lemon yellow to get it a lot darker.

I used a t-shirt to outline my vest. I had to cut the back part twice. I had to measure it on my son a few times to get the right fit. I lined the vest with black flannel and used a black and white trim around the vest.

This is how it looks so far. I bought the bandana at JoAnn Fabrics for 50% off.

I made the holster out of felt. It wasn't too hard.

I made button holes on the back so the belt can go through.

I used one of those ceiling stars my son had so make the sheriff star. I just painted it and used fabric puff paint for the writing. I glued on those pin back like this.

I have more to show you  including Jessie's costume.

How to Make an Eyeball Display

That big eyeball is quite spooky. Here are the instructions to make it here

Paper Mache Sugar Skull

Another skull craft using Day of the Dead theme. Instructions here

Halloween Costumes Toy Story's Woody and Jessie Part 1

These are the costumes I am working on. I am making these for my son and his girlfriend. I have the shirts, jeans, fabric, trim and even the hats. I'll be starting on them very soon and will post the progress.

With Woody-I need to make his vest and draw the lines on his shirt. I've also need to make the sheriff star. I don't know what I'll do about the boots-perhaps he can borrow some from someone.

 

 

With Jessie-I need to put the cow fabric on a pair of old jeans. I need to make the cuffs and collar. I've also need to paint her cowboy hat red and do the trim around the hat.

There used to be a pattern for this but that was a few years ago and now  it is impossible to find and if you do find it , the price is about 50.00 dollars or more.

How to Make Witch Shoes

Aren't these cool. More info here except it is in Spanish but lots of pictures that you get the idea even if you can't read it. From Dale Detalles here

 

Jack o Lantern Soda Bottles

From My Sister's Suitcase tutorial here.

Pumpkin Crafts-Bats n Spiders

Want to make these critters? From tinyprints.blog directions here

Cool Halloween Drinks for Everyone

From Bitz and Giggles this recipe for this drink here

Recipe for the Dragon Blood Punch  here

From Lady behind the Curtain recipe for this potion here

From Eighteen 25 the recipe for the Candy Corn Drink here

Ribbon Halloween Wreath

Easy Halloween wreath to make. From Mommy Loves Coffee tutorial here