~Halloween table setting~ {& DIY place card holders}

This is the cutest set up in my opinion and it can be done easily and extremely inexpensively.

Here is what you will need.

Everything pretty much is from Ikea and the Dollar Tree.

These great napkins from Ikea.

$1.99 for a 30 pack.

Ljuda striped placemats.

$1.49 each from Ikea.

White dinner and salad plates.

$1 each from the Dollar Tree.

You will also need:

{not pictured}

Plastic fangs from the dollar store, 12 for $1.00.

Orange and black scrapbook paper.

Black goblets, mine were from a thrift store.

Plastic bugs from the Dollar Tree.

Black spray paint, or your color of choice.

Put together each place setting looks like this:

For the place card holders, spray paint the fangs your choice of color.

While they are drying, print out the names of your guests on cream card stock with black lettering.

Cut them out and glue them to a piece of coordinating orange paper cut a little bigger.

When the fangs are dry, place them on top of the napkin and add the name card.

You can or cannot add the plastic flies and beetles.

That is it! 

I believe each place setting was under $6.00, goblets included.

Happy Monday friends.

xoxo

~thrifty thursday~

This is one of the most simple and inexpensive projects.

While at the grocery store the other day I noticed their Halloween card section.

Some of the cards were actually quite cool, so I bought a few with this in project in mind.

There is so many different variations you could do for this, but here is how I made mine.

I bought the skeleton card and cut the front off of it.

{just to make it not so bulky}

Then I taped it onto the center of a old piece music paper, which I then taped onto a piece of larger black card stock.

Put the whole thing in a frame and you are done!

I actually went to the craft store and bought a bunch of fun Halloween scrapbooking papers, but in the end liked the simplicity of the aged music sheet.

And here is a tip:

The Dollar Tree has greeting cards, 2 for a dollar.

Most scrapbooking paper is around $1, and if you have a frame on hand, this project can be done for anywhere between $2 and $5.

xoxo

~hope you all had a great Halloween~

I found this HUGE vintage dress at a thrift shop and had to have it!
So I made a shell topped tiara {here} and went as
miss Sea-attle. Follow me on Instagram to see the rest of the photos!

xoxo

~ghosts of Halloweens past~

In 2010 I decorated our dining room in a neutral color scheme.

In 2012 I showed you how to paint chevron pumpkins:

I made a few spooky signs in this post:

This year I went all out with fall decorating:

It is so strange to see how our living room used to look before my gallery wall!

2010 must have been the year for fall decorating at our house. I created
a simple porch display here.

If you'd like to try your hand at a paint by number pumpkin, directions can be found right here!

Last year I made these black and white pumpkins!

This year I threw a pumpkin carving party for Cody and 7 of his friends.
It was a blast, doing it again next year for sure!

I hope this inspires you a little!

xoxo

~how to make a under the sea crown~

I've been putting together bits and pieces of my Halloween
costume. I really wanted a over the top crown fit for
a sea creature. Here is what I came up with:

I started out with this crown from the Dollar Tree:

Then I ripped off the pink jewels and fur and got started hot glueing on shells that I took off a thrift store necklace.

Then just start layering on more shells.
I have a bin in my studio full of shells.
There's also some coral, and misc. other things.
I glued those on too. I even added a little bling.

That is it!
A super simple project that would be cute if you
are going to be a mermaid or anything else along those lines!

xoxo

~throw a pumpkin carving party~

What fun!
Cody had 7 of his best friends over last week after school
and they all carved pumpkins.
It was a blast, we will definitely be doing it again
next year!
While they were at school I transformed a area in our back
yard into a spooky Halloween area.

The invitations went out a couple weeks before:

I put together little Halloween buckets for each of the kids, using mostly items from the dollar
spot at Target.

And here is way too many pictures of the decor:

The striped straws, orange, white, and black tissue paper balls, and felt banner all came from Target.
The glitter skull candle holders, the large crow, and the pumpkin garland came from Pottery Barn and Pottery barn kids.
The bone pieces and rats came from the Dollar Tree, as well as the labels on the orange pop.
The candy corn cake tutorial can be found here.

Ready to see all the kids in action?

That last photo is what happens when you ask the kids to all line up with their
pumpkins for a photo. Ha!

Besides the candy corn cake, I served peach and apple cobbler, hot apple cider, cinnamon applesauce and plenty of orange soda.


And, for the adults.....

With all of those seeds left over, I made these.

I hope this inspires you to throw your own pumpkin carving party!
This would be a really fun "adults only" costume party too!
Tweaked a bit of course!

xoxo