A couple of years ago, my mother-in-law gave me this cute dish towel with the haunted house on it. It was too cute to use as a dish towel so I spray painted (I love Wal-Mart $1 spray paint!) a frame I found at a yard sale for a $1 and put my dishtowel in it for a spooky Halloween picture.
I love my candy jars! They cost me $1 to make. I bought these glass jars and glass candlestick holders at a yard sale for 25 cents a piece. Then I glued the jar to the holder and filled them up with candy. The expensive part is keeping them filled with candy. In spite of my strict instructions that they are only a decoration, my husband is really enjoying having candy in our house, which is unusual for us. I thought candy corn was just a decoration. I didn't know people really liked to eat that nasty stuff.
Laura and I found this stick on a walk this morning and I thought it would make a good haunted tree. I spray painted it black and stuck it in a formula can that I modgepodged some fabric on. I found these little skulls at the dollar store and glued some string to them and hung them on the tree. I'm not quite sure how long this decoration is going to last because Laura keeps trying to pull the ornaments off the tree.
I bought a huge box of fake flowers at a yard sale for $2. Mixed up with all the flowers were some red and white poinsetta flowers. There is probably nothing I hate more than cheap, fake poinsetta flowers. I've just seen too many people stick them in their outside flower pots during Christmas and then leave them there until March. Hideous! So, I spray painted them black, covered some buttons with orange fabric and made a Halloween wreath for my door. I had to add a few orange flowers so that the black flowers would stand out against the dark wreath.
Happy Halloween!
I love it, so adorable! All of it. I decorated for Halloween earlier in the week, I need some fall, since its not cool in Utah yet. Brent said I decorated too early not before the first, at the very least after my birthday (sunday). I said nope, I was in the mood so they are up. I'm glad I'm not the only one to jump the gun.
ReplyDeleteMy sister in law just gave me your blog address! I love your stuff! Obviously, I'm new to reading it but I'm guessing by your blog address that you are budgeted $40 a month to decorate with? I'll keep reading past post to find out but I love it!! Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteHey Candice, Sorry we never got together before we left to DC. I was just thinking about you! Hope everything is going well for you!
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